Hiss was exposed nearly 70 years ago as a diehard communist but even today Democrats, when asked about him, tend to be evasive, or in the case of David Corn, angry when he was asked about him by Hewitt. Hiss is still revered by the lefties. One of the greatest things Richard Nixon ever did was exposing Algier Hiss and raising the curtain on the communist infiltration of the federal government and the Democratic Party. For lefties to get so worked up about this shows where their true political sentiments lie.
More dodging (Axelrod claims that Valerie Jarrett was not part of Obama’s 2004 campaign, doesn’t offer much insight into her either, but then says that they’ve been very close for 25 years)...
I went to this transcript for comparison of (and background on) the Alger Hiss question. It is among a liteny of things Hugh will ask guests about to feel out their knowledge (and permit himself to plug some recommended texts)
http://www.hughhewitt.com/boxing-believer-talking-david-axelrod/
HH: Did you ever read Clarence Thomas’ memoir, My Grandfather’s Son?
DA: No.
HH: It’s a terrific book, David Axelrod. I mean, you would…
DA: I will put it on my list.
HH: Did you ever read The Looming Tower, by the way, by Lawrence Wright?
DA: I think I did, yes.
HH: That’s the must read. And that brings me to, you know Cass Sunstein well.
DA: Yes.
HH: And Cass Sunstein, who I admire for his intellect, not his positions greatly, has written an article about how Alger Hiss is the defining thing in American politics. Either you believe Alger Hiss was guilty, or you believe he was innocent. What do you believe, David Axelrod? Was Alger Hiss guilty?
DA: You know, I don’t know. I don’t know, because that happened in the late 1940s. And I wasn’t born, yet, and I haven’t really read a lot about it. I know that there have been varied accounts of that, including some that were based on records that were released after the…
HH: Yeah, he’s guilty, guilty, guilty. He’s a communist spy. Cass Sunstein knows that, but he, did you read that piece that Sunstein wrote?
DA: I didn’t.
HH: Okay, I’ll leave it alone then.
DA: I know Cass well, but I didn’t read that piece. Cass writes a lot of pieces. It would be a full-time job to keep up with them.
HH: Okay, just, Hiss was guilty, guilty, guilty. I just find it interesting that people don’t come to that. What about Saul Alinsky? He’s not in your book. Did you ever meet him?
DA: No.
HH: You never met Saul Alinsky?
DA: I’m not sure, I don’t even know when Saul Alinsky died. Saul Alinsky was active in the Woodlawn area, but I think he was pretty much gone by the time I got to Chicago.
HH: Okay, now Valerie Jarrett is in your book, but she doesn’t show up until Page 190. She’s a very ambiguous figure in your book. There’s a lot not written here. There’s a lot of spaces in which people can fill in some blanks. But was she part of the 2004 campaign strategy and tactics team, the Senate race?
DA: No, she was pretty much a fundraiser for Obama in 2004. She wasn’t deeply involved in the strategy of that campaign.
HH: You write that she doesn’t really know politics or campaigns at all, but she survived you all. She’s still there. Emmanuel’s gone, he’s in Chicago, you’re in Chicago, Plouffe’s gone, the other guy just left this week. The only one left is Valerie.
DA: Well, she’s very committed to the President, obviously, and they’re very close, and they’ve been close for 25 years. And one of the reasons why he wanted her in the White House is that they have a very close relationship, both he and the First Lady, with Valerie. They have confidence in her, and they feel that she’s unswervingly loyal, and I think it is.
>>Hiss was exposed nearly 70 years ago as a diehard communist but even today Democrats, when asked about him, tend to be evasive, or in the case of David Corn, angry when he was asked about him by Hewitt. Hiss is still revered by the lefties.
Obama’s own positions on Islam vs. Christianity, Communism in the world today vs. our allies threatened by Communism, Marxist redistribution, Socialism, etc. are well known but it is politically incorrect to question Obama’s defense of the American way of life even as the president has been vocal against “American exceptionalism”. Oh sure he recently used the phrase in the past year.
But you can’t set your theromostat at whatever temperature you would like to. You can’t just drive any sized car that you can afford to anyplace that you would like to. You can’t just consume the world’s resources and ‘destroy the climate’. You are living too high on the hog. You need to lower your expectations a bit and realize that this nation has been evil in its wars against other sovereign nations...
One of the greatest things Richard Nixon ever did was exposing Algier Hiss....That is the ONLY reason they persecuted him for whatever they said he did as President. What did Nixon do? From what I have read, nothing. He did NOT order the breakin, he did NOT order the IRS to go after political enemies (talked about it but didn’t do it.) He merely stood up for his employees and made ‘misrepresentations’ of what they did before he knew. I have read, but don’t know, ONE of the reasons for the break in was to get the info on John Kerry and the vote to assassinate Congress person’s by the VVAW.
Bingo and to get a good idea of the hate the left had for Nixon, know that it was left over from the 50’s, when Nixon was commie-hunting. Hiss was one of his targets, and the left NEVER forgave him for it. Ask Helen Gahagan Douglas!