MSNBC host hangs up on conservative to avoid answering question. Karen Finney, host of the weekend show Disrupt, was desperate to hide the extent of her own ignorance. Hugh Hewitt was asking her if Alger Hiss was a communist. (He was. Secret archives released after the fall of the Soviet Union settled the matter, proving once and for all that Joe McCarthy was right.) She refused to answer and was probably thinking to herself, “Alger who?”
