So, Hiss and Rosenberg, real Communist spies were part of a "Red Scare"?
I guess the millions "killed" in China and the USSR could have told us we had nothing to fear from the nice Communists.
"One of the darkest periods in American history"? This is funny! Imagine comparing Joe McCarthy to the Civil War, slavery, WWI, Pearl Harbor and WWII, September 11th, etc? Where do these leftwing writers come up with this stuff? Perhaps the real "darket period of American history", (prior to Islamic terrorism), was the long, anxious period of the Cold War between the Soviet Empire and the U.S. Communism had turned the harmless, backwards Russia into an ever expanding global Superpower of darkness, deception and danger. Gobbling up sattelite nations in Eastern Europe in a mind boggling fashion, and even controlling a surrogate Communist State off the coast of Florida, the "Evil Empire" had spread its errors to China, North Korea, North Vietnam, Cuba. Even France and Italy saw the rise of influence in their own communist parties. Traditionally conservative nations in South America were leaning towards socialism, and the nuclear arms race between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. was growing like the AIDS epidemic in Africa is today. Children were coming home from public schools with mimeographed evacuation plans in the event of thermo-nuclear holocaust. People of modest means were building bomb shelters in their back yards. Communism has infiltrated our public schools, our government, our business, (i.e. Armond Hammer), and even our Churches, (read Bella Dodd's "School of Darkness" - this former Communist leader converted to the Catholic Church and exposed the sinister plot of the Communists). Even Pope Pius XII was writing Encyclicals and Apostolic Letters warning of the grave dangers of Communism. And this left wing wanker who wrote this article has the friggin audacity to claim that it was Joe McCarthy who embodied the darkness in America? I'm sick of this left wing sh-t.