I need to re-read Treason. Great book!
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Posted on 03/14/2008 9:01:16 PM PDT by smoothsailing
I couldn't make it this year. If you are there, give Just A Nobody a hug for me, will you.
Damn, that chick can write.
The vilification of McCarthy was the model that has been applied repeatedly and pretty much perfected at this point. It worked very well on the Bush administration, and will always be effective when and where the media is a willing conspirator.
It really comes from Lenin in “State and Revolution” and elsewhere. You’ll see it used on McCain in such way to neutralize this “Obama and his preacher” flare-up, which I’m betting will first end up a net-gain for the Obamites in their battle with the Clintonistas and then a wash later on when up against McCain.
The other interesting aspect of the McCarthy era was his effect on Moscow and KGB tradecraft in colonizing the West.
The act of identifying signed-up communists in Hollywood and elsewhere forced Moscow to abandon the straight-forward effort to register people in CPUSA. The movement went underground and surreptitious as a response to McCarthy.
In 1972, Hillary Rodham didn’t have to join CPUSA to get her law clerking job with Red Robert Treuhaft. In 1952, even 1960, she probably would have been forced to sign up. Thus, she might have been eliminated from electoral politics thereafter.
Like someone else here said, McCarthy was on to more than he realized or was prepared to deal with.
Joe bought some time, but now it's up to us.
Well, first a disclaimer - Sheryl Crow vs Ann Coulter is like throwing retarded kittens to an alligator. You know how it's going to end and it ain't gonna be pretty.
That said, I'm with Ann on this one - not all of them, but this one to be sure. People who arrogate to themselves the right to kill 3000 innocent people to make a point have already dictated the terms of the relationship. It is neither irrational nor "unfair" to happen to be better at killing them than they are at killing us. While desperate cries of moral equivalency and invocations of past sins serve to muddy the water they really don't address the main point - if they're dead they can't do it again.
One wonders sometimes at the weird moral asymmetry that results in the notion that them killing us is justified where our killing them back is not. The rules regarding justification turn out to be incredibly plastic, but not the rule of a 500-lb bomb impacting the goat dip at a terrorist soiree. It's a little difficult to re-frame that one. The inherent inflexibility of that is no doubt anathema to the enlightened liberal mind but it works wonders for making Abdul aware that two can play at his game but that only one can win. What is most difficult to understand is why this seems to be so difficult to understand.
mark
I need to re-read Treason. Great book!
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I know just what you mean, I've been looking for anything but him or the beast. :)
I want to thank you for those links on McCarthy too, now I've got some reading to do.
March on brother!
Lovely drawing...
I'm hanging around for awhile, because this thread is fun. :-)
Spot on. Way to go Ann.
Yes, it’s fun and interesting. I was on the phone in between posts. I filed the links so I’ll just read them at my leisure.
I would never be so arrogant as to think I could be on the same level as Ann - she just keeps knockin’ ‘em out, and it’s wondnerful - but I recall a boyfriend I had many years ago who constantly reminded me “you don’t have any patience with stupid people.” I never understood why I should.
The bottom line for me is simple.
Joe McCarthy was an American Patriot. Because of that fact, the Leftists of that day were hellbent on destroying him.
They killed him before his time, but they didn't destroy his message.
The very thought of that still drives the Leftists of today into their blind rage.
I don't know if we'll ever beat the Leftists, but we will keep on beating them up, and maybe, just maybe, they'll stop whining and realize their freedom depends on us.
Nah, probably not, they would never understand.
Besides, McCarthy was more concerned with communist infiltration into the higher levels of military and civilian command, and time has proven that he was correct.
The really sad (and scary) thing is that there's an active campaign to whitewash and even rehabilitate the reputations of known communist operatives! The best example would be of the Rosenbergs.
Mark
I can remember the McCarthy hearings on TV in the 50’s. I didn’t really pay much attention to them at the time. It must have been on the evening news because I doubt if they were covered live.
There was a strong anti-communist feeling by most people we knew and my Dad always said McCarthy was a real man for fighting communism and the people in our country connected to it.
Over the years I’ve read some on him but never a book so I’m looking forward to reading this.
Going to hang it up for the night, Smooth. Talk at you tomorrow.
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