If you really want to get into the nitty gritty about McCarthy being right, you need to know about the Venona Project, the Woodstock typewriter of Algar Hiss.
You know, a few years ago, google was an excellent search engine. A few key words like that, and you could rapidly gain access to vital information. Now? Filtered. It’s like the burning of books by Nazis.
Venona Intercepts: Still Scary After All These Years
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2421598/posts
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For a good history and analysis of this topic, read Treason by Ann Coulter.
Such cheap-shots I personally have never seen.
McCarthy dropped out of school at age 14. Later at age 20 McCarthy made arrangements with a high school principal to earn a high school diploma, studying on his own he completed the four-year curriculum in nine months.
McCarthy then entered Marquette University. Johnson accused McCarthy of lying about his high school record. You see, the university had a question on the entrance forms asking, did you complete a four-year high school? McCarthy lied, you see. He didn't go to school for four years.
Well, here's from an Internet source, "McCarthy’s excellent grades [getting his H.S. diploma] enabled him to attend Marquette University in Milwaukee, which he entered in the fall of 1930. In school, he coached boxing, and was elected president of his law school class, all while working a series of part-time jobs." Earned his law degree in 1935. That's from an Internet source not Johnson's book.
McCarthy being elected president of his class was another Johnson tale. You see, McCarthy and his opponent agreed to vote for each other. The election ended in a tie.
The university offered to flip a coin but the two wanted another election. McCarthy won that election by just two votes. Ergo, McCarthy is a reprobate he must have voted for himself in the second election! So what, was the agreement still in force? Besides McCarthy's vote is just one possibility explaining the results.
There's lots more of course. You can just feel Johnson's obsession.
It's taken *bad* influences/actors in every phase of our past to get to the point where we are now.
Bad Jews, bad Catholics, bad Protestants, Bad Masons, bad Buddhists, bad Atheists, bad bankers, bad politicians, bad teachers, bad journalists, etc.... get the point? Evil exists.
No one took the warnings seriously and some are blind to them as we type.
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“Secrets, Lies and Atomic Spies”
A GREAT expose of Commuist infiltration of the Federal Government
and defense establishment...confirming that McCarthy was correct
(although he may have not been totally accurate regarding the specific
people he accussed).
I still am stunned that PBS (NOVA) produced and aired this show.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venona/
Coming up at the rear here... but I saw this quote and was impressed...pretty much sums up where the US is and the leadership it has now. Thanks for the post! Good read.