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[Big Mack]

The book is a real eyeopener. I was up quite late last night reading it. It makes the events of the last 60 years much clearer and very easy to understand, once you see how the libs have been working their lies.

[MJY1288]

My favorite line in her book is when she quotes Reagan as saying......

"Detante' is what a farmer has with his Turkey until Thanksgiving Day"

[Your Nightmare]

Nowadays, nobody bothers to point out that the phrase "McCarthyism" first appeared in the pages of the Communist Party’s organ in the U.S., the Daily Worker, which got it directly from the bowels of the NKVD’s Moscow headquarters at 3 Dzerzinski Square, where it was coined by the Stalinist disinformation experts in the belief that leftist useful idiots in the U.S. would adopt it as their own. Which of course they did, eagerly, and continue to do so even today.

I thought the first use of "McCarthyism" was in a NY Times political cartoon on March 29, 1950:

[Chuckster]

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[RobbyS]

Joe McCarthy was right, but he was the wrong man to lead the charge. Bob Taft should have been the leader, but Taft was a man of the upper class, and I don't think he wanted to believe that many of his friends were traitors to the United States. McCarthy was just an ordinary slob who seized the issue and ran with it, but he finally ran into the Army. Eisenhower could not accept that the Army had been penetrated by communist agents, so it was he who broke McCarthy.

[jackbill]

Witnesses known as the Hollywood 10, acting under orders from their communist bosses, refused to admit under oath that they were members of the Communist Party. For this contempt of Congress they went to jail for a brief of time.

If memory serves, all, or most, of the ten had been part of the Federal Writers' Project, which was part of the WPA (Work Progress Admin.). This program was a federally funded "make work" program for unemployed writers during the Depression.

Thus, the taxpayers had directly paid these communists to write their Soviet propaganda.

[Plutarch]

This is a typcial McCarthy bio found using a quick Google search. How many leftist lies does it contain?

In a 1950 speech, McCarthy entered the public spotlight by claiming that communists had "infested" the State Department, dramatically waving a sheet of paper which purportedly contained the traitors' names. A special Senate committee investigated the charges and found them groundless. Unfazed, McCarthy used his position to wage a relentless anti-communist crusade, denouncing numerous public figures and holding a series of highly confrontational hearings. With little if any proof of his charges, McCarthy relied on accusation, slander and innuendo to tarnish his opponents' reputations (a practice now known as "McCarthyism"). In 1954, televised hearings allowed millions to view McCarthy's methods for the first time, sparking a public backlash and official censure. He died at the age of 49 of complications related to alcoholism.

SOURCES: Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography; Encyclopedia of American Biography.

[longfellow]

Go get em beautiful! Does anyone know how to contact her?

[VOA]

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[Stultis]

Good set of links on McCarthy here:

Tailgunner Joe--Where Have You Gone, Joe McCarthy? ^
			Posted by backhoe On 06/26/2003 4:47 AM CDT with 24 comments various FR links | 06-26--03 | The Heavy Equipment Guy Senator Joseph McCarthy rose from obsurity, flared briefly as a crusader against Communist infiltrators, and died young, villified and rebuked. For years his name has been the ultimate "nuke" from the Left: "MaCarthyism..." And yet... recent revelations seem to show that if anything old "tailgunner Joe" underestimated the numbers infiltrators in the government... what's the truth?     http://www.freerepublic.com Joe McCarthy Was RightNewsMax (via email) | June 23, 2003 | NewsMax     http://www.freerepublic.com Joe McCarthy Vindicated, Againwww.chuckmorse.com ^ | June 20, 2003, | Chuck Morse     http://www.freerepublic.com The Origins of McCarthyismThe Weekly Standard ^ | 06/30/03 | Robert...

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[savedbygrace]

I'll read this later.

[Fintan]

This is apropos of nothing, but I'm still waiting for Ann to respond to my marriage proposal.

[Antoninus]

I bought into all the Hollywood bunk about the HUAC committee and the Hollywood 10 until I got to college and did a paper on the subject. I watched the tapes of the hearings and they were eye-opening to say the least. The Hollywood 10 were combative for no good reason--it was quite obvious that they were attempting to turn the inquiry into a circus. The "11th" member, Berthold Brecht, actually admitted to being a communist and left the country. The other 10 never did, although it was plain as day.

One of them, Dalton Trumbo, continued to ply his trade as a writer and bragged that, although he didn't get any overtly communist movies made, he did prevent some anti-communist ones from seeing the light of day. Some black list.

And now 50+ years on, we have a motion picture industry that surprises us when they actually make a movie that ISN'T overtly communist or full of filth.

[eeriegeno]

We need more people like Ann Coulter telling the story like it really is.......

[longtermmemmory]

reminds me of homosexuals with HIV who pushed to have people refuse to say how they got infected. They feared the repulsion of the public for their deviant behavior.

[sakic]

A lot of bull.

I knew a writer quite well who was blacklisted. He used to write for television under various pseudonyms. Among his credits were some Twilight Zone episodes. He died broke.

Lots of innocent people were blacklisted and went broke because of it. Now that 50 years have passed people like Coulter can claim it never happened. Similar to those that claim there were no such things as genocide during WWII.

Were any of the people whose lives were ruined Communist? Sure, but most weren't. And let's consider something else:

Why should it be illegal to be a Communist in a country where we supposedly can be of any political ilk without fear of persecution and being sent to prison?

Would it be okay for liberals, if they were in total control, to prosecute people who were conservatives?