Praising the “Fairness” of an Old Fellow Traveler

By: Mark D. Tooley, FrontPageMagazine.com:

I.F. Stone was an infamous far-left journalist, certainly a fellow traveler who supported pro-Soviet Popular Front activity in the 1930’s. For decades, scholars of Soviet intelligence have pondered the extent of Stone’s direct ties to the KGB and its predecessors.

So how amusingly and disturbingly odd that the chief lobbyist for the 7.9 million United Methodist Church recently penned an ode to Stone in his weekly newsletter for church constituents, few of whom likely remember the radical old gadfly who died in 1989.

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