Donna Brazile: Why Would Fox News Hire A Socialist?

By: Trevor Loudon | The Epoch Times


Former Democratic National Committee chairperson Donna Brazile participates in a panel discussion about Women’s History Month in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill March 19, 2019 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

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.”

So, Brazile moved to Washington D.C. for a job with the United States Student Association—an organization dominated through its entire history by Communist Party supporters and Maoist-leaning radicals.

In 1984, Brazile served as mobilization director for Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaign. Jackson’s operation, which became known as the “Rainbow Coalition,” was dominated by pro-China Maoist radicals from the Communist Workers Party, Line of March, and League of Revolutionary Struggle—all of which later dissolved to one degree or another into the Democratic Party.

Next up, Brazile became national coordinator of Savina Martin‘s National Union of the Homeless. Martin was later closely aligned with the country’s largest pro-China communist group: the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

In the 1990s, Brazile served as communications director for Washington D.C. Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, Eleanor Holmes Norton. This was a slight feint to the “right” for Brazile because Holmes Nortonwasn’ta communist, only a socialist.

According to Boston Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member Bette Denich, DSA founder Michael Harrington had “recruited her friend and future roommate Eleanor Holmes to the Young Socialist League during one of his speaking tours at Antioch College in the late 1950s.”

Holmes Norton went on to form a close bond with the DSA that endures to this day.

In 2009, Brazile was listed as a member of the advisory committee of Wellstone Action, a Minnesota-based activist training organization built on the political legacy of that state’s late Sen. Paul Wellstone—a close ally of the DSA. Other operatives serving on the Wellstone board at the time included well-known DSA members Frances Fox Piven and Julian Bond, plus Communist Party USA affiliate and Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie.

Circa 2012, Brazile served on the board of the National Democratic Institute, a U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International—which in turn was affiliated at the time with the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, the South African Communist Party-controlled African National Congress, and most of the “former” communist parties of Eastern Europe.

Brazile never forgot communism, however. In June 2011, she traveled to Havana, Cuba, with California Rep. Karen Bass, former Congresswoman Jane Harman, and Sara Stephens of the Center for Democracy in the Americas, which paid for the trip.

The delegates attended meetings with Cuban academics, policymakers, journalists, NGO representatives, and politicians, including Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez and Cuba’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ricardo Alarcon.

Bass had visited Cuba before and several times since, and also has a past history with the Maoist-leaning Line of March, Communist Party USA, and DSA. Harman was on her second trip to the communist island and is married to Sidney Harman, an affiliate of the notoriously leftist Washington D.C. “think tank” the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).

Center for Democracy in the Americas is also affiliated with the IPS and included on its advisory board at the time Julia Sweig, one of the most prominent pro-Castro activists in the country.

Brazile is both an extreme leftist and a highly skilled communicator. She is very capable of expressing far-left views in moderate terms.

Is Fox News doing its audience a service by giving Brazile a platform to reach millions of mainly Republican-leaning viewers? Is that their definition of “fair and balanced?”

Anecdotally speaking, Fox News appears to be losing a significant portion of its base because of its perceived drift to the left. Hiring Brazile is very likely to accelerate that trend.

Trevor Loudon is an author, filmmaker, and public speaker from New Zealand. For more than 30 years, he has researched radical left, Marxist, and terrorist movements and their covert influence on mainstream politics.

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2 thoughts on “Donna Brazile: Why Would Fox News Hire A Socialist?

  1. THIS IS A LOW LIFE DISHONEST TYPICAL HILLARY HENCH PERSON.A DISGRACE TO AMERICA.HAS NO PATRIOTISM OR TRUST SHOULD BE BARRED ANY PRESS JOB.VERY DISAPPOINTED IN FOX SWITCHOFF AT SITE OF PERSON.

  2. >>Anecdotally speaking, Fox News appears to be losing a significant portion of its base because of its perceived drift to the left. Hiring Brazile is very likely to accelerate that trend.

    Which is why I watch less and less of Fox (and more and more of One America News).

    So far, Fox Business is a little better (e.g., Lou Dobbs). But the writing is on the wall as the Murdoch sons will continue to gradually drift toward the Progressive end, hoping to make it gradual enough that a critical mass of the viewership doesn’t notice.

    Mark Levin’s effort (now Blaze TV) also has some good content.

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