I agree with Ann Coulter

Newsmax ^ | 7/8/03 | Phil Brennan

[DPB101]

oops..thought you had the book. Page 101 of Treason:

At the height of the left's counterattack against McCarthy...Americans told pollsters they approved of the job he was doing by 50 to 29 percent....his approval rating was 63 percent...Catholics supported McCarthy by 56 to 29 percent;Protestants supported him by 45 to 36 percent. To the eternal annoyance and bewilderment of McCarthy assistant Roy Cohn, Jews opposed McCarthy by 82 to 3 percent.

[WorkingClassFilth]

I know the type.

I have a T-Shirt I got at a State Republican convention before Paul Wellstone's death. It is scarlet and the graphic is in a brilliant yellow (the colors of the Soviet flag). The front shows the head of Paul Wellstone during his Lenin phase with his Van Dyke beard. Iconic rays eminate from his head. Opposite, a squad of Spetnaz troops with AK-47's look at him like he is the Christ. The name 'Wellstone' is emblazoned above this with a hammer and sickle for the 'W' and a few reversed letters like the cyrillic alphabet.

Wore that hummer around the convention and got 50/50 looks from the crowd. I couldn't believe it. Paul Wellstone was a communist and had nothing but contempt for America as a Republic. I wouldn't wish his death on anyone, but I do NOT miss the man. I do not miss the passing of anyone that is a traitor, openly or subversively, to the cause of freedom.

Older, blue-haired, Republican women looked at me with open disgust. Of course, with a mother-in-law like mine, I'm used to this. It's past time for the 'let's-not-rock-the-boat' set to retire. We need a lot more leggy blondes with size 14 butt-kicking shoes.

[Ben Bolt]

He built things and was a provider . # 23 noted .

[nopardons]

Nope, haven't bought, let alone read " TREASON " yet; but I shall. I was just speaking from an eyewitness's perspective.LOL

[budwiesest]

Well thank you both. My understanding was that the "hunt" for communists may have exceeded what we today might have considered acceptable (like screening all Middle Easterners today for terriorist connections wouldn't be, but heck, that was yesterday).

[nopardons]

I've been using the left's own tactics against them, since the late '60s. Will I do, with a size 9 narrow, long legs, but not a blonde ? :-)

[nopardons]

It " exceeded " nothing. Heck, it was POLITE, if anything. The damned left has been making MOUNTAINS out of a teeny, tiny anthill, for 5+ decades now.

[WorkingClassFilth]

You will do, as you have done - quite well. Ladies, very often, seem to instinctually know where to find the jugular.

[nopardons]

Thanks ... and yes, we ladies do know where the jugular is; quite wekk, I might add. LOL

[budwiesest]

Heck, it was POLITE, if anything.

Well, thanks for the new perspective. My understanding was that this guy did whatever to turn up a new commie under any rock besides writing the "Hunt for Red October".

[nopardons]

Damned lefty propaganda, my dear. I may have been a kid, during that era, but I knew what was going on and I have a far better than average memory.

[DuncanWaring]

You know I remember a film made for television in the 80s I believe, titled "Tailgunner Joe".

1977

It was part of a series of movies that came out early in the Carter presidency on the general theme of "Democrats good, Republicans bad".

Others in this category are "Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy" and "Give 'em Hell, Harry".

[lainie]

(re: Hacko) Good Lord!

[budwiesest]

Just curious, how would a government official's approach to the issue of middle-eastern descent and possible connections to terriorists today compare to Joe's exposure of communists? Would it be painted in the same light? Do you think it would handled as 'politely' as before?

[RobbyS]

If McCarthy did go off the deep end, I think it was because he didn't realize that communists had so many friends everywhere, that liberals thought of communists somewhat as conservatives had of Mussolini and Hitler. They simply could not accept that Communists were evil people. To them anti-communism was as silly as "I was a Communist for the FBI,"which portrayed Communists in steotypical terms. Never mind that a fanatical communist could be the guy next door.

[nutmeg]

ping!

[DPB101]

The book may make you angry too. The day the Rosenberg ring was smashed, Joel Barr, who was part of it, fled to the Soviet Union. Barr had recruited at least 16 spies while at City College with Jules Rosenberg. In the Soviet Union, Barr was given a lab to develop weapons and a salary ten times that of the average Russian worker. He came back to the USA a few years ago.Ted Koppel interviewed him. Treason, page 52:

Barr had retained his American citzenship and had even voted in recent presidential elections. Guess which party he belonged to? Guess!

Koppel: You voted?
Mr. Barr: Of course I voted. Are you kidding? I'm a Democrat.

Btw..Joel Barr, who spent his life either stealing secrets from America or working in the USSR to develop weapons to kill Americans, collected Social Security checks from Uncle Sam--a result, I assume, of the work he did while he was selling classified information to the Soviets.

[Hugin]

My understanding was that the "hunt" for communists may have exceeded what we today might have considered acceptable (like screening all Middle Easterners today for terriorist connections wouldn't be, but heck, that was yesterday).

A better comparison would be if the FBI had information that Al Qaeda and Hezbollah had agents working in the Pentagon and State department, but the adminstration refused to do anything about it. So a Senator tries to expose it to the public, and is attacked by the the media and censured by the oppostion party.

[ladyinred]

You will enjoy the book, well, as much as one can enjoy reading about the treachery of the left, but then, it will come as no surprise to you. Besides the truth- for- a- change- information contained within, Ann's witty sarcasm is just classic. Too bad the commie libs don't appreciate good humor isn't it? :-)

(opps, did I call them commies? Must be that McCarthyism again! )

[budwiesest]

They simply could not accept that Communists were evil people.

If you substitute radical Islamist for communist in this sentence you may have hit on something very big. (see World Trade Center 9-11-01)

My biggest fear is that it'll be up to me and my fellow citizens to prevent another 911 while suffering under PC-ness and gun controls, neither of which are foundations this country was built upon.