THE WEBLOG OF KEVIN C. MURPHY: CONJURING POLITICAL, CINEMATIC, AND CULTURAL ARCANA SINCE 1999

Hey, Dubya, I've found a "revisionist historian" for ya...

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You must be joking. She's been nutty for years, of course, but now Ann Coulter has really lost it. According to excerpts of her new bile-filled book on Drudge, Coulter has now taken to defending McCarthyism. According to Coulter, the "myth of 'McCarthyism' is the greatest Orwellian fraud of our times...Liberals are fanatical liars, then as now. Everything you think you know about McCarthy is a hegemonic lie...Liberals denounced McCarthy because they were afraid of getting caught, so they fought back like animals." Wow. It's pointless to even waste time on this book, I know. Still, this is ignorant on so many levels. Were Eisenhower, the Army, and the Senate all "liberals"? My advice to anyone out there interested in McCarthyism: consult a real historian on the subject. You'll find that, contrary to Coulter's swill, McCarthy had enemies - and supporters - on both sides of the ideological spectrum. If the conservative press wants to maintain any credibility at all, they're going to have to renounce this garbage and soon, 'cause this is just off the deep end.

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