Chicago Sun-Times: HCUA Was 'Helmed by Sen. Joseph McCarthy'

NewsBusters ^ | 2/14/2011 | Mike Bates

[Mike Bates]

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) isn't alone in having trouble understanding how the government is organized. In a Sunday article posted on the Chicago Sun-Times's Web site, staff reporter Mary Houlihan credits the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) with running the House Committee on Un-American Activities. That would have been quite an accomplishment, given the fact McCarthy never served in the House of Representatives.

Houlihan writes of photographer Milton Rogovin, who died last month. After military service during World War II, Rogovin "organized a chapter of the optometrists’ union and served as librarian for the Communist Party of Buffalo."

"Then the inevitable happened. In October 1957, Rogovin was caught in the net cast by the House Un-American Activities Committee helmed by Sen. Joseph McCarthy. It was the waning days of the Communist witch hunt, and the experience would change Rogovin’s life."

If October, 1957 indeed represented the waning days of the Communist witch hunt, the situation was even worse for Joe McCarthy. He had died the previous May.

You'd think McCarthy's title of Senator might serve as a clue that he didn't chair a House Committee. Partially due to the mainstream media's eagerness to attach his name or “ism” to as many unsavory things as possible, misinformation abounds. And yet they still complain that Joe didn't get his facts right.

[dennisw]

In the Senate you had the McCarran committee that was similar to HUAC. McCarran as in the Las Vegas airport named after him. Nevada was ultra conservative. Now they elect Harry Reid

[editor-surveyor]

>> “If October, 1957 indeed represented the waning days of the Communist witch hunt, the situation was even worse for Joe McCarthy. He had died the previous May.” <<

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Unfortunately!

Its a shame that he couldn’t have lived to see his work vindicated so completely.

[rlmorel]

Boy, how does one even argue with that?

Another lie. I really thought Ann Coulter stated it best in her own pithy way when she said that if liberals were to be believed, one could not walk down the street during McCarthy’s Reign of Terror for fear of being killed by despondent liberals plummeting from office buildings.

[nina0113]

I bought Rumsfeld’s book (which sadly, I cannot return) and was appalled, angered and saddened to hear him in his book pile into McCarthy with the same BS I fully expect to hear from Liberals.

Then he came out with his pro-homosexual stand, and I just cannot express how disillusioned, demoralized and saddened that made me.

Thanks for saving me some money!

[Hoodat]

I have always wondered how a Senator could be responsible for HUAC. More lies from the Left. It reminds me of a time when a liberal informed me that George Wallace was a Republican. Or another time when a liberal explained to me that all the Supreme Court Justices who decided the Dred Scott case were appointed by Republican Presidents. Or the time when . . .

[rlmorel]

I feel that McCarthy was an American hero who sacrificed his reputation, his health, and eventually, his life to bring this issue to the forefront where it belonged.

I can only hope that someday someone in power has the courage and wherewithal to make it happen.

[Moonman62]

There's nothing wrong with what Mary Houlihan wrote. At least per the standards of the Chicago Slum-Times.

Is that like the "fake but accurate" standard?

[rlmorel]

Absolutely. His book solidified my feelings about the Truman administration. As I said in my previous post, I don’t for a second think that Truman was at all sympathetic to communism (like I DO believe that Marshall was) but I firmly believe Truman put the interests of the Democratic Party FAR above the interests of the American people and our national security.

I simply cannot view Truman in the same light anymore. It is a shame.

[Uncle Miltie]

Plus, they got the name of the committee wrong.

HUAC, not HCUA.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"McCarthy had absolutely nothing to do with Hollywood blacklisting or HCUA."

Actually, HUAC had nothing to do with Hollywood blacklisting. Hollywood censured itself when the hollywood big wigs thought they had a commie in their presense. But we never hear about that from today's leftist elitists...

[rlmorel]

I could be wrong, but I think at one point it was referred to as HCUA, but was changed to HUAC (probably rolled off the toungue easier for journalists...)

But I could be mistaken.

[Waco]

Congress held hearing after WWII, which were public record, McCarthy was credited with much that he had nothing to do with. The Congressional record was open to any citizen o communist for the asking.

[rlmorel]

nina0113, I am heartbroken over that. I haven’t felt this way since 11/4/2008. Are there no true conservatives in politics?

[Condor51]

*** Is that like the "fake but accurate" standard?***

Yeah, pretty much the same thing.
Except at the Slum-Times accuracy isn't required.

[goldstategop]

Liberals in their eagerness to condemn McCarthy for every sin imaginable, can’t get basic facts straight.

Such as the differences between the House Of Representatives and the Senate!

[jimtorr]

klank for later.....

[Bernard Marx]

Plus, they got the name of the committee wrong. HUAC, not HCUA.

Sorry. It was officially the House Committee on Un-American Activities: HCUA. HUAC was the popularized version.

[Mike Bates]

Now they elect Harry Reid

(Reaching for my industrial strength Pepto. . .)

[ex-snook]

McCarthy was wrong. There was a hell of lot more than 25 communists in Government.

[Mike Bates]

HUAC was the popularized version.

I've read that "HUAC" was preferred by liberals, who liked the inherent suggestion that the committee itself was un-American.