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2003-06-26 12:36 | User Profile
Ann Coulter's Defense of McCarthy Appalls ABC's Diane Sawyer MRC ^ | Wednesday June 25, 2003 | Brent Baker
Appalled by Ann Coulter's suggestion in a new book that Senator Joseph McCarthy was largely correct about the infiltration of the U.S. government by those sympathetic to communist tyranny and some who spied for the Soviet Union, on Tuesday's Good Morning America Diane Sawyer suggested that Coulter's historic perspective means that she'd want anyone opposed to war in Iraq to lose their job since, to Sawyer, McCarthy promoted the idea of "thought crime."
Sawyer argued to Coulter: "Extrapolating to today, do you think there should be hearings on Capitol Hill for the people who were critical of the war in Iraq? Do you think that they should be hauled up and then banned from their jobs if they're proven to have been deeply critical of the war with Iraq?"
The June 24 Good Morning America brought Coulter aboard during its last half hour, just past 8:30am, matching NBC's Today which did not air its interview with Coulter about her previous book, Slander, until its last half hour, after 9:30am.
The June 25, 2002 CyberAlert related: Katie Couric argued Wednesday morning with author Ann Coulter who accurately quoted Couric as having opened Today in 1999 by trumpeting: "The Gipper was an airhead. That's one of the conclusions of a new biography of Ronald Reagan..." Couric took umbrage: "I'm just curious why you took it so out of context?" But Couric didn't interview the author, Edmund Morris, until two days later. Couric insisted that Today opened with the "airhead" insult just once. In fact, they did it two days in a row. See: Cyberalerts
Fast forward to Tuesday morning of this week, and Sawyer set up Coulter, as transcribed by MRC analyst Jessica Anderson: "Ann Coulter, such a familiar figure, such a strong voice, such a flame thrower she is, and of course, so successful. You'll remember that she recently had a book that made it to the top of The New York Times best-seller list and it was called 'Slander.' Well, she is back now with another new book about what she calls liberal lies against the American right. It's a book called 'Treason,' it takes it up a notch, accusing liberals of siding with America's enemies for 50 years. It is called, as we said, 'Treason.' Ann, treason! Treason, punishable by death? Treason?!"
Coulter: "Yeah, you switched the subtitles of my last book and this book. This one's about treachery, the last one was about lies...."
Coulter proceeded to explain how decrypted Soviet cables released in 1995 showed how there were communist agents inside the Roosevelt and Truman administrations.
Sawyer pounced: "Let me go to a couple of things, though. One of your big arguments is that McCarthy basically was right, and that in fact, he helped defend the country in a major way. Do you think, extrapolating to today, do you think there should be hearings on Capitol Hill for the people who were critical of the war in Iraq? Do you think that they should be hauled up and then banned from their jobs if they're proven to have been deeply critical of the war with Iraq?"
Coulter: "That misunderstands what McCarthy did and that is going to be probably the most shocking part of the book. I really just have to ask people to hit the delete button on everything you think you know about McCarthy because it is a huge liberal myth. It was created to hide the left's collaboration with a regime as evil as the Nazis. McCarthy's scope was far more limited than most people think. He was trying to get security risks, loyalty risks out of the government. As we now know, hundreds of spies for Joseph Stalin were working for the administrations of Roosevelt and Truman. That is a fact."
Sawyer: "Spies are one thing. There was also, in the McCarthy era, the issue of thought crime."
Coulter: "Not from Joe McCarthy. That's part of the myth about McCarthy."
Sawyer: "But it was the Republicans who censured him. His own party censured him."
Coulter: "And that same United States Senate did not censure Ken Starr. I wouldn't go too much by that. Did not censure Bill Clinton, excuse me."
Sawyer then played the famous clip from a McCarthy hearing in which Army lawyer Joseph Welsh demanded: "Have you no sense of decency, sir?"
Sawyer pressed Coulter: "Decency. Was it a violation of decency?"
Coulter suggested the public has a skewed view of McCarthy since most have only seen examples of people attacking him and not the evidence which supported his allegations.
Sawyer: "Alright, Ann Coulter. As we said, if you want your veins to be bulging, your pulse to be pounding and you really want to read something provocative, it is her book and it is 'Treason.' It is out today."
ABC News has posted an excerpt from Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism, published by Random House's Crown division: [url=http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/Books/GMA030624Coulter_Treason.html]http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/Books/G...er_Treason.html[/url]
For Coulter's own Web page: [url=http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/Books/GMA030624Coulter_Treason.html]http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/Books/G...er_Treason.html[/url]
Excerpted - click for full article ^ Source: [url=http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030625.asp]http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2...cyb20030625.asp[/url]
2003-06-26 13:38 | User Profile
Ann Coulter: Even a broken clock is right twice a day. I applaud her for ripping down the shades on the false McCarthy image and honor him as a true, brave American patriot who tried in vain to save the US from a jewish takeover, although Coulter doesn't even know what "name the jew" even means. I still hate her for perpetuating the Liberal vs Conservative "battle", the Democrat vs Republican "who's more patriotic" "Bomb France", "Kill all Ay-rabs" neocon bullshit lying since Coulter is a neocon, faux conservative.....however I'd like to read further about what Coulter says about McCarthy.
2003-06-26 14:28 | User Profile
These broads are nothing more than professional beauties.
I bet they'd like to scratch each others eyes out. :D
Ole Ann is doing good duty here, however.
McCarthy is in serious need of rehabilitation and the KGB's Verona files started the ball rolling. Plus it is a fact acknowledged by many former red diaper babies, such as Carl Bernstein, for one, and David Horowitz, that Mccarthy was right about their parents. They were all freakin communists.
I'm so sick of that quote from Welch that the libs love to bring up. As if Welch hadn't premeditated the whole exchange.
If memory serves, Welch was counter attacking Roy Cohn by implying publicly that the closeted gay jew Cohn had used his influence to get one of his gay lovers an army commission. Welch kept repeating the term "pixies". I don't think he used "fairies" but I could be wrong.
You won't see the libs quoting Welch on that particular exchange.
2003-06-27 06:29 | User Profile
The whole 50-year jewsmear of McCarthy is enough to make anyone puke: "witchunt"; those oh-so heroic blacklisted Jewwood commies; smug asshole Alec Baldwin-narrated "documentaries"; hideous old jewess Lauren Bacall singing hosannas about Pinko Bogey in her Pall Mall croak....ugh!
2003-06-27 06:40 | User Profile
High babe factor with Anne.
She gets a pass from ol' Walter.
Good yoeman's work on the McCarthy thing.
Chilton, Wisconsin had a monument to the man when I was growing up. I wonder if its still there.
Walter
2003-06-27 06:55 | User Profile
If the Tailgunner was around today chances are he'd be leading the charge against The War on Terror. Joe knew from Commies, he knew from Jews, and he'd almost certainly recognize that Frum is just Hiss spelled sideways.
Annie C is just riding the horse that got her to the Promised Land - outrage translates into TODAY SHOW appearances and big big book sales. If she wasn't a neo-opportunist, she would surely add 2+2 the way McCarthy would've after taking a look at the Goldbergs and Podhoretzes teeming in the corridors of power, and come up with the same '4'.
2003-06-27 08:05 | User Profile
*Originally posted by il ragno@Jun 27 2003, 06:55 * ** If the Tailgunner was around today chances are he'd be leading the charge against The War on Terror. Joe knew from Commies, he knew from Jews, and he'd almost certainly recognize that Frum is just Hiss spelled sideways.
Annie C is just riding the horse that got her to the Promised Land - outrage translates into TODAY SHOW appearances and big big book sales. If she wasn't a neo-opportunist, she would surely add 2+2 the way McCarthy would've after taking a look at the Goldbergs and Podhoretzes teeming in the corridors of power, and come up with the same '4'. **
I agree, Il Ragno. But she's a babe, so she gets the pass!
Personal story: When I was in high school I was part of a "visit the sick and shut-ins" program run by my Catholic parish in my little home town in Wisconsin. This was back in the early 1970's. On my list was an old American WWI veteran named Fred.
Fred was a wonderful old Irish immigrant who was dying a miserable death from emphasema, and he liked to stay stewed on Jameson (who could blame him) and tell me old WWI stories of the trenches in France. Anyhoo, one day Fred pulls out a bunch of pictures of a family get-together from the late 1940's, which depicted a very large Irish family drinking and eating copious amounts, laughing and singing songs.
Fred asked me if I recognized the balding guy in the grey suit, and to my astonishment it was Tailgunner Joe himself. Turns out that Joe's family were old friends and neighbor's of Fred's family, and (if I recall correctly) that Joe was sweet on one of Fred's cousins before WWII. Fred cried talking of Joe, about how he was the only loyal American left, how the whole world turned their back on him because they couldn't bear the simple truth of massive treason. He also said that Joe needed to deal with his drinking problem and that this is why his family wasn't in favour of a marriage to his cousin. Fred was easily moved to tears then - he was dying and drunk all the time - and so I dismissed this as so much blather. But I realize that he was right.
My father was a major supporter of Joe McCarthy, as were many, many of our Polish neighbors who were spiritually crushed by the betrayal of Catholic Poland to the Bolsheviks.
Joe McCarthy was a great American, however imperfect he was. He was an alcoholic, that's for sure (he was obviously stewed in the photographs), and I think that his personal failure to deal with that contributed to his downfall in ways that are difficult to quantify.
But despite all that, he wears the many calumnies of our ethnic enemies as eternal badges of honor. The time will come, may it come soon, when Joe McCarthy will be recognized as the lonely voice of truth and loyalty.
Walter
2003-06-28 02:20 | User Profile
I heard Coulter, back when I still watched the one-eyed-yahoodi, go on about being a proud WASP. I don't remember the context but it was something like, "Hell NO! I'm a WASP". She was proud of it, and it aint far from WASP pride to anti-Semitism because one of the qualities of group pride is not liking those who hate you. There is no group the yahoodis like to belittle and smear more than WASPs, (will actually maybe there is, the Arabs, Germans, Poles, Spanish, and Catholics in particular and working class whites in general...).