YOU’RE GONNA NEED A MUCH BIGGER BLOG. Mark Judge: From Alger Hiss to Russiagate: Seven decades of media lies.

In the new issue of Harper’s magazine, a small article appears that claims Alger Hiss was innocent.

Hiss, who died in 1996, was a high-ranking State Department official in the 1930s and ’40s. Hiss was also a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union. This was proven not only when Hiss was identified as a spy by a man named Whittaker Chambers in 1948, but in the Venona transcripts, secret Soviet cables that were made public by the United States in 1995.

Yet 30 years after Venona, Harper’s magazine and the American Left continue to lie about Alger Hiss. For those discouraged by the media lying about Russiagate, or lying about Joe Biden’s mental health, or lying about crime in America’s cities, or lying about Brett Kavanaugh, the Harper’s item will not bring hope. Decades after the fact, the media can’t even admit that a communist spy was a communist spy.

I’m not sure if he still does it, but for years, Hugh Hewitt invariably asked his lefty guests whether or not Hiss was a spy for the Soviets. The results could be, on occasion, absolutely hilarious: MSNBC’s Karen Finney Getting A Little Hung Up Over Alger Hiss.