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Wershba, pioneer TV newsman who exposed "Red Scare," dies
Reuters ^ | 05/16/11

Posted on 05/16/2011 11:47:07 AM PDT by Borges

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He was played by Robert Downey Jr. in 'Good Night and Good Luck'
1 posted on 05/16/2011 11:47:08 AM PDT by Borges
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If he stopped the hunt for Domestic Communists, may he burn in hell.


2 posted on 05/16/2011 11:49:08 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The Democrat Party is Communist. The Republican Party is Socialist. The Tea Party is Capitalist.)
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To: Borges

now played by a corpse in “good bye and good riddance”.


3 posted on 05/16/2011 11:49:39 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Democrats...the party of Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy, and Sedition)
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To: Borges

Meanwhile, we’ve still got the commies destroying our country.


4 posted on 05/16/2011 11:50:09 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Borges

Yes and the Soviet archives proves that the Red Scare was real. And this feminine hygene product helped stop it? Burn in hell.


5 posted on 05/16/2011 11:55:03 AM PDT by Peter from Rutland
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6 posted on 05/16/2011 11:58:00 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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I agree. McCarthy was a hero and the Hollywood vermin should’ve been lined up against a wall and ended the same way they would’ve done it to everyone else if they’d had a their way.


7 posted on 05/16/2011 11:58:23 AM PDT by MeganC (NO WAR FOR OIL! ........except when a Democrat's in charge.)
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To: Borges; Ouderkirk

‘Good Night and Good Luck’

I wonder if those were Mr. Wershba’s last words.


8 posted on 05/16/2011 11:58:29 AM PDT by haroldeveryman
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To: Borges
Amazing how the liars at Reuters still think the Communist infiltration of the US was and is a fantasy of the right.

LOL.

The right was and is dead on.

And now the Rats are making communism mainstream.

Hope this POS burns.

9 posted on 05/16/2011 11:59:18 AM PDT by caddie
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“Controversial” hunt for Commies................we should still work to eliminate them from our government.


10 posted on 05/16/2011 11:59:18 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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He helped expose the “Red Scare” which helped create the election of nobama 60 years later, who if re-elected will allow the “Red Scare” to reach it’s culmination.


11 posted on 05/16/2011 12:01:33 PM PDT by certrtwngnut
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What are you talking about?


12 posted on 05/16/2011 12:02:13 PM PDT by Borges
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At least he was granted the time on this earth to discover how wrong he was and realize what a disservice he had done to his country.
13 posted on 05/16/2011 12:04:58 PM PDT by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
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To: Borges

Senator Joseph McCarthy was validated by Soviet Union records that proved that the people he was persuing were active on behalf of Soviet Communism. Some of them were actually on the Soviet payroll. That kind of thing was published on this site ages ago.


14 posted on 05/16/2011 12:05:08 PM PDT by MeganC (NO WAR FOR OIL! ........except when a Democrat's in charge.)
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He helped expose the “Red Scare” which helped create the election of nobama 60 years later, who if re-elected will allow the “Red Scare” to reach it’s culmination.


15 posted on 05/16/2011 12:05:14 PM PDT by certrtwngnut
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I meant what had to with Hollywood. Mccarthy was after communists in the State Dept. and Military.


16 posted on 05/16/2011 12:06:04 PM PDT by Borges
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Controversial” hunt for Commies................we should still work to eliminate them from our government.

and our schools, and our news organizations and our colleges and our churches...

17 posted on 05/16/2011 12:06:41 PM PDT by Cowman (How can the IRS seize property without a warrant if the 4th amendment still stands?)
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18 posted on 05/16/2011 12:08:53 PM PDT by Maverick68
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To: Borges

Prayers for a misguided soul. McCarthy was right, the media was wrong.


19 posted on 05/16/2011 12:09:37 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: MeganC
McCarthy was a drunk, and McCarthy was an idiot, and McCarthy was a bully.

And McCarthy was right.

McCarthy never found a single Communist in the federal government.

All McCarthy did was stand up, point out that the various government agencies had, themselves, found Communists within their own ranks, and then asked them what they intended to do about it.

The answer, of course, was they intended to do nothing. Because, as Whittaker Chambers explained:

At the basic point of the revolution the shift of power from business to government the two kinds of revolutionists were at one; and they shared many other views and hopes. Thus men who sincerely abhorred the word Communism, in the pursuit of common ends found that they were unable to distinguish Communists from themselves, except that it was the Communists who were likely to be most forthright and most dedicated in the common cause. For men who could not see that what they firmly believed was liberalism added up to socialism could scarcely be expected to see what added up to Communism. Any charge of Communism enraged them precisely because they could not grasp the differences between themselves and those against whom it was made.

20 posted on 05/16/2011 12:21:54 PM PDT by jdege
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