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The Vindication of Joseph McCarthy
The Objective Standard ^ | 11/16/2016 | Bernstein

Posted on 12/11/2023 4:03:18 AM PST by Phoenix8

Joseph McCarthy is the most unjustly demonized individual in American history.

In February 1950, McCarthy, a Republican senator from Wisconsin, launched a massive campaign against alleged Communists and Soviet agents working for, and perhaps spying on, the U.S. government. In Senate hearings stretching across much of the first half of the 1950s, he accused numerous U.S. government employees, including many in the State Department, of being Communists or even agents of Soviet Intelligence. He was bitterly opposed by powerful members of the Senate, by numerous high-ranking officials within both the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, and by the overwhelming preponderance of the press corps. He was finally censured by the U.S. Senate in December 1954 and died, possibly of effects of alcoholism, several years later. He was forty-eight.

The demonizations, then and now, involve charges that McCarthy lied, badgered, intimidated, victimized innocents, and fanned the flames of a massive anti-Communist hysteria. A typical account of his methods is provided by History.com’s “This Day in History,” which claims, “In widely publicized hearings, McCarthy bullied defendants under cross-examination with unlawful and damaging accusations, destroying the reputations of hundreds of innocent officials and citizens.”1

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Society
KEYWORDS: communism; joemccarthy; leftversusright
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Far from being an evil “witch Hunter” McCarthy was a Patriot and perhaps one of the 3 greatest Americans of the 20th century.

While 7 years old this article shows conclusively that communist agents had and were still actively infiltrating and working to destroy the USA from within. It names them and offers proof of his accusations mostly being accurate by documents that later surfaced such as the Venona Files.

1 posted on 12/11/2023 4:03:18 AM PST by Phoenix8
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To: Phoenix8

Today, he might not drink himself to death over it.


2 posted on 12/11/2023 4:12:38 AM PST by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: Phoenix8
Told ya we had commies


3 posted on 12/11/2023 4:14:16 AM PST by Pollard (Stick a fork in the USA, it's done!)
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To: equaviator

Some whisper he didn’t.


4 posted on 12/11/2023 4:16:05 AM PST by Phoenix8
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To: Phoenix8

“Through harrowing months of trial and error, the analysts were able to crack the Soviet code. What they found was not information leading to a separate peace treaty, but a large-scale, well-organized Soviet espionage penetration of the highest levels of the U.S. government.”

—Venona Files


5 posted on 12/11/2023 4:18:29 AM PST by Does so ( 🇺🇦..."Christian-Nationalists" won WWII...Biden NOT DNC nominee!)
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To: Phoenix8

He never needed vindication in my book.


6 posted on 12/11/2023 4:19:03 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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Me neither.


7 posted on 12/11/2023 4:22:17 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: Phoenix8

.


8 posted on 12/11/2023 4:24:46 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: Phoenix8

Seems you have to be a socialist to work for the U.S.Dept. Of State.


9 posted on 12/11/2023 4:27:59 AM PST by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 )
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"...Far from being an evil “witch Hunter” McCarthy was a Patriot..."

I agree completely.

What was done to Joseph McCarthy is a stain on our country.

He should have been celebrated. Instead, people allowed the Left (who were and are in collusion with people who want to see America crippled and gone) to paint McCarthy so effectively that "McCarthyism" is taught in schools at all levels to tar him and salt the earth so that his legacy can never be resurrected.

When I see what has happened to Donald Trump, I believe that is what the Left would have done to Joseph McCathy had they the means to do so at that time because people, including many (but not all) in the government still believed in the Constitution and the legal guidelines of our Republic. They weren't able to, because they would never have gotten away with it, but today, the Constitution is now a paper tiger.

The Left and their allies feel completely confident that the Constitution may be ignored, it won't be brought up in the Press, the government will not pursue violations, and they will continue to ignore the Constitution until someone goes to war with them over compliance with it.

Sadly, I don't see that kind of leadership from any political party in anything other than small dribs and drabs, and mostly only when it suits their agenda.

10 posted on 12/11/2023 4:28:13 AM PST by rlmorel ("The stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side." (Clarice Feldman))
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If you go to wiki they have 12 screen sized sections of writing mostly smearing him.

At the end of the piece they have 2 paragraphs devoted to recently discovered documents that proved he was correct. Like Venona.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy


11 posted on 12/11/2023 4:30:45 AM PST by Phoenix8
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I am surprised that even today, many conservative writers do not understand that McCarthy was mostly correct. Victor Davis Hanson is one notable example.


12 posted on 12/11/2023 4:38:50 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Vaquero

Me either!


13 posted on 12/11/2023 4:43:20 AM PST by bantam
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To: Phoenix8

God bless my mother. She always said “McCarthy was right.”


14 posted on 12/11/2023 4:46:13 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!)
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To: Vaquero

Mine either. I’ve admired his work for years.


15 posted on 12/11/2023 4:46:37 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Phoenix8

He was right but his methods were wrong. The matter should have been handled privately. Very privately. If you take my meaning.


16 posted on 12/11/2023 4:49:40 AM PST by Locomotive Breath
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To: Does so
The failure and disintegration of the Soviet Union opened KGB files to inspection, notably by M. Stanton Evans and Herbert Romerstein. The key book that came from this is Stalin's Secret Agents, which even more than The Venona Secrets should be on everyone's required reading lists. The KGB files unquestionably proved that McCarthy had the goods. And that "historians" that I was force-fed in school, like Arthur Schlesinger Jr., were at least misguided, if not outright liars.
17 posted on 12/11/2023 4:57:28 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Phoenix8

The courage of McCarthy v. the cowardice of current Republican politicians.


18 posted on 12/11/2023 5:02:18 AM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: Phoenix8

It seems obvious that the current plan is to treat Trump the same way. They want to send him into the history books as a corrupt racist who tried to overthrow the government. I don’t think the effort will succeed with Trump, but McCarthy has been successfully vilified for 70 years, so maybe the Left will triumph all over again.


19 posted on 12/11/2023 5:09:10 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Phoenix8

Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies Paperback – November 24, 2009

https://www.amazon.com/Blacklisted-History-Senator-McCarthy-Americas/dp/1400081068


20 posted on 12/11/2023 5:14:30 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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