A Conspiracy So Vast

The Wall Street Journal | July 7, 2003 | DOROTHY RABINOWITZ

[DPB101]

All depends on which part of the city. I should have menioned that. But you know. It was a social scene. And it still is now. The upper west side today would elect Lenin if he rose from the dead. David Horowitz quotes his father's diary in Radical Son. He wanted to leave the CPUSA but could not. All his friends were there. It was his life. Eric Alterman was on TV a while back and said he doesn't know anyone who has a gun, who opposes abortion or isn't for gay rights. Dorothy is seeing McCarthy and America through the pinko colored glasses she wore as a kid.

[Bernard Marx]

Dorothy is seeing McCarthy and America through the pinko colored glasses she wore as a kid.

Exactly.

[Dave S]

Your perfidious name calling is no refutation

Refutation to what? I dont like people on this forum telling others what to do. If they want something, they can damn well do it for themselves. So what did I say that you want me to refute?

[Dave S]

Just the style of "argument" I've come to expect from you on these threads.

Just the kind of behavior I would expect out of McCarthy with someone whose screen name is Marx.

[nopardons]

Most people, in N.Y.C., specifically Manhattan, didn't have guns in the 1950s, no matter WHERE they lived. Shop ( Mom & Pop grocercies ) owners and bars probably did; regular people didn't. There are and were " limosine liberals " on the East side and Conservatives on the Upper West side, in the 50s. They same holds true today. Horowitz and his family didn't live on the UWS and his parents' friends ( mostly all school teachers ) were card carrying Commies. They didn't mix with others.

I've read almost EVERY book David's written and was reading his disgusting articles when you were still in short pants. I know what's in ' RADICAL SON " ! LOL

[Bernard Marx]

So what did I say that you want me to refute?

I'm not Nopardons but you called me a "commie fellow traveler." That's a lie and you're a liar. Apologize.

[nopardons]

You are incapable of refutation; you obviously don't know much about the topic and your opinions, though you're entitled to them, are cockeyed. I object, rabidly, to your vile, slanderous insult to another poster.

[Bernard Marx]

Just the kind of behavior I would expect out of McCarthy with someone whose screen name is Marx.,P> In addition to being a liar, you're illiterate.

[nopardons]

Bernard Marx, you illiterate person, is a character in a novel and has nothing to do with Karl, Groucho, Harpo, Zeppo, Chico, or anyother Marx. LOL

Seriously, if you imagine, for one moment, that you are " clever "... DON'T !

[Bernard Marx]

Bernard Marx has something to do with Karl only in the sense that he's fighting against a totalitarian dystopia of the kind that real Marxism led to (except the novel was supposed to be a parody of capitalist materialism carried too far with Henry Ford as the Deity). But totalitarianism is totalitarianism, whether from the Left or the Right, and they sort've blend in the middle. Huxley came closer to nailing the proclivities of the Left than the Right.

I chose the screen name thinking most people are better educated than they are and would see the irony. Wrong!! The book "used" to be standard reading in high school and college. But of course I went to school back in the "barbaric" days of McCarthyism.

[nopardons]

Yes, I know the book well !

" Christ,Marx,Wood,and Wei

Led us to this perfect day .

Maex, Wood, We, and Christ;

All but Wei were sacrificed.

Wood, Wei, Christ and Marx

Gave us lovely schools and parks.

Wei,Christ,Marx,and Wood

Made us humble, made us good.

Was it used in schools ? I read it, when it came out and had been out of school ( including grad school ) for a number of years. LOL

Some FREEPERs are very well read; others...

[nopardons]

So did I ... go to school during the Mccarthy era too...grade school. :-)

[visitor]

hmmmmm, your exposing yourself again ...rto

[visitor]

ahhhhhh, yes, your warped imagination is continuing to wrap itself around your tiny head ...rto

[visitor]

Bernard, your commentary continues to expose the poppy-cock pitter-patter of jodenkoekje & Dave S ...rto

btw, their dem-witted caller-counter-parts on C-SPAN Washington Journal have that same poppy-cock pitter-patter destructive dribble

[Dave S]

I object, rabidly, to your vile, slanderous insult to another poster.

Perhaps you would have also objected if McCarthy had done the same thing but somehow I doubt it.

[Dave S]

you called me a "commie fellow traveler." That's a lie and you're a liar. Apologize.

My arent we thin skinned. In any event, the "commie fellow traveler" comment was supposed to be a humourous attempt to demonstrate quilt by association (e.g., Bernard Marx and Karl Marx). In case there is anyone on Free Republic actually dumb enough to believe that I literally meant that you were a fellow traveler, then I apologize for any defamation you may have suffered.

Now maybe you will demand the same apology of the person that called me all sorts of names for supposedly saying that McCarthy was homosexual when I never made any such statement. Perhaps you will also demand an apology from the poster that insinuated that I was hiding something by not posting the url for the article when in fact I got the article from a subscription only website where the url would have been unusable. Im waiting to see your support.

[Dave S]

btw, their dem-witted caller-counter-parts on C-SPAN Washington Journal have that same poppy-cock pitter-patter destructive dribble

Your Coulter parody comes off as even more pompous than Ann. Hey bud Im still waiting for an apology for questioning my integrity for not posting a url to the original article.