THEY'LL NEVER FORGIVE YOU [Ann Coulter on Ron Radosh, Joe McCarthy, "Blacklisted by History"]

AnnCoulter.com ^ | December 5, 2007 | Ann Coulter

[RonDog]

THEY'LL NEVER FORGIVE YOU
by Ann Coulter
December 5, 2007

Poor Ron Radosh is still hoping liberals will forgive him.

He wrote a good book a quarter-century ago with Joyce Milton -- "The Rosenberg File" -- which was supposed to exonerate Julius Rosenberg, but instead concluded that Rosenberg was guilty of Soviet espionage.

Radosh has spent the rest of his life apologizing to liberals for that book.

This week, he's apologizing in the pages of the increasingly irrelevant National Review with a nasty review of the greatest book since the Bible, M. Stanton Evans' "Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy."

Radosh makes misstatements of fact about the book, misstates facts about the cases and falsely accuses Evans of plagiarism. Other than that, it's a good review!

The review makes it comically obvious that Radosh didn't so much as glance through the pages of Evans' book. (Please forgive me, Eric Foner!) At least Kelly Ripa skims the summary cards written by her assistants who actually read the books when she interviews an author. Radosh doesn't even manage that.

It must be painful for Radosh to read a thrilling historical account of Soviet espionage without every accusation against a liberal having to be surrounded by 400 excuses, as in Radosh's excruciating books.

This contemptible Uriah Heep patronizingly writes, for example, that "Evans does an impressive job of reminding readers how serious the issue of Communist penetration was" -- something Radosh's own books failed to do because he's too busy denouncing right-wingers like Joe McCarthy.

But Uriah Radosh complains that Evans "does not emphasize, although his own data make it clear, that most of the knowledge about these people came before McCarthy was on the scene. After all, Elizabeth Bentley first went to the FBI in 1945, and named key members of Soviet networks."

This is extensively covered in Chapters 10 and 11 of Evans' book. Extensively. There are even never-before-released charts in those chapters that you'd notice by merely flipping through the book before purporting to write a review of it. So even people who just read Evans' book for the pictures will know that he's covered that point pretty exhaustively. This includes one intricately detailed FBI chart mapping out Bentley's Soviet contacts. But thanks for reminding us about Elizabeth Bentley, Ron!

All of this information, incidentally, was delivered to the Truman administration, where it was promptly ignored.

This is the central fact that apparently must be explained to liberals over and over again. I will understand the rules of football before liberals will grasp McCarthy's point.

It is true that most of the high-value targets whom McCarthy cited to prove Democratic perfidy had been identified as Soviet spies before McCarthy came on the scene.

But the essence of what McCarthy was saying was: Let's get into this a bit. How could Whittaker Chambers meet with FDR's Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle in 1939, reveal massive Soviet penetration of the Roosevelt administration, and still have these same Soviet spies swarming through Democratic administrations a decade later?

How could Truman have nominated known Soviet spy Harry Dexter White to be U.S. director of the International Monetary Fund in 1946? How could Truman still be denying Alger Hiss was a Soviet agent in 1956?

Democrats want endless, pontifical investigations into how 9/11 happened, but they can't comprehend why McCarthy wanted an investigation into how an immense network of Soviet spies managed to run rampant through the Democratic administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.

After Hiss, the Rosenbergs and the loss of China, there was considerably more reason for McCarthy to investigate the State Department than there is for the current Congress to investigate Bush's firing of his own U.S. attorneys.

By exposing the Democrats' absolute blindness to Soviet totalitarianism, McCarthy shattered forever the nation's confidence in the Democrats' capacity to govern. For that, the Stalinist hate machine attacked him viciously and has never let up -- as detailed in "Blacklisted by History," a book Ron Radosh might want to read someday.

But Radosh is not about to let the first book to render a full and honest historical account of Joe McCarthy ruin his blissful ignorance. Radosh knows less about McCarthy than I know about fly-fishing. He gets cases wrong, sources wrong, hearings wrong. He's been pulling this nonsense for 25 years now. The sole point of his current cliche-ridden ramblings in National Review is to make yet one more special pleading to liberals.

DEAR RON:
No matter how hard you try, they'll never forgive you. You still can't get a job teaching at any university in America.

DEAR NATIONAL REVIEW:
Your fake dispatches from Lebanon are more interesting than whining liberals writing book reviews of books they haven't read and don't have the guts to write.

COPYRIGHT 2007 ANN COULTER
DISTRIBUTED BY UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE
4520 Main Street, Kansas City, MO 64111

[RonDog]

ping

[RonDog]

From amazon.com:

What a great CHRISTMAS PRESENT!

[SandRat]

FR Rules ya know.

[Zionist Conspirator]

May Senator McCarthy be vindicated at long last!

[robomatik]

geez, i love ann

[Red Badger]

The Rosenbergs were guilty. McCarthy was right and Alger Hiss was a communist.......

[PLMerite]

“What a great CHRISTMAS PRESENT!”

Ann or the book?

[tired1]

“Alger Hiss was a communist.......”

Hiss was a spy and a traitor.

[manic4organic]

Heh heh...I’d unwrapped her, I mean it.

[Red Badger]

Communist covers both.......

[Little Ray]

DEAR NATIONAL REVIEW: Your fake dispatches from Lebanon are more interesting than whining liberals writing book reviews of books they haven't read and don't have the guts to write.

Ooooh! Thats going to leave a mark...

[Earthdweller]

BTTT

[RonDog]

"...It must be painful for Radosh to read a thrilling historical account of Soviet espionage without every accusation against a liberal having to be surrounded by 400 excuses, as in Radosh's excruciating books.

This contemptible Uriah Heep patronizingly writes, for example..." - Ann Coulter

For those of us more familiar with the the "Uriah Heep" the ROCK GROUP than the "Uriah Heep" the DICKENS CHARACTER, see also, from wikipedia.:

Uriah Heep (David Copperfield)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Drawing by Fred Barnard

Uriah Heep is a fictional character created by Charles Dickens in his novel David Copperfield.

The character is notable for his cloying humility, obsequiousness, and general insincerity. His references to David as "Master Copperfield" are repeated so often that they quickly seem insincere...

[knews_hound]

Pinging the Coulter List.



On or off, FReepmail jellybean or ping me.

Cheers,

knewshound

http://www.knewshound.blogspot.com/

[Bigun]

This book,

Should be required reading for every person in this nation and particularly 435 congressmen and 100 senators!

But I doubt that it will happen.

[Bigun]

But the essence of what McCarthy was saying was: Let's get into this a bit. How could Whittaker Chambers meet with FDR's Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle in 1939, reveal massive Soviet penetration of the Roosevelt administration, and still have these same Soviet spies swarming through Democratic administrations a decade later?

How could Truman have nominated known Soviet spy Harry Dexter White to be U.S. director of the International Monetary Fund in 1946? How could Truman still be denying Alger Hiss was a Soviet agent in 1956?

Democrats want endless, pontifical investigations into how 9/11 happened, but they can't comprehend why McCarthy wanted an investigation into how an immense network of Soviet spies managed to run rampant through the Democratic administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.

That does indeed sum it up very nicely. Wonder why those questions haven't been adequately answered to this very day?

[sticker]

I will be happy to teach Ann how to flyfish

[RonDog]

Thanks for the "Ann" ping, knews_hound!

Have we decided yet who is going to post Ann's "birthday thread" this year?

I posted one a few years ago, so it's someone ELSE's turn to continue the tradition this year. :o)

Any volunteers?

I recommend that even though her birthday is SATURDAY, December 8, we ought to post a "Happy Birthday, Ann!" thread one day EARLY this year -- on FRIDAY, 12/7 -- so that all those who FReep primarily at work can add their good wishes, too.

[plenipotentiary]

“How could Whittaker Chambers meet with FDR’s Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle in 1939, reveal massive Soviet penetration of the Roosevelt administration, and still have these same Soviet spies swarming through Democratic administrations a decade later?”

Truman and Roosevelt and their administration were Communists. It wasn’t just the loss of China, but also the loss of Eastern Europe, the loss of half Korea.

Who benefitted the most from the nuking of Japan?

Communist China.

It’s easy after the passage of time to see what the major outcomes of major decisions were.

Anyone who doesn’t think Roosevelt was a Commie should study his agenda.

[RonDog]

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[Southern Partisan]

Not for nothing did Bill Buckley call Miss Coulter “Tailgunner Ann”.

[Yardstick]

Thank you Ann Coulter. It’s about time somebody took Radosh to task for being such a limp, appeasing noodle. I hope he tries to defend himself so she can do it again.

[AwesomePossum]

Thanx for the post, the ping and the pics............

:}

[EveningStar]

Amazon.com -- Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies

[boop]

What is wrong with National Review? They don’t have to “like” every conservative book, but yeesh. Even I could write a better review.

[VOA]

I am humbled that you for including my “BookTV” post on the “Blacklisted”
in your find FR thread compendium in post 21.

I will tell posters and lurkers that they can still at least hear
(via dial-up connections) and probably see (with higher speed connections)
the presentation the author made on his book “Blacklisted” on BookTV
(C-Span2, weekends) over the past couple of weekends.

Just go to the link below and click the “Watch” button at the right
side of the page.
You’ll get a Real Player popup of the BookTV presentation by the author.
(granted, with dial-up, you’ll probably get passable audio and just
an MTV-video jerky set of stills for video!).

Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy
http://www.booktv.org/program.aspx?ProgramId=8901&SectionName=Public%20Lives&PlayMedia=No

[Stepan12]

[EveningStar]

Ooooh! Thats going to leave a mark...

It's an old feud.

[EveningStar]

What is wrong with National Review? They don’t have to “like” every conservative book, but yeesh. Even I could write a better review.

Do you have a link to that review? I haven't read it yet.

[MaxMax]

Nice one.

[BerryDingle]

“But the essence of what McCarthy was saying was: Let’s get into this a bit. How could Whittaker Chambers meet with FDR’s Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle in 1939, reveal massive Soviet penetration of the Roosevelt administration, and still have these same Soviet spies swarming through Democratic administrations a decade later?”

According to one of Ann’s books, when Secretary of State Adolf Berle confronted Roosevelt about admitted spy Whittaker Chambers stating that he actually worked with Alger Hiss, Roosevelt told Berle to “go **** himself.

[RonDog]

Not for nothing did Bill Buckley call Miss Coulter "Tailgunner Ann."

From www.claremont.org:

Tailgunner Ann
A review of Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism, by Ann Coulter

By William F. Buckley, Jr.

-- snip --

...As expected, much of the book is devoted to rejecting commonly accepted charges against Senator Joe McCarthy. She gives the reader the names of a dozen indisputably traitorous actors who worked in government while concealing their ties to the Soviet Union. Quite properly, she lists Alger Hiss and Owen Lattimore as prime examples of liberal obstinacy, and she wonders very much out loud whether that obstinacy arose because these liberals were concerned with due process and the presumption of innocence and all that, or whether they were, in heart and mind, on the Soviet side in the Cold War...

-- snip --

...She writes with scorn and derision of the critics of McCarthy and of the lengths to which many of them went, and still do. The late Brent Bozell and I spent 18 months attempting to distinguish what McCarthy had said and charged in the years we examined, and where (not often) he was indefensible. Our book was titled McCarthy And His Enemies, because we sought to make the point that many enemies of McCarthy had earned a derision and contempt that they nevertheless never had experienced in the cooler, reflective chambers of historical criticism. Coulter's rejoinders to many of McCarthy's critics are well aimed, and the offenders eminently vulnerable...

-- snip --

...There was the dogged New York Times defense of the so-called Lackawanna Muslims, brought in by the FBI and interrogated. The Times expressed deep sympathy for the detainees, and reported the dismay of their neighbors. "It was just like the Times's man-on-the-street interviews on Bush's tax plan. For the Times, an ordinary American is a sociology professor in Oregon whose wife teaches tantric sex at the community college." Coulter accosts the defense of the detained Yemeni-Americans to the effect that they were no more suspicious than the man next door with some of the data the FBI had come up with. "The prosecution's case, at least in part, is that a terrorist can be the kid next door. Yes—if the kid next door trained with al-Qaeda. Mohammed Atta lived next door to somebody, too. Don't all criminals live next door to somebody? What was the Times's point?"

There is a lot of such fun and shrewdness as this in Ann Coulter's book, but there is also mischief, which of course can be fun. Especially mischief about the other guy.

William F. Buckley, Jr. is the founder of National Review.

[RonDog]

:o)

[mc5cents]

Very good interview about the book "Blacklisted by History" Long, but worth the time. You have to jump to each segment on Youtube.

CNS interview with M. Stanton Evans

[Yardstick]

William F. Buckley’s strategy was to have NR be anti-communist but not kooky, and I think this is a slightly botched continuation of that approach. Or maybe they promised Radosh they’d publish his review and had to live with what he ended up writing. It would be interesting to know what happened behind the scenes.

[Candor7]

Thank you so much for posting this Ron.

You made my day.

I love it when the ongoing liberal/socialist attempt to redefine history FAILS.

This book means abject and complete historical failure for the Dems. Since they cannot argue with it, they will ignore the book. So it will be our job to repeatedly stick it right in their twisted faces!

All liberals are Utopians anyway, who want ( Communist) heaven on earth. Some one should tell them you have to die to get there! LOL.

OF course Anne is doing a great job at just that!

That sends the libs right around the bend!( The Libs do not have bright sexy women, they are either ugly trying to be bright OR physically attractive but mentally scattered. The libs just can't figure Anne out. Why?

Because she IS extremely bright AND sexy.

( SIGH)

[RonDog]

Do you have a link to that review?

I haven't read it yet.

From nationalreview.com:

December 17, 2007 VOL. LIX, NO. 23

The Enemy Within — Ron Radosh . . . Blacklisted By History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight against America’s Enemies, by M. Stanton Evans

It appears that you have to be a subscriber to read it online. :(

[boop]

It kind of reminded me of when David Brock wrote his Hillary book how he tried to sound like a “reasonable” conservative. Instead it was just the reflection of what a liberal ass he really was.

[RonDog]

Thank you so much for posting this Ron.

You made my day.

De nada.

For what it's worth, however, I just POSTED it.

Ann WROTE it. :o)

[RonDog]

This book means abject and complete historical failure for the Dems.

Since they cannot argue with it, they will ignore the book.

So it will be our job to repeatedly stick it right in their twisted faces!

See also:

McCarthyism: The Rosetta Stone Of Liberal Lies
(Ann Coulter Upsets Liberals Again Alert)
Ann Coulter.com ^ | 11/07/2007 | Ann Coulter
Posted on 11/07/2007 3:22:31 PM PST by goldstategop

When I wrote a ferocious defense of Sen. Joe McCarthy in "Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism," liberals chose not to argue with me. Instead they posted a scrolling series of reasons not to read my book, such as that I wear short skirts, date boys, and that "Treason" was not a scholarly tome.

After printing rabidly venomous accounts of McCarthy for half a century based on zero research, liberals would only accept research presenting an alternative view of McCarthy that included, as the Los Angeles Times put it, at least the "pretense of scholarly throat-clearing and objectivity."

This week, they got it.

The great M. Stanton Evans has finally released "Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies." Based on a lifetime's work, including nearly a decade of thoroughgoing research, stores of original research and never-before-seen government files, this 672-page book ends the argument on Joe McCarthy. Look for it hidden behind stacks of Bill Clinton's latest self-serving book at a bookstore near you.

Evans' book is such a tour de force that liberals are already preparing a "yesterday's news" defense -- as if they had long ago admitted the truth about McCarthy. Yes, and they fought shoulder to shoulder with Ronald Reagan to bring down the Evil Empire. Thus, Publishers Weekly preposterously claims that "the history Evans relates is already largely known, if not fully accepted."

Somebody better tell George Clooney..

CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread

[Candor7]

Thanks, on it now,................................... er the referenced thread I mean!

[Stepan12]

I have to get that M Stanton Evans book. It’s Ann Coulter who started to restore Sen. McCarthy to his rightful place in history and it’s M. Stanton Evans who finished the job.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

[RonDog]

:o)

[MaxMax]

I’m with you about the book. It’s on my Amazon order list as of tonite.

[zeugma]

DEAR NATIONAL REVIEW: Your fake dispatches from Lebanon are more interesting than whining liberals writing book reviews of books they haven't read and don't have the guts to write.

Worth repeating again. That line was worthy of Steyn.  

[antinomian]

"I love it when the ongoing liberal/socialist attempt to redefine history FAILS."

I wouldn't say it failed. The smears against McCarthy and the denials of McCarthy's charges were the gospel truth as long as the left needed them to be. It's good to be vindicated in the end but what does the McCarthy story really matter now politically? There isn't anybody still in office we can hound out. They kept up the facade as long as they needed it and now nobody cares.

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP another masterpiece from Ann!

But what does she have against Uriah heep, anyway?

[RonDog]

But what does she have against Uriah heep, anyway?

Ann is a "Dead" head.

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