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From your article:

...Dorothy Rabinowitz, writing in the Wall Street Journal's editorial section, poured gallons of sarcasm over Treason and Coulter, particularly over her epochal defense of Senator Joseph McCarthy, but without once mentioning a substantive fault in Coulter's thesis. All Rabinowitz saw fit to cite was the Malmedy Massacre -- an episode near the end of World War II, involving American soldiers taken prisoner in battle and later found dead. A number of German SS troopers were convicted of having murdered the Americans, on the basis of confessions extracted from them by torture. McCarthy protested this as a miscarriage of justice...for which highly principled act Rabinowitz seeks to smear him as a Nazi sympathizer and thus undermine Coulter's case.
Why aren't prestigious conservatives massing behind Coulter? Her style is no more strident than that of our adversaries. More, she manages to be funny, which they do not. Her facts are unassailable. She has yet to be caught lifting something misleadingly out of context. Why not stand with her and say to our opponents, "All right, we've taken the gloves off too. Now we'll see who's standing at the end" -- ?

Great stuff!

Ms. Coulter will be Unspun's guest next week. Don't miss it!

;^)

the Left's gander is smarting from Coulter's brisk application of its own favorite sauce. It ought not to receive aid or comfort from our ranks.

. . . Along with those on-target those citations, Ann's references are impeccable, every one. They all check out, and not one is lifted misleadingly out of context.

I bought and read Treason, and I have to say that so far as I could see there were no misstatements of fact in it, obvious hyperbole asside. But then, she does refer to things that I don't remember or never knew. Is it your assertion that you have in fact gone to the primary materials she cites, and can vouch for them?
My favorite tidbit in it is in the last paragraph of an early chapter, where she quotes a 1954 description of "McCarthyism" to the effect that
From all across the country come loud cries saying, "I am cowed. I am afraid to speak out." And from all over the nation come even louder responses saying, "Look, he is cowed. He is afraid to speak out."
That reminds me of my own feeling at the time, tho I was young enough to discount the possibility that I just didn't fully understand the situation. And also of a deadpan statement by a favorite '50s comedian, Herb Shriner:
My sister was handed a note in the lobby of a hotel saying, "You are the only woman I have ever loved. Please come to me in Room 115." (pause) . . . She wasn't sure it was sincere, though--it was mimeographed!
In both cases, the medium denies the message--people who are afraid to speak out do not in fact get megaphones and join a chorus declaiming that fact, any more than a man who sees his one true love across a crowded room will produce a mimeographed declaration of dedication and devotion. Rather, if CNN is cowed, it doesn't say a word crosswise to what Saddam Hussain wants. And parrots his line for years--including not mentioning their fear to anyone, for as long as he remains in power.

Indeed, DPB. Along with those on-target those citations, Ann's references are impeccable, every one. They all check out, and not one is lifted misleadingly out of context.

Please see also Sauce For The Goose.

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4 posted on 07/11/2003 12:58 PM EDT by fporretto
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the Left's gander is smarting from Coulter's brisk application of its own favorite sauce. It ought not to receive aid or comfort from our ranks.

. . . Along with those on-target those citations, Ann's references are impeccable, every one. They all check out, and not one is lifted misleadingly out of context.

I bought and read Treason, and I have to say that so far as I could see there were no misstatements of fact in it, obvious hyperbole asside. But then, she does refer to things that I don't remember or never knew. Is it your assertion that you have in fact gone to the primary materials she cites, and can vouch for them?
145 posted on 07/12/2003 10:29 PM EDT by conservatism_IS_compassion
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That's right, Lynn. I've been to the primaries. I had a little help, a friend who works for M. Stanton Evans who pointed me in the right direction a few times. Ann Coulter has done her homework honestly and well. She may be strident, but she's no liar.

While we're on the subject, don't neglect to Google the Malmedy Massacre, and Senator McCarthy's role in the sequelae. You will be appalled.

We have been deceived with a thoroughness that renders ludicrous all explanations except an outright effort to sabotage the national memory.

151 posted on 07/13/2003 8:35 AM EDT by fporretto
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