{"id":149,"date":"2012-07-11T22:39:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T02:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/?p=149"},"modified":"2012-07-11T16:40:34","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T20:40:34","slug":"self-discredited-mccarthy-witness-pawn-in-internet-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Self-Discredited McCarthy Witness Pawn In Internet Battle!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mr. Matusow Meets The Market\u00c2\u00a0\"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

Harvey Matusow was a crucial witness in the McCarran Committee persecution of Owen Lattimore, reinforcing the tattered testimony of Louis Budenz.<\/p>\n

Matusow’s dead, but in the long tail\/netherworld of the Internet he apparently has value. Somehow his confessional False Witnes<\/em>s finds a market, if you pay the author and publisher nothing.<\/p>\n

Budenz’s claims of a seamless web between Lattimore’s writings and the Communist line had suffered from actual reading of what Lattimore wrote, and \u00c2\u00a0of what the Budenz edited Daily Worker said about Lattimore.<\/p>\n

\"\" Matusow providentially appeared\u00c2\u00a0to tie Lattimore to the Reds. \u00c2\u00a0After first inventing Communist subversion of the Boy Scouts, Matusow built from his experience running a Communist book store to claim he sold Lattimore’s Solution In Asia<\/a>, <\/em>and that it represented the party line.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00c2\u00a0Saluting Solution<\/em> – see the title on the blackboard partly obscured by bow-tie daddy.<\/p>\n

Later Matusow admitted he’d invented this story\"\"\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0and many others as he climbed to the heights of the former party-member-tells-all business.<\/p>\n

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Matusow recanting<\/a> has done nothing to deter right-wing cranks replicating his old lies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Somehow this long lost witness lives on in the Internet, with the text of his tell-all “False Witness” available in a vast array of formats. You can buy a musty old copy for $3.97<\/a>, \u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0free online reading and downloads are available at the Hathi Trust Digital Library<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and archive.org<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0After that it gets more complicated. Two outfits sell text files of the book to read or download, and one will even print you a copy of the text, allowing you to simulate the Internet experience of no index and weird scanning generated typos:<\/p>\n

“\u00c2\u00a0a feeling of guilt\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of how or when could this ever stop. However, I soon got down to rock bottom, a 29 point which made it easy for me to justify my reporting on my former friends<\/a>.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Goodreads.com<\/a> is the physical\u00c2\u00a0book seller, and also markets ads against online texts and any reader generated commentary, so start \u00c2\u00a0scribbling for the greater glory.<\/p>\n

Onread.com<\/a> is a bit murkier. \u00c2\u00a0They have malware spreading accusations in their past, although Norton<\/a> and McAfee<\/a> find them currently clean.<\/p>\n

Others aren’t so sure:<\/p>\n

“Russian terms of service. Protected by a Chinese domain that is registered from FranceBoth . “Book” downloads that come with an .exe extension that install and direct you to another website.\u00c2\u00a0I may be just a tiny bit jaded, but somehow I think this might not be entirely legitimate…<\/a>“<\/em><\/p>\n

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    Mr. Matusow Meets The Market\u00c2\u00a0 Harvey Matusow was a crucial witness in the McCarran Committee persecution of Owen Lattimore, reinforcing the tattered testimony of Louis Budenz. Matusow’s dead, but in the long tail\/netherworld of the Internet he apparently has value. Somehow his confessional False Witness finds a market, if you pay the author […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,8,9,7,3,27,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asian-history","category-china","category-communism","category-joseph-mccarthy","category-owen-lattimore","category-pat-mccarran","category-red-scare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}