[nickcarraway]

in which he supposedly tried to have people in Hollywood blacklisted - truth is McCarthy never tried to get anyone blacklisted, and certainly never sent any letters out using his official position to have anyone barred or removed from any position in Hollywood

You and these people who you refer to are completely uneducated. Senator McCarthy was attempting to remove communists from the Army. I have never seen a single quote in which he referred to communists in Hollywood. The communists in Hollywood issue was tackled by HUAC - the House Un-American Activities Committee. McCarthy was a Senator. Uneducated U.S. citizens don't even know the difference between Senators and Representatives.

[Peet]

The communists in Hollywood issue was tackled by HUAC - the House Un-American Activities Committee. McCarthy was a Senator. Uneducated U.S. citizens don't even know the difference between Senators and Representatives.

The NYT published a crossword puzzle with a clue "McCarthy's grp" with the four-letter answer "HUAC."

When the error was pointed out by multiple readers, the NYT blew it off, saying McCarthy was "ideologically akin" to members of HUAC[1]. Kind of a "What difference does it make?" answer.

[1] See Treason by Ann Coulter, pg 56

[Intolerant in NJ]

I could swear that’s what I was talking about in my post - ill-informed people who thought McCarthy had tried to get Hollywood types blacklisted - but by the way, McCarthy and his committee (for which RFK was a lead counsel) investigated much more than communists in the Army, including Red agent Boris Morros, a Paramount movie producer from Hollywood, and his double-agent handler Jack Soble (see Weinstein and Vassiliev: “The Haunted Wood”) - anyhow the prof who supervised my doctoral dissertation a few years back will be interested to hear how completely uneducated I am......