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.

[Pokey78]

Pinging for another column about Ann.

[nopardons]

What an utter moron !

[nopardons]

Over here...come add your sparkling wit and gravitas to this thread. :-)

[EricT.]

It seems that Ms. Coulter has hit a sensitive nerve. This hatchet job picks at a few minor points and totally ignores the rest of the book.

[DPB101]

Whether Sen. McCarthy actually believed some of the more fantastic charges he made--charges that brought him instant fame--remains a question...

Hmmmm....I wonder what those charges might be?

[nopardons]

The author hasn't a clue ! LOL

[dogbyte12]

Well, if ya consider McCarthy defending Nazi's who executed 88 of our POWS, and accusing our military of being cruel to them a minor point, ya got me there.

[EricT.]

It also ignores the declassified Soviet intelligence files naming most of the people suspected as Communist agents that actually were Communist agents.

[hoosiermama]

utter moron/liberal

I wonder if DOROTHY RABINOWITZ even read the book? If so she missed alot!

[habs4ever]

Dorothy Rabinowitz is a very sober and stalwart conservative writer who deserves more than your your utter contempt in this instance.Read it again :)

[sinkspur]

What an utter moron!

Actually, Dorothy Rabinowitz is one of the deans of the Wall Street Journal editorial staff.

She exposed the hysteria surrounding the Ameraults, and the State of Washington, in the accusations of massive child abuse in the late 80s and early 90s. She is single-handedly responsible for freeing the two female Ameraults, though Gerald remains behind bars for abuses to children he clearly did not commit!

So, she knows a bit about investigative journalism.

All things considered, Sen. McCarthy's reputation would be hard to refurbish, but give Ms.Coulter credit for an all-out effort. The senator--who knew something about the art of outrage merchandising--would have understood the latest of his public advocates.

How true, especially given the following:

Ms. Coulter's work includes an admiring if brief biography of McCarthy's political career. One that for some reason excludes the senator's remarkable efforts on behalf of the members of the SS battle group who executed 86 American POWs in the Ardennes campaign in December 1944; otherwise known as the Malmedy Massacre. In his impassioned efforts on behalf of the accused--one never to be repeated in his investigative career--the senator charged that the U.S. Army had cruelly mistreated the former SS men.

Ask Ann why she never mentions this. It's pretty damning.

Coulter reminds me of another defender of McCarthy who likely would have ignored the story about the SS as well:

Patrick J. Buchanan.

[nopardons]

I rather doubt that she " got it " if she bothered to read it. OTOH, perhaps she's just jealous of Ann. Or, possibly she thinks that the Commie threat wasn't real and/or important. Perchance she just believes the propaganda against McCarthy.

[Cacique]

btt

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Ann got another one.

That's 4 and counting.

[nopardons]

I read what she wrote. Did you ?

She's a Conservative ? A " stalwart " Conservative who makes biased and snide remarks about McCarthy and Ann Coulter's book , wherein Ann defangs the lefties' calumny against McCarthy , does NOT deserve more than my utter contempt !

Just what sort of a " Conservative " is she ; is she a fringer Conservative ?

[Eva]

The biggest error that I noticed in the article is that Rabinowitz is confusing the House on UnAmerican Activities Committee with the Senate McCarthy hearings. They are not the same thing. McCarthy went after government officials and employees, not actors and other average citizens. Ann explained all that in her book.

[Kevin Curry]

Nowhere does this critic address let alone repudiate Coulter's core disclosures. Instead she hauls out a minor figure an alleged victim of mistaken identity as if to suggest this was representative of all the accusations that McCarthy made. Smoke and mirrors and misdirection.

The truth is, we were locked in mortal ideological combat with the Soviet spy and agitprop machines during the 1950s and there was PLENTY of nasty work being carried out in high places in the US government by and through Soviet moles. Democrats were blindly (and in some cases no-so-blindly) complicit in this deliberate targeting and destruction of American institutions.

[ChadGore]

No thread about our beloved Ann would be complete without:

[fat city]

Read Coulters book, then defend Rabinowitz's diatribe.