Susan Jacoby reveals herself in this:In an excellent analysis of FDR's first hundred days, which proves that there is always something new to be said about the New Deal, Newsweek's Jonathan Alter points out that the words dictator and dictatorship were frequently used with approval to describe what the new president ought to do to rescue the nation.
Used by whom.
By the hundreds of Soviet agents in his administration? Who were accused by the much-maligned Senator McCarthy--and proved by the Venona decrypts.
The New York Times did much to make Stalinism "fashionable"--in Jacoby's word.
The Old Gray Comrade fielded the great Pulitzer Pravda Propagandist Walter Duranty who covered up Stalin's famine killing of millions of Ukrainians, his show trials which sent more millions to their deaths.
Jacoby is nostalgic for the embrace of Uncle Joe and the great Red hope of Communism.
She needn't be--we've it all again anew in Obamao.
Who has sprung from Frank Marshall Davis' knee to extol China, "spread the wealth around", denounce the Constitution for failing to "redistribute the wealth".
And a Red countervailing power? Hillary and Bill and Madeleine made sure Schwartz and Armstrong and Wen would give the People's Repugnant of China our missile and warhead data.
Ann Coulter called M. Stanton Evans (Blacklisted by History) the greatest living authority on McCarthy. I saw Evans eviscerate Indiana Civil Liberties head Dr. Robert Risk in 1964--a fact-based fearless warrior defeated a propaganda-spewing fairy in public combat.
The Times and Newsweek continue their fight, losing in the capitalist game they look to the Kremlin-on-the-Potomac to be bailed out.
The Battle for History continues--with the Marxist messiah and his obedient media feeding truth to the memory hole fast as they're able.
