Smearing Of Joe McCarthy

Media Monitor ^ | May 27, 2003 | Cliff Kincaid

[jscd3]

Have you read Mr. Buckley's more recent...

No, I haven't had the opportunity, but it is on my List Of Books To Read When I Get A Chance.

[DPB101]

Faulk married Lynne Smith, whom he met at a New York City rally for presidential candidate Henry Wallace in the spring of 1948.

I know nothig of Faulk but nearly every organization which endorsed Wallace for president was a Soviet front. If Faulk was slandered, it is a shame. But that was not the norm. The threat was real and those who refused to testify were, almost to a person, on the side of the Soviet Union. The CPUSA was funded and directed by Moscow. Those who belonged knew that. They were agents of a foreign power.

What receives little attention today is that the real "witch-hunt" occurred a dozen years before McCarthy was elected to the Senate.

McCormick-Dickstein hearings of 1934 smeared many Americans by accusing them of being part of a fascist conspiracy to overthrow the US government.

Dickstein (D-NY) was on the payroll of the Soviet Union.

The 1934 hearing were only the start for Dickstein. On February 11, 1941 he took to the floor of the House of Representatives and alleged:

One hundred and ten fascist organizations in the United States have had, and have now the key to the back door of the Un-American Activities Committee!

Nice huh? Less than a year before we entered WWII, when America was helping the UK fight Nazism, Dickstein smeared decent Americans, some of whom, no doubt, would soon give their lives fighting fascism.

Dickstein himself had introduced, on Stalin's orders, the bill creating HCUA (HUAC). He was furious that his baby had turned on his comrades and was now investigating communists. And he was willing to smear anyone who hinted that communists had infiltrated the US government. This from a person who was selling visas to the Soviets when he chaired an immigration committee.

A similar parallel existed with Hollywood. The real Hollywood Blacklist happened before the testimony of the Hollywood Ten in the 1950s (who were, by the way, members of the Communist Party USA).The real blacklist denied jobs to those who were not communist sympathizers. And it was ugly. Rumors were floated to studio executives, many of whom were Jewish, that this writer or that actor supported Adolf Hitler. Talk about a career killer. More on the real Hollywood Blacklist here.

[JCG]

(FWIW, Joe McCarthy's war record is less than sterling.)

Care to tell us why you do not believe it measures up?

Until the speech, billed as a tribute to mark the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, McCarthy was best known in Washington for pushing legislation to benefit Wisconsin's industries and for exaggerating his service record during World War II. He calls himself "Tailgunner Joe" in campaign literature, even though he was a paper-pusher in the Marine Corps.

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/doc/1047/1:MIL1950/1:MIL1950011899.html

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[terilyn]

Thanks for the ping.

That was a fascinating audio link you found. Anybody that hasn't listened should. Quite an eye opener!

[DPB101]

Link doesn't work. The article is in google cache but that too brings up a blank. Who wrote it? What are the sources for the "McCarthy was best known (for)" comment?

[Hermann the Cherusker]

whom he met at a New York City rally for presidential candidate Henry Wallace in the spring of 1948

Sounds like he deserved what he got. Wallace was an airheaded fellow-traveler with the enthusiastic support of all the Communists and the worst left-wing elements int he country. Faulk supporting him simply shows his real character.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

FWIW, Joe McCarthy's war record is less than sterling.

At a time when many men were being drafted, McCarthy gave up his judicial bench at the age of 34 and enlisted in the Marines. He was made an intelligence officer for Marine aviation at the rank of 2nd Lieutenant and worked his way up to Captain at discharge. When the anti-McCarthyites haggle over how many missions he flew, they miss the point - not only did he not have to be in the Marine Corps in harms way, but he was not required to fly on any missions - he volunteered for that too.

Not that many others did such a thing, and he was hardly under the threat of the draft. "He didn't have to go to war, but he did." (Wisconsin State Journal, 7/18/1946). You defame a great American, sir.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

No, worse. Doing a good thing well.

[nonliberal]

I disagree. McCarthy was not the best person, Jenner would have been better.

[nonliberal]

The "doctored" portion of the photograph was inconsequential.

[nonliberal]

Exactly. Roosevelt was more brutal on the America Firsters than McCarthy was on the Communists.

[DPB101]

Not as familiar with that era as I am with communists and post WWII. Are there any even handed books on it? Most of what I find on the net are either far left attacks or neo-fascist cheerleading. Has Smedley Butler been reconsidered? Seen people on the left and the right both speak highly of him. Now that we've discovered the man who helped bring him to national attention was a Soviet agent it makes one wonder whose side he was really on.

[HISSKGB]

Why does the Star Telegram continue to write such commie propaganda?

[HISSKGB]

Dickstein led the fight against the registration of aliens, thereby hampering any effort to keep track of commie aliens flooding our shores to foment revolution.

[DPB101]

McCarthy trivia:

Greta Van Susteren's father, Urban Van Susteren, ran Joe McCarthy's successful 1946 campaign for the U.S .Senate.

[ggekko]

"Sheryl Gay Stolberg in the New York Times insisted that, "Historians who have reviewed the documents [the hearings] say they do not support McCarthy’s theories that, in the 1950s, Communist spies were operating at the highest levels of government...."

This statement is so typical of liberal spin control. There is very little new information in declassified documents from the McCarthy hearings; with no new information being released the NY times reporter feels no compunction about baldly asserting that there is "no proof of Communist spies operating at the highest levels of Government." This is liberal spin control 101: don't answer the difficult question, answer an easier, related question that makes you look better.

What the reporter failed to mention was that the declassified Venona transcipts of Soviet diplomatic traffic completely vindicates McCarthy's entire investigatory effort as it has been show beyond any doubt that several high level spy rings were active at the highest levels of Government, in academia, and in Hollywood. These spy rings were controlled and funded by Moscow. The Venona transcripts also proved that Alger Hiss was a Soviet agent; this fact was omitted in Alger Hiss' obituary in the NY times.

When the Left does not like a particular hitorical outcome they commence assiduously re-writing it. The Left is now attempting to portray the Cold War as a mistake of American policy makers consistently misinterpreting Russian "intentions". Such outrageously ahistorical revisionism should not be left unchallenged.

[JCG]

Link doesn't work.

Link works fine. Do a string search for "Tailgunner" when you get there.

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[JCG]

Not that many others did such a thing, and he was hardly under the threat of the draft. "He didn't have to go to war, but he did." (Wisconsin State Journal, 7/18/1946). You defame a great American, sir.

Yeah, right. Use a 1946 article to defend someone who committed his crimes years later.

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[JCG]

The "doctored" portion of the photograph was inconsequential.

Sounds like a Bill Klinton defense. It depends on what your definition of "lie" is.

It was "doctored" to make G. David Schine look like he was someone of importance who should be elevated from private to Lt. But, far from hobnobbing with anybody really important, he was shown to be just part of a large group shot when the actual photo was released.

As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. And, with a little "surgery" maybe 10,000.

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[Diddle E. Squat]

What an ironic post considering your post 26 completely ignores Faulk's attempt at enlisting in WWII, his subsequent volunteering and serving in the Merchant Marines in the N. Atlantic(very risky, ever hear of a U-boat?), and subsequent military service as a medic. His political leanings may have been unwise, but he certainly went to some length to volunteer and served his country during WWII. That counts for something, and suggests that he likely was not a hardcore Communist subversive.