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Re: Former Hillary Press Secretary Refuses to Agree Alger Hiss Was a Communist
National Review ^ | 8-27-2013 | Ian Tuttle

Posted on 08/27/2013 2:31:34 PM PDT by smoothsailing

August 27, 2013

Re: Former Hillary Press Secretary Refuses to Agree Alger Hiss Was a Communist

Ian Tuttle

Reference:John Fund-Former Hillary Press Secretary Refuses to Agree Alger Hiss Was a Communist

Karen Finney’s refusal to acknowledge that Alger Hiss was a Communist spy — let alone a Soviet agent with a direct hand in crafting American policy during World War II and the crucial early Cold War years — should, alas, come as no surprise. The Cold War years are full of unpleasant memories for the Left, whose intellectuals, ignoring the horrors of the Russian Revolution, Stalin’s massacres, and much more, touted Communism as the wave of the future, and whose policies caved to Communism’s aggressive expansion across the globe.

More than half a century on, when they’ve been shown to be on “the wrong side of history,” to use a favorite liberal notion, Joe McCarthy is one of the few pleasant memories of the period for the Left: an alcoholic Republican senator who launched a shameless inquisition to expose a conspiracy theory — hundreds of Communist operatives secretly working against the United States.

Of course, there is the unpleasant fact that McCarthy was, by and large, right. That makes Hiss a particular problem: Acknowledge he’s a spy and you might have to admit that McCarthy — and, even worse, then-congressman Richard Nixon — were onto something.

But there is more at stake than holding onto an effective rhetorical bludgeon. One cannot — or perhaps should not — mention Alger Hiss without acknowledging the man who, at great personal risk, unmasked him: Whittaker Chambers (who would eventually write for this publication at the behest of Bill Buckley). Chambers chronicled his “impossible return” from the Communist underground in his autobiography, Witness, surely one of the great books of the 20th century.

In it he explains what we might call the Finney Phenomenon:

Thus men who sincerely abhorred the word Communism, in the pursuit of common ends found that they were unable to distinguish Communists from themselves, except that it was just the Communists who were likely to be most forthright and most dedicated in the common cause. . . . Any charge of Communism enraged them precisely because they could not grasp the differences between themselves and those against whom it was made.

This is not to give credence to any “Obama the Commie” bumper stickers, but Chambers’s point is damning: Communism, socialism, and their friendlier-faced relation, modern liberalism (“progressivism”), are close kin. They spring from the same philosophical root, and they each reach toward the same end. We see their commensurability today in many liberals’ cultish devotion to the Castro brothers, Hugo Chavez, and Che Guevara.

Karen Finney might have a tough time labeling Alger Hiss a Communist because, in fact, he looks rather disconcertingly like a modern-day liberal.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: algerhiss; bankstreet; billayers; communist; genevieve; hughhewitt; karenfinney; univbeirut
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To: a fool in paradise

There are no COMMIES or TERRORISTS who THE DEMOCRATS don’t have their back.


21 posted on 08/27/2013 3:18:34 PM PDT by spawn44 ( MOO)
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To: mosesdapoet
While this did occur petty Ian Tuttle doesn’t reference where it took place and who she was talking to. Now why would that happen ?

Tuttle links to John Fund who links to Politico who links to Hugh Hewitt.

That covers it and properly sources it, wouldn't you agree?

22 posted on 08/27/2013 3:23:57 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Oldexpat

The regime are the spies, the admin is the Muslim brotherhood. They don’t even try to hide it.


23 posted on 08/27/2013 3:25:30 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: smoothsailing
This creature – THE BITCH OF BENGHAZI – must NEVER again be allowed to infest the White House!

Rose Law Firm files!

Tyson cattle futures scam!

Vince Foster!

Benghazi and the COVERUP! "What DIFFERENCE does it make?"

State Department corruption!

The NEW YORK TIMES' expose of corruption in Clinton's “charitable” foundation!! Hear Klintoon reveal herself in this 8 second clip at an earlier Demoncrap meeting!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiByPtZiQsw


24 posted on 08/27/2013 3:27:31 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”- Voltaire)
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To: smoothsailing
“Communist” is such an ugly word.In future let's use “progressive”.
25 posted on 08/27/2013 3:32:42 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If Obama Had A City It Would Look Like Detroit)
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To: smoothsailing

Marxists and Democrats, (oops I repeat myself) stick together.


26 posted on 08/27/2013 3:36:55 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: smoothsailing
What difference, at this point, does it make?
27 posted on 08/27/2013 3:40:14 PM PDT by caveat emptor (!)
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To: smoothsailing

In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Re: Former Hillary Press Secretary Refuses to Agree Alger Hiss Was a Communist, : Responding to my comment
“While this did occur petty Ian Tuttle doesn’t reference where it took place and who she was talking to. Now why would that happen ?”smoothsailing wrote
Tuttle links to John Fund who links to Politico who links to Hugh Hewitt.

“That covers it and properly sources it, wouldn’t you agree?”

Hewitt is one of the guys I monitor I heard that re- broadcast (Chicago WIND 560 am 2-5 am) it was pretty funny e He’s on the same time as red eye but it demonstrates the type of competition that goes on within conservative circles and how petty some of these people can be or the devices they use.


28 posted on 08/27/2013 3:43:14 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (Serious contribution pause.Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: hal ogen
I’d go so far to say that being a DIMocRAT means that you a subhuman degenerate bent on destroying Freedom and Free America...and you should be in prison (or deported).

Talk has long past with these cretins. We need to rid this place of all of these commies.

29 posted on 08/27/2013 3:44:58 PM PDT by Digger
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To: smoothsailing

The left are the soul mates of Communist infiltrators and agents like Hiss. It’s why they despise men like Nixon and McCarthy.


30 posted on 08/27/2013 4:01:41 PM PDT by windsorknot (>>>)
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To: muir_redwoods

Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel did great research on the Venona intercepts.


31 posted on 08/27/2013 4:24:32 PM PDT by Track9 (hey Kalid.. kalid.. bang you're dead)
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To: Gay State Conservative

B^)


32 posted on 08/27/2013 4:25:07 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: a fool in paradise

The fantasy of a workers’ paradise versus the reality of the Siberian gulag.


33 posted on 08/27/2013 4:47:06 PM PDT by SC_Pete
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To: smoothsailing

Considering that Hillary was taught by communists in law school and worked for Communist Party members/law firm on the Black Panther/New Haven torture murder case of Alex Rackley, why should it be a surprise that her staff didn’t hold similar “denial” or “coverup” views about Hiss, Harry Dexter White, Frank Coe, etc?

Old Bill had his Communist contacts too, including his college roommate from Czechoslovakia, and then in Russia.

Lots to answer for.


34 posted on 08/27/2013 5:12:49 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: TurboZamboni
To ‘rats, there are no enemies, just friends with unacknowledged grievances.

Democrats never met a Communist they could criticize and never met a Conservative they could praise.

35 posted on 08/27/2013 5:29:51 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: mosesdapoet

From what I gather it occurred while she was talking (on tape) with Dennis Praeger. He played the tapes on this evening’s show after the whole thing ran all over the internet.

I’m not sure, but it may have been an interview from yesterday or possibly last week (that was broadcast live initially).


36 posted on 08/27/2013 5:33:04 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: mosesdapoet

My error, Hugh Hewitt. They are both on the same station in my city. Their voices and presentations are different, but I often fumble their names.


37 posted on 08/27/2013 5:33:59 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: windsorknot

The presstitute was in error by trying to pin off all the “hysteria” as unfounded (there is more sham and scare in the Globalist Warming scare). She was in error by tryng to pin off all the “hysteria” as being whipped up by Joseph McCarthy (investigations into Communist influence in American government, academia, and media dated back to the 1930s and continued into the 1960s, The Crucible was written before McCarthy was even a figure in the “show”). She was in error in proclaiming Joseph McCarthy himself to be “off base” even if others in the “hunt” were more grounded. He was right in some of his rhetoric. There is 70 years of fraudulent Red smearing of the investigations that was also reckless “rhetoric”. Stalinists lie. ALWAYS.


38 posted on 08/27/2013 5:39:24 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: a fool in paradise; mosesdapoet

Yep, it was Hugh...

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/karen-finney-hugh-hewitt-95937.html#ixzz2dB8EJ5QO


39 posted on 08/27/2013 6:44:10 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

Most Americans have never heard of Alger Hiss; nor do they know what a communist is. So one can say anything and win in the USA today.


40 posted on 08/27/2013 7:57:13 PM PDT by Theodore R. (The grand pooh-bahs have spoken: "It's Jebbie's turn!")
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