Posted on 11/16/2005 4:14:19 PM PST by smoothsailing
ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN A SECOND-RATE FILMMAKER?
By Ann Coulter1 hour, 1 minute ago
As noted here previously, George Clooney's movie "Good Night, and Good Luck," about pious parson Edward R. Murrow and Sen. Joseph McCarthy, failed to produce one person unjustly accused by McCarthy. Since I described McCarthy as a great American patriot defamed by liberals in my 2003 book, "Treason," liberals have had two more years to produce a person -- just one person -- falsely accused by McCarthy. They still can't do it.
Meanwhile, I can prove that Murrow's good friend Lawrence Duggan was a Soviet spy responsible for having innocent people murdered. The brilliant and perceptive journalist Murrow was not only unaware of the hundreds of Soviet spies running loose in the U.S. government, he was also unaware that his own dear friend Duggan was a Soviet spy -- his friend on whose behalf corpses littered the Swiss landscape.
Contrary to the image of the Black Night of Fascism (BNOF) under McCarthy leading to mass suicide with bodies constantly falling on the heads of pedestrians in Manhattan, Duggan was the only suicide. After being questioned by the FBI, Duggan leapt from a window. Of course, given the people he was doing business with, he may have been pushed.
After Duggan's death, Murrow, along with the rest of the howling establishment, angrily denounced the idea that Duggan could possibly have been disloyal to America.
Well, now we know the truth. Decrypted Soviet cables and mountains of documents from Soviet archives prove beyond doubt that Lawrence Duggan was one of Stalin's most important spies. "McCarthyism" didn't kill him; his guilt did.
During the height of the Soviet purges in the mid-'30s, as millions of innocents were being tortured, exiled and killed on Stalin's orders, Murrow's good pal Duggan was using his position at the State Department to pass important documents to the Soviets. The documents were so sensitive, Duggan had to return the originals to the State Department before the end of the day. Some were so important, they were sent directly to Stalin and Molotov.
On at least one occasion, Murrow's dear friend Duggan sat with his Soviet handler for an hour as the handler photographed 60 documents for the motherland. In other words, Duggan was the kind of disloyal, two-faced, back-stabbing weasel you rarely see outside of the entertainment industry. (He certainly was perceptive, that Murrow.)
All this time, people Duggan knew personally were being falsely accused and executed back in the Soviet Union. Duggan expressed concern about Stalin's purges with his Soviet handler, but he didn't stop spying. As Allen Weinstein describes it in "The Haunted Wood," Duggan was mostly concerned about being falsely accused by Stalin himself someday.
Because of Murrow's good buddy Duggan, innocent people were killed. Not just the millions murdered during the purges while Duggan was earning "employee of the month" awards from Stalin. At least one man was murdered solely to protect Duggan's identity as a Soviet spy.
Ignatz Reiss had been the head of Soviet secret police in Europe. As such, he was aware of Soviet agents in the U.S., including Duggan. But unlike Duggan, Reiss was stunned by Stalin's bloody purges. In 1937, Reiss defected from the Soviet Union, threatening to expose Duggan if they came after him. It was his death warrant.
Two months later, Soviet secret police tracked Reiss to a restaurant in Switzerland. According to the official memo describing Reiss' murder, Soviet agents dragged Reiss out of the restaurant, shoved him in a car, shot him and dumped his body by the side of the road. (Or, in Soviet parlance, he was "debriefed.")
Soviet officials later happily informed Duggan's handler in America: "(Reiss) is liquidated, (but) not yet his wife. ... Now the danger that (Duggan) will be exposed because of (Reiss) is considerably decreased." Despite all Clooney's double-sourced fact-checking, he missed the part about Murrow's good friend Duggan being an accomplice to murder.
To hear these liberals carry on, "McCarthyism" was the worst thing that ever happened in the history of the universe. No one has ever been so persecuted or so heroic as Hollywood actors in the '50s.
At the exact same time as these crybabies were wailing about McCarthyism, there was much worse going on in the parts of the world so admired by the Hollywood left. It's not as if we have to go back to the Peloponnesian War to find greater suffering than that of Hollywood drama queens during the BNOF under McCarthyism.
I believe anyone would find it preferable to have been a "target" of McCarthy in the '50s than to have been an ordinary citizen living in the Soviet Union, Hungary, Poland, the Ukraine or any nation infected by the Red Plague.
Thanks to McCarthy, and no thanks to Murrow, the worst horror to befall an American citizen in the '50s was the dire prospect of losing a movie credit -- although, since then, I suppose having to watch a George Clooney movie would run a close second.
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yea, most Americans don't realize what a great country the USA is until they go elsewhere.
we'll keep the light on for ya... LOL
One hundred percent right on!
I was proud to serve with some of the finest Marines the Corps has ever produced.
And you can be proud of the fine young Marines serving today. They don't come any better!
Semper Fi,
Kelly
A movie? I can think of three or four off the top of my head in the last year or so! 8)
I haven't heard a word about this movie other than a few commercials just before it opened. Can I optimisticaly hope it is bombing at the box office?
They never were looking, and they never will.They know the truth, it stares at them in the mirror.
Somewhat ironic that Ann says that liberals argue by namecalling and our dear late troll, "See it Now", shows up and immediately demonstrates her point.
ann almost sounds calm in this writing (for a change)
Man, that's a good quote.
Nothing new under the sun, huh?
BTTT
Nope.....same ol same ol : )
Few writers are skilled enough to carry off such sarcasm. Alexander Pope was one; Ann Coulter is another.
Hollywood really needs to get their history straight. It's been quite a few years now since the Russians released those old USSR spy documents that confirm how correct McCarthy was. But with all things Hollywood, we wouldn't want the people in the blue states to know the truth now would we....
In Ike's position in 52, I'd have handed Joe McCarthy and the guys on HUAC a copy of the Hollywood California telephone directory and told them to use THAT for their blacklist and save the taxpayers the money.
I have NO doubt. :) And yeah, please, keep the light on for me. Someday I'll be back home. :)
Please send my regards to everyone you know in the military. Your service is appreciated, to put it mildly. Thank God for the U.S. military. Withouth it, the world would be... Oh, for lack of a better term, up the creek without a paddle, shall we say. ;) Even though the world doesn't appreciate it.
Thanks again, Kelly.
Annie's right on again, as usual.
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