http://www.hughhewitt.com/boxing-believer-talking-david-axelrod/
Hugh Hewitt interviews David Axelrod:
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...