Some red meat for ya on a Tuesday

So what does world-wide adulation and praise get the President? Only comparisons to a communist tyrant that killed tens of millions of his own countrymen. Hey, this isn’t a tea party thing – this cotton is from the source.

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KT has a reading recommendation for Obama's communication director, Anita Dunn.

This first authoritative expose of the 1958-1962 famine prompted by China's collectivization plan, "The Great Leap Forward," comes at a time when the cult of Mao is alive and well inside China, and while agents of Chinese influence are able to arrange audiences with a President. Via his painstaking research and reporting that included two treks through interior Chinese provinces, Becker tells how the famine occurred because ill-trained peasants were forced to undertake a gigantic and centralized industrial and agricultural expansion. The new factories, canals, and irrigation systems failed spectacularly, and in contrast to propaganda boasts of having economically outstripped the U.S., when in reality the populace was driven by starvation to cannibalism, slavery, and madness.

And what's this? Another Mao-o-phile in the White House? Gateway Pundit has more, here.

Few things puzzle us more than supposedly educated people holding murderous thugs like Mao and Che and their ideology in any regard whatsoever.