מ Madison's Capital Times's and Joseph Stalin. A reader sent Jay Nordlinger this picture. Is it that the newspaper admires Joseph Stalin, or is it perhaps Enver Hoxha whose regime they wish to emulate? This is scary. By putting up a poster like this, the newspaper is telling people who know about Stalin that they approve of him, which means approving of the murder of millions of people. Moreover, this is not secret admiration, felt, but with guilt. The Capital Times wants to be associated with those crimes, and with the implication that they'd like to do the same to America. If what a leftist admires is just socialized medicine or high taxes, he can allude to other regimes; what the Stalinist regime represents is socialism without sentimentality about human rights. [ http://php.indiana.edu/~erasmuse/w/04.01.15c.htm .     Erasmusen@Yahoo.com. ]

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