http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6866875Oh my.
Octafish (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-27-09 01:46 PM
Original message
Why would Ann Coulter Lie About Lee Harvey Oswald and then slander MoveOn.org?
The author and tee vee personality was on CNN's Joy Behar show and, of course, she used the occassion to slander Liberals, saying Liberals were always behind political assassinations.
She proclaimed Lee Harvey Oswald guilty of being a "Lefty," working on behalf of Fidel Castro and, by extension, the Soviet Union.
SOURCE: http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/ann-coulter...
Coulter also said if anything happens to Obama, it'll be the work of MoveOn.org.
Coulter: Lee Harvey Osward tried to move to the Soviet Union. He was on his way to Cuba. He was a communist. You have one after another of all these guys. So it isn’t…it isn’t because Obama is liberal…if something happens to him it’s going to be MoveOn.org.
People who lie about Liberals, peace and history sure seem to get a lot of airtime. Remember Phil Donohue?
Well, now, I thought it was generally known throughout the real world that Lee Harvey Oswald was a Communist sympathizer. He certainly wasn't a John Bircher.
The bonfire, a medium-sized one, is full of primitive slanders against Ann Coulter, so never mind. But one primitive attempts to set the record straight.
paulsby (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-27-09 01:53 PM
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5. you are aware that oswald WAS a lefty?
coulter is a putz, and is wrong about a lot, but she is right about oswald
oswald
1) applied for citizenship in the USSR (defected then returned
2) claimed to be a marxist
3) wrote to the socialist league of america, stated he was a marxist, and asked for literature
oswald was seriously #$9$#( in the head, etc. but there is pretty substantial pointers to his politics as being far to the left.
here's an excerpt from wikipedia entry about his time in the USSR...
When Oswald showed up unexpectedly at the United States embassy in Moscow on October 31, he said he wanted to renounce his U.S. citizenship.<35><36> He told Soviet officials "...that he had been a radar operator in the Marine Corps and that he ... would make known to them such information concerning the Marine Corps and his speciality as he possessed. He intimated that he might know something of special interest."<37> When the Navy Department learned of this, it changed Oswald's Marine Corps discharge from "hardship/honorable" to "undesirable".<38>
John McVickar, one of the American consular officials at the Moscow embassy who was in contact with Oswald, said he felt that Oswald, "...was following a pattern of behavior in which he had been tutored by person or persons unknown ... seemed to be using words which he had learned but did not fully understand ... in short, it seemed to me that there was a possibility that he had been in contact with others before or during his Marine Corps tour who had guided him and encouraged him in his actions."<39>
Marina Prusakova, Minsk 1959 Although Oswald had wanted to remain in Moscow and attend Moscow University, he was sent to Minsk, then the capital of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic and now the capital of Belarus. He was given a job as a metal lathe operator at the Gorizont (Horizon) Electronics Factory in Minsk, a huge facility that produced radios and televisions along with military and space electronic components. He was given a rent-subsidized, fully furnished studio apartment in a prestigious building under Gorizont's administration and in addition to his factory pay received monetary subsidies from the Russian Red Cross Society. This represented an idyllic existence by Soviet-era working-class standards.<40> Oswald was under constant surveillance by the KGB during his thirty-month stay in Minsk.<41>
Oswald gradually grew bored with the limited recreation available in Minsk.<42> He wrote in his diary in January 1961: "I am starting to reconsider my desire about staying. The work is drab, the money I get has nowhere to be spent. No nightclubs or bowling alleys, no places of recreation except the trade union dances. I have had enough."<43> Shortly afterwards, Oswald opened negotiations with the U.S. Embassy in Moscow over his proposed return to the United States.<44>
And then this:
slackmaster (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-27-09 03:06 PM
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37. He was in the suppository building, his rifle was in the suppository building
And he was as red as a ripe strawberry in May.
There's something of Freudian significance in the above.
