[Starboard]

They do get points, however, for actually reporting his Marxist connections

Maybe one point--the word "communist" is never mentioned.

[La Lydia]

That the Wash Post would identify anyone short of Stalin or Lenin as Marxist is a wonder in and of itself. I don’t think the Post can bring itself to mention “communist” even when referring to Russian history. In Post-speak, all communists are identified as “victims of McCarthyism.”