Posted on 04/06/2019 11:26:10 AM PDT by rktman
The headline of Jonathan Zimmerman's article in the Washington Post, "How Trump finally turned Republicans against McCarthyism," alerted me to the possibility that Zimmerman has never spoken to a Republican in the wild.
The subhead, "After nearly 70 years, Republicans have stopped defending Joe McCarthy," confirmed my suspicions. Zimmerman insists that the "new consensus" among Republicans is that "McCarthyism was, in fact, a massive, unpardonable assault on freedom, fairness and the rule of law." This is nuts. In reality, McCarthy's status among Republicans is higher now than it has been since his untimely death in 1957.
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He was a zealot, to be sure, and overplayed his hand. But history, even as documented by the Venona decrypts, bears out his story.
Anyone who is reading this who has NOT read BLACKLISTED BY HISTORY needs to stop right now, go get that book, and don’t stop to eat or sleep till you’ve finished it. It’s that important.
She kinda faded out of relevance and moved to being a Trump enemy to try and get some back.
She’s not the gal she used to be.
Mostly you get, “Joe who?”
Joe McCarthy was right.
From my YAF days:
FIGHTIN’ JOE McCARTHY
(Tune: “The Yellow Rose of Texas”)
Oh, Fightin’ Joe McCarthy,
We’re one and all for you.
You got the dirty Commies
And you’ll get the pinkos too.
Oh, Fightin’ Joe McCarhty,
We’re one and all for you.
Our land you’ll save,
Our flag you’ll wave.
The dear red, white, and blue.
Now Fightin’ Joe McCarthy
Has gone to his reward
And now he’s up in Heaven
Fighting Commies for the Lord.
Oh, Fightin’ Joe McCarhty,
We’re one and all for you.
Our land you’ll save,
Our flag you’ll wave.
The dear red, white, and blue.
You’ll get banned for pointing out that the State Department and other agencies were rife with them? With the exception of Secretary of State Acheson, EVERY U.S. signer of the UN Charter was a Communist. Every one.
In 1979, former Sen. Eugene McCarthy gave an address at the Young Americans for Freedom’s annual conference in Washington, DC. When he was introduced, members of the audience chanted, “Joe! Joe! Joe!”
She is on the right side which is more important than being on your side.
Has been for a long time. Nixon's removal from office was a result of the FBI Deputy Director, Mark Felt, spoon feeding classified information to Woodward and Bernstein.
The FBI was determined to take Nixon down, because he wanted to clean up the Bureau after Hoover died. They were not great investigative reporters. They were delivery boys for the deep state.
Not a fair statement. Marx was raised as a secular liberal by his father who gave up all the trappings of his former religion. Engels was a Protestant German.
The problem doesn’t vindicate the un-American approach.
Like you do not know?What “punishments” do you speak of ?Who are the “innocents” ?
What is this “un-American approach” ? - fieldmarshaldj
I daresay none of us do. And await an honest chapter-and-verse account, preferably with links. Which, I am very confident, will all be rebutted by Ann Coulter’s Treason, and/or Stanton Evans’ Blacklisted by History.
In 1954 critic Leslie Fiedler captured the essence of “McCarthyism”: “From one end of the country to another rings the cry, ‘I am cowed! I am afraid to speak out!’, and the even louder response, ‘Look, he is cowed! He is afraid to speak out!’” - Ann Coulter, TreasonIn “liberal” mythology, McCarthy and the House UnAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC, of which Senator McCarthy obviously was not even a member) shut down the First Amendment rights of innocents. In reality, “Bias in the Media” was in full flower, and was neither intimidated by nor friendly to Senator McCarthy or HUAC.The proof is all over the place in contemporary US literature. In contrast to what you would have found in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. CNN went along and got along with Hussein, and only revealed that after the invasion by Bush43:
The News We (CNN) Kept To Ourselves [must read]In real life if First Amendment rights are suppressed in a country, people in that country don’t read about it in the papers.
My side IS the right side. She is a shrill, screeching wreck who wants what she wants now period. She does more damage to Trump than the liberals.
I figured out that Joseph McCarthy was a patriot and a hero back in the 1970s. The Venona Papers simply lent credence to what I already knew: Hollywood and other elitist enclaves were rife with communists then (and now).
Significantly, I had to do that by thinking for myself. Even many ostensibly conservative Christians I then knew bought into the Big Lie about Tailgunner Joe.
When the Soviet union failed the truth came out that Algier Hiss was a Communist spy.....just like McCarthy said!!!
I think you’re playing cute.
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