The widely reported lunacy of some individuals, a handful of congregations, or boards doesn't represent the overwhelming majority of Bible believing Christians called Methodist.
Just as Olympia Snow isn't the face of Republicans, the liberals of the church don't speak for us.
He did not equate it with bomb making and said that is still a difference (so far).
As for communism, flip open your Methodist hymnal to the World Social Affirmation found a page or two after the Apostle’s creed where “collective” guilt is confessed.
From my perspective in Central America in the 1980s, the Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church was about as communist as it could get. The FMLN were pure evil terrorists but were viewed as a legit liberation movement by the UMC.
I know there are some conservative congregations but we’re a long way from pulling out of the WCC or greatly shaking up the Left/Trendy tilt of the church bureaucracy.