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Liberals, take immediate cover. Ann Coulter is back, and you should be frightened. This book is a master stroke by a very gutsy woman. In Treason, Coulter unleashes her trademark rhetoric to prove that 20th century liberals have consistently taken the side of America's mortal enemies, from "Uncle Joe" Stalin to "agrarian reformer" Mao to "humanitarian schoolbuilder" Osama bin Laden. Coulter begins with a detailed analysis of the celebrated cases of Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs. The centerpiece of the book is the "Great Satan" himself, Senator Joe McCarthy. Were it not for McCarthy, liberals would have little to talk about except raising taxes. "McCarthyism" has become the knee-jerk liberal answer to everything. Yet, as Coulter proves, Hubert Humphrey was exactly right when he said in a moment of candor that "McCarthy's real threat to American democracy was the fact that he immobilized the liberal movement." While remaining a central dogma of the Left, the evils of McCarthyism are fictional. How many people shudder at the memory of McCarthy brow-beating innocent witnesses in hearings before the House Un-American Activities Committee? It never happened; McCarthy never served in the House, and those hearings took place two years before McCarthy launched his crusade. Seventeen months after McCarthy gave his kick-off speech in West Virginia, Bobby Kennedy asked him to be the godfather of his child. In the very year of McCarthy's censure, John F. Kennedy vigorously defended him at Red Ground Zero: Cambridge, Mass. Who now remembers that McCarthy supported civil rights for blacks and employed a strikingly diverse staff? That sanctimonious liberals relentlessly gay-baited him and his staff? And who would guess that his most bitter segregationist opponent, J. William Fulbright, once remarked that he couldn't help liking "the SOB." So did the 30,000 Americans who paid their respects at his funeral. McCarthy understood that our government was honeycombed with spies. FDR and Dean Acheson employed and defended them. The Left had to destroy McCarthy because he was right. Coulter's book continues her exposé of the Left through the late 20th century. Reagan and the fall of communism? You know the script: First he was wrong because the communists couldn't be beaten, then it was the communists who really wanted peace, and then when Reagan defeated them, it was no big deal because the regime was coming apart anyway! You can't win with liberals if you're anti-communist. Coulter has plenty more to say about the worldview of the Left. Like the communist apologias of the mid-20th century, recent liberal positions have the same ultimate goal: an attack on American civilization. (Crown Forum, 2003, 355 pages, $26.95) |
No thinking reader will be left in any doubt as to the guilt of these darlings of the Left. Only a committed Communist will fail to be shocked at the tactics used by the Left to try to destroy Richard Nixon, J. Edgar Hoover and Whittaker Chambers for the capital crime of telling the truth.
