well, attributing a HOUSE committee to a Senator is patently ludicrous.
as i just discovered, the HUAAC/HUAC came to being in 1945 and stemmed from an earlier House shindig which began in 1938.
One whopper I know lefties spout is blaming McCarthy for the "Hollywood Blacklist" - an outcome of the HUAC dating to October 1947, whereas McCarthy did nothing worthy of note against communists until 09-FEB-1950, his famous "I have a list" speech concerning Reds and security liabilities in the State Department.
now, If I can find all this out in an easy ten minutes, sitting in my bedroom at my desk in my damned pyjamas...
why cannot well-paid Hollywood hacks do as well?
see #20 - I'ze ejoo-kaybull
This is a good bookmark to have:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1996/vo12no18/vo12no18_mccarthy.htm