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To: jlallen who wrote (27151)	9/8/2003 1:58:44 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

She DOES make him out a hero: on MSNBC, Coulter wildly defended Senator Joseph McCarthy as "a misunderstood American hero whose sacrifices preserved America's sovereignty for thirty-plus years." You may believe McCarthy is a hero who was wrongly maligned by the left but it was the GOP and President Dwight D. Eisenhower who brought him down. The harridan lies about that when she castigates the left for ruining her and your beloved monster, McCarthy. It was a group effort from the left and right to take down someone who threw out the Constitution to serve his purpose. "Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957) was a US Senator in the from 1946 until 1954, known for his prosecution of suspected Communists in high government circles. He publicly charged that there were some 205 Communists working in the State Department, but he had no proof of that any of them were actually card-carrying members of any Communist Party. However, in his wake he manipulated the public's fear of Communism into a red scare, and destroyed countless reputations and careers. When he finally embarked on the sensational trials of high ranking army officials, the government and the people finally had had enough. McCarthy was publicly condemned by President Eisenhower, and faded into obscurity thereafter. dingwall.bc.ca From another article re coulter's untenable position: Aside from Hitler or Manson or Nixon or Liberace, the very name McCarthy, attached as it is to a period of madness called McCarthyism, is notable for its enviable shock quotient. A monument to hate bating and paranoia run amok, McCarthy's legacy is nothing if not noteworthy. He was a tremendous brute of his times, clinically insane and furiously malevolent, a true celebrity monster. But apparently in Coulter's luminous tome we relearn that McCarthy's savagely clumsy attack on basic democratic liberties was "bravery" and that "The myth of 'McCarthyism' is the greatest Orwellian fraud of our times." Coulter is the fraud.