[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.

[Cacique]

btt

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Ann got another one.

That's 4 and counting.

[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:

[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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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."

[swilhelm73]

To those who think Rabinowitz is a leftie or a sellout, I suggest you read the following;

http://www.ardemgaz.com/prev/clinton/wopbroaddrick20.html

Whether she is right or wrong here, and not having read Coulter's book I have no input on that, Rabinowitz is as much a conservative as Coulter is...

[Bonaparte]

The easy way to settle all this is for Ann to publicly challenge Rabinowitz to a formal debate on McCarthy's record. Rabinowitz will back down and that will be the end of it.

[Publius6961]

and, dismal to note today, that the universities which were once hotbeds of opposition to McCarthy are now little worlds of their own, where political censorship, speech codes and other ideologically driven assaults on freedom are the accepted order of things.

Wow.
What a smorgasbord of of whining/apologism.
But this one takes the cake.

The hoped for inference here is that all these ills are the continuing result of the "McCarthy mentality", whereas the direct opposite is the case: the same pink slime that McCarthy was looking under rocks for are the very ones who have made the continuing Orwellian assaults on freedom and dissent mandatory.

[Mo1]

She also thanks her publisher for his bravery--a suggestion that it took courage to publish this work. Here we are, only up to the acknowledgments page, and already enjoying a laugh.

I'm gonna take a guess that Dorthy doesn't like Ann much huh?

[beckett]

Rabinowitz is a woman of impeccable integrity. She is all class. If I had to choose between her and Coulter as to who is the more reliable scholar, I'd pick Rabinowitz every time.

[murdoog]

But the evidence against Ms. Moss was not insignificant, the author of "Treason" now maintains. The code clerk had said there were two other people called Annie Lee Moss listed in the Washington phone book--whereas the two others were actually Anna Lee Moss and Annie Moss. Dynamite evidence, as far as Ms. Coulter is concerned--case closed. After all, an FBI report had identified her as a Communist.

Rabinowitz is either being disingenuous or did not read the part about Annie Moss very carefully. It is not just that the other two names were slightly different....Annie Lee Moss had the same address that was given by the informant. This doesn't necessarily prove Moss's guilt, but it does show that she was not confused with another Annie Moss, as Rabinowitz would have you believe.