The irony is that Joe McCarthy probably did more to whitewash the Communists than anyone. He was so clumsy that the woman whose interrogation led directly to his downfall was a communist agent but got away with it.
Probably not, but we aren’t arguing Joe McCarthy today but instead have our eyes focused on Joe Stalin’s current handmaiden in the US government, one David Axelrod!
You have to be kidding! There was plenty of whitewashing done on the Annie Lee Moss case but it was by Democrat committee members like Stuart Symington, Scoop Jackson and Carl Mundt and "reporters" like Jack Anderson, Lately Thomas and Richard Fried. Leftist "historians" have since repeated their lies and turned them into the "conventional wisdom."
Democrats on the committee were briefed well advance on details of the Moss FBI report. They knew she was a Communist and they concocted a phony charade about her mistaken identity that played well to the media to cover their sorry political butts. McCarthy was "Borked" long before the word was even invented!
The left back then, and politicians who were more concerned about what name and image they could make for themselves over what was right for their nation, are the ones who principally underminded the entire thing.
McCarthy surely made mistakes...but he was spot on directly over the target when it came to the need for aggressively rooting out the enemy within in his day. That we were unsuccessful in completely doing so then has helped lead to the state of affairs today.
McCarthy was a kook and a drunk, but he was our kook and drunk. He could have been pure as the driven snow and as brilliant as Isaac Newton, and the left would have still made his name a cussword.
There are an awful lot of lies told about McCarthy.
What do you regard as clumsy? Are you sure it even happened?
Communist sympathizers within our government also led to his downfall. They accused him of “faking” photos and baited Roy Cohn by asking him what he knows of “fairies”.
What a stupid statement.
Why? They played McCarthy for a fool.