Posted on 06/24/2003 2:31:23 PM PDT by adamyoshida
The Indispensable Ann Coulter: At last, the truth about Liberals
I do not believe I am exaggerating when I say that Ann Coulter’s newest book Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism (Crown Forum, $26.95) is, to date, the most important political book of the 21st century. Written in Coulter’s trademark style, the book is insightful, well-researched, and, at times, downright hilarious. But more than that, the book has something missing from far too many conservative tomes of recent years: originality and daring. Coulter takes what many conservatives already understand (and talk to eachother about in private) and spells it out for the layperson to understand: liberalism is an ideology of sedition, the Democratic Party is the party of treason, and, in this great war for the future of the American Republic and Western Civilization, the left is an ally of the enemies of freedom.
The book is a through examination of the record of the left during the Cold War, when they constantly took the side of the Soviet Union and every other pro-Soviet group, to the present-day War on Terrorism, where liberals have constantly made excuses for Islamo-fascism and consistently gone to great lengths to combat every sensible measure proposed for fighting terrorism. She artfully details how a careful campaign of liberal propaganda has succeeded in making the loyalty and patriotism (or lack thereof) of leftists a verboten subject.
Coulter is far from the first author to address many of these subjects. Earlier this year nationally syndicated columnist Mona Charen wrote a tome on the subject entitled Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got it Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First which offered an excellent accounting of anti-Americanism (and support for the Soviet Union and terrorists) among many of America’s most revered liberal icons. However, in Treason Coulter takes the arguments advanced by other conservatives to their natural conclusions: the left has, at some point, crossed the line from being simply stupid into actively working as a traitorous fifth column within the United States and they must be exposed and stopped.
Not known for being one to mince words, the book is refreshingly frank about the threat posed by terrorism. Speaking on Islamists (and liberal ‘why do they hate us’ hand-wringing) Coulter says, “They hate us? We hate them. Americans don’t want to make Islamic fanatics love us. We want to make them die. There’s nothing like horrendous physical pain to quell angry fanatics.” While the writings of many other Americans conservatives seem to contain a filter which eliminate phrases which might get them excluded from fashionable Manhattan cocktail parties, this book is pure and truthful.
Perhaps what makes this book so significant is its re-examination of the life and times of Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin. Unjustly smeared in life and viciously pursued beyond the grave, today McCarthy’s career is never invoked, save by liberals who wish to hide behind the myth of ‘McCarthysim’. Joe McCarthy, a farm boy who rose to be a lawyer, a judge, a Marine officer, and United States Senator, is maligned in the history books as some sort of dark fascist who ruined the careers of many ‘innocent’ communists. This image is rarely challenged with most conservatives feeling compelled to distance themselves from Old Tailgunner Joe by offering ritualistic denunciations of his ‘excesses’ or by claiming that he ‘hurt the conservative movement more than he helped it.’
However, in Treason, we are given, at long last, the real truth about the career of America’s most hated Senator. Joe McCarthy was no fascist; he was a true patriot who did a great service to his country by exposing many communist spies operating freely in the upper reaches of the United States government. More than that, he helped to effectively awaken the American people to the threat posed by Soviet agents and sympathizers throughout the country. McCarthy’s search was unusually restrained- the mission of his Permanent Sub-Committee on Investigations was to probe Communists in the government, and he restricted himself to doing that. His investigations exposed high-ranking Soviet agents in the State Department and Communist officers in the Army.
Coulter shows how even the most famous denunciation of McCarthy, by lawyer Joseph Welch, was a set-up. Welch’s famous, “have you no sense of decency sir, at long last” harangue is much-quoted but little understood. It followed a multi-hour session in which Welch, playing to the press, had nonsensically demanded the names of all communists known to McCarthy, at the end of which McCarthy pointed out that there was, under the employ of Welch’s law firm, an individual who had been a member of the National Lawyer’s Guild (which the Attorney General had described as the “legal bulwark of the Communist Party”). Unable to respond, Welch resorted to a typical liberal tactic- crying and emotion (hence the whole, ‘have you no decency’ thing).
Treason is nothing less than a declaration of war against the left, a manifesto for a cultural counter-revolution. Richard Nixon once said that, “if the American people knew the real character of Alger Hiss, they would boil him in oil.” The same is true of the modern left as a whole. They survive only through lies and deception, and their true nature must be exposed. Treason transgresses the old lines of polite debate and it speaks the truth. We must hope that there are still enough people listening.
And here I was thinking that you had misspelled diapered. :=)
However, Ann Coulter looks a bit malnourished, and could use a good meal and a couple of really decadent desserts, and in the interest of furthering the cause, and with a deep sense of duty to my Country, I'd like to offer my personal services and be the Chef to cook them for her.... sigh... WOO HOO...... blush
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