The Rebuttal: Defending 'American Betrayal' From the Book-Burners by Diana West
Authors: Diana West
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openness of historical inquiry. These weighty matters
and the principles they entail spurred these writers to take their stands, and
thank goodness. “The media,” including conservative media, failed to respond or
even address any of these vital issues. When on September 4, in a brutal excess
of “political correctness,” my Team B II colleague Clare M. Lopez was fired
– fired -- by the Gatestone Institute for favorably mentioning my book in
an essay, this same unbroken silence became a new danger to free expression and
inquiry.
Then again, it may well be
that the silence lingers because so many are unaware of what went on in the
shank of the summer of ’13. All the more reason to draw attention to the voices
of vigilance below. May they encourage new and freewheeling debate.
Diana West
October 2013
My Say: On the Matter of Diana West Vs. Frontpage
By Ruth King
Ruthfully Yours
August
8th, 2013
First: Diana West is my friend. I admire her, respect her
and trust her research.
I
read her book “American Betrayal” carefully. I came to her book with a serious
difference with her over Senator Joseph McCarthy who was Senator while I was
experiencing a political growing up at Bronx High School of Science where
supporting the candidacy of General Eisenhower was heresy, to say nothing about
the “sainthood and martyrdom” of the Rosenbergs.
Like
George Orwell, McCarthy’s name altered the dictionary…and “McCarthyism” became
synonymous with punishment and harassment of dissent…..I went along with this until
I read “Witness” by Whittaker Chambers; until I realized that the Communist
hunter James Jesus Angleton (a C.I.A. counterintelligence agent and one of the
men who helped found the Mossad in 1951) was right about a Russian/Communist
mole in the C.I.A. even though he was called a “crackpot conspiracist”; until
the revelations that J. Robert Oppenheimer, the head of the Manhattan Project
may have been a Soviet agent (the Alsop brothers hysterically compared the
investigation of Oppenheimer to the Dreyfus affair); until I read Diana’s book.
Maybe….just maybe…Joseph McCarthy, not the most attractive or likeable
messenger was on to something really big. “American Betrayal” is persuasive, informative,
meticulously researched and documented and convincing.
Now,
many may disagree. David “Spengler” Goldman, a friend whom I like and respect
agrees with Ron Radosh. So does a dear friend of mine who has courageously
exposed the radical agenda of the climateers and so called environmentalists,
so does Jamie Glazov, another person whom I like and respect, so do many
others, and Frontpage had every right to publish Radosh’s nasty review.
But,
and this is the serious butt of the scandal…Frontpage should not have removed
Mark Tapson’s good review and then as a conciliatory crumb offered Diana the chance
to rebut Radosh. I don’t blame her for refusing and all the squirming and
offensive name calling and apologetics at the site don’t excuse their craven
decision to remove Mark Tapson’s review which they had accepted and posted.
In
good time and in a venue of her choosing Diana west will reply, I can’t wait to
read and post it.
# # #
David Horowitz and Ron Radosh Attack Diana West and American
Betrayal
By
Donald Douglas
American Power Blog
August
9, 2013
Folks will remember I
attended the Diana West book signing last month. It was a lively event and I was excited
to meet Diana.
At the time I'd read a couple of chapters of the
book .
I'm frankly not well read in the historiography of Communist Party infiltration
of the U.S. government, although from my own training I thought
that some of Diana's conclusions were quite broad, especially on WWII strategic
issues and the origins of the Cold War in Europe. Indeed, I mentioned to Diana
that I thought her book was very "bold" and that I'd be interested to
see the reactions among academic
and the principles they entail spurred these writers to take their stands, and
thank goodness. “The media,” including conservative media, failed to respond or
even address any of these vital issues. When on September 4, in a brutal excess
of “political correctness,” my Team B II colleague Clare M. Lopez was fired
– fired -- by the Gatestone Institute for favorably mentioning my book in
an essay, this same unbroken silence became a new danger to free expression and
inquiry.
Then again, it may well be
that the silence lingers because so many are unaware of what went on in the
shank of the summer of ’13. All the more reason to draw attention to the voices
of vigilance below. May they encourage new and freewheeling debate.
Diana West
October 2013
My Say: On the Matter of Diana West Vs. Frontpage
By Ruth King
Ruthfully Yours
August
8th, 2013
First: Diana West is my friend. I admire her, respect her
and trust her research.
I
read her book “American Betrayal” carefully. I came to her book with a serious
difference with her over Senator Joseph McCarthy who was Senator while I was
experiencing a political growing up at Bronx High School of Science where
supporting the candidacy of General Eisenhower was heresy, to say nothing about
the “sainthood and martyrdom” of the Rosenbergs.
Like
George Orwell, McCarthy’s name altered the dictionary…and “McCarthyism” became
synonymous with punishment and harassment of dissent…..I went along with this until
I read “Witness” by Whittaker Chambers; until I realized that the Communist
hunter James Jesus Angleton (a C.I.A. counterintelligence agent and one of the
men who helped found the Mossad in 1951) was right about a Russian/Communist
mole in the C.I.A. even though he was called a “crackpot conspiracist”; until
the revelations that J. Robert Oppenheimer, the head of the Manhattan Project
may have been a Soviet agent (the Alsop brothers hysterically compared the
investigation of Oppenheimer to the Dreyfus affair); until I read Diana’s book.
Maybe….just maybe…Joseph McCarthy, not the most attractive or likeable
messenger was on to something really big. “American Betrayal” is persuasive, informative,
meticulously researched and documented and convincing.
Now,
many may disagree. David “Spengler” Goldman, a friend whom I like and respect
agrees with Ron Radosh. So does a dear friend of mine who has courageously
exposed the radical agenda of the climateers and so called environmentalists,
so does Jamie Glazov, another person whom I like and respect, so do many
others, and Frontpage had every right to publish Radosh’s nasty review.
But,
and this is the serious butt of the scandal…Frontpage should not have removed
Mark Tapson’s good review and then as a conciliatory crumb offered Diana the chance
to rebut Radosh. I don’t blame her for refusing and all the squirming and
offensive name calling and apologetics at the site don’t excuse their craven
decision to remove Mark Tapson’s review which they had accepted and posted.
In
good time and in a venue of her choosing Diana west will reply, I can’t wait to
read and post it.
# # #
David Horowitz and Ron Radosh Attack Diana West and American
Betrayal
By
Donald Douglas
American Power Blog
August
9, 2013
Folks will remember I
attended the Diana West book signing last month. It was a lively event and I was excited
to meet Diana.
At the time I'd read a couple of chapters of the
book .
I'm frankly not well read in the historiography of Communist Party infiltration
of the U.S. government, although from my own training I thought
that some of Diana's conclusions were quite broad, especially on WWII strategic
issues and the origins of the Cold War in Europe. Indeed, I mentioned to Diana
that I thought her book was very "bold" and that I'd be interested to
see the reactions among academic
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