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[1010RD]

This puts it at what...Leftwing lie #??? We’ve run out of numbers!

[gusopol3]

I still remember the extremely dull tool, Peter Jennings, eulogizing Stone to an evening news audience, no doubt 95 % of whom had never heard of him.

[GeronL]

I am sure DU will be all over this =o)

[cornelis]

Explains why he went after Socrates!

[Poe White Trash]

How un-surprising!

By the way, can anyone point me to a book or books that address Soviet financing and support of the 60s anti-war and counter-culture movements in the US?

[madinmadtown]

Is this Stone any relation to Oliver? And is the Dodd mentioned in the article related to the bozo in the Senate? He was a German ambassador; obviously that Dodd had good political ties. Did he lead the way for the present Dodd?
I also found it interesting that the article mentioned Eric Alerman and Stone's role as his mentor.

[MediaMole]

They’re all guilty.

A good friend of the family worked as a consultant on the Alger Hiss case. His verdict — “Guilty as hell.”

[skeeter]

Tomorrow's NYT headline.

Right?

[denydenydeny]

Very damning but I was concerned by the article’s use of the term “KGB” for the period 1936-1945 when strictly speaking there was no such organization at the time. Critics will seize on this as an “error.”

[dead]

Dig him up and hang him.

[drpix]

From this article:

"In 1940 he moved to PM, the left-wing New York daily. There, he reverted to his earlier attitudes and became a stalwart of the paper’s pro-Communist faction. His uncritical support of Soviet and Communist policies continued until the Stalin era came to an end with the dictator’s death in 1953. A year earlier, Stone wrote The Hidden History of the Korean War, in which he promoted the falsehood that South Korea had sparked the war by invading the Communist North.

This faction was in fact pro-Stalin and included the mother of the man behind Obama, fellow red-diaper baby, David Axelrod.

[earlJam]

no individual case generated as much controversy as that of the journalist I.F. Stone

Except for Alger Hiss, Ethel Rosenberg, Julius Rosenberg, and others.

[earlJam]

The link is bad.

[VR-21]

I guess my question is...Does having been a KGB agent (and traitor) carry any stigma these days?

[ReformationFan]

What part of “To put it plainly, from 1936 to 1939 I.F. Stone was a Soviet spy.” do Mr. Stone’s defenders do not understand? KGB documents revealed post-Cold War confirmed that Julius & Ethel Rosenberg were committed Soviet agents as well.

Liberalism is truly a mental disorder.

[haroldeveryman]

The only thing I ever wanted know about I.F. Stone came form an article that I browsed in a book store in about 1960. At the time Venezuela was having free elections after getting rid of a military dictator. Venezuelan communists were shooting up poling places and killing people in order to disrupt these elections (maybe they felt unwanted). And here is this esteemed “fiercly independent” leftist writing about what “wonderful people” those “revolutionaries” were. The posted article is a lot kinder to I.F. Stone than the impression I was left with a long time ago.

[Cincinna]

"Progressive" has always been a code work for Commie

OTHER INFAMOUS SELF-DESCRIBED "PROGRESSIVES"

JULIUS AND ETHEL ROSENBERG

CONVICTED & EXECUTED AS SOVIET SPIES

[Thebaddog]

Eric Alterman, a onetime Stone protégé, called the Stone-KGB stories “smears,” “phony,” and “pathetic,” dismissing the whole contretemps as “an almost entirely bogus controversy over whether Stone ever willingly spied for the Russians or cooperated with the KGB in any way. He did not.” KGB archival documents tell a different story.

Well whaddya know? That twit is probably a fellow traveler and a red diaper baby just like Axelrod.

[Liberty Valance]

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