What Constitutes a Radical? Most of the Media Does Not Know

I wanted to post this video of MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell tells Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) that she wouldn’t characterize George Soros as leftwing. Which begs the question, “Who is leftwing then , Andrea?” I am building a bit on this idea of "who is left-wing then?" asked by (and a h/t to) Gateway Pundit. I hope that the video documentarie[s] below will halp the average guy answer this question. Who on the opposite side of the political spectrum is left-wing, or even a radical? Who funds these left-wing organizations? Are there Marxist ties (a fair question)? Take your time if you have not seen Beck's Revolutionary Tree. See what has the White House worried and is the underlying reason for attacking FOX News.

Glenn Beck Radical Revolutionary Tree (Part 1)

Glenn Beck Radical Revolutionary Tree (Part 2)

Horowitz & Beck (Part 1)

Horowitz & Beck (Part 2)

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A leading scholar on communist China was shocked to hear that Obama’s White House Communications Directory Anita Dunn is a huge fan of mass murderer Mao Tse-Tung. Anita Dunn praised Mao Tse-Tung in a recent speech to high school graduates.

The communist leader killed over 65 million individuals during his reign of terror.
CNSNews reported:

White House Communications Director Anita Dunn told high school students in May 2009 that one of her favorite political philosophers was Mao Tse Tung, the Communist dictator responsible for the death of millions of people, and she explained why his philosophy was important for achieving personal and political goals.

When questioned last week after a video of her speech surfaced, however, Dunn said she was using “irony” in reference to Mao. A leading expert on China told CNSNews.com that Dunn’s remarks were “pathetic,” given the human rights atrocities committed under Mao’s reign.

As first shown on Fox News Channel’s “Glenn Beck” show on Thursday, Oct. 15, in the video Dunn told graduating high school students that Mao and Mother Teresa, the Catholic nun known for aiding the poor, were examples of people who did not give up, and did their own thing to make a difference in the world…

Policies implemented under Mao Tse Tung, including the civil war, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and persecution in Tibet, among other policies, led to death of an estimated 65 million people, according to The Black Book of Communism (Harvard University Press), which is considered by scholars as one of the best sources on communist atrocities.

Mao also outlawed religion and sent at least 2.5 million people to “re-education camps,” called “laogai,” which were similar to the slave-labor camps in the Gulag of the Soviet Union. An estimated 1,000 laogai reportedly are still in operation today.

While Dunn now says she was using “irony” when she called Mao one of her favorite political philosophers, an expert on Mao’s three-decade rule in China thinks the remarks she made in May 2009 to the students were “pathetic.”

William Ratliff, an expert on China with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, said he found Dunn’s comments astonishing regardless of her larger point, and wondered whether Dunn is aware of the Great Leap Forward or the Cultural Revolution, or if Dunn was trying to look at Mao’s positive accomplishments.