A post by Maynard
The New York Post is reporting a horrendous scandal at the New York Times. The claim is that a NYT editor got drunk at an office party and was heard to mutter the f-word. No, not that f-word; that one is perfectly acceptable in enlightened society these days. This is the f-word that gets you incarcerated at a re-education camp, after which you deliver a tearful public apology and pledge to spend the remainder of your life making amends. The word Ann Coulter hurled at Mr. Silky Pony. Its use would represent an unthinkable infraction at an elite institution such as the Times. An investigation was launched, and fresh copies of the anti-harassment guidelines were distributed to all employees.
This reminds me of a friend who works in the Los Angeles Library system. She told me the employees were required initial the various clauses of the non-discrimination policies, thus acknowledging they had been informed of the many things they weren’t allowed to talk about.
I don’t want to defend or justify rude or boorish behavior, which is of course disgusting. But does the disease justify the cure? We seem to have reverted to the excesses of McCarthyism.
Do you remember when Joe McCarthy decided we should fight Communism by making people sign loyalty oaths? Soon everyone was busily investigating everyone else’s past for hints of disloyal behavior. For example, maybe you wrote a book report on Tolstoy when you were in high school, in which case you were probably a Russian sympathizer. The atmosphere became something of a feeding frenzy, and for a while McCarthy was untouchable. But at the end of the day, he hadn’t uncovered any Commies; all he had done was make a noble cause look mean and ridiculous. As a practical matter, McCarthy did more to aid and abet the traitors than he did to stymie them.
I hope I live long enough to see today’s politically correct elites join Joe McCarthy in failure and disgrace. But I’m not holding my breath.
What it take for Richard Cheney to run for president for the 2008 General Election?
I voted for GW Bush only when I found out the Cheney was to be Bush’s running mate; The advantages for Cheney is that he doesn’t and the party wouldn’t have anyone who is more appealing politically than Cheney particularly if there’s another attack or a circumstance for a continuation or a prolongation in the middle east of the war currently being fought…I know that’s a lot of ifs but if that occurs, I’d go with Richard B. Cheney; plus, he’s got a very modern daughter who is now a mother, too; now that’s a very accepttable combination in a time of extremis…..
Maynard, I very much think you should read Ann Coulter’s book “Treason” so that you will no longer continue to mischaracterize Senator Joseph McCarthy and what he did. The left was able to successfully demonize and destroy him – when in fact he was proven right by the Venona transcripts which were declassified and released on July 11, 1995.
Leftist propaganda and the politics of personal destruction made Senator Joseph McCarthy into a failure and disgrace. The reality of the senator was exactly the opposite.
Here’s the sig line I use whenever I have a place for it:
“McCarthyism – the correct identification of known Soviet agents operating at the highest levels of the US government.”
If you really want someone in history who correctly should have been a failure and disgrace, look up Walter Duranty, who worked for…you guessed it…the New York Times. He even won a Pulitzer for his reporting on the wonders of Soviet collectivization even while he was tripping over the bodies of 40,000,000 dead.
Agreed John.
McCarthy was only interested in communist IN the government. I always thought he had a point…
John and Wilson are both correct. The left has (successfully) misled the country about McCarthy for so many years that most of us are totally in the dark about him and his activities. I recently read a book where there was a remark about “Senator McCarthy’s House Un-American Activities Committee” — obviously no fact-checker had been involved to point out the dichotomy in that statement. But (for example) Sean Penn can rail about how his “father was a victim of McCarthy” and the press eats it up, instead of pointing out that McCarthy didn’t give a rat’s hindquarters about what was going on in Hollywood — it was HUAC, which was totally independent of McCarthy.
By all means, read Coulter!
Maynard, dittos to what John, Wilson, Bigdana have said. McCarthy has been proven to be correct, even if some of his methods might have been less than correct. And look at Hollywood now. It’s MUCH worse, politically and morally. As I’ve lamented before, Hollywood-past had many actors and actresses that were far less than “saints” by anyone’s definition, but they exhibited high degrees of “class”, however you want to define “class”. Sadly, not so today. I don’t know of anyone in the current “young” Hollywood scene today that could be accused of exhibiting any kind of “class”. Bed-hopping, marriage-hopping leftists for the majority of them. It’s sad that there are few exceptions to that. I clearly remember Charlie Daniels’ letter to those in the entertainment industry about 2 or so years ago. He really chewed them out for their “me-ism” rants against, well, just about everything conservatives value. He accused them of being a bunch of spoiled brats living in their own fantasy world. I think his letter is still in his website’s archives. It’s well worth a search. No, McCarthy has been shown to not be the “scourge” he was made out to be. We just didn’t realize it at the time. Thankfully, time and wisdom on our part has shown us the truth.
I can’t blame Maynard – all the bad written and spoken abou McCarthy was done by his enemies – so effectively that much of it is accepted as truth. That’s what happens when you make enemies with the Left – the halls of academia, the NY Times and any Hollywood hack will go to hell and back to smear and ruin you.
As the Venona Papers showed, McCarthy was RIGHT – he just made too many enemies in the process.
Actually, there is an old thread here (when Tammy first started the blog) on the topic but I have no idea where to look.
From my days working for the Tory Party in the last few moments of John Major’s government:
“What I wouldn’t give to smoke a good fag.”
“Damn, you Brits are pretty hard-core. In America we’d call that a hate crime.”
As Churchill said, separated by a common language. 😉
Yes, John Schneider. Robert Zwicker, WWII Veteran of the US Army, was a communist spy.
What made McCarthy a disgrace was that he went after the US Army. That is when Eisenhower Republicans started to turn on him.
But, hey, lets not let history get in the way of Ann Creationist Coulter.
Anyway, I agree with the original post.
Sorry Neal, but you don’t have a clue as to what you’re talking about. The only disgrace was when the Republicans spurned McCarthy in order to gain favor with the Edward R Murrow’s of the world.
Maybe you never heard of Annie Lee Moss, who worked for the Army in the code room at the Pentagon – and was definately a Soviet agent.
I also notice you had to get in a typical leftist shot at Ann Coulter. Are you even capable of thinking for yourself?
Neal, it wasn’t that the Democrats didn’t know there were communist in our government, it was they didn’t CARE.
And it damn sure never started when McCarthy named those in the army. I guess you are implying it was Chambers the left embraced, not Hiss. Good grief.
This is funny. I didn’t even object to the basic arguments of McCarthy – that is, the existence of communist spies in government. (especially in state department) Neither did I defend the left-wing obsession and self-victimization about McCarthy. (its called reading wilson, try it) I merely said that he went too far. What can I say? He was an authoritarian personality. Next thing you know you will be defending the John Birch Society, a decidedly anti-semitic organization. (Anything to fight Commies!)
‘Leftist’ is an interesting one.
I have made two posts on this site. The first was against the consensus that American Corporations were enslaving Mexicans (this would be the Hugo Chavez line, I would guess). When defending American businesses becomes the left-wing thing to do, than I have no idea where the right-wing is, and I wouldn’t want to be part of it anyway.
As far as Ann Coulter is concerned, look the woman is a creationist. Read her book – that is her position. So if you regard creationism as a smear, as I certainly do, than take it up with Ann. If you think the tenets of ‘creationism’ constitute a respectable worldview, which might be true in your case, than at least have the courage to wear it openly. In other words, do not take a position and then object to people calling your position by its name. There is a word for that sort of behavior. Its called cowardice.
P.S…. Do you accuse everyone who disagrees with you as “not thinking for themselves”? That is brilliant piece of irony, all right. Either agree with me, otherwise you wont be thinking for yourself!
Interesting how “McCarthyism” takes the hit, while the exsistence of actual Communists in our government, such as Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, and the treasonous Rosenbergs, which spawned “McCarthyism,” is rarely acknowledged.
Remember, the Left is in complete denial that there were any Communist infiltrators at the highest level of our government, to the extent that Harry Truman, in March of 1948, issued a directive to all governmental employees that they were not to cooperate with Congressional hearings investigating the existence of Communist infiltrators in our midst. This, even after Alger Hiss duped Roosevelt into bending over for Joseph Stalin’s porking at Yalta.
I say thank God there was a Joseph McCarthy. He set the American Marxist Party timetable back at least two decades before they finally succeeded in hi-jacking our courts, our schools and universities, and the news and entertainment industries which now control our lives.
Who represented the bigger threat to America, McCarthy or Stalin? This was supposed to be a difficult choice?