America’s Left has had a sordid history of pseudo-intellectualism, gross incompetence and stultifying naivete. While many Americans are probably familiar with 30’s NY Times’ reporter, Walter Duranty, who called Stalin’s USSR “A worker’s paradise,” at the very same time Stalin was murdering over 30 million Russians, he’s only one among many legendarily dumb American Leftists.
Incredibly enough, Duranty actually won a Pulitzer Prize for his works of fictional news. Surely that proves that both Duranty and the NY Times weredumb, but perhaps the single most moronic statement ever by an American journalist may have been made by Lincoln Steffens’, in his time a famous American radical.
In 1919 Steffens was sent to the fledgling USSR to see how Russia was doing under the Communists, Steffens breathlessly reported back, "I have been over into the future, and it works."
Incredibly enough, Duranty actually won a Pulitzer Prize for his works of fictional news. Surely that proves that both Duranty and the NY Times weredumb, but perhaps the single most moronic statement ever by an American journalist may have been made by Lincoln Steffens’, in his time a famous American radical.
In 1919 Steffens was sent to the fledgling USSR to see how Russia was doing under the Communists, Steffens breathlessly reported back, "I have been over into the future, and it works."
