The American Spectator

Nope| 6.19.09 @ 11:18AM

Wow, Matthew. You're pausing to celebrate the death of two people who were killed in the electric chair in 1953. (It's nice that you point out that one of the two people may have been an accomplice after the fact... who was killed anyway.)

Words fail me. You are a creepy, weird, very weird person.

Conservadick| 6.19.09 @ 12:08PM

Actually, 'Nope', Matthew is pausing to OBSERVE their deaths. I, however, am seriously overjoyed and am celebrating their demise. Cocktails at 3pm, probably.

patrick Gigliotti| 6.19.09 @ 12:09PM

water boarding may have spared their lives.

escondidoguy| 6.19.09 @ 12:14PM

You mispelled your own name. It's Dope not Nope. We should all remember the Rosenbergs as the traiterous American haters that they were. The Benedict Arnolds of their time. And by doing so we should look around at the cowardly traiters that walk around among us. People like Dope in the previous comment are just American hating idiotcrats that wouldn't stand up for this country if the hordes where knocking at the door. Dope, you are pathetic.

Nope| 6.19.09 @ 12:30PM

Oh, ha ha! You crazy, crazy angry loons. Gee, one almost wonders why you're part of a completely marginalized movement that will never gain power again. ...I think it might have something to do with your craziness. Combined with your all-consuming, unfocused anger and -- what's that word again? ...Oh yeah. Insanity.

It does my heart good to see y'all sputtering impotently on comment boards. It's just nice that Matthew could take the time out to write this article... because there's nothing else going on in the world right now. The Iranian revolt? Nope. The collapse of the economy? Nah. Iraq, Afghanistan, GM, Health Care? Heck no. ...The utter disintegration of the Republican Party? ...Oh, why bother. No, instead let's take time out to creepily "commemorate" the death of two Communists in a case that took place... 55 years ago. Good stuff!

Nope| 6.19.09 @ 1:08PM

Fun facts about the Rosenbergs, courtesy of Wikipedia:

1) Ethel Rosenberg was convicted on the basis of testimony from her brother. After the trial, he admitted that he had no idea if she was a spy or not, and that he had acted only to shield himself and his wife from prosecution.

2) Among the people who asked President Eisenhower to commute the death sentence were... Albert Einstein and Pope Pius XI.

3) The electric chair failed to work properly when Ethel Rosenberg was executed, and she had to be electrocuted three times before she died. At the end, smoke was pouring out of her head.

Truly, this is an event worthy of "commemoration." Congrats, Matthew Vadum.

Your Majesty| 6.19.09 @ 1:36PM

So the Rosenberg Fund for Children exists "to rally around the children of this era's targeted activists."

Surely their check to the Palins is in the mail.

Sassy| 6.19.09 @ 1:48PM

Nope, you leftists celebrate your responsibility for the killing of 51 million babies everyday of the year.

And you whine about the execution of two communist traitors? Typical liberal traitor. You losers never disappoint.

Andrew| 6.19.09 @ 2:05PM

Seriously, I love you commenter guys. I'm a moderate Democrat/Independent. I voted for Bob freakin' Dole. I thought G.W. Bush ran a better campaign than Gore did. I wanted McCain to win in 2000. Then, I got turned off by the Bush years and went hardcore for Obama.

The hilarious thing about this article is that it comes a few days after the editor-in-chief of Spectator discussed whether this website might be turning people off and helping to marginalize the Republican party. No, of course not! he concluded. This is a middle-of-the-road website!

This article, and these comments, is why you guys lose, and will continue to lose. You're not interested in moderation. You're perfectly happy with calling people "traitors" and "losers" whenever you feel like it. Hey, it makes you feel better to type the word "traitor" in a comment box? Go for it. I hope the 2.5 seconds of gratification that it gave you were totally worth it.

I would never consider voting Republican again -- not while you guys act like this. But of course, you don't want that. No one's conservative enough for you, and anyone who disagrees with anything is a pinko commie freak.

Do whatever. Write whatever crazy screed makes you happy. And then you can sit up at night, wondering why no one votes Republican anymore.

I'm sorry that bringing up the fact that a woman may have been killed without cause bothered you dudes so much. Did I say that I know that she was innocent? Nope. Do I support spies or communists? Nope. But she got a highly sketchy trial, and she MAY have been innocent. I guess that equals "whining" and "traitorous behavior" in your eyes.

What a tiny, tiny little box you folks have built for yourselves. Enjoy it. And then stay up at night and wonder why your side never wins anymore.

Andrew| 6.19.09 @ 3:05PM

Whoops! Firefox likes to "auto-fill" in comment boxes for me. So now you guys know my real name. Neat. But hey, this'll save time. Now you guys can write, "Hey, ANDREW, I think that you're a TRAITOR because you DISAGREE WITH ME POLITICALLY -- and Yes, by the way, I AM interested in helping to discredit the conservative movement with my wildly unhinged rhetoric." ...You can just write that, and I'll know for sure that you're talking to me. Perfect.

Kingsmill| 6.19.09 @ 4:41PM

We must remember all those hideous Leftists like the Rosenbergs who celebrated while Stalin starved 30 million in the Ukraine, conducted his show trials leading to the deaths and imprisonment of tens of millions, wiped out his own officers, destroyed the nations of East Europe, and silenced thousands of artists and writers. Still the Left harrumphs when anyone questions the traitorous pasts of such as the Rosenbergs, not even mentioning still extant shameful Leftists like Stalinist Pete Seeger.

Andrew| 6.19.09 @ 5:41PM

Yes, we must remember those ENTIRELY IMAGINARY Leftists who celebrated while 30 million people died. Who were these people, exactly? The Left in the 1950 and 1960s did plenty of dumb things (like thinking that Communism was a good idea). For that matter, the Right in the 1950s did plenty of dumb things: like pretending that half of Congress was made up of Communists; like claiming that The Beatles were going to destroy Western Civilization; like thinking that a war in French Indochina (Vietnam to you) was a really good idea. But sides did plenty of dumb things. But I don't recall anyone CELEBRATING that people died. ...Who are these mythical "Leftists" that celebrate when Russians are killed? Have you met them? Have you read about them?

Have you ever MET a Leftist of the type that you decry? ...No, of course not. You're doing the equivalent of what wackos on the Left do: creating an imaginary strawman. Yeah: people on the left throw parties when Russian peasants die, and people on the right are inbred toothless hillbillies from Alabama. ...That's about the level of discourse that you're going for, right? Please. Grow up. Get a grip.

...And "American Spectator," get a grip as well. You want Conservatism to succeed? Then come up with some IDEAS. You want to cut taxes and cut spending and have a big military? You think Obama is a terrible president? You think things in Iraq are going swell. Then tell us why you're right. Come up with some ideas. Come up with a manifesto, a plan, a strategy. How would you fix health care? What would you do about the economy? Insulting the other side and calling Obama a "fascist" over and over again isn't going to win anyone over.

You want to get back in power? EARN IT. Come up with some solid ideas for the country. ...Because all I read on this site, day after day, is how everything is the other side's fault, and the MSM is biased, wah wah wah. Suck it up. Be MEN. Stop freakin' whining, and advance beyond an eighth-grade level. We're not going to all go and live in Gault's Gulch just on your say-so.

The day that the conservative moment can advance beyond "....Everything is Obama's fault and so, so... well, Y'KNOW..." is the day that I start listening to the Conservative movement again. And when I was a teenager, I WAS a Conservative. Hardcore. But you guys messed up. The majority of Americans don't like or trust you anymore. ...Want that to change? ...EARN IT.

Kingsmill| 6.19.09 @ 9:50PM

Leftists of good faith (of which there are a few) will take some time from venting their spleens and read something like Malcolm Muggeridge's "Chronicles of Wasted Time" Muggeridge, a former man of the Left and never a rightist, spent the early thirties as a journalist reporting in the Soviet Union about Stalin's genocidal famine against the Ukraine. His experiences attempting to report the truth to the West was impeded at every turn by the useful idiots of the Western Left intelligentsia. Muggeridge was blackballed from playing in the Leftist sandbox and his career was nearly ruined. It is not pleasant reading and the actions of these celebrators of Stalin on the Left was an utter disgrace.

Kingsmill| 6.19.09 @ 10:30PM

My stomach can only take setting out one more absolutely odious Leftist, who celebrated Stalin and all his works. For more look to Paul Hollander's classic study "Poltical Pilgrims".

I give you Paul Robeson's (winner of a Stalin Peace Prize) ode to Stalin on his death in 1956:

"To You, Beloved Comrade," which included these sentiments: "Forever will his name be honored and beloved in all lands. In all spheres of modern life, the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. … his contributions to the science of our world society remains invaluable. One reverently speaks of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin -- the shapers of humanity's richest present and future. … Yes, through his [Stalin's] deep humanity, by his wise understanding, he leaves us a rich and monumental heritage. ... How consistently, how patiently, he labored for peace and ever increasing abundance, with what deep kindliness and wisdom."

bramwell| 6.19.09 @ 10:59PM

What about Walter Duranty of the New York
Times celebrating and cheering on Stalin and
Paul Robeson hailing Stalin in song?

Malcolm Muggeridge had trouble getting a job
as a journalist because he told the truth about Stalin. Duranty celebrating Stalin's murderous
policies was awarded a Pulitzer.

Eleanor Roosevelt advanced far beyond the "eighth grade "in education. Yet when she saw prisoners starving in Gulag (who were only being fed because she was visiting there ) suddenly gourge themselves with food placed before them would later comment in her diary -"that prisoners in Gulag were well fed and taken care of but that they had very poor table manners."

Lord give me a "toothless hillbilly" with common
sense!

Kingsmill| 6.19.09 @ 11:11PM

I forgot all about Walter Duranty. Thanks Bramwell. The number of deluded Leftists enthralled with Stalin was legion during the Thirties. Many grew out of it and developed a mature liberal, but grown-up view of the world in later decades. However, too many never did and their spiritual offspring still fester in the academy, the media and Hollywood.

Burckhardt| 6.19.09 @ 11:24PM

It's amazing how a-historical, non-thinkers like Andrew spout off about the past without any idea of the heritage of the Left. His emotive rantings were answered with definitive examples from history. Andrew will have to go back to Press Secretary "Chubby" Gibbs for more tutoring on how to do an attack comment on a conservative website.

Patriot| 6.20.09 @ 2:26AM

You can spot an Axelrod astro-turf troll a mile away by their obligatory, "I'm a moderate (actually I was a hardcore Conservative in my youth) and I've voted straight ticket Republican for 20 years, but you Conservative weenies are so mean and unhinged that I'm never voting Repub again." "You're marginalizing the Republican party...yada, yada, yada."

But this idiot troll, Andrew takes it a step further and starts freaking out about the innocence of the Commie traitors Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Hmmm...a once 'hardcore Conservative' is going to the mat for the Rosenbergs? Something's fishy here, Andrew: Either you're a big fat lying Axelrod troll or you're seriously schizophrenic. Probably both, dumbo.

In case you hadn't heard, Einstein; Gallup poll results showed that 40% of Americans consider themselves CONSERVATIVES and only 20% LIBERALS.

We'll be back, bet on it--you corrupt, incompetent, over-reaching fascists assure it.

Matthew Vadum| 6.20.09 @ 11:11AM

Dear Nope, I think all Americans should be pleased that the system worked and that the vile traitors were put to death. Who knows how many American deaths they caused as their actions allowed Communist tyranny to spread around the globe. Unfortunately another traitor, Alger Hiss, got off virtually scot-free.

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