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Me too. This may sound improbable, but "Treason" changed my political life. When I read her book, her account of McCarthy was indeed so diametrically opposed to anything I had ever heard about him, I thought "Okay...someone isn't telling the truth here.

So, I investigated. I began reading all the books I could find of that era, beginning with "Witness" and currently I am reading the Radosh books "Red Star over Hollywood". I just finished David Horowitz's book "Radical Son".

I even went to the Library of Congress and got copies of the transcripts of the McCarthy hearings.

In particular, I wanted to see for myself if Coulter was accurate of her portrayal with the encounter with Joseph Welch with the famous line: "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"

I just could not believe everything I had been told growing up in school, and by the media, and by PBS was so far off. So I read the entire transcript of that day, including the exchange.

And you know what? Ann Coulter's version was spot on. She was right. Everything I have been told about McCarthy was a "hegemonic lie", as she suggested.

So, all the textbooks lied. Walter Cronkite and his pals lied. My teachers lied (although many, I suspect may have been equally as misinformed as myself)

As a result, I now view every piece of news I see with unaccepting discriminaton. And I thank Ann Coulter for that.