Posted on 02/23/2008 6:52:27 AM PST by rlmorel
You should read Kenneth Timmerman’s book, Shadow Warriors. My father has found he can only read a few pages before becoming so angry he must stop and take a day’s break. It details treason in the CIA and State Department over the past seven years.
Heartbreaking.
This time the dirty work is going to have to be done by the American Citizen. There are no politicians willing to risk their career to the extent necessary.
The MSM and DemoRat controlled Senate and House sub comittees would never allow an investigation, not of their own making, to advance. They certainly aren’t going to investigate themselves!
I believe that this is why all we see is nicey, nicey people running for President now. Look at Obama and Hillary. You would never know they were running against each other. McCain wants to get along with everyone. Where’s the Pattons, the McArthurs, the tough people that take no quarter and give no bull? The people that would stand up and protect this country for my grand kids?
Another new book I am buying today is “Liberal Facism” by Jonah Goldberg. I think it may be directly in line with this discussion.
[ Any thoughts on this? ]
YES... What was Richard Nixon REALLY after at the Watergate Hotel.. and why was he after it?.. A whole party of commies(democrats) was/ still is/ and will continue to be UP TO NO GOOD...
Saul Alinsky... Hillary and Obamas mentor
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a39a1bb090251.htm
Antonio Gramsci... Hillarys mentor
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a4c610569be.htm
Frank Marshall Davis... Obamas mentor
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?D=2008-02-20&ID=228129
...yeah, McGovern was a commie too...thanks for the props!
Many. But “outright stonewalling of the Roosevelt and Truman administrations” doesn’t include Eisenhower, who, McArthur via Goldwater claimed, detested and feared McCarthy. The former general’s ties with the likes of Gen. Stevens and distrust of Gen. Walker practically caused the Army-McCarthy Hearings and prevented any kind of popular presidential influence in the matter of McCarthy’s censure by the Senate.
What’s difficult to realize today because pop-culture has replaced actual history is that McCarthy was powerful not because people feared his investigations but because he was well respected and very popular—so much so that Joe Kennedy, Sr. (the father of one of McCarthy’s young committee staffers, Bobby), begged Joe not to appear in Massachusetts for the GOP candidate (Lodge, I think), during his other son’s Senate campaign. McCarthy acquiesced, believing Jack to be the stronger anti-Communist in the Mass. race. How did Jack repay the favor? By hospitalizing himself on the day of the censure vote. Another profile in courage?
Witness is definitely in the top two or three Conservative must-reads. Magnificent book. Need to get Evans’.
Ann Coulter's Treason is a true eye opener. Like you say, it's dismissed as a screed, but it's actually a very well researched and important book. I don't think the Left hasn't managed to lay a finger on any of its facts or arguments. At this point, the Left has lost the McCarthy debate. They do still have the McCarthy meme though, which remains one of their favorite tools.
If you liked Witness, you should read David Horowitz's Politics of Bad Faith. This book is not well known but in my opinion is his best. Its most impressive chapter has his letters to and from a few of his hard-left friends around the time he was breaking with the Left. It's him explaining his betrayal, laying out the case against his old philosophy. I don't know if it's because he was writing it friends or what, but it's just incredibly powerful stuff. That book is one where I can remember where I was when I read it.
There were seminars and study groups who villified the HUAC, (House Unamerican Activities Committee), and tied McCarthy into this anti anti whatever. Given the fact that he was a Senator the connection, at best, was tenuous.
I was chosen for a Junior Honors Seminar in 19th Century Radical Thought and read and wrote a paper on the Communist Manifesto. Historical revisionism was the propoganda tool which would pave the way for the Socialist Conquest of the World. Marx and Lenin noted that "the victors wrote the history" and since their political philosophy presupposes victory they would rewrite history to serve themselves.
When I entered the Air Force I attended Communications School and learned about telephony and radio communications. When the Soviet Union began to "educate" Third World Students at Moscow Univ, I was astounded to hear that Alexander Bell had stolen the idea of the telephone from the Russian who was the true inventor of the telephone.
Historical revisionism. Bill Xlintoon the best President along with his Wife?????
bttt
Fantastic review rlmorel. Hope you will post it on Amazon.com.
I, too, loved this book. Unlike you, I was raised to see McCarthy as an American hero, even while those around me were disparaging him down through the years.
My thoughts while reading “Blacklisted by History” were something along these lines:
1. Most of these State Department people were never removed from their jobs. They and/or their children are still probably there, causing their havoc.
2. Eisenhower HAD to be a commie.
3. McCarthy was a true American patriot/hero.
4. I can’t believe I’m still reading this book, with all its footnotes and lists of names, I should be bored but I’m not, in fact I’m riveted.
5. I was stunned to find one of my U.S. senators, Alan Cranston, was one of those commies which made me ask, who else rose from the ranks to higher ranks of government?
6. If these commies couldn’t work for the government, they’d all whither and die.
Anyway, your review is excellent and thanks for the reminder to read “Witness” by Whittaker Chambers. I’ve been putting it off for some time.
My thoughts exactly while I was reading Evans' book.
The old rumors were that McGovern had received immense amounts of cash from Sweden (Olaf Palme, remember?), whose ostensible neutrality in the Vietnam War didn’t prevent it from supporting American atrocity claims and welcoming traitors—a natural ally of the American Left. To what end, I certainly don’t know. But the then-brand new Federal Election Campaign Act only added to the gravity of McGovern’s acceptance of such cash funds. Ted Kennedy had made several trips to Sweden, one purportedly to obtain a list of POWs Palme had received from North Vietnam. Was he, some asked, the conduit for the funds as well? But why the DNC, rather than Kennedy’s own office or McGovern’s campaign hqtrs, became the target for surveillance and break-in is still a mystery.
To this day, however, I don’t believe Nixon was aware of the actual tactics. Maybe Gordon Liddy’s estate holds the answers.
BUMP for truth!
Liddy might have some ugh!.. insurance..
Didn’t FDR have a VP who SAW STALIN’S GULAGS FIRSTHAND and said nothing?
I want to buy this book as soon as I finish the written by Clarence Thomas.
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