One thing about McCarthy, history has shown that he was right on the money about Hollyweird.
Posted on 12/04/2013 7:55:57 PM PST by the scotsman
'I am tempted to start my talk by saying: “I have here in my hands a list of names.”
That, of course, was the phrase made famous by Senator Joseph McCarthy, who built his political career in the early 1950s, the history books tell us, on exaggerating the extent of Communist subversion of American life. He also gave his name to a phenomenon that has become a term of opprobrium in American political life.
To accuse someone of McCarthyism or to label a person a McCarthyite is not to issue a compliment. The implication is that a person so named has made scurrilous and unwarranted accusations and is engaged in unethical and sleazy maneuvers. The late Senator from Wisconsin even gave his name to the period.
The McCarthy era is commonly depicted as one where America, consumed by a paranoid and irrational fear of domestic communism, went on a witch-hunt.
Beginning in the mid-1990s, this simplistic version of an American history in which national security fears were merely the pretext for an attack on civil rights and liberties began to lose ground.'
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
I would consider it a badge of honor. He may have been a little rough in his own life but he was right on the money as far as subversives in this country. Another reason to take him down.
He related to me about being introduced to an older Jewish woman that exclaimed: "Oh! You should do something about that name!"
Told my dad it was a very good thing I was nowhere around then.
Ann Coulter wrote a book a few years ago defending McCarthy.
One thing about McCarthy, history has shown that he was right on the money about Hollyweird.
Rather than make alterations, however, I would simply note that several of the people whom I say are unidentified have been identified – including the two atomic spies, Quantum and Fogel.
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anyone know who Quantum and Fogel happen to be or where harvey khehr makes this public?
There is a much more important name missing from the article, and he has pretty much been scrubbed from the books and demonized James Angleton
One thing about McCarthy, history has shown that he was right on the money about Hollyweird.
Good grief—talk about faint praise. I’ll take Stanton Evans, thanks.
Read the entire article. Thanks for posting. Really helped my understanding of the USSR/CPUSA/FDR-Truman/HUAC/Venona Files. Haven’t read Stanton’s book, but I respect the man. The author pretty well dismisses Coulter’s book on McCarthy as non-serious research. The posted comments at the end of the article rival, and perhaps exceeds, the knowledgable content of many serious Freepers.
I tried to read the entire article. Talk about witch hunts by liberals, it is as twisted as it gets. I came of age during the witch hunt of Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon was/is a ‘saint’ compared to any liberal president before or since his presidency. Unless or until these liberal historians come clean on reality of what took place they have no ability or business of evaluating ‘history’.
Public liberal education does not teach the historical record.
If you are interested in McCarthy or the McCarthy era, you should read Whittaker Chambers’ book, Witness.
No problem.
Coulter got a lot of press, but there are many far better books on the issue than hers. Hers is light reading, but has been seen as a serious work, sadly many who have read her book will not have read the really serious work on McCarthy and Venona.
Will do.
Arthur Herman wrote a fair, critical but balanced biography of McCarthy worth reading.
In defense of Joe McCarthy...
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I was thinking about the article that you posted and I do have some quibbles with the author. He makes the same mistake that most lefties do, he blames McCarthy for the over reach of the HUAC. McCarthy had nothing to do with the HUAC and those excesses were certainly not limited to Republicans.
I am little sensitive about the HUAC because my grandfather was reported to the HUAC by the CIO Electrical Workers and Machinists Union, of which he was once elected president of the union at RCA. The first and only President of the CIO union at RCA.
The union big shots wanted my grandfather out of the way. First they tried to have him promoted to management so that he couldn’t serve as President, then they had him run down by a car as he stood with my grandmother on the curb in front of their home.
RCA responded to the attack on my grandfather by closing the Camden plant and moving out of state without any of the union workers. When my grandfather recovered from injuries, the people of Camdent County responded by electing him to the NJ State Assembly. The CIO responded by accusing my grandfather of being a communist. His crime was that he was once seen scanning the headlines on a communist newspaper at a newsstand near his bus stop.
The FBI followed him for the rest of his life, even attended his funeral.
I am so sorry to read that story. Couldn’t even give him peace in death, appalling.
Would be interesting to see “Witness” as a film. Josh Ackland could have played Chambers well.
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