Being branded a McCarthyite should be a badge of honor.
Exactly. McCarthy was proven right.
(1) His gut feeling - that Communists would stop at nothing to infiltrate the US government, and that given the law of averages they had to have been somewhat successful - was right.
(2) He actually did not have concrete proof of many of his allegations. He was right about some of the people he accused and wrong about others.
Had he been as cautious in his research as he was accurate in his assumptions, he would have been far more effective. His botched invstigation into the Army at Fort Monmouth destroyed his reputation, and he kind of asked for it.
Tell a lie long enough and morons, the lazy, those on the dole will believe it..
May not be a co incident we have famous republicans called BUSH, DOLE and Boner..
AND George Bush resembles Alfred E. Nueman(Madd Mag.) GREATLY..
I hear progressives laughing..
IIRC, Ann Coulter said something that about 90 % or more of those accused by McCarthy were traitors, verified by the Venona intercepts and defectors, etc. He was good, but not that good. The rats exploited the errors that he couldn't prove, to great effect when you consider a 90 % batting average!
CORRECT YOU ARE RE_N
AS USUAL IF YOU WANT THE TRUTH TOLD WITH STUNNING FACTUAL WIT ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS GOOGLE THE BRAINY BEAUTY ANN COULTER AND TYPE IN YOUR FAVORITE SEARCH TERM READ ANN’S WORDS:
The myth of “McCarthyism” is the greatest Orwellian fraud of our times. Liberals are fanatical liars, then as now. The portrayal of Sen. Joe McCarthy as a wild-eyed demagogue destroying innocent lives is sheer liberal hobgoblinism. Liberals weren’t hiding under the bed during the McCarthy era. They were systematically undermining the nation’s ability to defend itself, while waging a bellicose campaign of lies to blacken McCarthy’s name. Liberals denounced McCarthy because they were afraid of getting caught, so they fought back like animals to hide their own collaboration with a regime as evil as the Nazis. As Whittaker Chambers said: “Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.”
At the time, half the country realized liberals were lying. But after a half century of liberal myth-making, even the disgorging of Soviet and American archives half a century later could not overcome their lies. In 1995, the U.S. government released its cache of Soviet cables that had been decoded during the Cold War in a top-secret undertaking known as the Venona Project. The cables proved the overwhelming truth of McCarthy’s charges. Naturally, therefore, the release of decrypted Soviet cables was barely mentioned by the New York Times. It might have detracted from stories of proud and unbowed victims of “McCarthyism.” They were not so innocent after all, it turns out.
Soviet spies in the government were not a figment of right-wing imaginations. McCarthy was not tilting at windmills. He was tilting at an authentic communist conspiracy that had been laughed off by the Democratic Party. The Democrats had unpardonably connived with the greatest evil of the 20th century. This could not be nullified. But liberals could at least hope to redeem the Democratic Party by dedicating themselves to rewriting history and blackening reputations. This is what liberals had done repeatedly throughout the Cold War. At every strategic moment this century, liberals would wage a campaign of horrendous lies and disinformation simply to dull the discovery the American people had made. They had gotten good at it.
There were, admittedly, a few rare and striking exceptions to the left’s overall obtuseness to communist totalitarianism. John F. Kennedy’s pronouncements on communism could have been spoken by Joe McCarthy. For all his flaws, Truman unquestionably loved his country. He was a completely different breed from today’s Democrats. Through the years, there were various epiphanic moments creating yet more anti-communist Democrats. The Stalin-Hitler pact, Alger Hiss’ prothonotary warbler, information about the purges and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago” – all these had their effect.
But after World War II, the Democratic Party suffered a form of what France had succumbed to after World War I. The entire party had lost its nerve for sacrifice, heroism and bravery. Beginning in the ‘50s, there was a real battle for the soul of the Democratic Party. By the late ‘60s, the battle was over. The anti-communist Democrats had lost.
GAME OVER IT’S ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW..
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McCarthy is one of the greatest men in american history.