[forkinsocket]

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[sirjohn]

It’s amazing how people can be demagogued for so many years that the lie becomes “truth”. Thanks to the researcher for setting the record straight.

[squidly]

Maybe this should be a barf alert. I thought LBJ and Jimmy Carter (among others) did infinitely more damage to our country than McCarthy ever dreamed of doing.

[RC2]

Is this guy for real? It has been shown that McCarthy was actually doing good things. One good thing is that because of McCarthy, our government set communisim back 60 years. Especially if you look at Hollywood today. Hollywood is back to where it was pre-McCarthy.

[Gay State Conservative]

I don’t know nearly as much about McCarthy as I should but my understanding,gleaned mostly from the MSM,was that his constant chant during the 50’s was “there’s a Communist under every bed”.If this is an accurate portrayal of him (which I understand is far from certain) then I can only criticize him in terms of degrees.There wasn’t a Communist under *every* bed but there were sure a lot of them...including about half the career diplomats at State and even a (RAT) Vice President.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Isn’t this the guy that Coulter recently wrote about as being nothing but a dyed-in-wool liberal since he wrote the McCarthy book?

[Eagle of Liberty]

No American politician of the 20th century is more reviled by historians and opinion makers than Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, the Wisconsin Republican whose 1950s anti-Communist crusade is synonymous with witch-hunting and repression.

I don't know. I think that FDR's internment camp program should be included in this analysis.

In 1944, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the exclusion, removal, and detention, arguing that it is permissible to curtail the civil rights of a racial group when there is a "pressing public necessity."[5]

And this was done by a hero to most uber-libs who now fear Bush's Fascistic Brown Shirts.

[the OlLine Rebel]

“The fiercely negative judgments of those who lived through the McCarthy era are widely accepted today for good reason: they ring true.”

Maybe for those who were close to the fire, but apparently for many every-day people then, this was all just peachy. It seems the libs near the fire took over and convinced everyone that McCarthy was “evil”.

“These judgments tell a cautionary tale, showing how a nation’s legitimate concern for security in uncertain times can be turned into something partisan, repressive and cruel.”

Ah, and there is the little innuendo -

“BUSH’S WAR” IS ILLEGITIMATE AND WE BETTER STOP PUTTING PANTIES ON THE HEADS OF ARABS.