He was a drunk, paranoid, and often wrongly accused people of being Commies. He’s no hero.
Wrong. On what do you base that? Please specify.
Troll alert in Aisle 6!!!
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.
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.
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.
Ok, tell me the names of ten people he accused of being communists who were not.
A large number of members of Congress were alcoholics. Speaker Carl Albert used to routinely pass out in the stairwell of the capitol buildings. Because he was a Democrat, you hear no complaints.
"paranoid"
You mean he had no reason to be, what with the entire leftist media and political establishment out to take him down ?
"and often wrongly accused people of being Commies."
Who ? Name names.
Yes,all that’s true to some degree, and ultimately helped
discredit McCarthy, his apparent objectives, and his reputation. But he was thwarted at every step along the way.
It was forced off the tracks and got bogged down in lurid side-issues, like Roy Cohn and David Schine.
Remember that as McCarthy’s popularity grew, along with his approval by masses of the American public, the need to destroy him became all that much more urgent.
The entire McCarthy “project” should thus be seen as a trial run, more than a half-century ago, at how vexing it would be
for any lone crusader to find out the truth about what was actually going in even the very upper levels of government.
True McCarthyism found its true voice only thirty years later, in the persona of one Edward Kennedy, and what he did and was able to get away with, during the hearing for Robert Bork. The American Left has never looked back from that, instead they’ve perfected the demagogic techniques they so confidently accused McCarthy of. What we have today is the true “McCarthyism”, and it’s aided and abetted by the omnipresent and many-headed MSM and pop culture.Consider who this country has elected for President TWICE, and how blithely and proudly ignorant the MSM AND Establishment Politicians are and/or pretended to be as to the true character and Agenda of Barack Obama, and you’ve got some perspective on the matter.
and you sir are a rino douchebag easily swayed by conventional media. Have you read Mr. Evan’s book? Have you heard of Venona?