[Stallone]

Same game...new name...Islamic Fundamentalism.

The enemy within.

[Temple Drake]

Yes, McCarthy was right. Now round 'em up, ship 'em out and be done with 'em. We have given strangers the benefit of the doubt too long and have been taken advantage of in a most shameless fashion.

[Anamensis]

It's something to think about, isn't it? BUMP

[FreeReign]

McCarthy was right in many ways.

[MissAmericanPie]

I wish he were alive today. We need a slogan for Liberals and anti-Americans living here, "If you are not for America, Amercia is not for you, move on", time for alot of people to move on.

[ConsistentLibertarian]

Right about what? Right to "force [his] targets `to defend themselves' rather than advance their socialist ideas"? I think our side has better arguments, so I don't fear people having the freedom to advance other ideas. And I'm not willing to give the State power to regulate what counts as "politically correct" speech -- using State power to harrass and censure the expression of views the State finds distasteful, misguided, or inappropriate. We know where that path leads.

[imperator2]

Everybody now knows that McCarthy was ABSOLUTLY right. Unfortunatly he did not have the personality and strength to withstand the Communist inspired assault. He cracked under the intense attacks, and finally broke down, which would have happened to most individuals so ruthlessly and relentlessly targeted by the Communist Party and its many sympathizers among the power elite of the time.

[Don Myers]

He was absolutely correct. The left hates this man. He exposed them. They still won, but they just can't forgive him. He was a great American.

[RckyRaCoCo]

YES

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[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

The conclusion of a panel of ex-socialist and liberal historians last spring was that the charges which McCarthy brought were all substantially true. One should remember that Sen. McCarthy was not involved in the House Committee on Un-American acticities.

[AndyJackson]

McCarthy was wrong - dead drunk wrong - and anyone who thinks otherwise is an anti-constitutional dellusionist.

I don't mean to say we did not have communist sympathizers in positions of the U.S. government - and it would have been well to focus on them. But the unconstitutional tactics against everyone who fell into one of his hate-groups was anathema to the Constitution. It was a period of great fear for everyone - and a lot of WWII war heroes and dedicated patriots were terrified to do anything that might arouse suspicions. Anything.

For instance - my father - a decorated combat pilot and otherwise biggoted conservative was terrified that he would be caught with his copy of Das Kapital. Furthermore, he had actually spent time in Prague after the war when it was behind the iron curtain. Reading Das Kampf did not make him a Nazi and reading Karl Marx was not going to make him a communist, but these were distinctions too subtle for Herr McCarthy and his brown-shirts.

I presume your point in this is to have a new congressional committee on unAmerican activities to berate liberals, muslims and anyone else you don't like.

If you have finished spraying your noxious venom around please crawl back into your hole.

[sakic]

Article posted is 100% wrong. It was our fanatical fear of communism that caused us to create Bin Laden and his kind.

[TBP]

Joe's one of my heroes, as you can see in this old song from my YAF days, to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas" (No, I didn't write it, but I wish I had.):

Oh, Fighting Joe McCarthy,
We're one and all for you.
You got the dirty commies
And you'll get the pinkos too.
Oh, Fighting Joe McCarthy,
We're one and all for you.
Our flag you'll wave,
Our land you'll save,
The dear red, white, and blue.

Now Fighting Joe McCarthy
Has gone to his reward.
And now he's up in Heaven
Fighting Commies for the Lord.
Oh, Fighting Joe McCarthy,
We're one and all for you.
Our flag you'll wave,
Our land you'll save,
The dear red, white, and blue.

[TBP]

Joe's one of my heroes, as you can see in this old song from my YAF days, to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas" (No, I didn't write it, but I wish I had.):

Oh, Fighting Joe McCarthy,
We're one and all for you.
You got the dirty commies
And you'll get the pinkos too.
Oh, Fighting Joe McCarthy,
We're one and all for you.
Our land you'll save,
Our flag you'll wave,
The dear red, white, and blue.

Now Fighting Joe McCarthy
Has gone to his reward.
And now he's up in Heaven
Fighting Commies for the Lord.
Oh, Fighting Joe McCarthy,
We're one and all for you.
Our land you'll save,
Our flag you'll wave,
The dear red, white, and blue.

[WalterSkinner]

We know now that Whittaker Chambers was right.

[freedomnews]

The reason for these increasingly regular and violent attacks was Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. These extreme groups (condemned by most peaceful Muslims) want to force America out of the Middle East and drive Israel into the sea. But where did they come from and how are they linked?

It was the overthrow of the shah of Iran by a radical Muslim movement in 1979 that set fundamentalist Islam on a collision course with America. The new government led by Ayatollah Khomeini determined to humiliate the "Great Satan", as they dubbed America; one of its first actions was to seize dozens of hostages in the American embassy in Tehran and hold them captive for almost a year.

THANK YOU JIMMY CARTER

[Billthedrill]

IMHO McCarthy was a convenient "out" for a number of people who might have fared worse had HUAC been able to proceed in a less bombastic, wildly accusatory manner and the Senate not butted in. He hijacked the former proceedings from that young feller whatsisname Nixon who was doing just fine until Tailgunner Joe thought the adults could do a better job.

Was he correct in that the State Department and other federal agencies had been penetrated by geniune Communists? Yes, and the evidence to back that up is coming out in reams from their former paymasters in the Soviet Union.

[mountainfolk]

I worked the night shift at a DC government agency during the McCarthy hearings. I watched them during the day and would later read in the newspapers a warped, different version of what I had seen . This was my introduction to the power of the news media to slant reportage in whatever direction they desired. Later, the campaign against Barry Goldwater was so filled with lies which the media repeated that it solidified my position as a conservative. Thanks to Joe McCarthy, I only have to skip read a small portion of any publication to determine the drift. The other media avenues are also easy to spot. Senator McCarthy may have rubbed some of his political contemporaries the wrong way, but he was right and they were cowards.

[backhoe]

Tailgunner Joe--Patriot Whistleblower or Right-Wing Witch-hunter?

[rvoitier]

Yes, he was.

The Venona Project

[Jimhimself]

Of course he was. Look who destroyed him.