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A Maoist in the White House

October 16, 2009 - 11:35 am - by Roger Kimball
Donna V.
2009-10-17 07:27:19

Ah, David S. no suprise to me that you admire Mao. You’re already indicated that you believe the elites should be able to do as they wish with “the little people,” as evidenced by your support of a child rapist.

BTW, Calvin Trillin at the Nation wrote a poem about your other hero, Polanski:

A youthful error? Yes, perhaps.
But he’s been punished for this lapse–
For decades exiled from LA
He knows, as he wakes up each day,
He’ll miss the movers and the shakers.
He’ll never get to see the Lakers.
For just one old and small mischance,
He has to live in Paris, France.
He’s suffered slurs and other stuff.
Has he not suffered quite enough?
How can these people get so riled?
He only raped a single child.

Why make him into some Darth Vader
For sodomizing one eighth grader?
This man is brilliant, that’s for sure–
Authentically, a film auteur.
He gets awards that are his due.
He knows important people, too–
Important people just like us.

And we know how to make a fuss.
Celebrities would just be fools
To play by little people’s rules.
So Roman’s banner we unfurl.
He only raped one little girl.

So what does that have to do with Mao? Well, in David S.’s eyes, nobody should care about one little girl? What’s important is that Polanski is an artist. And who cares about millions starved and slaughtered – Mao wrote such eloquent Mandarin and had such wonderful vision. Priorities, people!

David S. is a complete moral nullity. One good thing about the Obama adminstration – now that the left is in power, its ugly lust for absolute power and complete contempt for ordinary people is becoming more and more evident each day. The backlash is coming. It will be huge.