Posted on 07/17/2005 5:58:36 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Did I miss the memo? They were educated in Western Hating American and European academia. They couldn't have gotten a more anti-western message in any madrassa in Pakistan.
I have to admit, even though I held the media and the left in reserve with a grain of salt, part of me said "Back then, things were different. The media didn't lie to us back then, only now..."
Boy, how naiive. I didn't feel betrayed, but I did feel like I had been fed a shovel of shiite growing up. I look at nearly everything I learned with a skeptical eye, now.
Perhaps because they were and are themselves opposed to the basic tenets of modern society? We always assume these people are just naive. In my experience, there is a kind of flipness that might charitably be traced to naivety, but that is a teenage version of the thing and readily passes. By the time people are this deep in it, they know what they are doing and like it. Anything is better than admitting they've been wrong, or worse still, that someone they have hated and smeared is a better man than they are.
Good handle...don't be lonesome-there are more of us here than you think! Someday this state will change...someday....
I don't believe American "Liberals" failed to comprehend the true nature of Stalinist communism. I look on most of them as "Compassionate Communists". They embraced the goals of communism, while shying away from some of it's excesses. They may have decried some of Stalin's method's, but believed that the people were ultimately to blame . The people brought it upon themselves by their failure to accept. Blame the victim!
Thats because they were invited spies.
They still don't.
Thanks for the recommendation ken.
That book knocked me out, as well.
Alger Hiss.
Never forget the name.
McCarthy - a gifted man who gave his entire reputation to save our country.
I respected Moynihan.
Even more so when I learned he was not fooled by Hillary.
Excellent article Joe. This is the kind of the thing that the mainstream media takes great pains not to share with t he masses. For the most part people still believe that the cold war was just paranoia.
You and I came away with the same central points - McCarthy is a hero.
Can you recommend some goods books on him? I'd like to read them, as well.
She hit a home run with her analysis, and I'm glad she chose to correct the wrongs of Mr. McCarthy's historical record.
In 1938/39 the French passed by courier directly to FDR that the Hiss brothers were Russian spies. FDR did nothing. The author has the gall to say McCarthy was excessive, odd he subscribes nothing to FDR.
Read "Dish" by Jeanette Walls - you want to know about how the media lies and for how long? JFK should have been IMPEACHED!
...orders came from the top.
Since the WH was crawling with 'em, I would say this is most probable.
NEVER TRUST DEMOCRATS WITH NATIONAL SECURITY!
Moynihan taught the Soviets a lesson. NEVER reuse a one time pad. Sure as hell this lesson was noted and circulated by foreign intelligence and WILL NOT be repeated.
NEVER TRUST DEMOCRATS WITH NATIONAL SECURITY!
After seeing what the barking moonbats are doing in Minnecraponus, that undeniably confirmed that Joe McCarthy was indeed right.
Who will be the patriot that buys us time, this time?
BTW, your tagline is most appropriate!
"There were also political reasons to keep Venona under wraps, especially in the 1950s. Republicans were attacking Democrats for coddling Communists and playing down the Red threat, while the Truman White House accused the GOP of red baiting. Publicizing documentation of widespread Communist espionage would have plunged the FBI into the middle of a superheated partisan debate."
Heaven forbid that word might get out that the Republicans were telling the truth!
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