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So much of the ack-ack at Coulter is fired blind; Dorothy, you're not in Kansas anymore.

M. Stanton Evans was superb debating Dr. Robert Risk President of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union in 1964. Evans was editor of the Indianapolis News, articulate, grounded in fact, devastating in argument.

His leftist opponent simply avoided the inconvenient facts--as Dorothy Rabinowitz and Edward R. Murrow have done regarding the subject of Coulter's Treason.

Susan Estrich advised all to view the videotape of the Army-McCarthy hearings--yet that would present an edited, agenda-driven propaganda screed, just as the Murrow version does.

I enjoy the treatment of fact by Coulter, the very thing her critics shrink from, be they of the left or right, in print or on this forum.

Her High Crimes & Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton, Regnery, 1998, is thoroughly annotated and built on the legal groundwork for impeachment in constitutional law.

Coulter went on to expose the truth that Nixon wasn't the Nixon of myth--rather, Clinton was. Who audited enemies? Who used the FBI for personal vendetta? Not Nixon, Clinton.

So it is with the McCarthy myth. Who played fast and loose with the truth? The communists. I'm shocked, shocked.

I don't set too high a standard for the Wall Street Journal.

Its Whitewater, 1995, was mixed, containing both excellent detail of epic corruption, but also long-winded obfuscation, stonewalling, and partisan spin.

The point of M. Stanton Evan's excellent letter goes beyond the extant Ready Fire Aim Rabinowitz Gaffe w/Malice--it is the Rosetta Stone for 99.44/100ths of the anti-Coulter bleaters:

Facts? We don't need no stinkin' facts! McCarthy was bad and Coulter is too thin! See? We stick our fingers in our ears and cry LA LA LA LA LA LA We can't hear you!"

I have Treason, but I also have The Roosevelt Myth, by John T. Flynn, "the best informed and the most tenacious of the Old Right foes of Franklin Roosevelt". So I know about Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White, Owen Lattimore.

Even Rush Limbaugh perceives that the reason Nixon was pilloried was that he outed Hiss, not that he was involved in the Watergate break-in.

Treason happens.

Dorothy, meet Jane.