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Question: Can we start calling the media "McCarthyites"?
5/23/17 | sff

Posted on 05/23/2017 6:54:15 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

I am not trying to debate Joe McCarthy's place in history. Thanks to Ann Coulter's book "Treason", I know he did a lot of good work.

Nevertheless, his name has become associated with fearmongering.

I think in that respect, the time might be right to start speaking to the #fakenews and #fakejournalists those words "Have you no decency?"

Rachel MadMcCarthy, Scott PelMcCarthey, Andrea MitchMcCarthey, etc.

Are we at that point, fellow FREEPers?


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1 posted on 05/23/2017 6:54:15 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

No.

The essential difference: McCarthy was right.


2 posted on 05/23/2017 6:55:27 AM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: SoFloFreeper

I just call them communists and traitors when I am in polite company- when I am with the boys I call them aholes- but that is just me


3 posted on 05/23/2017 6:57:10 AM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: thoughtomator

Eggs-actly. Despite his own problems, he was right on. Being compared to him is more of a badge of honor in my book.


4 posted on 05/23/2017 6:57:16 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Joe McCarthy was trying to root out commies - the “media” is nothing but commies.


5 posted on 05/23/2017 7:00:48 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (First Mueller needs to see why Hillary and Hussein gave our uranium stockpile to the russkies.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

McCarthy was a good man
The term “ Goebbelites’” is more apprpriate and Goebbels’ quotes about propaganda are spot on with their campaign


6 posted on 05/23/2017 7:04:08 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Check out Goebbels’ principles of propaganda
Sound like a familiar blueprint?
http://www.psywarrior.com/Goebbels.html


7 posted on 05/23/2017 7:06:49 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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To: SoFloFreeper
What about the "Ministry of Truth"?
8 posted on 05/23/2017 7:07:27 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: silverleaf

The Goebbelists have the backing of Soros.

I think it’s a nice play on the New World Order/Globalists/Open Society people.


9 posted on 05/23/2017 7:08:52 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

McCarthy was “borked”. We shouldn’t dignify the kind of people who routinely “bork” normal Americans with McCarthy’s name.


10 posted on 05/23/2017 7:17:13 AM PDT by marron
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To: SoFloFreeper

What would be inaccurate about calling them “lying pieces of crap?”

Go to any mainstream news source, don’t care which it is. CNN, MSNBC, ABC, etc.

How many times has that source said “Trump is incompetent” or had on a guest that said the same or in some way iterated that or a similar message?

How many times has anyone at similar media level called that particular source “not credible”, “fake”, or “inaccurate”.

You’ll let me know when the numbers get to under 300:1.

How many times has anyone at equivalent POLITICAL level called that particular source “not credible”, “fake”, or “inaccurate”.

You’ll let me know when the numbers get to under 10,000:1.

I believe repeating “The Washington Post is the least believed (sub: credible) newspaper in America” is very important.


11 posted on 05/23/2017 7:18:22 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Wouldn’t want to denigrate McCarthy’s name by associating it with them.


12 posted on 05/23/2017 7:20:10 AM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: SoFloFreeper

No. Just call them biased sheep and brainless thugs.
Most people today don’t know their history well enough to get what McCarthy was trying to do. They don’t see the subtle difference between documented fact and the gratuitous name calling we hear now from the left. Such discernment would require too much actual thinking. Too much individual effort. Thinking is hard!


13 posted on 05/23/2017 7:26:05 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: silverleaf

Required reading for the “media”
“Rules for Radicals” by Alinsky
“Rules for Propaganda” by J. Goebbels.
“Das Kapital” by K. Marx
Any other suggestions?


14 posted on 05/23/2017 7:26:42 AM PDT by CaptainAmiigaf (New York Times: "We print the news as it fits our views.")
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No, they are jihadists.....McCarthy was a hero.


15 posted on 05/23/2017 7:31:50 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: thoughtomator

No. They are communists. They don’t call themselves communists, but they are communists by action, associations, and politics.


16 posted on 05/23/2017 7:35:55 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: thoughtomator
The essential difference: McCarthy was right.

Yeah, I figured out several decades ago that most of them are just third-rate p**p-slingers with a first-rate ability to lie.

17 posted on 05/23/2017 7:36:37 AM PDT by imardmd1
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To: SoFloFreeper

Seditionists. They need to be destroyed.


18 posted on 05/23/2017 8:01:55 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: lee martell

I am thinking it would get under THEIR skin.


19 posted on 05/23/2017 8:06:13 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

No.
McCarthy actually told the truth. The MSM does not.


20 posted on 05/23/2017 8:20:50 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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