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To: TigerPaw who wrote (272)	6/26/2003 1:56:51 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 718

ROFL!

To: TigerPaw who wrote (272)	7/1/2003 10:53:56 AM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 718

I watched Ann Coulter on Hannity & Colmes recently. As usual, she spoke with supreme confidence. She started throwing out the Venona garbage, stating that Hiss, etc. were spies. She spoke as confidently as if she were saying the sky is blue. I remember Cobalt Blue saying the same on SI (Cobalt has a lot of Coulter in her), so I decided to do some research. Not surprisingly, Coulter turns out to be lying again. Molly Ivins sums it up: "The other curious thing about the Hiss case is the psychology of believing that Hiss was a spy, which requires abandoning much of what we know about rational thought." One example of such irrationallity:: <<< The logical leaps necessary to substantiate Breindel's argument are hardly more reassuring. Since, as Breindel insists, Hiss remained a spy through 1945, it is "no wonder Soviet diplomat Andrei Gromyko - in a rare manifestation of postwar Soviet-American cooperation - told his U.S. counterparts in the summer of 1945 that Moscow wouldn't object to the appointment of Mr. Hiss as secretary-general of the U.N.'s founding conference." I get it. The Soviets have this incredibly useful top-level spy passing them valued military information and decide, just for the fun of it, to put a red light on his head by publicly anointing him as the only Soviet-approved U.S. official in the diplomatic corps. This last argument, repeated in both The New Republic and The Wall Street Journal, is sloppy even by Murdochian standards. >>> :-) homepages.nyu.edu This website is an amazing resource on the topic of alleged Communist spying: homepages.nyu.edu Tom