It's Time to See Joe McCarthy For the Hero He Was

Townhall.com ^ | February 26 | Diana West

[robowombat]

Tail-gunner Joe may not have been an attractive figure but he was more of a war hero than LBJ by light years and he had very good sources on communists within the US government. That is why two administrations from both parties wanted him to shut up. The personnel security program got rid of most of the obvious commies and scared a lot of others out of the government. Neither Truman, marshal, or Eisenhower wanted the real size of commie infiltrtration of government from 1933 to 45 to be discussed. It would have produced a real convulsion of national rage and seriously undermined trust in Uncle Sam at the height of the Cold war.

[Sophia777]

“American traitors working for the Kremlin penetrated and subverted the U.S. government”

Looks like he was right.

[smoothsailing]

[rlmorel]

Amen. May the honor be restored to his name, it is richly deserved.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

He was a drunk, paranoid, and often wrongly accused people of being Commies. He’s no hero.

[rlmorel]

Every thread like this I see, I have to recommend the book:

"Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies", by M. Stanton Evans.

Brilliant book, a must read, by someone who was there.

[rlmorel]

Wrong. On what do you base that? Please specify.

[TexasRepublic]

Joe was right! Can you imagine what he’d say about a Communist sitting in the White House?

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

The liberals have done such a thorough job demonizing Sen. McCarthy, they have created such myths about that period including that McCarthy was somehow involved with the blacklistings in Hollywood. Truth is McCarthy had little or no interest in Hollywood. His attention was focused on where the spies and Communist cells were doing the most damage to our national security and passing intel to the Soviets, the State Department, the Treasury Department, and yes even the DoD. McCarthy had good reason to believe there were large Soviet spy rings operating in the capital. the defctions of Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bently operating in the notorious Ware spy ring in the nation’s capital confirm that higher ups in the FDR-HST Administrations including Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White and many many others were active participants in these communist spy rings. Yet Joe McCarthy continues to get a bum’s rap. For further reading I suggest M. Stanton Evan’s thoroughly detailed and researched book, Blacklisted by History. It is time rehabilitate Sen. McCarthy. It was the liberals cover up for their golden boy, Alger Hiss, that created much of this mythology. Even President Nixon, who was never much of a conservative, would never be forgiven by the liberals for exposing Alger Hiss.

[Kaslin]

I agree completely

[laweeks]

I have one of those daily tear off calendars. One of the sheets has a blasting of McCarthy that is just plain Hollyweird correct. That he was outrageous, drunk, loud mouthed, shooting from the hip, totally wrong, ruined careers, etc. It even says that he never once found a communist member in all of his witch hunts, an unbelievable mistake.

Most of the communists that he exposed used the Metzenbaum excuse when accused of being a member of the communist party: “I can’t believe that you’re accusing me of that!” “Please answer the questions.” “Outrageous to accuse me of that.” “Are now or have you ever been a member of the communist party?” “I can’t believe that you’re accusing me of that.” “Yes or no.” “Outrageous.”

This is one of those libtard history re-writes like the re-writing of the history of the Republican Party to be a bunch of racists, homophobes (whatever that means), KKK, etc.

Since the Stupid Party has never had anyone except Reagan and Palin to try to set these idiots straight, the rewriting of history continues.

[Kaslin]

Troll alert in Aisle 6!!!

[rlmorel]

Actually, to make it easy on you, please just provide the name of one person who was falsely accused of being a communist by Joseph McCarthy.

We can use that as a starting point, and it shouldn’t be too hard for you to come up with one.

[Leo Carpathian]

He was a drunk, paranoid, and often wrongly accused people of being Commies. He’s no hero.

Wrongly??

Looks like he missed quite a few and we are seeing their result of patient subversive work and grooming in the White Hut today, with rapid acceleration towards distributed commie paradise.

[rlmorel]

Don’t.

Let him stay. The Internet is a wonderful tool, and I am sure we will get a response back shortly about just one of the many victims falsely accused by Senator McCarthy.

Then we can engage in reasoned discourse with the poster.

[MNGal]

“Troll alert in Aisle 6!!!”

Lol! One of Obama’s newly trained/unleashed internet army members, no doubt—compliments of Organizing for America.

[jboot]

Every critique of McCarthy that I have ever read is predicated on the unconsidered assumption that he was wrong, and that his "victims" were unfairly railroaded. No one ever stops to consider that he may have been right.

[rlmorel]

And, by the way. Don’t think of my request as setting a trap. It isn’t. I recognize that a lot of people (including myself at some point in my life) have taken the point of view that you have, possibly based on the same information.

I came out of the blocks aggressively, but I think I can make the case against what you wrote, and if I can change one mind, especially here on FR, it would be worth the effort.

[Kaslin]

Weather he stays or not is not up to me. He is still a troll