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.

Ann Coulter

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.

[kylaka]

So Ann painted the liberal party with too broad a brush. Unless he's had a recent conversion, I've read more than once, Horowitz bemoaning the right's nice guy way of fighting political wars, and advocate that perhaps the right should adopt some of the tactics of the left.

As Horowitz points out, Ann's basic premise is correct. She just gave them a little ammo to fire back with.

Now.... take a nutball like Michael Moore where the entire premise is fantasy, the case concocted of lies, and the conclusions just plain wrong. I can't make any comparison between Coulter and Moore.

Can't do it.... wouldn't be prudent.

[PGalt]

Ann drives nails into them, but the ghoulish socialists and their living dead enablers keep popping up from the graveyard.

[HISSKGB]

Although there must be a rabid bunch sifting through Coulter's trash bins and franticly interviewing her 6th classmates for some dirt to toss, Horowitz has a big problem.

Horowitz states on his website he has been a life long advocate of our civil rights. This obviously includes the years he worked for that fun group called the Black Panthers. He can't have it both ways by being a later converted conservative and still claiming his prior subversive efforts as a plus. Ooops! That's too logical. I suppose he will explain that he was a 'sincere' Black Panther.

[DPB101]

1959? You're just a kid. You are excused :-)

I haven't been back in decades but even in the 1960s, Manhattan was a place where if you didn't know everyone of note in a certain circle--Irish, Jewish, Chinese, whatever--you pretended you did.

Same thing is going on in Hollywood. The kids, grandkids and associates of the Hollywood Ten as well as the entire movie industry has a mythology built up around McCarthy and the blacklist.

Ann Coulter has taken on some deeply held beliefs.

[TheDon]

"Though McCarthy is sniffed at even by conservatives for his flamboyant rhetoric, in 'Witness', Chambers explains the importance of a fellow such as McCarthy. Referring to the Hiss hearings, Chambers writes that theatrics were 'almost the only weapon the commitee possessed.' Without a 'flair for showmanship,' the committee's extremely important work exposing the Communist conspiracy would have been smothered in silence and reduced to nullity."
Whittaker Chambers, as quoted in "Treason"

[Tailgunner Joe]

bttt

[TheDon]

"When she says things like "Liberals have a preternatural gift for striking a position on the side of treason" (on page one of the book!) she does more harm than good."

There are definitely some FReepers who are concerned Ann might hurt some people's feelings, I guess we can count you in that group!

"When she holds up McCarthy as a great man, instead of showing how he was a flawed individual who latched himself on to a good, important cause, that's absurd."

There are definitely some FReepers who feel as you do, but somehow they always seem like they are parrotting something they've been told, or read, but can't seem to back up with examples.

[Travis McGee]

GO ANN GO!!!

[TheDon]

You can gauge Ann's success by the force of the liberals attacks on her.

[Z-28]

US CODE COLLECTION

TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 115 > Sec. 2381.
Sec. 2381. - Treason

Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States

[Lancey Howard]

If you read the Horowitz review of Treason then you realize that David agrees with Ann on the facts. He simply thinks that Ann did not pay careful enough attention to the "complexities" of the numerous apparent acts of treason by the left over the decades, from FDR to Lyndon Johnson; that is, they sure do appear to be treasonous acts, but it's, well.... it's more "complex" than that. Etc.

Ann doesn't dance like that. If it walks like a duck.... well, you know.

I, too, stand with Ann.

[Lancey Howard]

Ann Coulter and Michael Moore have been compared before. And rightly

What sick planet are you from?

[nopardons]

BTT

[Rodney King]

What's with theCAPS? Are you related to ALOHA RONNIE by any chance?

[xm177e2]

There are definitely some FReepers who are concerned Ann might hurt some people's feelings, I guess we can count you in that group!

There are tens of millions of Americans who consider themselves to be "liberal" and most of them are not bad people. Attacking them all is not very different than attacking all conservatives with a broad brush (and just because some leftists do that to us doesn't make it right, and it doesn't make it an effective political tactic)

There are definitely some FReepers who feel as you do, but somehow they always seem like they are parrotting something they've been told, or read, but can't seem to back up with examples.

How about his ever-shrinking list of communists that he liked to wave around?

[The Wizard]

Go Ann Coulter, Go, you are a voice of truth in the wilderness of lies

[jla]

I've never seen anyone take such heat and keep her cool...

Well, when one considers the source of the heat, (vapid liberal blowhards), Ann's composure is understandable.

[sport]

You know, there is an old saying, "A leopard cannot change his spots."

He can paint himself another color.

He can shave his hair off.

But when the paint wears off and his hair grows back, the spots come back.

[dennisw]

I know you are not stupid and that you know that Rabinowitz is a very common Jewish name

I know you are not stupid so why do you connect Dorothy Rabinowitz with these other Rabinowitzs who are lefties or communists?

[hoosiermama]

Ann may have ben using the second meaning of the word.

TREASON: Betrayal of trust, disloyalty to a cause

The other night, someone pointed out a CHambers quote in book that would support this theory.