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A fact the Left ignores: the KGB seriously infiltrated postwar America
telegraph.co.uk ^
| July 27, 2009
Posted on 07/27/2009 8:52:23 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Nah....could never happen. Sarc/
To: Tailgunner Joe
To: Tailgunner Joe
The left won in many ways. They control the media, the schools, old mainline churches, the government (no matter which party is in office), and the large foundations.
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07/27/2009 9:03:18 PM PDT
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PghBaldy
(http://www.blackfive.net/main/2009/06/president-obama-visits-wounded-troops.html)
To: Tailgunner Joe
Yesterday C-SPAN ran Brian Lamb's interview of Susan Jacoby, who has a new book about Alger Hiss. Although she calls herself an unabashed liberal, she's still 98% convinced that Hiss was a Soviet spy and that what Whittaker Chambers alleged about him was true.
At one point in the interview they quoted Alger Hiss' comment to Richard Nixon: "I went to Harvard. You went to Whittier College."
To: Tailgunner Joe
Instead, we get George Clooneys Goodnight and Good Luck. In which the adulation of Edward R. Murrow was incredibly thick.
I'd like to see someone write some kind of expose on Murrow and how he had a detrimental effect on CBS which led to Cronkite, Rather, the 60 Minutes culture and greasing the rails for the liberal agenda. (Vietnam, Watergate, etc. etc.)
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07/27/2009 9:10:26 PM PDT
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what's up
To: Tailgunner Joe
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posted on
07/27/2009 9:11:30 PM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
To: what's up
“...I’d like to see someone write some kind of expose on Murrow and how he had a detrimental effect on CBS...”
I wonder about CBS chief William S. Paley and his wife Babe Cushing and their influence on CBS politics. Babe was the daughter of pioneer neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing but she was a society girl and close to Truman Capote and other Left Bank notables. While Paley was known to watch the advertising and money angle of the biz he gave Murrow a boost.
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07/27/2009 9:24:37 PM PDT
by
Monterrosa-24
( ...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
To: Tailgunner Joe
A fact the Left ignores: the KGB seriously infiltrated postwar America
The left was spawned by and born in it. They want us to ignore it.
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07/27/2009 9:30:29 PM PDT
by
advance_copy
(Stand for life or nothing at all)
To: Tailgunner Joe
Perhaps this is why Obama was reluctant to see Vladimir Putin.
To: Thunder90
Perhaps this is why Obama was reluctant to see Vladimir Putin. Obama calls him "master".
To: Tailgunner Joe
My late father was in the Marine Corps color guard that carried Joe McCarthy to his rest. Dad was a recruiter in the Appleton, Wisconsin area in the mid and late fifties.
At one point, Mrs. McCarthy became disturbed because drunken members of the press were speculating on spitting into the casket.
Mrs. McCarthy asked Dad to do something. He assured her that he would draw his sword, even if it violated protocol. Only one of those commie whores ever looked his way, and did not much like the return stare of a Guadalcanal and Pellelieu veteran in dress blues. No one accosted the senator’s body during the ceremony and burial.
Semper Fi, Dad. God rest you both.
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07/27/2009 11:06:37 PM PDT
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Luke21
To: Monterrosa-24
I've read that Paley and Murrow had tensions over the "See It Now" format. Apparently, Paley didn't like the Murrow method of raking a person over the coals without giving the person equal time to respond. I think Murrow was the beginning of muck-raking TV.
To: Tailgunner Joe
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07/28/2009 12:49:16 AM PDT
by
Captain Beyond
(The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
To: what's up
I'd like to see someone write some kind of expose on Murrow and how he had a detrimental effect on CBS which led to Cronkite, Rather, the 60 Minutes culture and greasing the rails for the liberal agenda. (Vietnam, Watergate, etc. etc.) A name you don't hear any more is Sam Jaffe (sp?), CBS Middle East correspondent who was canned in the 70's by the network when it "came to light" that he was in fact working for KGB.
Nobody's ever written a comprehensive book on Red influence agents in media, although there were several.
To: Luke21
Your dad was a good man and a good Marine. All it took was a look, to settle the worldly Algonquin Bar know-it-alls down.
To: Verginius Rufus
At one point in the interview they quoted Alger Hiss' comment to Richard Nixon: "I went to Harvard. You went to Whittier College." It was that kind of arrogance that drove Nixon onward, and eventually off the rails, after he saw how morally crooked the "keepers of the flame" were.
It'd be fun to see an Excel spreadsheet run out, balancing the "moral books" between Nixon and his chief antagonists in MSM, either the press as a whole or its leading lights in the "posse" that chased him from, well, 1952 to the grave.
Who was straighter? Who was the bigger hypocrite and liar? It would be a fun exercise to turn a bunch of sophomores loose on.
To: lentulusgracchus
It would be a fun exercise to turn a bunch of sophomores loose on. They'd come to the "correct" conclusion, those sophomores.
To: Tailgunner Joe
Just reading John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr's 2003 book,
In Denial: Historians, Communism & Espionage. It does an excellent job describing how leftists, for decades and decades, and even to this day, continue to defend and excuse traitors, and smear truth tellers, even in the face of conclusive evidence.
I knew about much of this, but it remains shocking and almost unbelievable. (Not least, how much tacit support the leftist revisionists receive from "mainstream" history orgs and from textbook writers.)
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07/28/2009 2:16:49 AM PDT
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Stultis
(Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia; Democrats always opposed waterboarding as torture)
To: Stultis
This history, btw, also gives lie to the original "New Left" claim that they weren't pro-Communist, they were just "anti-anti-Communist." If that claim were true, they would have, and would, only focus on debunking genuine excesses and errors by anti-Communists. But they didn't and they don't. It's the fingering of the REAL perps that always pisses them of the most, and the attempted revisionism is carried out not in obscure extremist rags, but in mainstream "progressive" mags like The Nation.
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07/28/2009 2:26:18 AM PDT
by
Stultis
(Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia; Democrats always opposed waterboarding as torture)
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