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Here's what your writer wrote, quoting a right-winger:
"The ACLU has a pretty sordid past. They were founded by a guy, Roger Baldwin, who was an avowed atheist, and he had a certain agenda. He wrote about being a socialist, and communism was his goal."
My question to you is simple: why did you allow this quote, which is simply false in its implication, to stand unquestioned? "Balance" alone would seem to have mandated a response from a historian of the ACLU. More importantly, a decent regard for the truth would have caused a careful writer to correct the impression that this quote left. I'm quite disappointed in Michelle Goldberg--more shoddy journalism and simple pandering to the Right.
