Equal time for communists? The downhill slide of VOA

Published September 17, 2017 4:01am ET



They post anti-Trump memes on Facebook showing him with a Nazi swastika over his head, and his head as a male sex organ. One called him “Fuckface Von Clownstick.” For Labor Day, they quote American communist Angela Davis, a Lenin Peace Prize winner whom Nobel Prize author and Soviet dissident Alexandr Solzhenitsyn denounced as an enemy of human rights defenders in communist-ruled countries.

One might think that individuals who also posted videos in which Trump was called “pig” and “dog” must belong to some violent Antifa cell somewhere. They do not. They are federal government employees working for the Voice of America (VOA). Their six-figure salaries are paid by American taxpayers.

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