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I Dare Call It Treason
June 25, 2003
THE MYTH OF "McCarthyism" is the greatest Orwellian fraud of our times.
Liberals are fanatical liars, then as now. The portrayal of Sen. Joe
McCarthy as a wild-eyed demagogue destroying innocent lives is sheer
liberal hobgoblinism. Liberals weren't hiding under the bed during the
McCarthy era. They were systematically undermining the nation's ability to
defend itself, while waging a bellicose campaign of lies to blacken
McCarthy's name. Liberals denounced McCarthy because they were afraid of
getting caught, so they fought back like animals to hide their own
collaboration with a regime as evil as the Nazis. As Whittaker Chambers
said: "Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does."
At the time, half the country realized liberals were lying. But after a
half century of liberal myth-making, even the disgorging of Soviet and
American archives half a century later could not overcome their lies. In
1995, the U.S. government released its cache of Soviet cables that had
been decoded during the Cold War in a top-secret undertaking known as the
Venona Project. The cables proved the overwhelming truth of McCarthy's
charges. Naturally, therefore, the release of decrypted Soviet cables was
barely mentioned by the New York Times. It might have detracted from
stories of proud and unbowed victims of "McCarthyism." They were not so
innocent after all, it turns out.
Soviet spies in the government were not a figment of right-wing
imaginations. McCarthy was not tilting at windmills. He was
tilting at an authentic communist conspiracy that had been
laughed off by the Democratic Party. The Democrats had
unpardonably connived with the greatest evil of the 20th century.
This could not be nullified. But liberals could at least hope to
redeem the Democratic Party by dedicating themselves to
rewriting history and blackening reputations. This is what
liberals had done repeatedly throughout the Cold War. At every
strategic moment this century, liberals would wage a campaign
of horrendous lies and disinformation simply to dull the
discovery the American people had made. They had gotten
good at it.
There were, admittedly, a few rare and striking exceptions to the
left's overall obtuseness to communist totalitarianism. John F.
Kennedy's pronouncements on communism could have been
spoken by Joe McCarthy. For all his flaws, Truman
unquestionably loved his country. He was a completely different
breed from today's Democrats. Through the years, there were
various epiphanic moments creating yet more anti-communist
Democrats. The Stalin-Hitler pact, Alger Hiss' prothonotary
warbler, information about the purges and Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago" - all these had their
effect.
But after World War II, the Democratic Party suffered a form of
what France had succumbed to after World War I. The entire
party had lost its nerve for sacrifice, heroism and bravery.
Beginning in the '50s, there was a real battle for the soul of the
Democratic Party. By the late '60s, the battle was over. The
anti-communist Democrats had lost.
In 1972, George McGovern, darling of left-wing radicals, was the
Democratic presidential candidate. Tom Hayden, leader of
Students for a Democratic Society and an instigator of the
Chicago riots, became a Democratic state senator in California.
(In 1968, Staughton Lynd wrote of Tom Hayden: "On Monday,
Wednesday and Friday he was a National Liberation Front
guerilla, and on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, he ... was on
the left wing of the Democratic Party.") Black Panther Bobby
Rush would go on to become a Democratic congressman. Todd
Gitlin, a former president of SDS, would soon be a frequent op-ed
columnist for the New York Times. By the time of the 1991 Gulf War, only
10 Senate Democrats voted with President Bush to use troops against Saddam
Hussein. If the old Democratic Party was merely obtuse, the new Democratic
Party was a beachhead of domestic anti-Americanism. This was the new
Democratic Party.
Clinton was the left's last best hope for proving they could too handle
the presidency. Having tricked the American people into entrusting a
Democrat with the White House (on a plurality vote), they had to defend
him from any lie, any felony, any reprehensible, contemptible conduct he
threw their way. When Clinton first showed his fat oleaginous mug to the
nation, the Republicans screamed he was a draft-dodging, pot-smoking
flim-flam artist. Had the Republicans turned out to be right again, it
would have sounded the death knell for the Democratic Party.
So the Democrats lied. Through their infernal politics of personal
destruction, liberals stayed in the game for a few more years.
Unless we fight for proper treatment of history and counter the nonsense
images of McCarthy, no history can be safe from the liberal noise machine.
Someday, school children will be taught that all of America cringed with
terror at Ken Starr, whose evil designs on the nation were frustrated only
through the sacrifice of brave liberals. People will have vivid images of
the pounding boots of Starr's subpoena-servers and the Gestapo-like wails
of alarms as Ken Starr arrived to kick in the doors of innocent Americans
and storm through their bedrooms. It will be the Reign of Terror under Ken
Starr.
Bill Clinton will be revered in high school history books as the George
Washington of his day who, along with patriots Larry Flynt and James
Carville, "saved the Constitution." He will be honored with a memorial
larger than the Washington Monument (though probably with the same general
design).
People will believe that. And liberals will continue unabashedly invoking
a lie in order to shield their ongoing traitorous behavior.
I Dare Call It Treason
June 25, 2003
THE MYTH OF "McCarthyism" is the greatest Orwellian fraud of our times.
Liberals are fanatical liars, then as now. The portrayal of Sen. Joe
McCarthy as a wild-eyed demagogue destroying innocent lives is sheer
liberal hobgoblinism. Liberals weren't hiding under the bed during the
McCarthy era. They were systematically undermining the nation's ability to
defend itself, while waging a bellicose campaign of lies to blacken
McCarthy's name. Liberals denounced McCarthy because they were afraid of
getting caught, so they fought back like animals to hide their own
collaboration with a regime as evil as the Nazis. As Whittaker Chambers
said: "Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does."
At the time, half the country realized liberals were lying. But after a
half century of liberal myth-making, even the disgorging of Soviet and
American archives half a century later could not overcome their lies. In
1995, the U.S. government released its cache of Soviet cables that had
been decoded during the Cold War in a top-secret undertaking known as the
Venona Project. The cables proved the overwhelming truth of McCarthy's
charges. Naturally, therefore, the release of decrypted Soviet cables was
barely mentioned by the New York Times. It might have detracted from
stories of proud and unbowed victims of "McCarthyism." They were not so
innocent after all, it turns out.
Soviet spies in the government were not a figment of right-wing
imaginations. McCarthy was not tilting at windmills. He was
tilting at an authentic communist conspiracy that had been
laughed off by the Democratic Party. The Democrats had
unpardonably connived with the greatest evil of the 20th century.
This could not be nullified. But liberals could at least hope to
redeem the Democratic Party by dedicating themselves to
rewriting history and blackening reputations. This is what
liberals had done repeatedly throughout the Cold War. At every
strategic moment this century, liberals would wage a campaign
of horrendous lies and disinformation simply to dull the
discovery the American people had made. They had gotten
good at it.
There were, admittedly, a few rare and striking exceptions to the
left's overall obtuseness to communist totalitarianism. John F.
Kennedy's pronouncements on communism could have been
spoken by Joe McCarthy. For all his flaws, Truman
unquestionably loved his country. He was a completely different
breed from today's Democrats. Through the years, there were
various epiphanic moments creating yet more anti-communist
Democrats. The Stalin-Hitler pact, Alger Hiss' prothonotary
warbler, information about the purges and Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago" - all these had their
effect.
But after World War II, the Democratic Party suffered a form of
what France had succumbed to after World War I. The entire
party had lost its nerve for sacrifice, heroism and bravery.
Beginning in the '50s, there was a real battle for the soul of the
Democratic Party. By the late '60s, the battle was over. The
anti-communist Democrats had lost.
In 1972, George McGovern, darling of left-wing radicals, was the
Democratic presidential candidate. Tom Hayden, leader of
Students for a Democratic Society and an instigator of the
Chicago riots, became a Democratic state senator in California.
(In 1968, Staughton Lynd wrote of Tom Hayden: "On Monday,
Wednesday and Friday he was a National Liberation Front
guerilla, and on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, he ... was on
the left wing of the Democratic Party.") Black Panther Bobby
Rush would go on to become a Democratic congressman. Todd
Gitlin, a former president of SDS, would soon be a frequent op-ed
columnist for the New York Times. By the time of the 1991 Gulf War, only
10 Senate Democrats voted with President Bush to use troops against Saddam
Hussein. If the old Democratic Party was merely obtuse, the new Democratic
Party was a beachhead of domestic anti-Americanism. This was the new
Democratic Party.
Clinton was the left's last best hope for proving they could too handle
the presidency. Having tricked the American people into entrusting a
Democrat with the White House (on a plurality vote), they had to defend
him from any lie, any felony, any reprehensible, contemptible conduct he
threw their way. When Clinton first showed his fat oleaginous mug to the
nation, the Republicans screamed he was a draft-dodging, pot-smoking
flim-flam artist. Had the Republicans turned out to be right again, it
would have sounded the death knell for the Democratic Party.
So the Democrats lied. Through their infernal politics of personal
destruction, liberals stayed in the game for a few more years.
Unless we fight for proper treatment of history and counter the nonsense
images of McCarthy, no history can be safe from the liberal noise machine.
Someday, school children will be taught that all of America cringed with
terror at Ken Starr, whose evil designs on the nation were frustrated only
through the sacrifice of brave liberals. People will have vivid images of
the pounding boots of Starr's subpoena-servers and the Gestapo-like wails
of alarms as Ken Starr arrived to kick in the doors of innocent Americans
and storm through their bedrooms. It will be the Reign of Terror under Ken
Starr.
Bill Clinton will be revered in high school history books as the George
Washington of his day who, along with patriots Larry Flynt and James
Carville, "saved the Constitution." He will be honored with a memorial
larger than the Washington Monument (though probably with the same general
design).
People will believe that. And liberals will continue unabashedly invoking
a lie in order to shield their ongoing traitorous behavior.