But, of course, this is all in good fun and doesn't have any real meaning; it's not like he's a commie-loving narcissist, or anything...
h/t Big Government.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
On The Presidential Christmas Tree...
...you'll find Christmas ornaments featuring Mao Zedong of China, the mass-murdering former dictator of that country; transvestites; and, of course, President Obama shown on Mt. Rushmore.
But, of course, this is all in good fun and doesn't have any real meaning; it's not like he's a commie-loving narcissist, or anything...
h/t Big Government.
But, of course, this is all in good fun and doesn't have any real meaning; it's not like he's a commie-loving narcissist, or anything...
h/t Big Government.
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Robert, Robert, Robert. If you're really going to posit that Obama loves the greatest mass murderer of the 20th century, then for consistency's sake you should remove the Ambrose Bierce quote from the neighboring column. He would turn in his grave after reading that kind of claptrap. Is this really as decent as you can be?
@Wally: Bierce also advises to cultivate a taste for distasteful truths, Wally. The distasteful truth in this case is that Mao is featured on an ornament on the White House Christmas tree. I know you guys like to shrug off the crimes of leftist dictators such as Stalin and Mao, but come on, the guy was responsible for over 50 million deaths. Obama's former communications director, Anita Dunn, mentioned Mao as one of her favorite political philosophers. Dunn, as leftists tend to do when caught red-handed, claimed she was joking.
If Obama didn't place the ornaments on the tree himself, Wally, he had input into the approval of the artist who made them. Imagine how worked up you'd get if George W. Bush had featured a White House Christmas tree with ornaments featuring Francisco Franco and himself on Mt. Rushmore. Would you be able to resist blogging on it, with a few trendy references to "Faux News" and Sarah Palin thrown in for good measure? (By the way, you forgot to blog on Palin winning Liar of the Year; you're slipping!)
Bierce was no paragon of virtue himself, Wally. He was a noted misanthrope and, while he had no love of the robber barons of the era, neither did he have any affection for intrusive government.
The ornaments are in poor taste, Wally. They really don't belong on the White House Christmas tree. I know that the official reaction will be that the artist involved was being "edgy" and "ironic," but they are in poor taste, nonetheless.
I just called Mao the greatest mass murderer of the 20th century, and you proceed to accuse me of shrugging off his crimes. This is exactly my point. Sigh. And believe it or not, I wouldn't get "worked up" over a Christmas tree ornament depicting Francisco Franco. I'm a little more selective about what I get worked up over.
@Wally: I apologize for implying that you personally were shrugging off Mao's crimes, Wally. I said "you guys," to refer to leftists in general, not you specifically. I note that you did mention Mao's crimes in your reply. In general terms, though, leftists focus far more on Hitler's killings than on the much greater in number killings by Communist dictators.
I'm sure there are a few pockets of feeble old communists holed up in the East Village swearing allegiance to Stalin. I consider them the leftist equivalent of militiamen holed up in the Montana woods swearing allegiance to Freedonia. Not very productive for either of us to use as a basis for debate, although it's a lot of fun. It's true that there are vestiges of Mao-fixation left out there, but I trust you know that he's just a hipster symbol for some very shallow people--and yes, the left is plagued with more of them than the right. Maybe a fair comparison would be with Southerners who fly the Stars n Bars. It doesn't mean they want to return to slavery, but it's not entirely innocent either.
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