If there was a free, public domain audio book written by Joseph McCarthy, would you listen to it?

I admire him greatly. He went against the tide, when others simply didn't want to, or were content to leave that travesty of character assassination (as practiced by the Left) as it was.

He didn't. He kept that flame going all those years. I know a little of that. In my blue state, I often have people looking at me like I have three heads if I say anything positive about Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. It is weird and alien to them, as if I said I enjoyed eating maggots.

But I invariably find that none of them engage. They can't. Because they don't know anything about Joseph McCarthy, who he was, or what he did. All they know about Joseph McCarthy is what the likes of George Clooney have told them.

And they know it. They know how shallow the cartoon image is that they hold, as flat as the piece of paper it was printed on.

They at least refuse to engage, so show there are at least two brain cells to rub together.

And that is why I admire M. Stanton Evans.

If I go to bat for McCarthy, M. Stanton Evans is going to back me up. But when M. Stanton Evans went to bat for McCarthy, nobody was backing him up.

It is an absolutely fascinating book. If you are even in the least bit interested in how Nationalist China, our WWII ally, was jettisoned in favor of the Communists (a black stain on our country (the betrayal of Chiang Kai Shek) this short book is illuminating. (I have already done two chapters, each one took me about two hours to do.

It was said to be ghostwritten for McCarthy, and It is very well researched.

It damaged him, only because he followed the information available and actually said it aloud in front of the Senate.

It is said that his anti-Marshall speech in front of the Senate, running to 72,000 words, made an implacable enemy of Eisenhower who viewed Marshall as “a brother in arms”. The opening words of the first chapter are these:

On June 14, 1951, I reviewed the public career of George Catlett Marshall from the beginning of World War II before the United States Senate. It was an exhaustive review, running to 72,000 words, drawn from the acknowledged sources of this period.

Among the questions raised by that speech were these: What were McCarthy's motives? Why did McCarthy single out the Secretary of Defense and spend so much time preparing such a searching documentation of his history?

Those questions recalled the advice given me by some of my friends before I gave the history of George Marshall. "Don't do it, McCarthy," they said. "Marshall has been built into such a great hero in the eyes of the people that you will destroy yourself politically if you lay hands on the laurels of this great man."

My answer to those well-meaning friends was that the reason the world is in such a tragic state today is that too many politicians have been doing only that which they consider politically wise—only that which is safe for their own political fortunes.

As you can see, McCarthy knew full well what he was getting into, but did it anyway. Which raises him even higher in my estimation.

And Eisenhower’s actions against McCarthy, driven by people in his OWN party who hated McCarthy, brings Eisenhower down in my esteem.

I will ping everyone on this thread when it is done, perhaps in another month or two at the most.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Special_Senate_Investigation_on_Charges/V5hQAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA2397

One thing that does cross my mind, is that if anybody were to dare to try to record something as massive as this 2000+ pages and do it the correct way it would take many (probably two dozen) people willing to get involved.

I’m not advocating, BTW. :-)

Thing of it is though, is that I think every last shred of video from any of these hearings or HUAC sessions that would have been recorded by the networks or others has all been cloaked behind the strongest copyright protections anybody has access to so that they cannot under any circumstances be viewed ever again.

The text of a lot of it, if not most of it (maybe all?) is online since it’s government documentation. It is by definition never in copyright. Always public domain all the time.

Reading those transcripts, it is easy to detect the stench of Leftism in them coming from the likes of that jackwad Joseph Welch.

Read that transcript, then watch this video below of the execrable Jay Inslee from Washington State when Lord Monckton appeared in front of this congressional committee, and tell me you don't get the same vibe.

LINK: Jay Inslee insults and deliberately mispronounces Lord Monckton's name in Congressional Hearing on Climate Change

The link brings you right to the part of the video with Inslee opens his mouth.

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