I agree with Ann Coulter

Newsmax ^ | 7/8/03 | Phil Brennan

[RedBloodedAmerican]

"Ann was here (I wish)"

[RightOnline]

"Will I do, with a size 9 narrow, long legs, but not a blonde ? :-)"

OH yeah.

[Hildy]

What a story! I used to work at SCS...the Society for Computer Simulation here in San Diego. It was started by a bunch of old CONVAIR people, mostly John Mcleod.

[windcliff]

ping

[Luis Gonzalez]

With illustrations.

[onyx]

Are you still in San Diego?

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP this awesome column.

[nopardons]

Thanks !

[RightOnline]

Any time..............

[Cicero]

When Ann Coulter decided to put McCarthy at the center of her book, and to trace present liberal treason back into the past, she went for the jugular.

Communists work, in part, by changing the language, as Orwell argued. Postmodernists do the same thing--substitute their own carefully chosen languages for common English.

Words like "McCarthyism," "racist," and "Nazi" became tools to beat conservatives with and to derail any kind of rational discussion of the facts. Conservatives are simply not permitted to express their views, because they are McCarthyite and therefore despicable and outlawed by all decent people.

Much the same thing was done with Watergate. Republicans were demonized over a word that has very little meaning but enormous emotional resonance. But Ann is correct in saying that "McCarthyism" may be the most potent word of all--because in essence it means that conservatives are NEVER allowed to criticize liberals without being accused of witch-hunting and bigotry.

Yes, "witch-hunting" is another of those one-way words, courtesy of Arthur Miller. It refers only to conservative criticism of liberals, never to liberal criticism of conservatives--even though it's usually liberals who hold the levers of power and conservatives who are unfairly persecuted.

[goodnesswins]

I just gave "Treason" to an 18 year old step granddaughter who likes to play the dumb blonde role....although she's more niave (sp) than dumb....and she's been indoctrinated in the public schools....anyway....I told her not to try to read it from cover to cover (because I knew she wouldn't)....and instead to just pick out pieces to read....QUESTION....(since I have not read it yet myself)....was that OK? Or does it need to be read from first page to last in that order?

I'm hoping to start her RE-EDUCATION...

[goodnesswins]

See post 131, please. Thanks for any thoughts.

[Eva]

There were a lot of innocent bystanders, my Grandfather was one of them, the FBI ruined his life, but it had nothing to do with McCarthy or McCarthyism. It had to do with politics and the HUAC, a completely separate entity, that pre-dated McCarthy by about fifteen years.

[Eva]

Yes, read the book. McCarthy died a lonely broken drunk. It's hard to rehabilitate an image that has been so totally destroyed that the man grew to fit it.

[hosepipe]

DPB...very good post....appreciated here...
David Horowitz must be re-thinking his blurb about the book..
It appears that Ann Coulter literally tore the door off Davids closet(closet liberal_lol).. What a way to be out'ed....
Unless he was pandering to acedemia, hope not.. He does seem to have a desire to be counted as a factor to be dealt with by them... as of course he is. I don't get it.. David Horowitz has dealt with Socialism directly with acerbic wit. You'd think he could appreciate the direct approach.... JEALOUSY.?..who knows...

[DPB101]

I read Treason the same way you suggested your granddaughter read it and I have more than a passing interest in the subject. Just picking it up and reading at random is even better, for someone new to this, than reading from cover to cover. Every page has something on it which makes a person think..."whoa...what was THAT all about...why didn't I know THAT before?"

[lainie]

Thanks. How sad. If the man truly was, if not a patriot outright, at least hard-working and mainstream, then Coulter's right. Only a tyrannical heart would do such rotten things to an innocent man. (Not that any of us need confirmation of Coulter's rightness.)

[Eva]

You really should read the book, for most of us the only knowledge that we have about McCarthy is from the left leaning media.

Rehabilitating the McCarthy image was not the purpose of the book, however. It was merely a starting point to give an historical perspective to the wrong-headed, anti-Americanism of the left. I still object to Ann's use of the term liberal as inter-changeable with leftist or progressive because there are a lot of liberals who don't view themselves as socialists, even though in reality they are if you put their positions on various issues together collectively. I think that it would have helped her credibility if the self-described liberals could have read the book and said to themselves, that she might be correct about some of these people, but she's not talking about me.
When she paints with such a broad brush, even though she is mostly correct, it allows people to discount her whole premise. Does that make sense?

[Endeavor]

ping

This worthy of note.

[goodnesswins]

THANK you so much.....I just hope she manages to pick it up at all.