by Cal Thomas
On Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall was pulled down to the consternation
of leftists, who still had faith socialism could work with the right
leaders, and to the delight of conservatives, who believed that
socialism and communism guaranteed mutually-shared poverty.
Two years later, the Soviet Union crumbled. Soviet communism might not
have endured for 70 years had it not been for enablers in academia,
religion and journalism. Lloyd Billingsley has written about them in
"The Generation That Knew Not Josef," as in Stalin.
When the wall fell, leftists could not bring themselves to
admit they had been wrong, much less apologize for their misplaced
faith. So they did what they do best: they made excuses.
The Media Research Center (MRC) has compiled reports,
editorials, articles and commentary that extend over the last 22 years
revealing how the pre-Fox, pre-talk radio liberal media were the
handmaidens of one of the greatest totalitarian evils to strike the
planet. The underlying myth in much of their "reporting," notes the
MRC's Rich Noyes, was that free market capitalism was a greater threat
to human happiness than communism.
http://townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2009/11/05/communisms_enablers_and_excusers