A Conspiracy So Vast: Meet Ann Coulter, the Maureen Dowd of the conservatives

Opinion Journal ^ | 07/14/03 | DOROTHY RABINOWITZ

[Pokey78]

John G. Adams, a key figure in the proceedings that effectively ended Sen. Joseph McCarthy's career, passed quietly from the scene last week at age 91. Not surprisingly, his death made no news; it's been a while since those heady days when McCarthy launched his investigations of the Army, which had, he charged, been shielding countless Communist agents at Fort Monmouth and elsewhere. It fell to Adams, the Army's chief counsel, to deal with the charges, which he did to devastating effect in the Army-McCarthy hearings that held the nation in thrall in the 1950s.

[Miss Marple]

Dorothy Rabinowitz is also the woman who went to Arkansas to interview Juanita Brodderick, and believed her story and wrote it up in the Wall Street Journal.

This is a serious charge, and not one to be dismissed. Why didn't Ann put this in the book?

[DPB101]

Oh....has Ann Coulter ever been or is now a supporter of or ideologically in tune with Pat Buchanan?

Good Point!

She doesn't look like Pat Buchanan or his typical supporters but who knows? These fascists are clever.

Very,very clever.

OMG...I hear a tip-tap on my roof...fascists...I knowed it ...I knowed it...I knowed it be coming my way...itty bitty fascists with GI Joe uniforms on parachutting on my tin roof (I want tar paper but tin is all I can afford here in the south).

[Miss Marple]

Apparently you do not remember her interview with Juania Brodderick.

[MJY1288]

Do you notice that this leftist lemming doesn't mention the Venona Project in this article. It vindicates Joe McCarthy from the charges by the left of McCarthyism, which by the way, was a slogan invented by the Soviet Union, that the left glady took up.

I just finished Ann Coulter's book "Treason" last week and she is spot on about the democratic party, it's a haven for cowards and traitors no matter how you spell it. I believe that the left is made up of mostly cowards and losers more than they are traitors, but those who lead the left are quite different. They are interested in power and control more than anything else and they play on the fears of cowards in order to get them to follow them. They must be stopped if this country has a chance of eliminating the threat of terrorism as well as preventing a nuclear attack by one of these finatical Muslim terrorist groups

Below is a link to the "Venona Project" and it was evidense that was sealed by Congress for 50 years shortly after WWII and was made public in 1995, research it and decide for yourselves

Venona Project

[habs4ever]

She's mainstream...Bob Bartley type of right winger, ie a Reaganite.She' s on the editorial board of the WSJ and a fine writer.She's not soft.

Maybe it comes down to style, but this lady isn't one to give the back of one's hand so glibly ;-)

[nopardons]

Oh, so now you're lumping Ann in with Pat ? Because she left out McCarthy's support for some Nazis, when the book has absolutely NOTHING, whatsoever, to do with that subject and is NOT a wholesale biography of Joe ? That's rather confused logic, sink.

I remember her articles and work on behalf of those people and the whole charade/hysteria over supposed child abuse, where none existed. It's a shame that Dorothy can't see beyond her obvious antipathy of Ann ( and Joe McCarthy ) to give a more honest evaluation of the book.

[sinkspur]

....has Ann Coulter ever been or is now a supporter of or ideologically in tune with Pat Buchanan?

I dunno. She's a bombthrower like Buchanan, she's an egomaniac like Buchanan, and she ignores significant historical data like Buchanan.

She couldn't be more in tune with Buchanan's style if she were a Steinway.

[Oschisms]

Rabinowitz has SERIOUS street cred, but this article only touched on 2 points in the entire book- and the exclusion of one point.

I haven't started the book myself.

[nopardons]

What has Juanita's rape by Clinton, have to do with the governments coddling and protection of some Commies ? What has it to do with the vilification and revistionist history, now seen as " truth ", by the vast majority of people, which Ann's book is attempting to clear up ?

[ladyinred]

As one who is in the middle of Ann's brilliant new book, I don't find this a darn bit funny. Although Ann's wit is there, the subject matter is certainly nothing to make light of. The horror of it all is more than I can take in.

[sinkspur]

This is a serious charge, and not one to be dismissed. Why didn't Ann put this in the book?

Because McCarthy would have looked like a Nazi-symp, and it would have destroyed Coulter's book.

[habs4ever]

They both could be correct, up to point...though I think Coulter isn't really capable of making a long extended argument, when a short, meaty diatribe would suffice.She's a polemicist better suited to the machine gun fire of 1200 word columns and 15 minute spaces on cable TV shows.

If I want depth, why read beyond Whittaker Chambers? You have the best, why settle for an also ran...

[Richard Axtell]

I would tend to think that a reasoned observer would recognize that the ethics or lack of them shown in McCarthy's own career, and the validity of accusations of infiltration of U.S. government by Soviet agents are two separate matters. One does not preclude or disprove the other. Thus, you can't save the Rosenberg's from guilt by attacking Tailgunner Joe, and you can't repair or excuse McCarthy's reputation by recognizing the truth behind the Venoma Cables,... beyond a certain point.

[nopardons]

Well, she's way off the mark on this one.

[Ciexyz]

I'm a fan of Ann and am reading her new book. GO ANN!

[Lancey Howard]

Ann knew when she wrote her book that mice like Rabinowitz would skitter out of the woodwork to defend the liberal newsroom "conventional wisdom" about McCarthy that they have been nurturing for nearly 50 years. The scumbag liberals have put a lot of time into their effort and they are not about to let some brave soul come along and correct the record.

McCarthy was RIGHT, and scumbags like Rabinowitz don't like it. Every time new evidence emerges that proves McCarthy was right (yet again!) about one of his charges, the liberals go back into smear mode. Former Democrat McCarthy and his young original counsel, Robert F. Kennedy, went into their investigation with their eyes wide open. The foul stench of communist infiltration was in the air and they smelled it.

Rabinowitz does get one thing right: The time was indeed ripe for McCarthy. At the height of the "cold war" there were indeed numerous Soviet infiltrators and spies imbedded in the highest offices of our government and at the Pentagon. Thank God SOMEBODY had the guts to go after them and clean things up.

[nopardons]

Oh that's rich ! LOL

As far as I know, Ann has never, not once, not ever supported this latest incarnation of Pat. I can't remember her saying that the Nazis were okay. not all that bad, should have won WW II. Nor, for that matter, do I think that Ann is anti-Semitic/anti-Israel.

[sinkspur]

Because she left out McCarthy's support for some Nazis,

So it's OK with you if McCarthy fought to defend Waffen SS Nazis, who were the lead killers at the death camps, and who killed 86 Americans?

That's a pretty significant thing to leave out of a person's biography.

Do you think Coulter would write about Robert Byrd and conveniently leave out the fact that he was a Grand Knight of the Ku Klux Klan?

[nopardons]

I remember it; so what's the point ?

WHAT HAS JUANITIA 'S BRUTAL RAPE, BY BILL CLINTON, HAVE TO DO WITH ALGER HISS, ET AL, IN THE 1950s ?

[MaxPlus305]

No one can accuse the Wall Street Editorial page of being a den of left-wingers. Nor would a leftwinger derisively compare Coulter (whom they hate) to Dowd (whom they love). It's time Coulter lovers realize that not everyone who doesn't buy her rhetoric is a liberal.

The Nazi omission is as serious as omission as you can get. Saying "Oh, but she didn't have time to put that in" is like saying, "Oh, Hillary didn't have time to put in all those rape and abuse allegations in her book."