MY SAY: ON THE MATTER OF DIANA WEST VS. FRONTPAGE
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.
Here is Diana’s response:
I have not had time to respond to the massive hit piece against my book American Betrayal posted today at Frontpage.com.
I will.
I would like to point out in brief, however, the simple, lowdown mendacity of the “Editors’ note” — that would be editors David Horowitz, Jamie Glazov, perhaps others — that tops 7,000 words of misrepresenting, twisting, and omitting by Ronald Radosh passed off as a “review.”
(This is the Radosh m.o., by the way, as briliiantly exposed in 2008 by M. Stanton Evans.)
Here it is:
Editors’ note: Frontpage offered Diana West equal space to reply to Professor Radosh’s points below. She refused.
To say that this misrepresents the truth is one of those understatements of the year.
First of all, Frontpage doesn’t inform their readers that they are actually looking at Frontpage American Betrayal Review #2.
Frontpage posted an earlier review — Review #1. It was positive. They removed it — purged it. (It is archived at Ruthfully Yours.) This is unheard of. Quite commonly, controversial books rack up more than one review, more than one opinion. The commissars of Frontpage don’t permit “incorrect” opinion, however, so the positive review of my book was removed from the website. On my incredulous inquiry of Glazov, he proceeded to explain in emails to me that the reviewer, Mark Tapson, “lacks the expertise” to review the book, and later, that the problem was the review’s “inaccuracy.” I asked what was innaccurate in the review and received no reply.
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