WE'LL LET YOU KNOW WHEN YOU'RE BEING CENSORED (Ann Coulter)

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[ChadGore]

WE'LL LET YOU KNOW WHEN YOU'RE BEING CENSORED

By Ann Coulter

Earlier this year, the Screen Actors Guild (news - web sites) issued a statement lamenting that "those in the public eye should suffer professionally for having the courage to give voice to their views. Even a hint of the blacklist must never again be tolerated in this nation." Feeling the lash of a right-wing blacklist, the Dixie Chicks (news - web sites) recently played to an adoring, sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden.

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But earlier this week, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., denounced a radio corporation's decision not to play the Dixie Chicks as similar to Nazism and McCarthyism. The Dixie Chicks lead singer ridiculed President Bush (news - web sites) before a foreign audience. That was constitutionally protected free speech. The decision of radio stations not to play the Dixie Chicks, however, is not a matter of their own free speech.

Conservatives are openly blackballed in all the liberal professions -- publishing, Hollywood, the mainstream media, education and college faculties. Apparently, that's not "blacklisting." It is churlish for conservatives to complain about private censorship. True blacklisting occurs only when someone scowls at a liberal.

Ronald Radosh is one of the nation's pre-eminent historians, but he is blacklisted from American universities because he wrote a book concluding that the Rosenbergs were guilty -- a few years before decrypted Soviet cables were released proving they were guilty.

Inasmuch as Radosh had once been a "progressive" himself, a fatwa was inevitable. Radosh marched for the Rosenbergs. He attended candlelight vigils for the Rosenbergs. He was even personally acquainted with Pete Seeger! But after setting out to write a book proving the Rosenbergs innocent, his research led him to conclude otherwise. He was a liberal who rejected the faith. Under strict fatwa procedures, Radosh had to be banned from academia.

As has been copiously detailed by John Judis in the liberal New Republic magazine, whenever Radosh is on the verge of being hired by a major university, the liberal wolf pack bays and suddenly the position disappears. Anonymous critics were quoted "question(ing) his credentials." One historian told Judis: "I wouldn't hire a red-baiter like Ron." Another said Radosh was "not a historian at all."

Columbia history professor Eric Foner claimed Radosh's book on the Rosenbergs violated the canons of historical scholarship. As any infant knows, one of the canons of historical scholarship is to mindlessly hold as an article of faith the manifestly absurd belief that the Rosenbergs were innocent. It is an affront to good scholarship to suggest otherwise. Most devastatingly, Foner -- once president of the American Historical Association -- accused Radosh of "liberal anti-communism." Other historians have even stooped so low as to call Radosh a "conservative." One editor said he believed Radosh was a CIA (news - web sites) agent.

American college students are learning history from people who believe the Rosenbergs were innocent idealists and Radosh is a CIA agent. (How are the grades for students who write term papers saying the Rosenbergs were guilty?)

Obtaining a teaching position was not so difficult for Joel Kovel, who holds the prestigious "Alger Hiss Professor of Social Studies" chair at Bard College. With superb timing, in 1994, just one year before the Venona cables were declassified, Kovel published a book describing anti-communism as a psychiatric condition. Appropriately, Kovel dedicated the book to his chair's namesake, Soviet spy Alger Hiss. Making paranoid accusations based on his own neurotic impulses, Kovel explained that America's anti-communism was a form of anti-Semitism.

He should know. In a 2002 article, Kovel called the West Bank "a huge concentration camp," and demanded to know: "Why does the Zionist community, in raging against terrorism, forget that three of its prime ministers within the last 20 years, Begin, Shamir and Sharon, are openly recognized to have been world-class terrorists and mass murderers?"

But in his book "Red Hunting in the Promised Land" -- dedicated to uber-WASP communist Hiss -- Kovel raved: "The Communist became ... the archaic blood villain of Western civilization -- the Jew who killed Christ, the black Hamitic son of Noah, the howling savage beyond the gates reminding 100 percent Americans of the terrors of the dark." (Now that's serious scholarship.)

When the Venona Project was declassified one year later, it turned out there was another likely explanation for America's anti-communism. To wit: the fact that the government was crawling with Soviet spies feverishly passing atomic technology to America's mortal enemy. But right up until the Soviet cables were declassified, Kovel's lunatic psychological theory was accepted in the journals of mainstream opinion. His book describing anti-communism as a mental defect was one of The Washington Post's recommended books in 1994.

Unlike Radosh, who did not need to read Soviet cables to figure out that Julius Rosenberg was a spy, Kovel has encountered no difficulty in landing any number of teaching positions. In addition to holding the coveted Traitor Chair at Bard College, he has been an anthropology professor at the New School for Social Research; a professor of political science and communications at the University of California, San Diego; a lecturer at San Diego State University; and a professor at the Saybrook Institute in San Francisco.

People who have dedicated their lives to exposing lesbian imagery in "Moby-Dick" are more prevalent on the nation's campuses than serious scholars. The nation's colleges and universities have become a Safe Streets program for traitors and lunatics. At least Tailgunner Joe got them out of government work.

[annyokie]

David don't lie. I have read all his works. He is footnoted and researched to the nth degree.

[Yardstick]

And what is up with Leon Botstein, the president of Bard? He is one of the few sane liberals left.

Speaking of sane liberals, what's Christopher Hitchens up to these days? I haven't seen anything of his posted around here in a long time.

[hoosiermama]

With all of Ann's fun there is a serious point. She just doesn't take herself too serious. I look forward to reading M. Stanton Evans tome ("the world's leading authority") on McCarthy. I will study it seriously.

However, Ann is a good afternoon read/laugh! And laugh I did. She can sure throw out the one liners. Some want to be serious about serious matters. Others deal with life with a "mash" type humor. My ability to laugh is equal to ability to cry.....do both well! I appreciate her humor.

[Treasa]

She is unique, I've never seen anyone take such heat and keep her cool...

[annyokie]

David Horowitz? He is the sweetest man. He is so contrite about his friend being murdered by the Black Panthers, it'll make you cry.

[HISSKGB]

I was shocked to see how many of Julius Rosenberg's classmates at New York's City College signed up to be bolshevik espionage agents in his spy ring at Fort Momouth New Jersey!

[ValerieUSA]

That's similar to leftists saying nice things about Castro, the reasoning behind it is the same--he's our guy, so we shouldn't criticize. (of course, Castro was much worse than McCarthy)

Castro WAS? Castro IS!
Yet leftists in America (Democrats) revere him today.
We all remember the WTO conference in Seattle back in November 1999 because of the anarchists who rioted in the streets. I remember it because Fidel Castro had been invited to attend. The ultra-liberal Seattle City Council was beside itself with celebrity worship anticipation, even preparing the red carpet for him (literally). President Clinton was already scheduled to attend, and the White House attempted to arrange a photo-op meeting of these two great world leaders if only.. if only... please God let it happen... if only Mr. Castro Sir would honor the WTO, Seattle, America and President Clinton with his august presence.
Alas, he declined the invitation, causing Seattle's leftist media and city council to nearly burst into tears at the empty spot in their agenda.
It is NOT a stretch of the imagination, it is NOT unfounded criticism, it is NOT irresponsible mean-spirited name-calling when Ann Coulter states that the Democrat Party sympathizes with communism over American patriotism. Let's ask Elian, shall we?

[DPB101]

Rabinowitz is a big name on the far left. Victor Rabinowitz was a member of the National Lawyers Guild--a Soviet front. He was called to testify before McCarthy. So was Seymour Rabinowitz who worked at the FT. Monmouth Army Radar Lab

Many at that facilty were forced to work in the "Leper Colony" because they were suspected of spying (they had either gone to school with Julius Rosenberg or known Joel Barr and Al Sarant--spies who fled to the Soviet Union when the Rosenberg ring was cracked).

Over the decades, families and extended families have created mythologies about the evil McCarthy. That is the problem.

Dorothy Rabinowitz may not be related to the two men who testified. But she surely knows of them. Or of others. And she knows what their kids and their grandkids have been taught about McCarthy. The myth of innocent victims of a "witch-hunt" must be kept alive.

[DPB101]

Funny you asked. Posted early this AM:

Obit For A Former Contrarian (A friend and protege turns on Christopher Hitchens) ^

[sport]

I know horowiz's history.

I stand with Ann.

[hoosiermama]

Well that futher explains the defensive reaction!

[annyokie]

How stupid is your post? My name is Smith, therefore I am culpable or at least cognizant of the sins of all persons named Smith.

[Doc On The Bay]

Wouldn't you like to go back to your Academic "Seat of Learning" & REQUIRE the "so-called-professors" to READ the well-researched History we all studied & REQUIRE them to explain LOGICALLY WHY THEIR interpretation of "the Past" is SO MUCH at "Variance" with the understanding AND DIRECT EXPERIENCE of hundreds of thousands of us who repudiate their understanding of our History.

I DO NOT BELIEVE that those who teach our children "History" can "Reconcile" their Ideologically Driven "Pseudo-Facts" with ACTUAL HISTORICAL FACT!

There is an actual CRISIS here--Historical Fact conflicts with "Ideology!"

We OUGHT TO go to our "schools" & CONFRONT those who would teach our Children myths.

WE were the "Good Guys" in ALL conflicts over the past 100 years; it isn't up to us to prove we were "In the Right,"--It's up to our "adversaries" to prove we were Wrong!!

If we were SO "Wrong" over the past century, WHY are people STILL risking their lives to come here??

If we're SO BAD, why aren't people from other countries trying to get into CHAD, or Belgium, of France, or Russia, or Iran, or South Africa, or China, or Russia, etc--etc--etc--!

SORRY to disappoint the "Good Guys," but "America" is where EVERYONE ELSE in our benighted world wants to go.

Perhaps Those who believe America is SO AWEFUL ought to find out WHY EVERYONE ELSE on the Planet wants to come here to prosper!

It's TIME we taught our children what's SO SPECIAL about America--& WHY the rest of the World want's to come here!

EVEN IF our children cannot recite our universal History (something ALL PREVIOUS AMERICAN GENERATIONS were taught), our Citizens are given a unique "perspective" on our world which tells them that "America" is SPECIAL!

ALL Americans understand that Their "Citizenship" renders them "Special!"

Doc

[DPB101]

I didn't say that at all. If you lived in NYC in the early 1950s and were Jewish, you probably knew of people from City College and perhaps someone who worked at Ft. Monmouth. You certainly knew what was going on and that a Catholic, McCarthy, was calling a number of Jews to testify. The Soviets and Europeans were putting out propaganda that Americans were just like the Nazis and going after Jews. That might explain why, as Ann points out, McCarthy's approval rating was 3% among Jews at the time.

That Rabinowitz cites Phillip Loeb as a victim of a witch hunt makes me suspect she either knew him or knows his family. He wasn't a victim. Anymore than Ed Asner or Jeanne Garofalo are victims of their stupid political positions. Americans didn't want to see Loeb on their TV set and told the sponsors that. McCarthy had nothing to do with him losing his job as Rabinowitz intimates.

[xm177e2]

Yes, Castro still is a very nasty human being. I will celebrate when he kicks off.

[annyokie]

I apologize. I meant to post to Sport. I am not a Jew and wasn't born until 1959.

[alloysteel]

More kryptonite for the Uebermenschen of the left. Ann Coulter is almost as effective as the American flag and the Ten Commandments for setting off their internal adrenalin alert alarms, and the resulting meltdown of their central nervous systems.

And yet they look forward to the turmoil.

[cherry_bomb88]

I love Ann!!!

[annyokie]

Thunderstorms! G-Night!

[reformed_democrat]

She can sure throw out the one liners.

Yes, she can. Even though she's witty, amusing, and outrageously annoying to the left, she still makes her point.

Some may find her too caustic. I believe that's necessary to penetrate the layers of lies painted by the left. It takes someone like Ann to cut through all that and let the left know we're on to them.