10 million?

More like 60, 40 of them in 2 years.

That would be J. Edgar Hoover, not Herbert- loose shit, man...

KevinJ,

I swear, that was just a brainfart. Thanks.

RW,

I've upped the number per your correction. Thanks.

Those nutty Lutherans!

I would like to know what's in YOUR FBI file, ace.

I have always contended that leftists were born without the gene that allows for the ability to make logical comparisons. I will concede though that there are a few conservative mutants out there with the same problem.

Bush = Hitler
Mao = Hoover
Vietnam = any Republican military action
Laura Bush = Wonkette ( malkin mutant)

"Those nutty Lutherans!"

Just to clarify. Those would be Scandinavian Lutherans. Us German Lutherans aren't all that fond of Mao.

M o N,

good to know, thanks.

For some reason, high school social studies spent much, much more time on Hitler than Mao. This, I think, is one reason why Mao is much much less maligned in the minds of Americans than Hitler, and why Lileks ad campaign (featuring Adolf) really sends shivers down my spine. If only people knew more about psychopathic Mao there would, I suspect-and hope, be more dissent. But folks just don't know. They think he's a funny looking bald guy in a ridiculous suit. How librarians would wage this campaign-though they do make a dig- is beside me.

comparing Mao to Hoover is like comparing Stalin to Charles Manson because "they both killed a few people"

I've never understood why almost all Communist sh!theads turned into fun pop icons, while bad guys on the right were just bad, no fun at all. But it sounds like MyCountry is onto something. Most people only know what they learned in school--i.e., virtually nothing. So Mao is a funny guy, not a monster.

Good thing the neo-Nazis didn't learn this technique. If they'd exploited the Hitler=Charlie Chaplin meme, the guy would be an advertising icon and Congress would be crawling with idiots who thought that Nazism was vaguely "cool." You know, those snazzy uniforms and everything.

Utron, could you imagine vegans/vegetarians promoting Hitler as a vegetarian! Nothing against vegetarians. Or the ASPCA championing him as a dog lover (of course there were those occasions where he did whip Blondie). What a bastard.... Now, if Crest were to wage a pro-Democratic anti-cavity campaign they'd make $ and champion anti-communism at the same time. Here's the commercial: Pan-in to Mao brushing his teeth with tea (which he did til' they all fell out). They pan to Dusty brushing teeth with Crest. What sales they'd have! And our viewing public would soon learn to hate Mao as much as Hitler, by way of TV of course!

MyCountry, according to one of his biographers, in his later years Mao's teeth were totally coated with slimy, disgusting green-tea gunk. That's an image that could destroy any lingering coolness about the Chairman.

On the downside, it would also make it impossible to take the Chinese as seriously as they deserve. I mean, look what poor dental hygiene did to the Brits. Nobody is going to be afraid of six hundred million screaming, gucky-toothed Chinese.

Good intentions my ass. It takes remarkably little reading of Lenin's own works to get the program completely. cf "...purge the nation of all sorts of harmful insects." (1917) Wonder if Mousie Dung learned anything from that.

Old memory, mine- I read that biography and thought that after the slime came the fall out. Funny, Mao brushing his teeth with tea is the one vivid image that sticks with me after having read that book. I do also remember him swimming- constantly swimming- in (the Yellow? river), which counters the idea that baptism by water washes away sin- at least in Mao's case!

Actually, Mao swimming in any body of water would be a good reason to avoid drinking it. ;-)

Not to mention Mao's fondness for little girls, of course. This guy was a winner all around. Quick, anything else we can put this mass murdering pedophile's mug on? Let's provoke us some thought!

You can buy f'ing anything at cafepress.

MAO 'S MUG

"Mao is in the hands of the people now, instead of the people being in the hands of Mao" -- ain't that special

Apologies in advance:

Mao fries in Hades
Shortly FPL joins him;
Ow! that shit is hot.

UFF DA! As a Scandanavian Lutheran from Minnesota, I can oddly say that (a) I'm a Republican and (b) I think the ad campaign is rather clever. Maybe it's one of those "if you're not a friend to us [the library], you're a friend to them [the communist totalitarian idea-suppressing bastards]. Maybe. That's my best guess."

Also, I don't believe we ever learned anything about Mao in Minneapolis Public Schools. I didn't know who he was until I heard that Beatles song with the "if you go carryin pictures of chairman Mao....." So that could contriubte to our collective insanity here.

You left out Chavez in your rogue's gallery. Hugo Chavez is bound to make himself a bigger name than Castro, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Khomeini, Bin Laden, and Kim combined. He's got the combination of oil wealth and proximity to the great satan that the other mass murderers could only envy. Not only that, but many leaders of EU countries would gladly and surreptitiously provide Chavez with all the technology he needs to go nuke.

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