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Apparently Mao Zedong is the philosopher of choice for some conservatives as well as some liberals

Locally, it was Hube who ran with the story of Obama advisor Anita Dunn praising the wisdom of Mao Zedong as one of her favorite political philosophers: Fox News is evil incarnate (IOW, they're an "arm" of the GOP) -- so says White House Communications Director Anita Dunn. But one of the greatest mass murderers of all-time [Mao]? Dunn thinks he's just terrific. Given that Hube often cites Newsbusters , I suspect he will be less than pleased [because he tries very hard to be intellectually consistent] to find this somewhat parallel instance of apparent Mao worship on that very prominent conservative media-watch website commenting on how to cure America's drug problems: First, drug addiction needs to be viewed as a choice, not an illness. Mao Zedong, the former leader of China, cured 20 million opium addicts over just one weekend by announcing that anyone still addicted would be shot on Monday. Yes, I realize that there is a large degree of difference between a web...