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
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[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.

From www.anncoulter.com:

[Lancey Howard]

It's good to be vindicated in the end but what does the McCarthy story really matter now politically?

Are you kidding? The scumbag Democrats STILL use the word "McCarthyism" all the time to smear sensible Republican initiatives.

[LucyJo]

BUMP

[jellybean]

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.

Actually, M. Stanton Evans helped Ann with the research on her book Treason. The opening sentence on the Acknowledgements page in Treason is:

Deserving of the most hysterical liberal blacklisting for helping me with this book are: M. Stanton Evans, the world's leading authority on Senator Joseph McCarthy, wo gave me - gratis - original research for my brief version of a topic he will cover in meticulous detail in his forthcoming book.

I picked up Mr. Evans' book last week, but haven't had time to read it yet.

[LucyJo]

Because their counterparts don’t just run rampant in the Democrat Party these days...they run the Democrat Party, and are rampant throughout the U.S. gov’t, etc.

[LucyJo]

I’m buying as a Christmas gift for my 80 yr. old mother, who will appreciate it very much, and I’ll read it when she is finished.

[tang-soo]

I made the mistake of watching Boston Legal last night - first time in a year. During testimony an attorney said , “No one takes Ann Coulter seriously”. Don’t they wish.

[Candor7]

I have been a conservative all my life, yet in 1970, History professors at my college were defaming McCarthy as a degenerate "knight of the knives " fascist. They said nothing about the historical facts of the traducing of our US political system. All they spoke about was the House Investigation on Unamerican Activities, and how all these actors from Hollywood and Leftist Academics were hauled up before the committee and lost their jobs in some cases.Boo Hoo.

Today the treasonous Hollywood crowd are at it again, except for a few. If you have the stomach to watch the satirical puppet DVD: " Team America: World Police" you will see the hollywood crowd treated the way McCarthy would have treated them today if he were alive. Nancy Pelosi, Murtha and Reid would be required by a Senate Committee to explain why they were publicly aiding and abetting the enemy.So would liberal CIA / State Dept. liberal whacko mavins like Plame and Wilson. Today these whackos traduce the official policy of the president with impunity in the name of personal politics while our soldiers get their guts blown out by Iranian arsenal marked ordnance, and suffer from other Islamofascists violence because of the encouragement these treasonoous tin pot politicos gove them via the press.

I still say these liberal whacko traitors should pay, and not just at the polls either.

In the best of worlds, this book might somehow rejuvinate our weeney spinless Republican reps in the House and Senate to do just that. One can hope.

I do not think the book is merely vindicative. Its an earth shaker for our present political and cultural wars with liberal socialists, who mean to destroy America with gays in the military, propagandaic news control, aiding and abetting the enemy in time of war, unsecuring our borders,illegal alien amnesty, NAFTA, WTO, and illegal political contributions from Red China. Pay back time approacheth!

McCarty is true inspiration for we conservatives , many of whom have abandoned hope after the foolishness involving the sell out RINOs in our last congress , who defused the use of the so called "nuclear option" to limit minority fillibuster. Big Mistake. People will be voting in anger now on both sides of this debate, and we have a disunified nation. It will be so until WE win this political battle, the way McCarthy did.

[secretagent]

Hoover saw McCarthy as hurting the ani-communist cause:

“Despite Hoover’s excesses, he didn’t make a practice of frivolous accusations about communism the way McCarthy did. Hoover was a serious student of the Communist Party, and he realized that one of the party’s chief objectives was to sow confusion, suspicion and hatred among the American people. Hoover knew that facts were essential in such combat, so McCarthy’s recklessness greatly disturbed him.”

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/03/12/ING4THKSUP1.DTL

“”According to the Communist leaders, McCarthy has helped them a great deal,” Herbert Philbrick, who spied on communists for the FBI for almost a decade, said in 1952. “McCarthy’s kind of attacks add greatly to the confusion, putting up a smokescreen for the party and making it more difficult than ever for people to discern who is a communist and who is not.””

[Live free or die]

National Review used to be a great place for young conservatives like myself to get a good take on the events behind the news. What happened? Have the shifted leftward like the Sun-Times? or have they simply become the kind of country-club conservatives and Rockerfeller Repubs that we know and despise?

[Live free or die]

National Review used to be a great place for young conservatives like myself to get a good take on the events behind the news. What happened? Have the shifted leftward like the Sun-Times? or have they simply become the kind of country-club conservatives and Rockerfeller Repubs that we know and despise?