{"article":{"id":67296,"heading":"The Myth of McCarthyism","author":"Ann Coulter","created":"2003-06-27 09:44:06","modified":"2006-04-01 00:26:41","last_modified":"Sat, 01 Apr 2006 07:26:41","article":"

The myth of \"McCarthyism\" is the greatest Orwellian fraud of our times. Liberals are fanatical liars, then as now. The portrayal of Sen. Joe McCarthy as a wild-eyed demagogue destroying innocent lives is sheer liberal hobgoblinism. Liberals weren't hiding under the bed during the McCarthy era. They were systematically undermining the nation's ability to defend itself, while waging a bellicose campaign of lies to blacken McCarthy's name. Liberals denounced McCarthy because they were afraid of getting caught, so they fought back like animals to hide their own collaboration with a regime as evil as the Nazis. As Whittaker Chambers said: \"Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.\"

At the time, half the country realized liberals were lying. But after a half century of liberal myth-making, even the disgorging of Soviet and American archives half a century later could not overcome their lies. In 1995, the U.S. government released its cache of Soviet cables that had been decoded during the Cold War in a top-secret undertaking known as the Venona Project. The cables proved the overwhelming truth of McCarthy's charges. Naturally, therefore, the release of decrypted Soviet cables was barely mentioned by the New York Times. It might have detracted from stories of proud and unbowed victims of \"McCarthyism.\" They were not so innocent after all, it turns out.

Soviet spies in the government were not a figment of right-wing imaginations. McCarthy was not tilting at windmills. He was tilting at an authentic communist conspiracy that had been laughed off by the Democratic Party. The Democrats had unpardonably connived with the greatest evil of the 20th century. This could not be nullified. But liberals could at least hope to redeem the Democratic Party by dedicating themselves to rewriting history and blackening reputations. This is what liberals had done repeatedly throughout the Cold War. At every strategic moment this century, liberals would wage a campaign of horrendous lies and disinformation simply to dull the discovery the American people had made. They had gotten good at it.

There were, admittedly, a few rare and striking exceptions to the left's overall obtuseness to communist totalitarianism. John F. Kennedy's pronouncements on communism could have been spoken by Joe McCarthy. For all his flaws, Truman unquestionably loved his country. He was a completely different breed from today's Democrats. Through the years, there were various epiphanic moments creating yet more anti-communist Democrats. The Stalin-Hitler pact, Alger Hiss' prothonotary warbler, information about the purges and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago – all these had their effect.

But after World War II, the Democratic Party suffered a form of what France had succumbed to after World War I. The entire party had lost its nerve for sacrifice, heroism and bravery. Beginning in the '50s, there was a real battle for the soul of the Democratic Party. By the late '60s, the battle was over. The anti-communist Democrats had lost.

In 1972, George McGovern, darling of left-wing radicals, was the Democratic presidential candidate. Tom Hayden, leader of Students for a Democratic Society and an instigator of the Chicago riots, became a Democratic state senator in California. (In 1968, Staughton Lynd wrote of Tom Hayden: \"On Monday, Wednesday and Friday he was a National Liberation Front guerilla, and on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, he ... was on the left wing of the Democratic Party.\") Black Panther Bobby Rush would go on to become a Democratic congressman. Todd Gitlin, a former president of SDS, would soon be a frequent op-ed columnist for the New York Times. By the time of the 1991 Gulf War, only 10 Senate Democrats voted with President Bush to use troops against Saddam Hussein. If the old Democratic Party was merely obtuse, the new Democratic Party was a beachhead of domestic anti-Americanism. This was the new Democratic Party.

Clinton was the left's last best hope for proving they could too handle the presidency. Having tricked the American people into entrusting a Democrat with the White House (on a plurality vote), they had to defend him from any lie, any felony, any reprehensible, contemptible conduct he threw their way. When Clinton first showed his fat oleaginous mug to the nation, the Republicans screamed he was a draft-dodging, pot-smoking flim-flam artist. Had the Republicans turned out to be right again, it would have sounded the death knell for the Democratic Party.

So the Democrats lied. Through their infernal politics of personal destruction, liberals stayed in the game for a few more years.

Unless we fight for proper treatment of history and counter the nonsense images of McCarthy, no history can be safe from the liberal noise machine. Someday, school children will be taught that all of America cringed with terror at Ken Starr, whose evil designs on the nation were frustrated only through the sacrifice of brave liberals. People will have vivid images of the pounding boots of Starr's subpoena-servers and the Gestapo-like wails of alarms as Ken Starr arrived to kick in the doors of innocent Americans and storm through their bedrooms. It will be the Reign of Terror under Ken Starr.

Bill Clinton will be revered in high school history books as the George Washington of his day who, along with patriots Larry Flynt and James Carville, \"saved the Constitution.\" He will be honored with a memorial larger than the Washington Monument (though probably with the same general design).

People will believe that. And liberals will continue unabashedly invoking a lie in order to shield their ongoing traitorous behavior.

<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Broken Clock Leftist fifth column trash love that word "McCarthyism", almost as much as their other buzzwords. You know like racist, fascist, homophobe, xenophobe, ad nauseam...\r\n","numcomment":24,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/06\/67296.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":152369,"heading":"LIBERTARIAN CONSTITUTION BILL OF RIGHTS","article":"Right wing & Left wing are, according to us Libertarians, priddy matsh dhe seym dem theng. Both are authoritarian & wanda teyk librdy awey fram ytsh indavidjwal, welfer steyd iz dhe plllyyyss steyt----Librteyan Paordy sez, freedom ta ywwz psychedelic THC hemp canvas av dhe Hon. Geo. Washingmashyyn esq. av Mon Sieur Citoyen Tom Paine de la Revolution. Droits de Homme. et Femme. de Humaine. More dhan 50% av U. S. av Pocahontas Powhatan Jazz Banjo Yam av America, not talkin about U. S. av Bdlazzeew (Brasil) av America, nor U. S. av Aztec Nahuatl Teo Ti HUacan Mesheecgao (Mexico) av America, but av dhis heer kantri (like Mongol Tatar Tu"rk YHWH ILAH neym Tankri) mor dhan 50% av DHIS heer USA blyyv, dvaet UFOz ar real.","author":"Karl EzekiEL HezekEL Mohamad Kirsch Slick","parent_id":67296,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-04-01 00:09:37","modified":"2006-04-01 00:09:37","fileurl":""},{"id":67297,"heading":"Ann! What a woman!!","article":"I'd give anything to buy this woman dinner. Just to be in her presence would make my day.","author":"Eric","parent_id":67296,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-27 09:45:41","modified":"2003-06-27 09:45:41","fileurl":""},{"id":67299,"heading":"And talk about conspiracy theories!","article":"1984 baby! 1984!\r\n\r\nI love this part though:\r\n\r\n"Bill Clinton will be revered in high school history books as the George Washington of his day who, along with patriots Larry Flynt and James Carville, "saved the Constitution." He will be honored with a memorial larger than the Washington Monument (though probably with the same general design). "\r\n\r\nNotice the Freudian "penis envy" slight she works in! This woman is a genius!!\r\n\r\n","author":"Max Thrasher","parent_id":67296,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-27 09:52:35","modified":"2003-06-27 09:52:35","fileurl":""},{"id":67318,"heading":"That's nothing, Eric.","article":"I would gladly eat one of her used menstrual pads.","author":"daveman","parent_id":67296,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-27 11:04:28","modified":"2003-06-27 11:04:28","fileurl":""},{"id":67327,"heading":"Such crap!!!!","article":"Yea ad NASEAUM is right. Does anyone even take her seriously anymore? Her wierd reading of history places her in the idealogical blinders category. Or maybe some of that bleach she uses on her stringy hair has finally seeped inside her head. Of course she doesn't name one supposed communist that McCarthy uncovered....because he didn't undercover one. And with the recent tapes being releases of his pre-hearing interviews with suspected "communists" he turned out to be just a camera loving hack politician looking for something to make a name for himself with. Since he basically did nothing else while in office(except suck down fifth after fifth of liquor). Once again another excuse for psycho right wing paranoia.","author":"krankyman","parent_id":67296,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-27 11:27:12","modified":"2003-06-27 11:27:12","fileurl":""},{"id":67339,"heading":"The thunderous din...","article":"of 5th column leftists beatniks barking at the mention of her name is a bright red litmus, testament to Ms. Coulter's positve impact on American politics.","author":"Eric","parent_id":67296,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-27 11:58:53","modified":"2003-06-27 11:58:53","fileurl":""},{"id":67340,"heading":"1950's BS","article":""5th column leftists beatniks"\r\nWow, dadyo. Let's watch howdy doody...\r\nIdiot.","author":"Amused","parent_id":67296,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-27 12:04:03","modified":"2003-06-27 12:04:03","fileurl":""},{"id":67343,"heading":"1950s? Nah 2003. Right here. Right now. On IMC","article":"Main Entry: beat\u00b7nik \r\nPronunciation: 'bEt-nik\r\nFunction: noun\r\nEtymology: 3beat + -nik\r\nDate: 1958\r\n: a person who rejects the mores of established society (as by dressing and behaving unconventionally) and indulges in exotic philosophizing and self-expression \r\n","author":"Eric","parent_id":67296,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-27 12:07:04","modified":"2013-11-11 00:23:21","fileurl":""},{"id":67363,"heading":"Eric","article":"Gosh, Eric. Quit gettin all flaky. You're gonna be late for the sock hop. Wear that red poodle skirt that you're crazy about.","author":"The Beave","parent_id":67296,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-27 13:37:24","modified":"2003-06-27 13:37:24","fileurl":""},{"id":67439,"heading":"Beats","article":"Say Eric, is it true that you learned all you know about the beat movement by watching Maynard G. Krebs on television? And that you liked that almost as much as your favorite show, Gilligen's Island?","author":"Meyer London","parent_id":67296,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-27 16:10:41","modified":"2003-06-27 16:10:41","fileurl":""},{"id":67458,"heading":"ann c.","article":"You go girl!!","author":"LaCretia","parent_id":67296,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-27 16:31:21","modified":"2003-06-27 16:31:21","fileurl":""},{"id":67461,"heading":"Not too sure who Maynard G. Krebs is.","article":"Sounds like that was a bit before my time.\r\n\r\nI loved Gilligan's Island though. Hey! Remember that episode where the castaways almost got off the island, but then Gilligan screwed it up? Oh wait, that was every episode, wasn't it. Sounds like Gilligan was an anarchist, now don't it?","author":"Eric","parent_id":67296,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-27 16:33:30","modified":"2003-06-27 16:33:30","fileurl":""},{"id":67468,"heading":"Queen Ann","article":"Yesterday, the women on The View (apparently, I didn't see it) asked Ann Coulter if she enjoyed girl-girl sex. \r\n\r\nShe replied that she hadn't seen any since Katie Couric interviewed Hillary Clinton.","author":"Barbara Walters","parent_id":67296,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-27 16:45:26","modified":"2003-06-27 16:45:26","fileurl":""},{"id":67478,"heading":"Since some people might not know me","article":"I thought it would be helpful to share with you one of my favorite quotes from a story I wrote for New York Daily News, 9\/12\/01. It shows how clear headed and objective I am, how calm and intellectual I am. Ready? Here's the quote -- and remember, this is really the best way to judge a person, to just take in what they say with out any spin:\r\n\r\n_____\r\n "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."\r\n_____\r\n\r\nThanks for being my loyal fans. Together, we can win this crusade. ","author":"Ann Coulter (speaking for myself)","parent_id":67296,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-27 17:01:23","modified":"2003-06-27 17:01:23","fileurl":""},{"id":67482,"heading":"Yes. I agree. But we all know how much I hate free will.","article":"Liberal debate tactic #47:\r\n\r\nIt always helps to quote your adversaries out of context.","author":"Eric","parent_id":67296,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-27 17:07:34","modified":"2003-06-27 17:07:34","fileurl":""},{"id":67492,"heading":"Eric, sweety, that's not out of context","article":"I really do hate arabs","author":"Ann Coulter","parent_id":67296,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-27 17:24:08","modified":"2003-06-27 17:24:08","fileurl":""},{"id":67501,"heading":"Muslims","article":" Say, Eric, is it true that you think the best way to learn about Muslim society, culture and politics is to listen to Michael Reagan and Michael Savage, watch videos of Gary Cooper in Beau Geste and Errol Flynn in The Charge of the Light Brigade, and read the memoirs of Golda Meir and the novel Exodus? That must be why you seem so well informed.","author":"Meyer London","parent_id":67296,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-27 17:46:33","modified":"2003-06-27 17:46:33","fileurl":""},{"id":67505,"heading":"well...","article":""We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." \r\n\r\n\r\n...it's a start.","author":"fresca","parent_id":67296,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-27 17:50:41","modified":"2003-06-27 17:50:41","fileurl":""},{"id":67511,"heading":"a start","article":" I've got a better start: you contact your insurance plan and ask how soon you can enter the appropriate psychiatric institution where you can be given the proper combination of therapy and medication. You are living disproof of Thomas Zasz's ridiculous claim that mental illness is a myth.","author":"Meyer London","parent_id":67296,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-27 18:14:26","modified":"2003-06-27 18:14:26","fileurl":""},{"id":67520,"heading":"Meyer","article":"You are an idiot. The very people that you fall over yourself to defend and cry for would gladly cut your throat because you have a different religion. \r\nGet your bleeding heart head outa your ass.","author":"fresca","parent_id":67296,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-27 19:44:21","modified":"2003-06-27 19:44:21","fileurl":""},{"id":67544,"heading":"At least fresca is","article":" an honest and open ass hole","author":"x","parent_id":67296,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-27 21:37:18","modified":"2003-06-27 21:37:18","fileurl":""},{"id":67606,"heading":"check me out","article":"\r\nhttp:\/\/www.republicanpress.com\/Kuntly.htm","author":"Ann Coulter (spoof of me)","parent_id":67296,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-28 01:15:08","modified":"2003-06-28 01:15:08","fileurl":""},{"id":67670,"heading":"up up","article":"fly free fly","author":"and away","parent_id":67296,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-06-28 11:43:01","modified":"2003-06-28 11:43:01","fileurl":""}]}