Originally posted by john9001
sakai, the russians tell us now that McCarthy was right, they say they had spies everywhere, did you know that FDR's first VP was a commi? you do know how russia got the plans for the a-bomb don't you?
That's not really accurate and yes I know something about history and politics, it being one of my main areas of college study.
Read what was posted:
The FBI identified the vast majority of the Communist spy rings unearthed prior to Mccarthy's little stunt and sideshow.
The unveiling of the KGB files identified several actual spies nailed by the FBI, most famously the Rosenbergs as I recall.
There were several people Mccarthy slandered that had never been identified in those files you are touting, and Conason names those.
The other problem with Coulter's poorly researched premise, and the way these things get re-reported on line as "fact" as evidenced here is really the issue, was how McCarthy was actually duped by one of those identified in the KGB files as in fact a Soviet agent to get Joachim Peiper acquitted for Malmedy.
So TG Joe, Coulter's hero, was used by a commie spy to get an actual enemy accused of war crimes, of the US off the hook. Coulter dropped that little piece from her research.
I know no one here is foolish enough to excuse a lunatic like Coulter, but when people repeat these falsehoods as "facts" it takes away from how tarnished her reputation is and how sophmoric and inaccurate her entire premise is.
You need to not associate commie spy with people who ever attended a Communist anything. Those are two different notions and in the US at the time of FDR's actions there was a huge anarcho socialist movement. Most of those folks were patriotic Americans who were sick of starving mate.
Conason's disembowling of Coulter has never been overturned except with clipped bloggers who say they know more than you do.
Facts is facts. The point was Coulter's inaccurate statements and folks parroting those as accurate.
No, she was dead wrong and remains dead wrong. She is a liar, a dolt and a coward--not anyone I would cite or support if I wanted to lend credibility to a debate.
Sakai
