Posted on 11/22/2007 9:05:09 AM PST by VOA
About the Program
M. Stanton Evans argues that Joseph McCarthy does not deserve the
bad reputation he has been assigned by historians. Mr. Evans says
that McCarthy was correct in his assessment of the threat posed
by Communists in the United States during the so-called "Red Scare"
and that his detractors knowingly covered up the extent of this threat.
Here is a direct link to the schedule for BookTV for this holiday weekend:
http://www.booktv.org/schedule.aspx
As always, I warn folks new to to BookTV...if you tune in casually you
might get anything ranging from today’s airing of a presenation friendly
to Joe McCarthy...all the way to Code Pink celebrations!
You have been warned!!!
Worth noting that Evans is the guy whose research Ann Coulter used, with permission, when writing Treason. IIRC, Evans claimed that if he had known what Coulter was going to do with his research, he wouldn’t have given permission. I have no idea what to make of that.
-—excellent book—I’m going to give mine to the local library-—
Thanks for posting. I’m definitely going to tune in.
“Red Scare” then
“Red Blight” now
“I have no idea what to make of that.”
Evans (in the BookTV) seems to have an fairly laid-back, good-guy
sort of personna.
Maybe he just didn’t gather than Ms. Coulter is hyper-driven...
and given a green light was bound to make the most of getting access to
a gold mine of info.
IIRC, Evans says he (and his group) got something like 100,000 pages
of source info in doing their research.
“Thanks for posting. I’m definitely going to tune in.”
Thanks for checking in...gives me a chance to bump and remind late-comers:
The segment will air SOON!
Coming up at
1 PM EASTERN (NOON CENTRAL) Today 11-22-07 Thanksgiving Day!!!
“Evans claimed that if he had known what Coulter was going to do with his research, he wouldn’t have given permission. I have no idea what to make of that.”
Nor do I. That is disappointing.
Here’s a shot in the dark. Perhaps Evans is an overly-nuanced academic who doesn’t want to dirty himself with AC’s blunt, fact-based, in-your-face takedowns of the disgusting Left.
“Perhaps Evans is an overly-nuanced academic who doesn’t want to dirty
himself with AC’s blunt, fact-based, in-your-face takedowns of the disgusting Left.”
It could like the race for mapping the Human Genome: you’ve got careful, conscientious
Francis Collins on one hand and hyper-driven “git ‘er done” Craig Venter.
My naive thought is that Coulter trusted Evan’s “breaking trail”,
then when she got a green light from him...she raced forward.
Just two different types of human beings approaching the same source material
(unless Evans ever says that Ms. Coulter ignored or clearly duped him
in terms of actual publication)
bump for publicity...
now I go to attend to last Thanksgiving Day preparations!
Treason was the first book I read of Coulters’ and it was the best presentation of McCarthy and how over the years his critics have tried and have been somewhat successful of discrediting his works and hearing of outing communism in government. Was a very good read IMO.
One thing that the historians won’t tell you is that McCarthy set communism back at least 60 years. We need to do it again.
McCarthy’s crime was being right, and the consequences it had for the “beautiful people”, who only wanted to “help the little guy”. There’s no sorrier hypocrites than the Hollywood Elite, with their smug pronouncements. Now they hug Hugo Chavez.
Whatever people think about McCarthy’s sometimes unorthodox and/or sensational methods, virtually all the history of the period that has been seen or read by the general public was reported on and written by far-leftists and sympathetic to the left liberals. Over the years I’ve been stunned by the numbers of media libs who were either card-carrying commies or libs who carried water for them. So whatever the rightness of his methods, McCarthy never got a fair break from the people covering that era. Now he is finally getting his just due.
Take one look at Hollywood today. Universities. Public schools. Newspapers.
McCarty was right.
***-—excellent book—I’m going to give mine to the local library-—***
If your library sells used books for a dollar each, they’ll probably put the book in that bin. May I suggest that you give it to someone who would appreciate it, and ask him/her to pass it along.
I didn't know that. I'm presently reading "Blacklisted by History" and it was Ann's book that piqued my interest in the facts about McCarthy.
I've enjoyed the book and I would recommend it to anyone who has any interest.
I don’t need a book to know that Senator Joseph McCarthy, God rest his soul, bravely blazed a trail not traveled by the Washington elite, nor their Hollywood comrades. The “Democrat” Congress now seated cannot be described as anything but Communists bent on defeating the Republic.
Book or no book, I watched those Un-American Activity hearings conducted by McCarthy, and I knew he was right on the button in his interpretation of what was going on, and who was doing it. And I’ve experienced the pain of watching the elite take our glorious country down by infiltrating our public school system and sweeping God under the carpet. Because the American people refused to fight it, we are now where we find ourselves today.
So today, on Thanksgiving Day, I hope three hundred million prayers for restoration of our great nation go up to the Living God. And may God bless and protect each and every one of our amazing troops.
On now.
Amen to that! It's interesting... because that was also "Reagan's crime" only he did it out in front of the American public and the liberal media just couldn't spin all of that "good news" into the demon they wanted to make out of Reagan.
McCarthy's other crime was being from Wisconsin where a deep and abiding affection for socialists, communists and other labor-union sympathizers runs very deep. They were only too happy to dump McCarthy overboard.
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