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		<title>By: Guest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2013 00:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Game over.  DH is thanking Ziggy!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Game over.  DH is thanking Ziggy!</p>
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		<title>By: Le Fox</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Le Fox]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2013 07:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good post.


I think West should&#039;ve focused more on primary resources rather than picking from Western journalists. Her thesis could be a lot more sound.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good post.</p>
<p>I think West should&#8217;ve focused more on primary resources rather than picking from Western journalists. Her thesis could be a lot more sound.</p>
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		<title>By: Le Fox</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Le Fox]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2013 07:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[...D-Day was a Soviet conspiracy?


...How? That&#039;s not even in their own documents, and you can&#039;t fool the Russians! 


It also makes me question this because why would any American, intelligent or otherwise, let a Commie in the government? 


Even the Katyn massacre was ruled a fake; the deaths were more or less due to the Soviet/Polish conflict.


I had a sneaking feeling about Ms. West. She says she gleamed from primary resources, but I think actually paying a visit to the Kremlin would&#039;ve helped.


Had the focus been on Trotsky, there would be no questions there; both the US and Soviet governments knew what he was doing.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;D-Day was a Soviet conspiracy?</p>
<p>&#8230;How? That&#8217;s not even in their own documents, and you can&#8217;t fool the Russians! </p>
<p>It also makes me question this because why would any American, intelligent or otherwise, let a Commie in the government? </p>
<p>Even the Katyn massacre was ruled a fake; the deaths were more or less due to the Soviet/Polish conflict.</p>
<p>I had a sneaking feeling about Ms. West. She says she gleamed from primary resources, but I think actually paying a visit to the Kremlin would&#8217;ve helped.</p>
<p>Had the focus been on Trotsky, there would be no questions there; both the US and Soviet governments knew what he was doing.</p>
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		<title>By: earlytrane 57</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[earlytrane 57]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2013 01:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ziggy Zoggy:
The searing hatred of West tells me all I need to know about Radosh and his followers.  Instead of calm and collegial debate, there is bitterness and rage.  You guys are your worst enemies.  I have read two of West&#039;s books and I&#039;m wondering, why the hysteria on the neo-con front?  Why the personal animosity, the knife-in-the-gut teeth-clenching loathing?  Are you guys off your meds?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ziggy Zoggy:<br />
The searing hatred of West tells me all I need to know about Radosh and his followers.  Instead of calm and collegial debate, there is bitterness and rage.  You guys are your worst enemies.  I have read two of West&#8217;s books and I&#8217;m wondering, why the hysteria on the neo-con front?  Why the personal animosity, the knife-in-the-gut teeth-clenching loathing?  Are you guys off your meds?</p>
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		<title>By: elkoz</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[elkoz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 23:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear David,
When this started I said that I would like to see what other historians had to say about this. Perhaps I should have said I would like to have seen what people who knew what the truth was. 

Apparently Vladimir Bukovsky and Pavel Stroilov, who seem more than qualified
to take an informed stand on this issue, have come down in favor of Diana West
and have found Rodash’s comments wanting, which doesn’t surprise me as I found his rationale and style fraudulent and unpleasant.  But past
comments by him had already colored my perception as to the worth of his views.

Their comments appear here: 

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2669/BUKOVSKY-STROILOV-ON-AMERICAN-BETRAYAL.aspx

It is also apparent that Frontpage has failed to make any real attempt to find
out what the truth really is on this issue, which I found difficult to
understand, until I concluded….perhaps wrongly…..the real reason for that is this. If you accept what Diana West has presented you have to conclude that Roosevelt was a traitor.  You also have to accept that his treason and the treason in his administration was deliberately hidden by Truman. And old lefties, especially old academic lefties, just can’t bring themselves to make that leap.  I think they still view FDR with a degree of admiration  believing him to have been wrong by righteous. And treason doesn&#039;t fit that paradigm. 

You do good work in many areas and I will continue to read your articles and
post links to them on my blog, but I must state that I am seriously disappointed in you and Frontpage.  I now have reason not to trust your integrity in the future. 

Rich Kozlovich]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear David,<br />
When this started I said that I would like to see what other historians had to say about this. Perhaps I should have said I would like to have seen what people who knew what the truth was. </p>
<p>Apparently Vladimir Bukovsky and Pavel Stroilov, who seem more than qualified<br />
to take an informed stand on this issue, have come down in favor of Diana West<br />
and have found Rodash’s comments wanting, which doesn’t surprise me as I found his rationale and style fraudulent and unpleasant.  But past<br />
comments by him had already colored my perception as to the worth of his views.</p>
<p>Their comments appear here: </p>
<p><a href="http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2669/BUKOVSKY-STROILOV-ON-AMERICAN-BETRAYAL.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2669/BUKOVSKY-STROILOV-ON-AMERICAN-BETRAYAL.aspx</a></p>
<p>It is also apparent that Frontpage has failed to make any real attempt to find<br />
out what the truth really is on this issue, which I found difficult to<br />
understand, until I concluded….perhaps wrongly…..the real reason for that is this. If you accept what Diana West has presented you have to conclude that Roosevelt was a traitor.  You also have to accept that his treason and the treason in his administration was deliberately hidden by Truman. And old lefties, especially old academic lefties, just can’t bring themselves to make that leap.  I think they still view FDR with a degree of admiration  believing him to have been wrong by righteous. And treason doesn&#8217;t fit that paradigm. </p>
<p>You do good work in many areas and I will continue to read your articles and<br />
post links to them on my blog, but I must state that I am seriously disappointed in you and Frontpage.  I now have reason not to trust your integrity in the future. </p>
<p>Rich Kozlovich</p>
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		<title>By: Murray Lawrence</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Murray Lawrence]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[De Facto is never properly used to mean &quot;in fact&quot; but &quot;for all intents and purposes,&quot; as in &quot;Obama is not a communist, but he might as well be,&quot; which is precisely the opposite of &quot;in fact.&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>De Facto is never properly used to mean &#8220;in fact&#8221; but &#8220;for all intents and purposes,&#8221; as in &#8220;Obama is not a communist, but he might as well be,&#8221; which is precisely the opposite of &#8220;in fact.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Nick</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the level of discourse at David Horowitz&#039;s website.


Note that two of z-z&#039;s comments have already been deleted, so Horowitz drawn a line and decided what is acceptable and what is not.


Apparently David Horowitz believes that this sort of comment is A-OK, no problem at all.


Horowitz would do well to climb down off his high horse. Whoops, too late - he&#039;s already fallen off.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the level of discourse at David Horowitz&#8217;s website.</p>
<p>Note that two of z-z&#8217;s comments have already been deleted, so Horowitz drawn a line and decided what is acceptable and what is not.</p>
<p>Apparently David Horowitz believes that this sort of comment is A-OK, no problem at all.</p>
<p>Horowitz would do well to climb down off his high horse. Whoops, too late &#8211; he&#8217;s already fallen off.</p>
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		<title>By: v</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[v]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2013 11:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David, you should change your looks a little, from the photo, you look a little like Leon Trotsky]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>David, you should change your looks a little, from the photo, you look a little like Leon Trotsky</p>
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		<title>By: thatsitivehadenough</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[thatsitivehadenough]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How is she wrong?  &quot;her misrepresentation of the pro-Soviet Harry Hopkins as an actual 
Soviet spy,  her preposterous claim that Lend-lease and D-Day were Soviet
 plots or that the decision shared by Winston Churchill to suppress the 
facts of the Katyn massacre was a Kremlin design.&quot;  Although I haven&#039;t yet found anything on D-Day being a Soviet &#039;plot,&#039; I have seen where Soviet spies in the US government did send messages to the Soviets about ANVIL, Lend Lease was run by Harry Hopkins, a Soviet agent, and the Katyn coverup was the result of Soviet influence inside the WH.  See&quot; The Venona Secrets.&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How is she wrong?  &#8220;her misrepresentation of the pro-Soviet Harry Hopkins as an actual<br />
Soviet spy,  her preposterous claim that Lend-lease and D-Day were Soviet<br />
 plots or that the decision shared by Winston Churchill to suppress the<br />
facts of the Katyn massacre was a Kremlin design.&#8221;  Although I haven&#8217;t yet found anything on D-Day being a Soviet &#8216;plot,&#8217; I have seen where Soviet spies in the US government did send messages to the Soviets about ANVIL, Lend Lease was run by Harry Hopkins, a Soviet agent, and the Katyn coverup was the result of Soviet influence inside the WH.  See&#8221; The Venona Secrets.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: thatsitivehadenough</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[thatsitivehadenough]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, they certainly got us into that war with Japan to take the heat off them so they wouldn&#039;t be at war on two fronts, E &amp; W.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, they certainly got us into that war with Japan to take the heat off them so they wouldn&#8217;t be at war on two fronts, E &amp; W.</p>
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		<title>By: Nick</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 00:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Was &lt;a&gt;John Guardino&#039;s article&lt;/a&gt;, which you ran at Frontpage, &quot;batty&quot; then?


Was he &quot;not playing with a full deck&quot; when he wrote it?


Were you &quot;not playing with a full deck&quot; when you published it on your website?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Was <a>John Guardino&#8217;s article</a>, which you ran at Frontpage, &#8220;batty&#8221; then?</p>
<p>Was he &#8220;not playing with a full deck&#8221; when he wrote it?</p>
<p>Were you &#8220;not playing with a full deck&#8221; when you published it on your website?</p>
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		<title>By: Eric Paddon</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Paddon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 19:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look here, David.  http://pjmedia.com/blog/revisiting-the-diana-west-controversy/     David Solway at PJ Media rips you and Radosh for your behavior in causing this controversy to erupt.     And here&#039;s another reminder of how we have another outlet (PJ) that ALLOWS both sides to be heard, which is what you did NOT do when you took down the Tapson review to then run a personalized hit job on West that had nothing to do with scholarly disagreement, and why she told you to then take a flying leap.     Face facts, David, you and Radosh brought on this mess when you decided to betray everything you&#039;ve stood for on academic freedom.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Look here, David.  <a href="http://pjmedia.com/blog/revisiting-the-diana-west-controversy/" rel="nofollow">http://pjmedia.com/blog/revisiting-the-diana-west-controversy/</a>     David Solway at PJ Media rips you and Radosh for your behavior in causing this controversy to erupt.     And here&#8217;s another reminder of how we have another outlet (PJ) that ALLOWS both sides to be heard, which is what you did NOT do when you took down the Tapson review to then run a personalized hit job on West that had nothing to do with scholarly disagreement, and why she told you to then take a flying leap.     Face facts, David, you and Radosh brought on this mess when you decided to betray everything you&#8217;ve stood for on academic freedom.</p>
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		<title>By: cynthia curran</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[cynthia curran]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Besides barring citizenship while instituting some level of legalization for those here already, Mr. Cruz has proposed increasing the number of green cards awarded annually, to 1.35 million from 675,000. He also wants to eliminate the per-country limit that he said left applicants from countries like Mexico, China and India hamstrung when they tried to gain legal entry to this country.

Ted Cruz is typical of the cheap labor Republicans in Texas just like their counterparts in Orange County and San Diego Counties in California.
Actually, Eisenhower was a good guy in that he deported 2 million illegal immigrants, Diana West needs to do her history. homework Ted Cruz and Rand Paul favor guest worker programs more so than Eisenhower, so why does the right like this nonsense against a man that deported 2 million illegal immigrants.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Besides barring citizenship while instituting some level of legalization for those here already, Mr. Cruz has proposed increasing the number of green cards awarded annually, to 1.35 million from 675,000. He also wants to eliminate the per-country limit that he said left applicants from countries like Mexico, China and India hamstrung when they tried to gain legal entry to this country.</p>
<p>Ted Cruz is typical of the cheap labor Republicans in Texas just like their counterparts in Orange County and San Diego Counties in California.<br />
Actually, Eisenhower was a good guy in that he deported 2 million illegal immigrants, Diana West needs to do her history. homework Ted Cruz and Rand Paul favor guest worker programs more so than Eisenhower, so why does the right like this nonsense against a man that deported 2 million illegal immigrants.</p>
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		<title>By: Nick</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/m-stanton-evans/defense-diana-west&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;M. Stanton Evans&lt;/a&gt; lays out a proper argument explaining why you and your comrade Radosh don&#039;t have a leg to stand on.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/m-stanton-evans/defense-diana-west" rel="nofollow">M. Stanton Evans</a> lays out a proper argument explaining why you and your comrade Radosh don&#8217;t have a leg to stand on.</p>
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		<title>By: Texas Patriot</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Texas Patriot]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 07:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The irony of it all is that in their mad rush to portray Diana West as somehow misguided or off base in the research and writing of her book, &quot;American Betrayal,&quot; it would seem that all Messrs. Radosh and Horowitz have been able to accomplish is to call their own competence for historical accuracy into question.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The irony of it all is that in their mad rush to portray Diana West as somehow misguided or off base in the research and writing of her book, &#8220;American Betrayal,&#8221; it would seem that all Messrs. Radosh and Horowitz have been able to accomplish is to call their own competence for historical accuracy into question.</p>
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		<title>By: Texas Patriot</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Texas Patriot]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 01:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EP:  &quot;M. Stanton Evans, he who Radosh was too cowardly to take on directly in this whole controversy, weighs in. http://www.cnsnews.com/comment...&quot;

Thanks for the link, EP.  So much for the theory that Radosh and Horowitz are taking the position of &quot;serious scholars&quot; on this issue:

&quot;Ms. West in particular stresses the infiltration of the government of that era by Communists and Soviet agents, linking the presence of these forces to U.S.  policies that appeased the Russians or served the interests of the Kremlin.For making this critique, Ms. West has been bitterly attacked by writers Ronald Radosh and David Horowitz, Roosevelt biographer Conrad Black, and a considerable crew of others.  The burden of their complaint is that she is a &quot;conspiracy theorist&quot; and right wing nut whose views are far outside the mainstream of historical writing, and that she should not have presumed to write such a book about these important matters.  

&quot;Though the professed stance of her opponents is that of scholarly condescension, the language being used against Ms. West doesn&#039;t read like scholarly discourse. She is, we&#039;re told, &quot;McCarthy on steroids,&quot; &quot;unhinged,&quot; a &quot;right-wing loopy,&quot; not properly &quot;house trained,&quot; &quot;incompetent,&quot; purveying &quot;a farrago of lies,&quot; and a good deal else of similar nature.  All of which looks more like the politics of personal destruction than debate about serious academic issues.&quot;
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&quot;Especially galling to West&#039;s critics is her contention that Washington in the war years was so riddled with Communists and Soviet agents as to be in effect an &quot;occupied&quot; city  -- an image that seems to have sparked the greatest anger and most denunciation of her thesis.  By using the &quot;occupied&quot; image, Ms. West is of course not saying Soviet tanks were patrolling the streets of Washington, or that Red martial law was imposed on its cowering citizens.  What she is arguing instead is that Soviet agents, Communists and fellow travelers held official posts, or served at chokepoints of intelligence data, and from these positions were able to exert pro-Soviet leverage on U.S. and other allied policy.  Though ignored in many conventional histories, the evidence to support this view is overwhelming.&quot;  
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&quot;It is for instance abundantly plain, from multiple sources of Cold War intel, that Communist/pro-Soviet penetration of the government under FDR was massive, numbering in the many hundreds.  These pro-Red incursions started in the New Deal era of the 1930s, then accelerated in the war years when the Soviets were our allies and safeguards against Communist infiltration were all but nonexistent. The scope of the problem was expressed as follows in an FBI report  to Director J. Edgar Hoover:  &quot;It has become increasingly clear... that there are a tremendous number of persons employed in the United States government who are Communists and who strive daily to advance the cause of Communism and destroy the foundations of this government. Today nearly every department or agency is infiltrated with them in varying degree.. To aggravate the situation, they appear to have concentrated most heavily in departments which make policy, or carry it into effect...&quot;&quot;
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&quot;Diana West&#039;s important book is a valiant effort to break through this wall of secrecy and selective silence.  Her work in some respects touches on matters beyond my ken-such as Soviet treatment of American POWs-- where I am not competent to judge .  But on issues where our researches coincide-and these are many-I find her knowledgeable and on target, far more so than the conventional histories compared to which she is said to be found wanting . As the above suggests, her notion of wartime Washington as an &quot;occupied&quot; city, and the data that back it up, are especially cogent.&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>EP:  &#8220;M. Stanton Evans, he who Radosh was too cowardly to take on directly in this whole controversy, weighs in. <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/comment" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnsnews.com/comment</a>&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Thanks for the link, EP.  So much for the theory that Radosh and Horowitz are taking the position of &#8220;serious scholars&#8221; on this issue:</p>
<p>&#8220;Ms. West in particular stresses the infiltration of the government of that era by Communists and Soviet agents, linking the presence of these forces to U.S.  policies that appeased the Russians or served the interests of the Kremlin.For making this critique, Ms. West has been bitterly attacked by writers Ronald Radosh and David Horowitz, Roosevelt biographer Conrad Black, and a considerable crew of others.  The burden of their complaint is that she is a &#8220;conspiracy theorist&#8221; and right wing nut whose views are far outside the mainstream of historical writing, and that she should not have presumed to write such a book about these important matters.  </p>
<p>&#8220;Though the professed stance of her opponents is that of scholarly condescension, the language being used against Ms. West doesn&#8217;t read like scholarly discourse. She is, we&#8217;re told, &#8220;McCarthy on steroids,&#8221; &#8220;unhinged,&#8221; a &#8220;right-wing loopy,&#8221; not properly &#8220;house trained,&#8221; &#8220;incompetent,&#8221; purveying &#8220;a farrago of lies,&#8221; and a good deal else of similar nature.  All of which looks more like the politics of personal destruction than debate about serious academic issues.&#8221;<br />
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&#8220;Especially galling to West&#8217;s critics is her contention that Washington in the war years was so riddled with Communists and Soviet agents as to be in effect an &#8220;occupied&#8221; city  &#8212; an image that seems to have sparked the greatest anger and most denunciation of her thesis.  By using the &#8220;occupied&#8221; image, Ms. West is of course not saying Soviet tanks were patrolling the streets of Washington, or that Red martial law was imposed on its cowering citizens.  What she is arguing instead is that Soviet agents, Communists and fellow travelers held official posts, or served at chokepoints of intelligence data, and from these positions were able to exert pro-Soviet leverage on U.S. and other allied policy.  Though ignored in many conventional histories, the evidence to support this view is overwhelming.&#8221;<br />
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&#8220;It is for instance abundantly plain, from multiple sources of Cold War intel, that Communist/pro-Soviet penetration of the government under FDR was massive, numbering in the many hundreds.  These pro-Red incursions started in the New Deal era of the 1930s, then accelerated in the war years when the Soviets were our allies and safeguards against Communist infiltration were all but nonexistent. The scope of the problem was expressed as follows in an FBI report  to Director J. Edgar Hoover:  &#8220;It has become increasingly clear&#8230; that there are a tremendous number of persons employed in the United States government who are Communists and who strive daily to advance the cause of Communism and destroy the foundations of this government. Today nearly every department or agency is infiltrated with them in varying degree.. To aggravate the situation, they appear to have concentrated most heavily in departments which make policy, or carry it into effect&#8230;&#8221;&#8221;<br />
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&#8220;Diana West&#8217;s important book is a valiant effort to break through this wall of secrecy and selective silence.  Her work in some respects touches on matters beyond my ken-such as Soviet treatment of American POWs&#8211; where I am not competent to judge .  But on issues where our researches coincide-and these are many-I find her knowledgeable and on target, far more so than the conventional histories compared to which she is said to be found wanting . As the above suggests, her notion of wartime Washington as an &#8220;occupied&#8221; city, and the data that back it up, are especially cogent.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Eric Paddon</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Paddon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2013 17:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[M. Stanton Evans, he who Radosh was too cowardly to take on directly in this whole controversy, weighs in.   http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/m-stanton-evans/defense-diana-west#]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>M. Stanton Evans, he who Radosh was too cowardly to take on directly in this whole controversy, weighs in.   <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/m-stanton-evans/defense-diana-west#" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/m-stanton-evans/defense-diana-west#</a></p>
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		<title>By: Texas Patriot</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/david-horowitz/diana-west-invents-a-new-conspiracy/comment-page-2/#comment-5275237</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Texas Patriot]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2013 15:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having a McCarthy on steroids might be a nice thing for starters.  Someone has to wake people up and catalyze the impetus for change.  Basically someone needs to turn on the light and illuminate the hidden skeletons in the dark room.  Ultimately, however, it&#039;s going to take a NATION of highly motivated and highly energized Authentic American Patriots to reverse the profound cultural, moral, and societal damage caused by the mismanagement of our national government by corrupt buffoons from both political parties over the last fifty years.  


One man or one woman can&#039;t do it.  No one can do it alone.  We&#039;re all going to have to want it, and we&#039;re all going to have to work together to make it happen, if we want to have any hope of restoring a government of the AMERICAN people, by the AMERICAN people, and for the AMERICAN people, as envisioned by Abraham Lincoln.


Whenever it happens and however it happens, it&#039;s going to be a lot of fun for those of us who still think that the AMERICAN DREAM is the greatest idea in the history of the world.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Having a McCarthy on steroids might be a nice thing for starters.  Someone has to wake people up and catalyze the impetus for change.  Basically someone needs to turn on the light and illuminate the hidden skeletons in the dark room.  Ultimately, however, it&#8217;s going to take a NATION of highly motivated and highly energized Authentic American Patriots to reverse the profound cultural, moral, and societal damage caused by the mismanagement of our national government by corrupt buffoons from both political parties over the last fifty years.  </p>
<p>One man or one woman can&#8217;t do it.  No one can do it alone.  We&#8217;re all going to have to want it, and we&#8217;re all going to have to work together to make it happen, if we want to have any hope of restoring a government of the AMERICAN people, by the AMERICAN people, and for the AMERICAN people, as envisioned by Abraham Lincoln.</p>
<p>Whenever it happens and however it happens, it&#8217;s going to be a lot of fun for those of us who still think that the AMERICAN DREAM is the greatest idea in the history of the world.</p>
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		<title>By: Nick</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2013 14:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Btw isn&#039;t a McCarthy on steroids type of character pretty much what it&#039;s going to take to stand up to and then reverse what has happened under the Obama administration?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Btw isn&#8217;t a McCarthy on steroids type of character pretty much what it&#8217;s going to take to stand up to and then reverse what has happened under the Obama administration?</p>
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		<title>By: Nick</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2013 14:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because if you meant to say that despite the fact that Ms. West did not actually write what Radosh claims she wrote, when she typed those words at her laptop, what she really meant was what Radosh would like her to have meant ... 


then all you&#039;re doing is admitting that Radosh created a straw man. And we are indeed seeing evasion, sophistry and disingenuousness being employed - by you - in an attempt to defend a completely untenable position.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Because if you meant to say that despite the fact that Ms. West did not actually write what Radosh claims she wrote, when she typed those words at her laptop, what she really meant was what Radosh would like her to have meant &#8230; </p>
<p>then all you&#8217;re doing is admitting that Radosh created a straw man. And we are indeed seeing evasion, sophistry and disingenuousness being employed &#8211; by you &#8211; in an attempt to defend a completely untenable position.</p>
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