{"id":387,"date":"2013-01-25T17:14:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T22:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/?p=387"},"modified":"2013-01-25T17:14:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T22:14:39","slug":"western-affront-why-wont-the-liberals-fess-up-to-their-spyin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"Western Affront: Why Won’t The Liberals Fess Up To Their Spyin’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Western Imagination \u00c2\u00a0\"spycases\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

Diana West supplies this week’s “McCarthy Was Right” entry, with a spirited version of a beloved old chestnut:<\/p>\n

new evidence proves Lattimore was guilty of something all along!<\/p>\n

West has a book review\/interview with our old pal Stanton Evans<\/a>, who paired with the tireless\u00c2\u00a0Herbert Romerstein recycled his Blacklisted By History<\/em> <\/a>McCarthy apologia into an exciting new package: \u00c2\u00a0Stalin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Government<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The usual lies have been assembled, especially our favorite, that Owen Lattimore caused Pearl Harbor:<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Thus did the policies promoted in official U.S. circles by [Harry Dexter] White, [Lauchlin] Currie, and [Owen] Lattimore dovetail with those advanced by the [Richard] Sorge-[Hotsumi] Ozaki network in Japan \u00e2\u20ac\u201c all converging toward the result that there would be no American-Japanese rapprochement and, even more to the point, no Japanese attack on Russia.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Owen did it by sending FDR a memo, single-handedly causing the wily plutocrat to drop talks with Japan and drift into war.<\/p>\n

This sort of stuff used to be left to the openly crazed<\/a>, but you work with what you have.<\/p>\n

Especially fun is West and Evans bemoaning their inability to move the public with spy tales:<\/p>\n

“Evans mimics the usual reaction to the specter of historical Communist penetration: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 `Well, this thing was overblown, there wasn’t a big problem, these people were persecuted.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 The new evidence, he continues, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153challenges this so they dismiss it. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re dealing with an establishment mindset that is impervious to refutation \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to fact. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like throwing popcorn at a battleship.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d”<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0Which particular rocks these two live under is unclear, but even liberal fever wet dream The West Wing<\/em> covered this territory. Who can forget the \u00c2\u00a0sprightly episode where “Sam” [pretty boy Rob Lowe] is devastated to learn that a dead accused liberal commie spy was GUILTY!<\/p>\n

There, he said it!<\/p>\n

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