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Treason, page 11:
"John F. Kennedy's pronouncements on Communism could have been spoken by Joe McCarthy. His brother Robert worked for McCarthy."
( page 101)"John F. Kennedy fiercely defended McCarthy. . .in response to a speaker's lighthearted remarks that, unlike the law school, Harvard College could be proud of never having produced either an Alger Hiss or a Joe McCarthy, Kennedy erupted, "How dare you couple the name of a great American patriot with that of a traitor?"
Horowitz:" . . .by refusing to credit the laudable role played by patriotic, anti-Communist liberals like Truman, Kennedy and Humphrey, Coulter has compromised her case . . ."
Treason, page 11:
"There were, admittedly, a few rare and striking exceptions to the left's overall obtuseness to Communist totalitarianism. The Democratic Party was certainly more patriotic then than it has become. Throughtout the sixties, the Democrats could still produce the occasional Scoop Jackson Democrat . (JFK's statments on communism ) could have been spoken by Joe McCarthy . . .for all his flaws, President Harry Truman was a completely different breed than today's Democrats: He unquestionably loved his country
( page 68) . . .Walter Reuther and Hubert Humphrey. . .were far rougher with Communists than McCarthy ever was. . .in 1954 Senator Humphrey introduced a bill that would have outlawed the Communist Party. Outlawed it. That was the year the Senate voted to censure McCarthy. . .
Horowitz: There were many liberals – Scoop Jackson and Jeanne Kirkpatrick among them – who were just as worthy defenders of America and prosecutors of the anti-Communist cause . . .
Treason, page 180:
New York Times columnist Flora Lewis scoffed at Jeane Kirkpatrick's "remarkable" claim...that "the Russians had nearly taken over until the Reagan administration." Where? Lewis demanded to know. As Ambassador Kirkpatrick said in her speech--just a sentence or two later--in the decade preceding Reagan's inauguration, the Soviets had expanded their influence into South Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Angola, Ethiopia, Mozambique, South Yemen, Libya, Syria, Aden, Congo, Madagascar, the Seychelles, Nicaragua and Grenada. Other than that, no place really.
Horowitz:"The problem with Coulter’s book is that she is not willing to concede that McCarthy was, in fact, demagogic in any sense at all, or that that his recklessness injured the anti-Communist cause."
That wasn't the book Ann wanted to write. There are more than a few books available--hundreds probably--which "concede" McCarthy was "demagogic" and "injured the anti-communist cause." If David Horowitz feels the need for another, he should write one himself.
Ann Coulter didn't "concede" he injured the anti-Communist cause because she doesn't believe he did.
Treason Page 70
The rote smirking at McCarthy by conservatives is linked to their own psychological compulsion to snobbery. McCarthy was a popularizer, a brawler. Republican elitists abhor demagogic appeals to working-class Democrats. Fighting like a Democrat is a breech of etiquette worse than using the wrong fork. McCarthy is sniffed at for not playing by Marquis of Queensberry Rules--rules of engagement demanded only of Republicans. Well, without McCarthy, Republicans might be congratulating themselves on their excellent behavior from the gulag right now. He may have been tut-tutted on the golf course, but McCarthy made the American workers' blood boil.
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Maybe Dave's returning to his Red roots. Or maybe he just wants to please all his rich Left Coast neocon friends that help keep him living la belle vie in Malibu.
My parents always supported McCarthy. However, an article criticizing Coulter's book mentions McCarthy represented SS soldiers in the investigation of the WWII Malmedy Massacre. The link to this article is here.
Disappointing that David didn't really add much useful to the discussion. He might have done better just to keep quiet, but I suspect he's paying back a few favors for old fellow travellers--some of the non-traitors, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
HF
I think a more true book could have been written which suggested that many Democrats from elite backgrounds who were not communists, simply couldn't believe anyone from their sort would actually be a communist. A similar class blindness was also evident in England. Further, I think there was a relatively quiet until the late '60s struggle for the soul of the Democratic party, which was won by those who were truly sympathetic to communism. The old anti-communist Democrats who rallied behind Truman in 1948 and carried the banner through the LBJ era may have been somwhat foolish, but they were not traitors, regardless how misguided they were on domestic policy.
I am no fan of the Kennedys. I think of them as St. John the Martyr, Robert the Dead, and Edward the Pretender. John Kennedy, at least, was probably more in that school than not. I'm not so sure about Robert, whom I regarded in life as an exceptionally dangerous and unscrupulous man. At the risk of sounding ghoulish, I think the nation was far better off that he was removed from the political scene. Teddy, of course, is loved by the left as a Useful Idiot, too stupid to realize how he is being manipulated.
Nothing could be farther from the truth...
Horowitz is dazzling with bull sperm instead of speaking the truth simply cogently and to the point, like Ann Coulter does.. I'm not amused... Ann verbally pre-supposes you are intelligent, Horowitz patronizes you with supposed stuff you obviously missed.. garnering brownie points with those Ann Coulter has diced or minced... and adds nothing to the subject..
the boy is still confused from a lifetime of being guilty as charged or worse still is.
Isn't this book subtitled: 'Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism'?
I wonder if Horowitz thinks ALL Republicans are conservative?
Now, if only these threads are read by ALL FREEPERs, who then spread out, all over the USA and sprfead the TRUTH, perhaps then, the fog of decades of vile propaganda will be disspelled.