Posted on 04/21/2009 11:15:37 AM PDT by Jbny
When new information about Americans who had cooperated with the Soviet KGB began to emerge in the 1990s, no individual case generated as much controversy as that of the journalist I.F. Stone, who had long been installed in the pantheon of left-wing heroes as a symbol of rectitude and a teller of truth to power before his death in 1989.
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The link is bad.
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=3275 identifies her as a writer for Leftist periodicals.
Over time her career led her to work for the same folks who published I.F.Stone. Marshall Field (an extremely wealthy Chicago lefty) subsidized all this.
Even before the above story was published, just about everyone in the world knew that I.F.Stone worked for Joseph Stalin!
That's the world that Axelrod was inspired to move in at his own mother's urging.
As I've said many times, Obama is certainly not the Anti-Christ, but he's with certainty an acolyte, as is Axelrod, as was Axelrod's mother, as was I.F.Stone, as was Marshall Field.
Rahm Emanuel might well wish to start explaining this relationship to his mother and father. After all, the only guy to kill nearly as many Jews as Hitler was Joseph Stalin!
(NOTE: my own earlier posts in FreeRepublic regarding the who/what/dat of Axelrod are the two top items proferred to the readers by google.com)
Probably not, but we aren’t arguing Joe McCarthy today but instead have our eyes focused on Joe Stalin’s current handmaiden in the US government, one David Axelrod!
You have to be kidding! There was plenty of whitewashing done on the Annie Lee Moss case but it was by Democrat committee members like Stuart Symington, Scoop Jackson and Carl Mundt and "reporters" like Jack Anderson, Lately Thomas and Richard Fried. Leftist "historians" have since repeated their lies and turned them into the "conventional wisdom."
Democrats on the committee were briefed well advance on details of the Moss FBI report. They knew she was a Communist and they concocted a phony charade about her mistaken identity that played well to the media to cover their sorry political butts. McCarthy was "Borked" long before the word was even invented!
The left back then, and politicians who were more concerned about what name and image they could make for themselves over what was right for their nation, are the ones who principally underminded the entire thing.
McCarthy surely made mistakes...but he was spot on directly over the target when it came to the need for aggressively rooting out the enemy within in his day. That we were unsuccessful in completely doing so then has helped lead to the state of affairs today.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n4_v40/ai_6406317/?tag=content;col1
But you know the way these swine work. They’ll jump on that and say that “the author claims that Stone was an agent of the KGB at a time when the KGB did not exist!” The story then, for them, is “full of errors” which allows them to say that the various proofs that Stone was a Soviet agent “have been debunked”.
This is exactly what they did with Alger Hiss. I still remember watching in jaw dropping amazement a late 90s ABC newscast where Peter Jennings eagerly told his audience that “a thorough check of the KGB archives revealed no evidence that Alger Hiss had been a Soviet agent”. Period, next story. Anyone watching without knowledge if the truth would have come away with the impression that Hiss had been completely exonerated from the charge of being a Soviet agent. (the truth was of course that Hiss was never an agent the KGB or any of its predecessor agencies—he was an agent of the GRU, Soviet military intelligence, and there is ample documentary evidence if this).
For us, the truth is not enough. We have to dot every i and cross every t.
McCarthy was a kook and a drunk, but he was our kook and drunk. He could have been pure as the driven snow and as brilliant as Isaac Newton, and the left would have still made his name a cussword.
But you know the way these swine work. They’ll jump on that and say that “the author claims that Stone was an agent of the KGB at a time when the KGB did not exist!” The story then, for them, is “full of errors” which allows them to say that the various proofs that Stone was a Soviet agent “have been debunked”.
This is exactly what they did with Alger Hiss. I still remember watching in jaw dropping amazement a late 90s ABC newscast where Peter Jennings eagerly told his audience that “a thorough check of the KGB archives revealed no evidence that Alger Hiss had been a Soviet agent”. Period, next story. Anyone watching without knowledge if the truth would have come away with the impression that Hiss had been completely exonerated from the charge of being a Soviet agent. (the truth was of course that Hiss was never an agent the KGB or any of its predecessor agencies—he was an agent of the GRU, Soviet military intelligence, and there is ample documentary evidence if this).
For us, the truth is not enough. We have to dot every i and cross every t.
It was Karl Mundt, R-SD, and he was a rare McCarthy ally. Half of the Republicans voted to censure McCarthy.
Moss’s biggest defender was Stuart Symington, who had ties to HST.
There are an awful lot of lies told about McCarthy.
What do you regard as clumsy? Are you sure it even happened?
The successful demonization of McCarthy, Kruschev’s 1962 comment that the Communists will take over America “without firing a shot”, at least two generations of public school indoctrination, the left’s constant onslaught against liberty has brought us to this point where we Conservatives, if we are to be honest with ourselves, must concede defeat. There just aren’t enough of us, willing to risk it all, to stop the historically inevitable downfall of our Republic. It pains me to speak like this. That said, I’ll be there.
“concede” should be “admit” to more clearly reflect my meaning.
You are correct about his party affiliation, my hasty mistake.
This is alreay starting to happen...and if we continue, the turn around will start in 2010, and become a flood in 2012. 30 years ago, under Carter, things looked equally bad at that time.
I also believe, as my forefathers believed before me, that there is also a higher power who will lend us His aid if we will work hard, have faith and not concede to evil or give into to the wrong.
"Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery!"
II Chron 7:14
>> Democrat committee members like Stuart Symington, Scoop Jackson and Carl Mundt <<
Sorry, pal, but Mundt was a very conservative Republican, well-known for his anti-Communism.
My expectation is that “...a blaze of glory” will appear occur somewhere in my eulogy, if not obituary.
Gee. I.F. Stone was a commie agent who spoke “Truth to Power.” Who would have thought it. I am so surprised...not. What is telling is that SO many liberals who DO know who I.F. Stone and Alger Hiss were continue to venerate them to this day, and the same ones that continue to insist they were not Soviet spies also insist that the Rosenbergs were innocent.
“Witness” by Whittaker Chambers was a book that changed my political life.
I have been a conservative since I was probably 10 yrs old. (I know...I know...)
Ann Coulter’s books “Treason” and “Slander” were books that validated the conclusions I had come to about liberals a few years back.
But until I read “Witness”, I did not understand the real threat the liberalism posed to our country. Once I read that book, my tolerance for liberalism as a valid opposing point of view vanished completely.
And that, for me, was a pathway into a personal examination of Joseph McCarthy. I remember hearing about what a terrible, terrible wretch Joseph McCarthy was, and how what he did was a stain on America, and that there were no communist spies in the government, it was just a Red-Baiting witch-hunt by a politician looking to get ahead.
Boy, I sure did suck that up, hook, line, and sinker for many years.
Joseph McCarthy was an American hero. He was slandered and defamed by the same type of people who practice the same types of tactics on their enemies today.
I was one of those people who unthinkingly believed about McCarthy what my teachers taught me in school, and what I saw in the newpapers, magazines and on television.
When I read Ann Coulter’s book “Treason”, I was perplexed. I was puzzled why her account of the famous encounter between Joseph Welch and Joseph McCarthy was so completely and diametrically different from the accounts I had grown up with and been taught.
It wasn’t just a little different, it was COMPLETELY different. So I did what the Internet allows you to do these days: I researched. I obtained the transcripts of the actual hearings, and read them.
Ann Coulter was spot on in her characterization of that hearing, and the others as well. After I read that, I began to read everything that didn’t appear to be completely slanted against McCarthy. I read three separate books on Venona, and then capped it off with the book that was, for me, the most important political book I have read in my life.
“Witness”, by Whittaker Chambers.
I was completely astounded by that book, and it explained a lot of things for me. It explained why the Left viewed Richard Nixon and Joseph McCarthy the way they did, and why all three of them, Chambers, Nixon, and McCarthy were villified and slandered by a poisonous and biased media.
I have a web page on my site devoted to this issue at:
http://web.mac.com/rlmorel/iWeb/Site/Whittaker%20Chambers.html
What is perhaps most disturbing of all is to see that the Left practices the exact same form of character assassination warfare today that it practiced fifty years ago against Whittaker Chambers. Exactly.
I admit freely that it was a disillusioning time for me. To realize that all my teachers, people I had no reason to distrust, fed me a steady diet of falsehood regarding Joseph McCarthy. There is no doubt in my mind whatsoever.
The good thing about it is that I now view everything political with a grain of salt, which I think is healthy. I am also now completely biased towards the right of the political spectrum. I have no use for the Left.
This was cemented for me last March at the Gathering of Eagles down in Washington, D.C.
I saw with my OWN eyes what happened that day, and I watched the news with ten other people afterwards, and was stupefied by the way the media presented it on television. Everyone in the room, all of us who had actually BEEN there and seen what went on, looked at each other in disbelief. I will say that there was not one person who was surprised by it, but...that didn’t mean we had to accept it. That was the first time I had seen on my own, the bias of the media.
“The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery!”
II Chron 7:14
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