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Anyone Remember When Communists Were the "Bad Guys"?
Townhall.com ^ | February 16, 2015 | Michael Schaus

Posted on 02/16/2015 10:53:59 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Ed Sullivan still has a theater named for him; he was the Walter Duranty of CBS, not to be confused with Jimmy Durante, a New Dealer but a great comedian.


61 posted on 02/16/2015 10:03:02 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: driftless2

They say the anti-American attitudes of the intelligentsia has to do with low salaries in the liberal arts fields. Resentment against success


62 posted on 02/16/2015 10:04:35 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: MountainYankee

The vindication of Joe McCarthy was never reported by the national news media and never will be. The American people will always revile McCarthy out of ignorance.


63 posted on 02/16/2015 10:05:36 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Kaslin

Better dead than Red. Puts me in the mood to reread Whittaker Chambers.


64 posted on 02/16/2015 10:07:32 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: Kaslin
I remember Gus Hall's repeated runs at the Presidency were a source of great amusement for my father.

The idea that Americans would ever vote for a communist was unthinkable.

And then....

65 posted on 02/17/2015 7:35:36 AM PST by Madame Dufarge
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