[PAR35]

your father’s unlikely party affiliation?

Why would someone think it unlikely for a NYT editor to be found to have family ties to the communists.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The irony is lost on me. NYT is just like the Omaha, ah...

[Lancey Howard]

Why would someone think it unlikely for a NYT editor to be found to have family ties to the communists.

My first thought, too.
Considering that the communists successfully infiltrated the State Department (where communists still linger) as well as Time Magazine as far back as the 1930s, why would anybody think that the New York Times was not an equally juicy target?

McCarthy was right all along.
The damage that these three institutions inflicted (and continue to inflict) on the United States of America is incalculable.