Posted on 12/12/2007 3:00:06 PM PST by Rummyfan
The October 2007 Vanity Fair had a long, gaseous article explaining how the pro-Bush bias of the mainstream media cost Al Gore the 2000 presidential election. (For you kids out there too young to remember, Al Gore is a vaguely gay, morbidly obese former Clinton administration official who raised campaign cash from Buddhist monks and claimed he invented the Internet.)
Meanwhile, Republicans can barely remember that just a few years ago, former Clinton crony and current Hillary adviser Sandy Berger stuffed top-secret national security documents in his pants, snuck them out of the National Archives and destroyed them.
But liberals are still fighting the 2000 presidential election -- if only to take a break from fighting the 1973 Chilean coup by Augusto Pinochet. They never rest, they never give up, they never stop lying. Liberals lie and lie and lie and then, the moment conservatives respond, they shout: OLD NEWS!
By my rough estimate, there have been one zillion books, movies, plays, allegories, interpretive dances and limericks about the Dark Night of Fascism Under Joe McCarthy (DNFUJM).
The anti-McCarthy oeuvre has zippy titles, such as "The Nightmare Decade: The Life and Times of Senator Joe McCarthy," "Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism: The Hate That Haunts America" and "How I, Al Gore, Stopped Joe McCarthy's Hate Campaign" -- although that last one may have been made up during the 2000 campaign by a hostile media.
Fifty years later, the only true history book ever written about McCarthy has finally been released: M. Stanton Evans' "Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies." Liberals have responded with vicious attacks and –- naturally -- claims the book merely recites "old news."
So I think I'm entitled to at least a few columns on the book that finally tells the truth about the DNFUJM.
I hope that there are many others like you but I fear there aren't.
And what happened to those left on the beach at the Bay of Pigs as well as what would have happened in Nicaragua had it not been for the Ollie North crowd.
http://blog.barofintegrity.us/
Al Gore, MoveOn.org, and the Communist Party
Thank you for the link.... I will when I have opportunity do some checking.
My thoughts are: 1) there was enough opposition to the Nationalist Government among our "intellectuals" and "progressives" (sympathizers maybe but not card-carrying Communists, com-symps) for Mao's "agrarian reform," that even without Soviet influence in government and elsewhere Mao would have had Washington's support and 2) Batista's government was not popular here (most of us probably never heard of him) and Castro was wildly popular in the media and among the usual "intellectuals" suspects ("wildly" maybe is a bit too much but the networks did compete with one another).
(There was the usual "our fault" claims, we made Mao and Castro turn to the Soviets.)
The key IMO is the silenced majority; to wit, no Internet and nothing like modern talk radio. Though even with both, the miracle of TV was fascinating and many of the journalists there had built their reputations in the War; maybe even with both the Internet and modern talk radio we would have lost the battle for public opinion.
I remember writing to the networks with complaints about bias only to receive a reply stating "We're professionals and you're not."
As the Contra-Sandinista war raged I realized that I did not know who were the good guys and who were the commies. I had by that time given up on network (and other) news. But I knew that it would take only a few seconds to get an answer to my question, I'll watch how the TV networks cover the two sides. Sure enough Sandinistas were hailed as heroes and the Contras were war criminals, the Sandinistas were the Communists.
It doesn't take American card-carrying members of our enemy's forces. We have plenty of "Americans" like the famous Professor Nicholas "I hope for a million Mogadishus" De Genova and his ideal world where "the U.S. would have no place." I am sure that the professor is not a jihadist.
The minnows grew up to be the Rat Party (formerly the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party) leaders and stalwarts. The old crew fled from the Party.
We now have the tools to fight the traitors with everything including blood; our America, their blood.
My preference however is to leave the actual combat up to the professionals. "Get on the damn horse, already!"
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I would add that the effort of your "Com-symps" would not have, in my opinion, amounted to so much as they turned out to without the aid of out and out communists/soviet agents working within our own government to help us formulate our foreign policy. (It isn't as if there were not at the time true patriots trying to warn us off but who were shouted down by those more powerful forces in government.) This is particularly true with regard to events leading up to Batista's overthrow in Cuba.
I otherwise agree and PRAY that will use the tools now available to us have to rid ourselves, once and for all, of this enemy within.
“Further, wouldn’t a Rockafeller Republican favor giving drivers licenses to illegals rather than vetoing them?”
I think rockafeller republicans would be in favor of anything that helps big business improve their bottom line. ie amnesty for illegals (cheap labor for big business)
I saw Herman interviewed (Booknotes?) around the time the book came out. He came across very well. He was addressing a VERY controversial topic. It paved the way for future books. Now we've had Ann’s book and now this book. Buckley wrote a fictional account of a character who was like McCarthy. My view is that McCarthy was one of 100 senators. Which one was without flaws? There was no doubting his patriotism and anticommunism. I wish the same could be said of all 100 senators then, or now.
More so that Human Events? HE claims they were founded in 1944. Do you happen to know when NR was founded? In any case, there is room for many conservative publications as far as I’m concerned.
Hubba hubba!
You are right, HE should get a hat tip. I don’t know that they had nearly the circulation or cultural impact of NR, and they were anti-communist American thought at the time like a few other publications as the time. I don’t think they had the same broad synthesis of modern conservatism as NR did (founded in 55).
Have you read the Radosh review? It wasn’t an “attack” on Evans, much less slanderous. It’s a mixed review, agreeing with and praising some aspects of Evans’ book but taking issue with him on a few key points.
Nor does one have to be a leftist to have qualms about McCarthy. Whittaker Chambers didn’t care for him either.
Well, I watched the Army-McCarthy hearings as a college student, and I agree that McCarthy was not an attractive guy. He had worse five o’clock shadow than Nixon, and he really looked sinister.
But, on the whole, he was absolutely right. There were Communists in high places, and a lot of people didn’t want to know about it.
Coincidentally, my faculty adviser at Harvard when I first went there, Wendell Furey, was one of McCarthy’s targets, which kind of got me PO’d, because he was too busy dodging investigations to teach me nuclear physics or tell me which courses to take.
At the time I took the media portrait of him as the gospel truth. Over the years, I have come to realize there was a lot more going on than we were being told about.
I basically agree with Coulter’s point that the refusal to admit the extent of Communist penetration of the FDR administration is far more serious than anything McCarthy ever said or did. The reasons for this ongoing scandal are complicated and start with the longterm split in American history between urban sophisticates and the men and women of the frontier. During the thirties, Communists portrayed heartland politicians as ignorant rubes, proto-fascists, and the tools of decadent capitalism, only marginally better than HItler. Liberals in the media and politics often shared this anti-American, pro-utopian socialist bias. They also tended to identify with people like Alger Hiss (he was one of them).
I’m familiar with the research that went into the Radosh/Klehr book on the Amerasia case. I’d say that John Service was pretty clearly not a spy, or even a Communist. But he was heavily targeted by Communist agents during his time in China. They preyed on his naivete and personal ambiiton and turned him into a first-class dupe.
Coulter is entitled to disagree with the Radosh review and maybe she doesn’t like him personally, but I know him well enough to be sure of two things: 1. he wouldn’t review a book he hadn’t read. 2. he isn’t trying to “curry favor with liberals.” That ship sailed for him a long time ago.
Yes, there were also plenty of fellow travellers and useful idiots. Not everyone had a party card.
All this reminds of of another odd experience I had a couple of years before the McCarthy hearings. A friend of mine and I, both interested in science, took a train into New York to see the exhibit at the New York Museum of Science and Industry.
When we got there it turned out that, although there were a few neat things like a Van de Graaf generator that made your hair stand on end with static electricity, the whole hall was filled with little “scientific” pamphlets that proved to be Communist propaganda leaflets of all kinds.
Since they were giving them out for free, my friend and I stocked up on them and brought them home with us. They included one little pamphlet containing Communist Manifesto, and a lot of other neat things. I took them home and read them, probably making me the only kid in my school to have read the entire Communist Manifesto, which is actually fairly short. Shortly afterward, McCarthy appeared on the scene, I ditched my pamphlets lest I be misunderstood and hauled before the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, and the Museum of Science and Industry was shut down, permanently.
The pamphlets had no political effect on me; it’s just that I have always had a large curiosity bump, and like to study for myself.
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