Wall Street Journal Stonewalls on McCarthy

Human Events ^ | May 12, 2008 | M. Stanton Evans

[Ultra-Secret.info]

As it happens, this is not my first such experience with the Journal. Five years ago, the paper ran a misleading column by Dorothy Rabinowitz attacking Ann Coulter for her comments on McCarthy, the main point of contention being the above-noted case of Annie Lee Moss. Ann's comments were very much on target, while those of Rabinowitz were, to put it mildly, misguided. On that occasion I wrote a letter to the Journal pointing out the facts about the case. That missive never appeared in The Wall Street Journal.

[absalom01]

The internet really needs a “gatekeeper” function of some sort. How’s the MSM supposed to enforce the lieberal orthodoxy if people can just do an end-run around the press?

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Who ever said the WSJ was any more reliable than any other left-wing rag?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The bias of such as the Washington Post and New York Times on such topics is well known and only to be expected. But why should there be similar misreporting and stonewalling at The Wall Street Journal?

'Cause they don't want to be mistaken for unwashed troglodytes. They are afraid that any defense of McCarthy will make them appear boorish and unsophisticated.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Ya think McCarthy's hearings were mean-spirited...

Robert Kennedy as council to the McClellan (organized crime) committee was giving Sam Giancana a hard time in questioning. Giancana answered each question by reading the fifth amendment with a smirk and from time to time a slight laugh. Frustrated, Kennedy asked the mob boss, "Are you going to tell us anything or just giggle? I thought only little girls giggled?"

What about that! That was in the "McCartyism" era. Oh.. that reminds me. I believe next month it will be forty years since Robert Kennedy was assassinated.

[SunkenCiv]

As it happens, this is not my first such experience with the Journal. Five years ago, the paper ran a misleading column by Dorothy Rabinowitz attacking Ann Coulter for her comments on McCarthy, the main point of contention being the above-noted case of Annie Lee Moss. Ann's comments were very much on target, while those of Rabinowitz were, to put it mildly, misguided. On that occasion I wrote a letter to the Journal pointing out the facts about the case. That missive never appeared in The Wall Street Journal.

[cyberslave]

This would’ve never happened if Roy Cohn was still alive. I heard Cohn many times on the Barry Farber show about McCarthy, and I also used to see him outside of his law office on East 68th Street. A kid I knew from YAF was a pattern of Cohn’s firm. They truely feared Cohn not just because of his debating prowess, but because of his legal skill. He lifted quite a few dollars out of left wing publications, even after Sullivan v NYT, for libeling him about the McCarthy committee. I think I re-read his book about McCarthy again. I’d really like to see someone get a hold of the entire videography of those hearings and release them on DVD. It would really dispell many of the myths the left wing has created about the tail gunner. Most of their docudramas from the 70s and 80s made him out to be an alcoholic political opportunist playing on the press. Say isn’t that what John McCain is ?

[the invisib1e hand]

I gave up on wsj a long time ago.

[Pelham]

I thought maybe you were going to mention that Robert Kennedy worked for Joe McCarthy on his Senate committee. And that RFK asked McCarthy to be the godfather for one of his children.