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I dare call it treason (SLAMMING LIBERALS AND DEMOCRATS BUT GOOD) (Ann Coulter)
World Net Daily ^ | 6/25/2003 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 06/25/2003 4:22:49 PM PDT by TLBSHOW

I DARE CALL IT TREASON

BY ANN COULTER

The myth of "McCarthyism" is the greatest Orwellian fraud of our times. Liberals are fanatical liars, then as now. The portrayal of Sen. Joe McCarthy as a wild-eyed demagogue destroying innocent lives is sheer liberal hobgoblinism. Liberals weren't hiding under the bed during the McCarthy era. They were systematically undermining the nation's ability to defend itself, while waging a bellicose campaign of lies to blacken McCarthy's name. Liberals denounced McCarthy because they were afraid of getting caught, so they fought back like animals to hide their own collaboration with a regime as evil as the Nazis. As Whittaker Chambers said: "[I]nnocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does."

At the time, half the country realized liberals were lying. But after a half century of liberal myth-making, even the disgorging of Soviet and American archives half a century later could not overcome their lies. In 1995, the U.S. government released its cache of Soviet cables that had been decoded during the Cold War in a top-secret undertaking known as the Venona Project. The cables proved the overwhelming truth of McCarthy's charges. Naturally, therefore, the release of decrypted Soviet cables was barely mentioned by the New York Times. It might have detracted from stories of proud and unbowed victims of "McCarthyism." They were not so innocent after all, it turns out.

Soviet spies in the government were not a figment of right-wing imaginations. McCarthy was not tilting at windmills. He was tilting at an authentic communist conspiracy that had been laughed off by the Democratic Party. The Democrats had unpardonably connived with the greatest evil of the 20th century. This could not be nullified. But liberals could at least hope to redeem the Democratic Party by dedicating themselves to rewriting history and blackening reputations. This is what liberals had done repeatedly throughout the Cold War. At every strategic moment this century, liberals would wage a campaign of horrendous lies and disinformation simply to dull the discovery the American people had made. They had gotten good at it.

There were, admittedly, a few rare and striking exceptions to the left's overall obtuseness to communist totalitarianism. John F. Kennedy's pronouncements on communism could have been spoken by Joe McCarthy. For all his flaws, Truman unquestionably loved his country. He was a completely different breed from today's Democrats. Through the years, there were various epiphanic moments creating yet more anti-communist Democrats. The Stalin-Hitler pact, Alger Hiss' prothonotary warbler, information about the purges and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago" – all these had their effect.

But after World War II, the Democratic Party suffered a form of what France had succumbed to after World War I. The entire party had lost is nerve for sacrifice, heroism and bravery. Beginning in the '50s, there was a real battle for the soul of the Democratic Party. By the late '60s, the battle was over. The anti-communist Democrats had lost.

In 1972, George McGovern, darling of left-wing radicals, was the Democratic presidential candidate. Tom Hayden, leader of Students for a Democratic Society and an instigator of the Chicago riots, became a Democratic state senator in California. (In 1968, Staughton Lynd wrote of Tom Hayden: "On Monday, Wednesday and Friday he was a National Liberation Front guerilla, and on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, he ... was on the left wing of the Democratic Party.") Black Panther Bobby Rush would go on to become a Democratic congressman. Todd Gitlin, a former president of SDS, would soon be a frequent op-ed columnist for the New York Times. By the time of the 1991 Gulf War, only 10 Senate Democrats voted with the President Bush to use troops against Saddam Hussein. If the old Democratic Party was merely obtuse, the new Democratic Party was a beachhead of domestic anti-Americanism. This was the new Democratic Party.

Clinton was the left's last best hope for proving they could too handle the presidency. Having tricked the American people into entrusting a Democrat with the White House (on a plurality vote), they had to defend him from any lie, any felony, any reprehensible, contemptible conduct he threw their way. When Clinton first showed his fat oleaginous mug to the nation, the Republicans screamed he was a draft-dodging, pot-smoking flim-flam artist. Had the Republicans turned out to be right again, it would have sounded the death knell for the Democratic Party.

So the Democrats lied. Through their infernal politics of personal destruction, liberals stayed in the game for a few more years.

Unless we fight for proper treatment of history and counter the nonsense images of McCarthy, no history can be safe from the liberal noise machine. Someday, school children will be taught that all of America cringed with terror at Ken Starr, whose evil designs on the nation were frustrated only through the sacrifice of brave liberals. People will have vivid images of the pounding boots of Starr's subpoena-servers and the Gestapo-like wails of alarms as Ken Starr arrived to kick in the doors of innocent Americans and storm through their bedrooms. It will be the Reign of Terror under Ken Starr.

Bill Clinton will be revered in high school history books as the George Washington of his day who, along with patriots Larry Flynt and James Carville, "saved the Constitution." He will be honored with a memorial larger than the Washington Monument (though probably with the same general design).

People will believe that. And liberals will continue unabashedly invoking a lie in order to shield their ongoing traitorous behavior.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: anncoulter; antiamericans; commies; democrats; liberals; rats; treason
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To: ladyinred
I am not enamoured of Starr, but did you read any of the Starr report? It was not all about Monica as you have been led to believe.

I'm really amazed at you guys and how you divert with differences that don't matter. Yes, the report wasn't all about Monica, but it was all about sex. Not a whiff about treason, and selling missile technology to China in exchange for campaign donations from Loral. Not a whiff.

And don't you think that's a shame? Don't you think there's something fishy about that? Don't you think that was flat out wrong?

Let's not split hairs. Starr had an opportunity to run Clinton out of town with bona fide treason charges, and instead he took the Just About Sex route, like he was getting instructions from James Carville on how to throw the fight.

121 posted on 06/29/2003 3:16:19 PM PDT by JoeSchem (Okay, now it works: Knight's Quest, at http://www.geocities.com/engineerzero)
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To: JoeSchem
Clinton should have been nailed for those things too. But I would like to ask why we should ignore the fact that this pretend public servant is having illicit sex in the oval office of the White House.

Clinton's defenders believe he is so great. Is he a roll model for young people?
122 posted on 06/29/2003 3:37:35 PM PDT by HISSKGB
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To: HISSKGB
Clinton should have been nailed for those things too. But I would like to ask why we should ignore the fact that this pretend public servant is having illicit sex in the oval office of the White House.

Now we've gone from splitting hairs to false dichotomies. No, I didn't say, "Let's ignore the sex." I said, "Let's not ignore the treason."

Now, does anyone else have any more arcane justifications for why Ken Starr didn't mention treason in his book?

123 posted on 06/29/2003 3:59:07 PM PDT by JoeSchem (Okay, now it works: Knight's Quest, at http://www.geocities.com/engineerzero)
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To: JoeSchem
You make an interesting point here.
124 posted on 06/29/2003 5:16:13 PM PDT by HISSKGB
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To: MEG33
I almost missed that Spartacus accusation at McCarthy. Thanks for pointing in out.

Spartacus and its anonymous writers pile it on regarding McCarthy saying he was unsuccessful enough as a beginning lawyer so he had to supplement his income by playing poker. Spartacus also stated the Las Vegas people believed McCarthy was a secret homosexual.

The credibility of Spartacus should be challenged because it relies on so many undocumented and anonymous attacks against those who dare to fight against communist espionage.
125 posted on 06/29/2003 5:41:20 PM PDT by HISSKGB
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To: JoeSchem
Now, does anyone else have any more arcane justifications for why Ken Starr didn't mention treason in his book?

He didn't investigate it is the reason I guess. Eric Holder and Reno were very careful about where they let Starr look around. "Career civil servants at the DOJ" were handling the China charges. They ended up pleading everyone out.

126 posted on 06/29/2003 5:49:53 PM PDT by DPB101
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To: JoeSchem
I believe he could only investigate as directed by Janet Reno? It started with Whitewater and evolved.
127 posted on 06/29/2003 7:02:55 PM PDT by MEG33
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To: DPB101; JoeSchem
Yours is an even more cogent point. One could hardly imagine that Starr would have been granted carte blanche to investigate anything he wanted. Before criticizing the narrowness of his investigation, we should first find out the limitations that were placed of his endeavors.

DPB: I looked to see who Eric Holder was. His chief claim to fame was the raid in Florida to capture the little boy named Elian. When this child was shipped to Castro's Cuba I wondered what was the ACLU's position because they fought in the 1980s to keep a twelve year old here rather than send him to his parents in Russia. The ACLU was too busy fighting for gay marriages and against partial birth abortions to protect Elian from being sent to Castro.
128 posted on 06/29/2003 7:21:41 PM PDT by HISSKGB
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To: HISSKGB; MEG33
Eric Holder was the Attorney General after Webster Hubbell was forced out. Reno was always the front.
129 posted on 06/29/2003 7:40:14 PM PDT by DPB101
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To: DPB101
I just found another source for the HUAC/McCarthy/Hollywood lie.It is at the Getty education site.There's no way these people are lacking in ability to access proper information.Dorothea Lange curriculum,education at the Getty(.for teachers no less!)
130 posted on 06/29/2003 8:35:58 PM PDT by MEG33
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To: MEG33
Lol...addictive, isn't it?

It gets worse, grasshopper. I am sure you have seen the untouchable archives. Those voluminous and extensive caves of data which have titles as juicy and sweet as the best fruit on the vine but which have not been put on the internet.

131 posted on 06/29/2003 8:50:17 PM PDT by DPB101
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To: DPB101
How does one get institutions to correct their facts?I am not talking about the World Workers socialist site..I am talkng about institutions like the NYT at the one level .... museums and usually respected ,trusted education sites on another.I am a hopeless optimist,I know!Perhaps this one thread has informed 100 lurkers..a start!
132 posted on 06/29/2003 9:03:14 PM PDT by MEG33
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To: whereasandsoforth
Desi Arnez was never a memeber of the Communist Party. Lucille Ball was, as a teen/young adult ( I don't remember her exact age at joining ) made to join by her step father and later repudiated it . McCarthy had absolutely NOTHING whatsoever to do with HUAC, Lucille Ball, and most assuredly nothing, nada, zilch, zip, zero to do with Desi !
133 posted on 06/29/2003 9:25:25 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: MEG33
Bump
134 posted on 06/30/2003 2:14:30 AM PDT by MEG33
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To: nopardons
It was Lucile Ball's grandfather, Fred Hunt, that got Lucille involved with the communist party. Desi's book covers that period about his ex-wife. I thought it was a good example of the era and what those close to the action went through. Of course, the only thing Red about Lucy was her hair. Even that wasn't real! (I borrowed that from Desi)
135 posted on 06/30/2003 9:37:27 AM PDT by whereasandsoforth
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To: whereasandsoforth
Her grandfather ? Oh, sorry ... I recalled incorrectly.

OTOH, the movie starts and writers, called before HUAC, were mostly guilty of far more than a youthful fling with Communism.

Lucille Ball was a natural blonde ...I thought everyone knew that. LOL

136 posted on 06/30/2003 1:18:12 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: JoeSchem
Let's not split hairs. Starr had an opportunity to run Clinton out of town with bona fide treason charges, and instead he took the Just About Sex route, like he was getting instructions from James Carville on how to throw the fight.

As I understood it Starr was an empolyee working under the direction of Janet Reno who was investigating the white water when he stumbled into some sex related perjury by accident--which Reno's justice department gave him the thumbs up to pursue. It seems like he would have needed Reno's approval to look into the more serious stuff.

137 posted on 06/30/2003 10:51:42 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: visitor
An interesting fact is that JFK's father, Joe P. Kennedy, Ambassador to the Court of St. James, the one that Winston Churchill dismissed and sent back to FDR, was an avid supporter of Joe McCarthy, including him in Kennedy Family Events and arranging for Bobby Kennedy (RFK) to be on McCarthy's legal staff. Even though Joe P. Kennedy was a vocal supporter of Hitler, he hated Communism. ?...rto

Am I supposed to be surprised that Joe Kennedy, a scumbag extaordinaire, was an avid supporter of McCarthy?

138 posted on 07/01/2003 3:37:18 AM PDT by sakic
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To: MEG33
Yeah, I was not claiming McCarthy investigated Hollywood, and did not mention him by name in my post. I was alluding to the fact that most people hear of the "communist witch hunts" from "documentaries" on the HUAC hearings, or of some movie star or other who was "persecuted for his/her beliefs" without being told that the beliefs were soviet communism.
139 posted on 07/01/2003 11:40:34 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte
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To: sakic
no, just wondering why it's never mentioned in conjunction with McCarthy ?...rto
140 posted on 07/01/2003 2:36:11 PM PDT by visitor (Thank God George Bush Won)
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