A Conspiracy So Vast: Meet Ann Coulter, the Maureen Dowd of the conservatives

Opinion Journal ^ | 07/14/03 | DOROTHY RABINOWITZ

[Pokey78]

John G. Adams, a key figure in the proceedings that effectively ended Sen. Joseph McCarthy's career, passed quietly from the scene last week at age 91. Not surprisingly, his death made no news; it's been a while since those heady days when McCarthy launched his investigations of the Army, which had, he charged, been shielding countless Communist agents at Fort Monmouth and elsewhere. It fell to Adams, the Army's chief counsel, to deal with the charges, which he did to devastating effect in the Army-McCarthy hearings that held the nation in thrall in the 1950s.

[hoosiermama]

I agree. She's off the mark on this one. I've read TREASON twice. I'm not sure she finished the first half of the book, before she wrote her article.

[cyncooper]

Dorothy Rabinowitz is a very sober and stalwart conservative writer who deserves more than your your utter contempt

Indeed, Dorothy Rabinowitz went and personally interviewed Juanita Broaddrick.

Who is Dorothy Rabinowitz?

She certainly is not a moron.

[habs4ever]

Ann is what she is..and she has galvanized this issue through the strength, or notoriety, of her personality, which serves both her interests and those of history, though I'm not convinced her work serves the latter ;-)

A dull prof bringing more Venona et al to light lacks the splash this Pubby blonde(?) warrior brings, which is both good and bad, but consider her a pop phenomenon.I'd take her over Andrew Sullivan, but she is still a one trick pony...

[sinkspur]

scumbags like Rabinowitz don't like it.

The rest of your post is readable. This had no place in it, and a responsible poster like you ought to know better.

Ann Coulter can only dream about being a journalist the calibre of Dorothy Rabinowitz.

I get the feeling that lots of folks on this thread haven't read Dorothy. You really ought to.

[MJY1288]

I don't think that the charge made about McCarthy claiming that the U.S Army mis-treated the SS Officers can be labeled as defending them for them executing our soldiers. In WWII we honored the Geneva Conventions and I would have to look at that particular case before concluding that McCarthy was defending the Nazi's, he might have been trying to make sure we kept our commitment to the Geneva Conventions.

I will look into it, unless you can enlighten me otherwise?

[nopardons]

THIS BOOK IS NOT A BIOGRAPHY ABOUT JOE McCARTHY !

Now, if it were, yes, I think that omitting such information would have been shoddy, misleading ( at the very least ), and beneath contempt.

Since Ann Coulter's book is about something else entirely, would you care to explain to me why it is neccessary to include that ? If Ann wrote a book entitled " KKK TERRORISM " , should she include what loving, caring, kind husbands, the Klansmen were ? Or, should she solely focous on what acts of terror they committed ? If you don't care for thsi analogy, supply one of your own.

[sinkspur]

The Nazi omission is as serious as omission as you can get. Saying "Oh, but she didn't have time to put that in" is like saying, "Oh, Hillary didn't have time to put in all those rape and abuse allegations in her book."

Including it would have negated all the hosannas she heaps on McCarthy.

Defending Nazis is still an abomination, though I'm sure some Coulter fans will twist themselves into pretzels coming up with a rationale for the "oversight."

[nopardons]

I haven't read it yet; but shall. But, I've read more than enough snippets to wonder why Dorothy wrote such a hit piece.

[hoosiermama]

Ann touches on this when she thanks M. Stanton Evans, Allan H Ryskind and Tom Winters for their research and materials. Let's face it do any of us know the names of any of these men? Or their expertise?

The message is getting out because of the splash this Pubby blonde(?) warrior brings,...

And yes, I do intend to read Evans book. He's got all the facts on McCarty.

[swilhelm73]

To those who think Rabinowitz is a leftie or a sellout, I suggest you read the following;

http://www.ardemgaz.com/prev/clinton/wopbroaddrick20.html

Whether she is right or wrong here, and not having read Coulter's book I have no input on that, Rabinowitz is as much a conservative as Coulter is...

[TLBSHOW]

BUMP

[DPB101]

The antisemitism card is being played against Ann Coulter.

Anyone who reads the book knows Coulter almost mocks that charge (Harry Dexter White was a "WASP"..only 50% of the spies were Jews) I expected more of Rabinowitz. She is a great wordsmith and a fearless journalist.

[sinkspur]

Since Ann Coulter's book is about something else entirely, would you care to explain to me why it is neccessary to include that ?

Ann Coulter wrote about Joe McCarthy. Joe McCarthy defended the SS, in a particular incident in which they had killed Americans.

If I wrote a story about Catholic priests who had coached successful football teams, but three out of four had abused young boys, do you think I should leave that latter fact out, because the story is about football?

[MJY1288]

Bingo, The book is about Liberals siding with our enemies and their neglect of our National Security. The McCarthy defense is not an endorsement of McCarthy as it was an indictment of Liberalism and how McCarthy was correct about the Soviet spies that infiltrated the democratic party.

This is criticism of her book for leaving out a flaw in McCarty's character is kinda cherry picking an omission of details bout McCarthy than it is on the point of the book

[nopardons]

How smart can she be ( unless the author, who transcribed the interview is the idiot ), when she claims that Murdock " sold the N.Y. Post " in the '80s ? Her claim about working for the N.Y. Post, by date, preceeds Ruport's buying of same, or just around the time he bought it.

This job, Dorothy's done on Ann, the book, and McCarthy is peculiar, to say the least, seeing as how some of you claim that she's such a rabid Conservative and " great " investigative reporter.

[ladyinred]

I don't know anything about the Nazi thing. In fact, like a lot of Americans, I don't much about any of this. Wish I did, and by reading Ann's book, and the Verona files that a link was provided for, I hope to educate myself.

One thing I do know is that the real point of Ann's book is about how liberals never met a communist they didn't like. McCarthy is only part of story she writes about. Naturally, most of the media is only discussing that point since Joe was so demonized over the years. Since I am convinced many in the present Democrat leadership are very much aligned with the communist policies, I am very interested in learning about what happened then, and now.

[Lancey Howard]

Sorry, sink, no sale.
This piece by Rabinowitz oozes with snide sarcasm. She is downright mean in her zeal to defend the scumbag liberal press's distortion and smear job of Senator McCarthy while berating Ann Coulter for simply trying to bring balance (from the perpective of time and loads of newly released evidence) to the McCarthy hearings and to the Senator himself.

Dorothy Rabinowitz can only dream about being a writer the caliber of Ann Coulter.

[Reactionary]

"She couldn't be more in tune with Buchanan's style if she were a Steinway."

And you couldn't be more in tune with liberals if you were a Pfetzschner Stradivarius.

[rightofrush]

Ms. Coulter's work includes an admiring if brief biography of McCarthy's political career. One that for some reason excludes the senator's remarkable efforts on behalf of the members of the SS battle group who executed 86 American POWs in the Ardennes campaign in December 1944; otherwise known as the Malmedy Massacre. In his impassioned efforts on behalf of the accused--one never to be repeated in his investigative career--the senator charged that the U.S. Army had cruelly mistreated the former SS men.

In WWII, atrocities by both sides were more common than most people can imagine.

Ask Ann why she never mentions this. It's pretty damning.

Pettifoggery

Coulter reminds me of another defender of McCarthy who likely would have ignored the story about the SS as well:

Patrick J. Buchanan.

Blatant character assination.

Only a "sink" could sink so low.

[nopardons]

I just don't get she has such a fly up her nose about this.