There They Go Again: Media Matters

Rory Cooper / October 16, 2009

Yesterday, on his Fox News program, Glenn Beck aired a video of White House Communications Director Anita Dunn referring to Mao Zedong as one of her “favorite political philosophers.”  Rather than defend Ms. Dunn or ask further questions of what she meant when she said that, the left wing has decided to Google the words “Lenin” and “Mao” with the name of any prominent conservative.  Any loose mention of these historical figures was seen as them also “approvingly” citing the philosophy of these murderous despots. 

This is a typical scorched earth strategy and the Heritage Foundation was erroneously included in it. Citing a 1983 paper in the CATO Journal, co-written by Heritage Vice President Stuart Butler and CATO analyst Peter Germanis, entitled “Achieving a Leninist Strategy,” Media Matters makes the grand leap the two were approving of Lenin’s philosophy.  Of course, anyone that took the time to read this paper would have seen how false this demonization is. (more…)