It's a perfect explanation why some of us conservatives have a problem with "Treason."
An article by James Pinkerton? The man who insists that the Republican Party abandon its pro-life position every chance he gets? Oh, yeah: rock-solid "conservative."
Leaving aside his girlie man ad hominem jibes at Ann ("Terminatrix," etc.), Pinkerton's slimeball article attacks Ann's book with two alleged points. First, he takes issue with Ann's assertion that Whittaker Chambers, a genuine hero who exposed communist penetration of the Federal government before McCarthy, "continues to be dismissed, if not despised." Pinkerton retorts that Chambers "is not forgotten," that his book Witness is "still in print," and that the "MTV Generation" can go snap up their own copies. Wow, some point to score against Ann! Just like the kind of nit-picking trivialities and non-sequiturs you find on websites purporting to "expose" Ann's "factual errors." I challenge Pinkerton or anyone else to find where Chambers is mentioned, much less mentioned favorably, in American history school textbooks. Chambers is in fact "dismissed and despised" by our academic and media elites, for telling the truth.
Pinkerton's second point simply takes him back to the well-worn leftist liturgy about "McCarthyism." Pinkerton cites McCarthy's "Original Sin" of the Wheeling WVA speech citing 57 communists in the State Department, blaming him for NOT giving out the names of the alleged Reds, and condemning Ann for praising McCarthy's refusal to disclose---hmm, I thought one of the "evils of McCarthyism" was the disclosure of names. Pinkerton gamely concedes that "there may well have been subversives in the State Department" [!!!!!!], but that that was no excuse for McCarthy raising the subject. After all, McCarthy went so far as to "slander" the Army and "World War II hero" George C. Marshall, and made the "architecture of containment" being laid down by that anti-communist stalwart Harry Truman more difficult, etc. etc. Straight from the left-wing playbook.
Thanks for the link, Count Chocula. Reading Pinkerton's slimy prose just boosted my faith in Ann.