Wow. I hardly thought that I could hate Ann Coulter more than I already do, but this is amazing:
As noted here previously, George Clooney's movie "Good Night, and Good Luck," about pious parson Edward R. Murrow and Sen. Joseph McCarthy, failed to produce one person unjustly accused by McCarthy. Since I described McCarthy as a great American patriot defamed by liberals in my 2003 book, "Treason," liberals have had two more years to produce a person - just one person - falsely accused by McCarthy. They still can't do it. Meanwhile, I can prove that Murrow's good friend Lawrence Duggan was a Soviet spy responsible for having innocent people murdered. The brilliant and perceptive journalist Murrow was not only unaware of the hundreds of Soviet spies running loose in the U.S. government, he was also unaware that his own dear friend Duggan was a Soviet spy - his friend on whose behalf corpses littered the Swiss landscape.
She goes on to use Duggan's suicide as indisputable evidence of his involvement with the Communist party.
Contrary to the image of the Black Night of Fascism (BNOF) under McCarthy leading to mass suicide with bodies constantly falling on the heads of pedestrians in Manhattan, Duggan was the only suicide. After being questioned by the FBI, Duggan leapt from a window. Of course, given the people he was doing business with, he may have been pushed.
McCarthyism didn't kill him, says Coulter, his guilt did. Coulter proves nothing about Duggan, despite her claims of Duggan passing important documents, some being so important, "they were sent directly to Stalin and Molotov," which is highly unlikely.
The she resorts to her usual namecalling, referring to Duggan as "the kind of disloyal, two-faced, back-stabbing weasel you rarely see outside of the entertainment industry."
Then, she totally loses it:
At the exact same time as these crybabies were wailing about McCarthyism, there was much worse going on in the parts of the world so admired by the Hollywood left. It's not as if we have to go back to the Peloponnesian War to find greater suffering than that of Hollywood drama queens during the BNOF under McCarthyism. I believe anyone would find it preferable to have been a "target" of McCarthy in the '50s than to have been an ordinary citizen living in the Soviet Union, Hungary, Poland, the Ukraine or any nation infected by the Red Plague.
Actor's lives were hardly what was at stake here. The persecution of Hollywood in the 1950's echoes the persecution of the American press during most of the Bush administration (the most obvious casualty being Valerie Plame).
Coulter's boorish hyperbole-laden argument doesn't hold water, which is no big surprise. But, am I crazy, or is she suggesting that McCarthyism was good for the nation?
Lastly, why is no major news organization challenging her on this point?
This I find deeply disturbing.
-ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN A SECOND-RATE FILMMAKER? [anncoulter.com]
