{"id":429,"date":"2014-01-25T21:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T02:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/?p=429"},"modified":"2014-01-25T21:00:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T02:00:06","slug":"making-mccarthys-numbers-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"Making McCarthy’s Numbers Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00c2\u00a0Or,\u00c2\u00a0Liars Can Figure<\/strong><\/p>\n

Defense of the West \"westcover\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last McCarthyite Standing Stan Evans has come forth with yet another defense of good old Joe, in the guise of defending fellow McCarthy-Was-Rightist Diana West.<\/p>\n

West is apparently under attack, attacks both “brutal and unseemly<\/a>” as well as “orchestrated<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Evans teases us with numerology, promising “McCarthy By The Numbers<\/a>,” but other than a 50 suspect list there is scant use of figures to prove or even assert anything. Instead we get the usual eclectic mix of spying accusations proven and imagined, with occasional references to West in order to sustain a “theme.”<\/p>\n

McCarthy’s Fab Fifty<\/strong> \"evansmccarthylist\"<\/p>\n

Our man Owen Lattimore makes the list, although that doesn’t even tell us what Evans thinks he did. Sitting among the Fifty really is guilt by association.<\/p>\n

Evans vaguely says that all these people were outed as Reds, proven by either “sworn testimony, or in FBI and other once-confidential official security records” [such faith in the accuracy of the Bureau’s wool gathering is kind of sweet after all these years!] or that they pled the Fifth, making them spies by the power of I said so.<\/p>\n

Lattimore is side swiped here:<\/p>\n

“McCarthy and his staffers in the usual instance did not allege that his suspects were Communists or Soviet agents–though in some famous cases (Owen Lattimore, Annie Lee Moss) this did happen–for the simple reason that the probers didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t then know the total story.<\/em><\/a>”<\/p>\n

…so he was an agent? Who knows, our numbers man has already moved on.<\/p>\n

West and Evans have professed their chaste love previously, in a West review of Evans’ last tome enlivened by their mutual pretense<\/a> of lonely struggle against the odds to prove that spies happened.<\/p>\n

For the real self drama you need to skip past Evans and Google up some West-ern legends and lore. West World is filled with epic<\/a> self dramatization<\/a> and self-pity<\/a> over mean things said about her work, including, shockingly<\/a>, by ostensible conservatives troubled by her crack pottery.<\/p>\n

But nothing can hold back her urge to monetize<\/a>. \"Untitled\"<\/p>\n

When David Horowitz says your McCarthy charges are a crock, you are out there<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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