Senator Joe McCarthy
--a brief excerpt from Richard H. Rovere's Senator Joe McCarthy
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The late Joseph R. McCarthy, a United States Senater from Wisconsin, was in many ways the most gifted demagogue ever bred on these shores. No bolder seditionist ever moved among us--nor any politician with a surer, swifter access to the dark places of the American mind. The major phase of McCanhy's career was mercifully short. It began in 1950, three years after he had taken his seat in the Senate, where he had seemed a dim and inconsiderable figure. It ended in 1954, when the Senate passed a resolution of censure against him. That was three years before his death at the age of fony-eight. Both his rise and his fall were accomplished with breath-taking speed. At the start of 1950, he was a jackstraw in Washington. Then he uncovered Communism--almost by inadvertence, as Columbus discovered America, as James Marshall discovered California gold.
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"I wish they would stop bashing poor old Joe McCarthy!"
The only way to win with the Left's wordgames is to beat them with their own rules.
Yesterday's McCarthyism = today's Rather-isms
Rather-isms def. The use of mass media, particular by but not limited to , partisan newsmen, to sway the public with undocumented or "fake but accurate" documents or unnamed sources of dubious interests.
Try it instead of using McCarthyism
So I take it you're not familiar with the Venona Papers?
excerpts from Ann Coulter's book "Treason":
As even McCarthy's critics concede, "A host of other right-wing Republicans had sought to dramatize the communism issue, but only McCarthy succeeded. And McCarthy succeeded while others did not in part because of his throughgoing contempt for the rules of political controversy." McCarthy forced liberals to make an accounting of themselves in full view of the American people. To defend themselves, liberals made McCarthy the issue. Ever since, he has been judged under a jurisprudence of epithets.