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Entry: Stan Should Have Seen It Coming Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/stan_should_have_seen_it_coming#15238 Post contents: Mr. Gottfried, what is it that makes you such a chronic Job’s Comforter for the paleoconservative movement? Why another book about Joe McCarthy? How about Evans’ possible intention to inject just a smidgen of truth in a saga that has been distorted almost beyond repair? For generations of Americans, the historical status of McCarthy rests somewhere between Pol Pot and Gilles de Rais. If Evans book was just another run-of-the-mill McCarthy demonization fest then, sure, your question has legitimacy; the South China Sea could be filled with all the anti-McCarthy screeds in circulation - in every medium. But for a biography that paints a warts-and-all portrait of a public servant who really WAS a public servant? Who genuinely discerned a clear and present danger that this country’s top policy positions were riddled with foreign agents and dogmatic fellow travelers happy to turn this country – and its people – over to a regime that had annihilated millions? Evans’ tries to bring a little sanity back to McCarthy’s legacy. And, for that, he’s just being “self serving”? What the hell are you talking about? Sent at: 2008 05 16