A peek at her underwear? (Red diapers?)

Consider Joan Walsh's apology for Nelson Mandela’s role as a moderate in the peaceful take-down of South African Apartheid coming after her unmitigated praise for his commitment to armed conflict as "a revolutionary who believed in a radical redistribution of wealth, and a global warrior against poverty" (he was a communist and a terrorist).

Some truth to this, after all?

By the early 1970s, the openly defiant and revolutionary New Left had spent its political capital and was a dying movement.

But its adherents remained committed to the cause, altering their tactics so as to work within the system in a manner the New Left had previously chosen not to do.

These latter-day leftists incorporated the tactics of the infamous Saul Alinsky, seeking to change society by first infiltrating its major institutions – the schools, the media, the churches, the entertainment industry, the labor unions, and the three branches of government – and then implementing policies from those positions of power.

Most notably, the ex-New Leftists found a home in the Democratic Party.

Or among the liberal pundit class, particularly in Blogland, including those who were too young or were, or are, fellow-travelers of the New Left.

(Yes, I know what "red diapers" actually means. So?)

(Wasn't that Gramsci, not Alinsky? "Cultural hegemony"?)