McCarthyism then and now [from Pravda of the Prairie]

Capital Times ^ | 11-2-05

[SoDak]

A few years ago, on my first trip into Wisconsin, I got a taste of Wisconsin leftism on WI Public Radio. Wow, talk about your uber-leftists.

[phantomworker]

Even in Wisconsin, where there was broad popular opposition to McCarthy, most of the media backed the senator.

I grew up in WI, and none of my relatives or friends' relatives ever spoke of that time. He was never mentioned in state history classes or if so, only glossed over. Heck, I can see going after some of those Holliwood commies, but didn't McCarthy even go after I Love Lucy! THAT was over the line! LOL

[Verginius Rufus]

How did Thomas Jefferson get mixed up with the First Amendment? On the day that Congress sent what became the Bill of Rights to the states for ratification, Jefferson was still in Paris.

[M. Espinola]

"Joseph McCarthy exposed the Left for what it was, which is why the Left has never stopped hating him."

Since Joe McCarthy was correct, the radical leftist, media machine continues to smear the man who fully exposed the domestic communist enemy within.

[M. Espinola]

Thanks for posting that great speech.

[tanuki]

I would have loved a subscription to this rag when the Wall fell. Really, I would have. Ah, the wailing and gnashing of teeth.

[nonliberal]

Joe's only fault was that he didn't work hard enough exposing the commies in the media and academia.

He couldn't. His only pervue as PSI chair was communist infiltration of the United States government.

[ZULU]

Joe McCarthy was right, God bless his sainted soul.

The Federal government WAS filled with communists and fellow travlers from the FDR administration forwards. Recently released Secret Soviet files on traitors like Alger Hiss and other monsters substantiate Joe McCarthy's claims.

But today's cryptocommunists and pseudo-liberals are still trying to crucify a saint.

Again, Senator Joe McCarthy - whereveer you are, may God Bless you and thank you for exposing the worms eating out the heart of America. We could use more like you today - BADLY.

[Brian Allen]

This Prairie Pravda piece needs a Barf Alert!

[VOA]

"I think as the Soviet Union has allowed some of it's formerly secret files to
be made public, it is clear that McCarthy was basically right."


It REALLY pains me to recommend anything done by PBS, but they hit a home run
with "Secrets, Lies and Atomic Spies".
To hear a PBS production at least concede that McCarthy was correct in saying there
was a massive infiltration of the USA by Soviet agents just about gave me
a freakin' heart attack.
Of course, the producers contended that most of the "names" that
McCarthy named were falsely accussed of being Communists.
(but the writers of the show convienently failed to identify ONE of these people
that McCarthy suppossedly defamed)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venona/