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September 18, 2008

Quote of the Day – Thursday September 18

FSM: Quote of the Day

"The left has consistently defended spies such as [Alger] Hiss, the Rosenbergs and [Morton] Sobell as victims of contrived frame-ups. Because a demagogue like Sen. Joseph McCarthy cast a wide swath with indiscriminate attacks on genuine liberals as "reds" (and even though McCarthy made some charges that were accurate), the anti anti-communists came to argue that anyone accused by McCarthy or Richard Nixon or J. Edgar Hoover should be assumed to be entirely innocent. People like Hiss (a former State Department official who was accused of spying) cleverly hid their true espionage work by gaining sympathy as just another victim of a smear attack.

But now, with Sobell's confession of guilt, that worldview has been demolished."

Ronald Radosh, emeritus professor of history at City University of New York

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