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Donna Brazile: Why Would Fox News Hire a Socialist?

The recent revelation that Fox News hired long-time Democratic Party operative Donna Brazile has confirmed fears that the organization is moving further to the left.

Brazile has served as vice chair of voter registration and participation at the Democratic National Committee (DNC). She ran Al Gore’s campaign for the White House in 2000. The Washingtonian named Brazile one of the “100 most powerful women” and Essence magazine named her one of the top 50 women in America. The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation has given her an award for outstanding political achievement.

Despite all this, Brazile is not merely another “liberal Democrat.” The long-time political operative has spent most of her career affiliated with the socialist/Marxist wing of the Democratic Party.

Brazile has a life-long pattern of working with the hard-left.

In 1978, Brazile’s cousins worked to elect the first black mayor of New Orleans, Ernest “Dutch” Morial, who became one of Brazile’s “new role models.” Morial was a founding member of the National Conference of Black Lawyers, a U.S. affiliate of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers—a known “legal” “front” for the former Soviet Union.

In January 1981, Brazile attended the World Federation of Democratic Youth(WFDY) for peace, detente, and disarmament World Forum of Youth and Students, in Helsinki, Finland. WFDY was set up by the Soviet Union in 1945 as an international front group for communist youth. It is still run by communists to this day.

According to an article in the Los Angeles Sentinel about her autobiography, Helsinki was where Brazile “learned firsthand how negatively other peoples viewed nuclear arms.” It was “one of the factors that hardened her resolve to want to go to Washington to work towards change.”  […]

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