First, it was White House communications chief Anita Dunn telling a high school commencement audience that the murderous Chairman Mao was one of her “two favorite philosophers.” Now, it’s manufacturing czar Ron Bloom who it turns out “kinda” agrees with modern history’s most prolific genocidal murderer that “power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

Leave it to the irrepressible Glenn Beck to dig up the video of Bloom speaking to a labor audience in 2008 and explaining what they had learned in the recent past. Here’s the relevant passage: