Posted on 12/07/2019 7:27:58 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Chuck Todd, the host of Meet the Press, fired back Thursday after being repeatedly accused of McCarthyism by conservative commentator and Fox News personality Tucker Carlson.
Mr. Todd delivered a monologue about McCarthyism during the NBC shows latest episode, saying the term has been used recently absent much intellectual honesty or care.
Without mentioning Mr. Carlson by name, Mr. Todd weighed in on the heels of the Fox News host repeatedly comparing him this week to former Sen. Joe McCarthy, the late Wisconsin Republican who infamously accused Americans during the Cold War of being communists.
Mr. Todd played a montage during the segment that showed several politicians and pundits, including Mr. Carlson, among others, making references to modern day McCarthyism. He also played a clip of the former senator slamming distinguished late journalist Edward R. Murrow followed by video of President Trump similarly disparaging the press.
Some believe McCarthyism was about the Soviet Union and Communists external threats but it wasnt. It was about the damage this nation can inflict upon itself when we lose sight of our past and our principles, when we succumb to our basic instincts, when we favor fear over fact, said Mr. Todd.
McCarthyism wasnt about Communism, it was about power. It wasnt about exposing threats, it was about imposing fear. It wasnt about them, it was about us, Mr. Todd continued. And now, here we are again confronting the very same machinations designed to confuse, obscure and antagonize.
Mr. Todd ended the segment by paraphrasing a famous line from a 1954 Senate hearing that preceded McCarthys downfall.
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The House Committee on Un-American Activities started in the 1930s long before Joe McCarthy was involved. They investigated ties to Communism and NAZIsm.
The Crucible was written before Joe McCarthy was involved as well.
So just what were the overreach issues that the Left is still upset about when they claim “McCarthyism” since Joe McCarthy was quite late to that game when they were already upset about their Pinko dupes for Stalin being questioned.
Stalinists lie. Always
It is quite clear today that Red Communists infiltrated academia, the media, and Obama administration.
Plenty of naked Communists served in Obama’s regime.
Back then? It has been the case since before then, that has continued to this very day.
Don’t know— but it sure was a great thing that J. Edgar Hoover kept all of the Venona intercepts away from anyone else in the government. The PROOF that Alger Hiss was a spy-— the little creep-— the button down liberal elitist communist rings of “intelligentsia” that still run our mainstream media, and have always... “worked with the Russians” even after the collapse of the soviet government. They know the oligarchy is just a better paying version of Stalinism
Impeachment is this case is an attack on “our Democracy” to disenfranchise my votes.
The CPUSA supported H->! in 2016..
Umm nope.
Chuck Todd is a partisan hack that has no sense of decency. He has very little sense as it is.
Difference was McCarthy was right, and making a few mistakes didn’t make him wrong about his overall views about what was going on.
The country is full of socialists today, and they stopped teaching us history in schools so that kids today don’t even know what a socialist is.
Decency?
No Chuck, you just have no sense at all.
And he’s too much of a coward to go on Tucker’s show and debate him.
The guy needs a good knuckle sandwich.
Me thinks the lady doth protest too much.
Chuck Todd, HAVE YOU NO SHAME?
Chuckie, who looks like a child molester imho, is MEAN, NASTY, VILE CREEP that Hugh Hewitt LOVES!
Chuck T. paid off FRAUD
It is quite clear today that Red Communists infiltrated academia, the media, and Obama administration.
The Frankfurt School was crucial in this since the 1940s when they came here from Germany. All FReepers should be aware of it. A couple videos about them:
McCarthy tried to warn us, and the democrats communists destroyed him for it.
F. chUCK Todd is correct that this campaign is different than McCarthy. Odd Todd is just "correct" for the wrong reasons........ McCarthy was right, and the Schiff show is an actual witch hunt.
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