Posted on 08/19/2003 2:36:47 PM PDT by comnet
INTERVIEW Is the Left Guilty of ‘Treason’?
CBN.com – Ann Coulter is a syndicated columnist and author of three best-selling books, including her latest, Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism. She recently spoke with CBN News Anchor Lee Webb about the book on "The 700 Club." LEE WEBB: Ann, it's a pleasure to welcome you back to "The 700 Club."
ANN COULTER: Thank you, it's nice to be here.
WEBB: Now you have made a reputation writing provocative books and making provocative statements over the years, but wow, you've really tackled a big one here with your latest book defending Joe McCarthy. And just to refresh everyone's memory here, McCarthy was a Republican Senator from the state of Wisconsin who led the investigation of alleged un-American activities in government. He's been vilified ever since. So, what prompted you to take up his cause?
COULTER: Because of the Orwellian, behemoth nature of the myth. In fact, what you just said about him is not right. He was not on the House Un-American Activities Committee, it was a Senate permanent committee on investigations, investigating the federal government. After the Hiss case and the Rosenberg case — two Soviet spies, working for the government — in the Rosenberg's case passing atomic technology to our mortal enemy, Sen. McCarthy thought it might be wise not to have security risks working in the code room of the Pentagon. He had nothing to do with HUAC investigations, the Hollywood blacklisting, he never hauled private individuals before his committee. It's just a huge Orwellian fraud that the Left has maintained for 50 years so no one will notice that they sheltered, defended traitors.
WEBB: Even one conservatives buy into, obviously, now.
COULTER: Yes, it's quite a myth that has to be dismantled.
WEBB: Now you spend a lot of time in Treason, talking about what you call "the myth McCarthyism." You say whatever we think we know is basically a lie. What is the truth about McCarthy?
COULTER: The truth is, well, what I just described. He was investigating loyalty risks in the federal government. I suppose the other point about him is that the big argument against McCarthy has always been that he was imagining some crazy Communist conspiracy to infiltrate the government, and we now know on the basis of decrypted Soviet cables that, if anything, McCarthy underestimated the problem. There were hundreds of Soviet spies infiltrating the government, turning over secrets to the Soviet Union. Because of the Democratic Party's moral infirmity and incompetence, all of America lived under the threat of nuclear annihilation for the next 50 years. It's a shameful history. The Democratic Party did that to this country and they've hidden their collaboration with a regime as evil as the Nazis by making McCarthy the issue. They screamed and were hysterical and described some fictional event of McCarthy holding the nation captive. Liberals were not cowering in their bedrooms afraid of Joe McCarthy, they were having a ball. They were caterwauling, screaming from the rooftop about this brute McCarthy. All elite, establishmentarian opinion was against McCarthy, but Americans were with him.
WEBB: You also say that liberals get upset when anyone questions their patriotism, but you say that liberals aren't as patriotic as conservatives. That's a provocative statement right there because, I think of someone like George McGovern. Who could be more liberal than him, but he was a decorated World War II bomber pilot. How do you say that they're less patriotic than conservatives?
COULTER: Well, two points. The first one is, that is the one thing we're not allowed to talk about in America. That is banned from free speech. During the war on terrorism there have been vast peace marches, anti-war protests, American flags burning, denunciations of the President, even from abroad. No one is intimidating those people, no one is trying to stop those people from speaking. But I say liberals and the Democratic Party aren't as patriotic as those in the Republican Party and wow, then people really get angry. Everyone's yelling and hysterical, they’re the ones trying to intimidate me from bringing this table up for discussion. The Democrats feel perfectly comfortable saying that Republicans aren't as good on civil rights, aren't as good on women's issues, are fascist, racist dogs, curs, but you may never say that the Democratic Party is not as patriotic as the Republican Party.
Meanwhile, this is a party that was a refuge for Soviet spies and traitors during the 50's, that loses wars, lost continents to Communism, embassies stormed, hostages taken. Throughout eight years of the Reagan Administration they naysayed and caterwauled Ronald Reagan's every move in the Cold War. Ronald Reagan called the ball, the shot, the pocket and he won the game. And liberals called their ball, their shot, and their pocket and they were completely wrong. And now in the war on terrorism we're getting the exact same naysaying, and "oh we need to be nice to the enemy" and we need our tender ministrations and back down and don't upset the enemy. This is a strategy that has been proved, not very long ago, not to work. So why are they hauling it out again, what is their goal?
WEBB: Yeah, I just wanted to ask you, how do you think the liberals would handle, let's say Al Gore won the election, how do you think he would handle the war on terrorism?
COULTER: I think he would wrap himself in a warm blanket and hold a town hall meeting.
WEBB: Alright. Let me ask you this, what do you think liberals want this country to be?
COULTER: I don't think they really care about this country. I think they see themselves as part of an international elite. Why were they demanding that we get approval from global organizations, from foreign countries before acting in this country's national defense. I mean, simply making that argument, "Oh no, we can't attack Iraq until we have the approval of the allies, France and Germany." I suppose you could call them "allies," it's a theory that's never really been tested. But why were they stamping their feet and demanding that? It is one thing to make the argument that it is not in America's self-interest, national defense interest to be invading Iraq and invading Afghanistan. I happen to think that's a tough argument to make, but that's at least a principled objection. To say we can't act when we think it's in America's self-defense because we haven't gotten approval from the Vichy government, that is automatically outrageous.
WEBB: Ann, I don't have too much longer for this, but I want to get to something that's not directly related to your book and I want to ask you a question about the Supreme Court. If and when an opening for a new justice occurs, do you think President Bush will have the courage to nominate a true conservative, or have the Senate filibusters over the lower court nominees totally intimidated him?
COULTER: No, I think that is the one thing, one of a few things, you can absolutely count on President Bush for. Perhaps, these will be famous last words, but I think he has learned from his father's appointment of Justice Souter and I think that is not a mistake he is going to make.
WEBB: Ann Coulter's book is Treason. It's available in bookstores and through our website at CBN.com. Ann thanks for being with us again on "The 700 Club," we appreciate it.
COULTER: Thank you.
I wish some of her moxy could spread to some of our spineless senators.
Keep up the good fight Miss Coulter.
We would be speaking arabic right now, wearing head scarves, and purchasing prayer rugs.
Couldn't agree with you more, Evad. Both her books--"Treason" and "Slander" are must-reads and place Coulter squarely in the "national treasure" column.
You GO, girl!!
We would be speaking arabic right now, wearing head scarves, and purchasing prayer rugs.
Nah. "The rich" would be taxed heavily to buy the prayer rugs for the rest of us. We'd still be "negotiating" with the talibastards to hand over bin laden, and we'd still be begging the UN to issue a resolution condemning the 9/11 attacks. In other words, there would be no war on terrorism.
And that would be Gore's re-election war cry--"I kept us out of a war! Peace in our time!"
Yes, and thy're also guilty of being dumb as a sack of rocks.
COULTER: Because of the Orwellian, behemoth nature of the myth. In fact, what you just said about him is not right. He was not on the House Un-American Activities Committee, it was a Senate permanent committee on investigations, investigating the federal government...
Sounds like Ann didn't listen to the question very well... out of character for her.
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