If the left spent half as much time looking for the truth as they do attacking conservatives, they might actually find it (truth)...........
Didn’t Ann Coulter already do this book? And very well? It’s called “Treason”.
Ann Coulter’s book, Useful Idiots(?), touched on this. Looking forward to reading it.
The book sounds interesting and the premise is correct, that he has been unfairly criticized on many levels. However, I read an article once that has stuck in my mind about how off-target he often was. He wasn’t wrong to believe that Hollywood and the State Department were full of commies, they were. But at least in the case of the State Department the writer claimed that McCarthy was very bad at picking individual targets. Supposedly a blindfolded dart-thrower would have been better at picking commies from a list of State Department employees posted on the wall.
If that’s true, that might be part of the reason for his bad name.
‘But that conventional image is all wrong, as veteran journalist and author M. Stanton Evans reveals in this groundbreaking book. The long-awaited Blacklisted by History, based on six years of intensive research, dismantles the myths surrounding Joe McCarthy and his campaign to unmask Communists, Soviet agents, and flagrant loyalty risks working within the U.S. government. Evans’s revelations completely overturn our understanding of McCarthy, McCarthyism, and the Cold War. ‘
Ann Coulter already debunked the myths in her book ‘Treason’. Interesting to note it was published about six years ago as I seem to recall.
I’ve been hearing about this book for years, and have looked forward to reading it. It’s on my Christmas List!
I look forward to reading this book. For may years, its author, M. Stanton Evans, ran the National Journalism Center which trained young people, including Ann Coulter, for media careers.
The Soviets and their Communist Party in the US created an underground.
Even though the leaders were arrested and did some time, the rest of the operation was left hanging around.
Herbert Philbrick’s “I Led Three Lives” is the account of an FBI double agent who worked in the underground ranks.
He mentions all the “women and minorities” in the undergroud leadership and how the black ones used the term “white chauvinist” to describe whites who wouldn’t take orders and in his footnotes the female leaders called men who wouldn’t take their orders “male chauvinists.”
When the “feminist movement” came in during the 1960’s that “male chauvinist” term became a cliche’.
He was told to keep his Baptist church membership as a Communist.
Philbrick went to meetings to help Communists take them over calling himself a “Baptist.”
Joe McCarthy was on to something and J. Edgar Hoover tried to watch things throughout the 50’s and 60’s with the “civil rights” and “anti-war” movements.
The leaders at the top (White House, Justice) weren’t too into that so we don’t fully know how much Communist underground activity may have driven those movements.
And by the way you wonder why Hoover has been smeared as gay.
Its precisely because he was one of the biggest anti-communists in our government next to Joe McCarthy.
McCarthy was smeared as gay in a Las Vegas newspaper during the 1950’s, too.
The Left in Hollywood moans about the blacklist but heck all those actors and actresses of today seem to show us their true anti-American loyalties out in the open.
Their forefathers until the “Hanoi Jane” era had to keep it under wraps.
And they moan on about the “blacklist.”
The lesson still is the person who tells the truth is the one demonized by the media. When the message can't be refuted, attack the person.
But of course you make the mistake of assuming they want to publicize the truth. They know the truth; they want to hide it because it would prove they're traitors.
McCarthy was right - & now we are seeing the fruits of the problem our country chose to ignore.
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Well, right there you've got the problem. Some people hate McCarthy for "creating a red scare." Others love him for raising the alarm about Communism.
But in truth, McCarthy didn't start anything. The country had already been up in arms about Communists in government for a year or two when he came along. Steps had already been taken to deal with the problem. McCarthy just latched onto the biggest issue of the day.
He was sloppy and careless about facts, and wild in some of his accusations. McCarthy cost the country some prestige abroad when we really needed it. That's why his reputation sank so low for so long.
He wasn't the devil, but he was no saint, either.
My grandmother-in-law was forced from her job in the NYC public schools in the fallout of the McCarthy hearings, when she refused to testify. She was an unapologetic communist and her husband worked in civil engineering on the Moscow Metro.
She was bitterly pleased when we heard, riding in a cab in Manhattan, the radio announce that Joe McCarthy had died, but not because he’d created a “bogus Red Scare,” but rather because he’d had her number as a communist and created a major disruption in her life.
She was a good-hearted, kind person, which is perhaps why she fell for the siren song of collectivism.
Senator McCarthy is an American Hero. We need a man like him in the Senate today.
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