Spotlight & Liberty Lobby: Marxist & Anti-Semitic - Page 4 [Final]

March 16, 1982 --- Congressional Record ---  Extension of Remarks
	Spotlight Editor's Confessions Hon. Larry McDonald of Georgia in the House of Representatives Tuesday, March 16, 1982 Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, for several years the tabloid Spotlight, the organ of Liberty Lobby and Willis Carto, has conducted a campaign of vilifications against American conservatives and anti-Communists. The targets have included this Congressman and John Rees, Washington bureau chief of the Review of the News. Liberty Lobby/Spotlight commenced its scurrilous campaign after we noted its strange alliance with the totalitarian Communist cult headed by Lyndon LaRouche, the U.S. Labor Party, now calling itself the National Democratic Policy Committee. James Tucker, for 6 years Spotlight's managing editor came to my office not long ago and offered the following letter of apology: January 11, 1982 Hon. Larry McDonald, Member, U.S. Congress, Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. McDonald: For the first time in my six-plus years at Liberty Lobby, as a managing editor of the Spotlight, I am at liberty to tell you how very much I regret an and how energetically I resisted, publishing stories that demeaned you and Mr. John Rees. This is because I have at last resigned, as I felt compelled to do, over policy differences reflected above which cannot be reconciled. My struggle began with the direct orders to publish stories reflecting favorable on the Labor Party which had made statements which some people at Liberty Lobby appreciated. I argued then and now that there is no way to quote self-avowed communists -- even if, on a single matter, the should be right -- and maintain credibility. What followed, since the days we collaborated so well in the Canal fight, was a tragedy ***. Cordially, Jim Tucker
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