Conason on the Clown Forum

In which Joe C. demonstrates that freepers and dildoheads are masochists who enjoy having their money taken by a fraud and being made to look like fools:

Her deceptive style is exemplified in an anecdote she lifts from an actual historian and twists to smear Truman. She writes: "Most breathtakingly, in March 1946, Truman ostentatiously rebuffed Churchill after his famous Iron Curtain speech in Fulton, Missouri. Immediately after Churchill's speech, Truman instructed his Secretary of State Dean Acheson not to attend a reception for Churchill a week later in New York."

In that passage -- footnoted to James Chace's magisterial 1998 biography of Acheson -- Coulter demonstrates that she is both an intentional liar and an incompetent writer. The pages she cites from Chace explain quite clearly that Acheson (who was not then Secretary of State and would not be promoted to that office until 1949) was urged to avoid the New York reception by Secretary of State James Byrnes, not Truman. The British apparently didn't notice that "ostentatious rebuff," since they immediately invited Acheson and his wife to a cordial lunch with Churchill in Washington. And as for Truman, Chace notes that it was he who had invited Churchill to Missouri, his home state, to deliver the speech -- which the American president read in advance, assuring the former prime minister that his strong warning about communist intentions would "do nothing but good."

Coming up from the Clown Forum, the bastard child of Random House: Books by Tammy Bruce and "Carl Limbacher and News Max."

Tammy's book exposes how "the Gay Elite exploit our children�under the guise of tolerance and education�to satisfy their sexual obsessions." I wonder how Random House's Gay Elite writers, including Edmund White, Rita Mae Brown, Andrew Tobias, David Mixner and yes, Sully, feel about that.