Then, Glenn Beck, of the Fox News network, and Michael Savage, an incendiary conservative talk show host, exposed a stunning statement Dunn gave in speech last June proclaiming her admiration for Mao Tse Tung, the Chinese dictator who murdered more people during his reign of terror than Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin Combined. From 1949 to his death in 1975, Mao killed between 49 to 70 million people. That's equal to the entire population of Australia, times three.
So horrible is Dunn's accolade to Mao that Beck compared her comment, in a humorous video montage, to that of the Joker, played by Health Ledger, in last year's dark comedy Batman: The Dark Knight. Ledger's performance was brilliant in the manner in which he played a character so diabolically dark, yet audiences found themselves uncomfortably guffawing over the joker's horrific antics.
Some remarks are so over the top, they cannot be taken seriously. When I first heard Dunn's quote I literally burst out laughing. I could not stop myself, and had anyone been in the room with me, they might have thought I was sick. But how can anyone take such a comment with any grain of credible reverence? The comment is so absurd it actually ridicules itself without any further objection.
This is not at all new. Recall Mel Brooks--who is Jewish--when he viciously ridiculed the warped ideology of Arian supremacy and Nazism in his masterpiece The Producers.
In the future, we are likely to hear many more statements from this White House, drawing equal outrage. These White House staffers hold personal ideologies that lie out on the far fringes of the cultural norms of our great nation.
Let not our reaction be one of appall, like that of Beck and Savage. Such hate-mongering ideology is so over the top it splits our gut. Instead of validating this inflammatory rhetoric with indignant outrage, we ought rather dismiss it with the marginalizing ridicule it deserves.
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