Posted on 06/22/2023 12:58:40 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell
It's easy to view the 1932 Pulitzer Prize award to N.Y. Times reporter Walter Duranty "for his series of dispatches on Russia especially the working out of the Five Year Plan". It seems the Pulitzer Prize Board will never rescind Duranty's award, though he was a willing tool of Stalin, whose government is ranked by the University of Hawaii "Democide" (People Killing) website in the "Deka-Megamurder" category with 61.9 million murders between 1917-1987. (Stalin was only in power between 1924 and 1953.)
We have a clear picture of how Sen. Joseph McCarthy and Pres. Richard Nixon, each individually behaved, and what people believe about them:
McCarthy was shown to be accurate by opened Soviet intelligence files and the Venona transcripts, not in merely the neighborhood, but in the exact number of communist infiltrators in government. But even conservative commentators today refer to "McCarthyism" when reflecting on political tyranny.
Richard Nixon wasn't engaged in massive governmental repression or political corruption, prior to being lured into illegal activities in reaction to the Watergate burglaries. (The $500,000 Nixon is alleged by a chief Senate Watergate investigator to have accepted from millionaire Howard Hughes is chump change compared with figures accepted by the Clinton and Biden families.)
"History is a set of lies (or fables) agreed upon", Napoleon is alleged to have said.
McCarthy accurately publicized communist infiltration of American government. (He did not directly purge media and cultural infiltration, that was done by the House Un-American Activities Committee.) Nixon won re-election in 1972 by the largest landslide in American history, 49 of 50 states, opened relations with China and ended the Viet Nam War. Trump fostered economic wellbeing and worked to stifle the permanent war, secret state.
All these figures will be remembered as villains, even among right-thinking people.
The image of these historical figures has been fostered by a disinformation sector called "the engineering of consent", that is, domestic brainwashing. One of its most successful proponents wrote:
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.…[I]n almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons…who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world." – Edward Bernays, "Propaganda"
Senator Joseph McCarthy was right.
I agree. Perhaps we can change the course of history, and right the wrongs as they are currently being portrayed.
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If you watch Kennedy interrogate mobsters "Do you know you giggle like a little girl, Mr. Giancana?" it was the same style as McCarthy.
Mind Control.
I suspect the problem was worse than he thought ...
In perpetrating mind control, they wanted to be smarter and stronger than everyone else.
But it only got them stupider and weaker.
One of my favorites is, “I can see Russia from my porch.”
When someone uses that in discussing Sarah Palin, I know I’m talking to an idiot. Sarah never said that. The chick on SNL pretending to be Sarah did.
Did our own anorexic hero Ann Coulter write a book praising McCarthy?
And RFK never recanted that support. Liberals disdained him when he ran in 1968.
I recall she wrote a book about how McCarthy was ultimately proved correct. After the collapse of USSR, documents revealed that he had underestimated the number of agents who infiltrated our system.
Until that point, he was castigated as a tyrant peddling fake conspiracies.
We all now know what conspiracies are; the truth the media doesn’t want you to know.
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
H.L. Mencken
Yes. He was an American Hero, and should have been treated as such.
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