How liberals whitewash their communist past — and presentBy Mark Judge November 03, 2022 06:00 AM
At a recent talk at the book store Politics & Prose, leftist Mother Jones journalist David Corn made the claim that conservatives have embraced radicalism in a way that liberals have not. “There’s no example that you can give me,” Corn announced, “of a high-ranking Democrat — a president, presidential candidate, a national Democratic leader — who embraces something like the Tea Party: a conspiratorial, paranoid, racist-driven force. It just doesn’t exist.”
Corn’s analysis is a perfect example of the way liberalism whitewashes its own past and its present connections with socialism and communism . After all, one of the most racist, conspiratorial, paranoid, and violent movements over the last century has been communism, and some of the foremost supporters of that movement have been American liberals, including high-ranking Democrats.
Before getting to liberalism’s communist ties, it’s worth noting that Corn played a key role in disseminating the debunked Steele dossier , a central part of the Russiagate hoax . Corn was the first reporter to write about the dossier, reporting on its contents without even the slightest hint of speculation, of course.
He has since been taken to the woodshed for this by the Washington Post . The Post’s Erik Wemple noted that Corn was selective about what he published concerning the dossier, running with unproven stories and then playing down the fact that the dossier all turned out to be garbage. Wemple wrote: “When the dossier’s allegations were fresh and sexy and unvetted, in other words, they were suitable for inclusion in Mother Jones. Once they were vetted and found wanting, however, they lost their appeal.”
Wemple asked Corn whether Corn could point “to a story where he laid out [Inspector General Michael] Horowitz’s damning conclusions about the dossier.” Corn gave a slippery answer, and Wemple blasted him: “Very articulate, very specious — and 100% hogwash. Why not make a ‘priority’ of telling readers that the dossier at the heart of that long-ago pre-election story lies in tatters within an FBI spreadsheet?”
The answer is simple: because the Left censors anything that might hurt its cause. This is why it yells and screams about conservatism’s supposedly incipient fascism — or, as President Joe Biden put it, “semi-fascism” — while ignoring the fact that former President Barack Obama was once tight with radical and violent extremists...
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