[Eva]

I would suggest that the lack of clarity is intentional. Rabinowitz chooses to blame McCarthy for all the abuses of the period.

[Misterioso]

One thing has always bothered me. Why is it that McCarthy and the HUAC get all the negativity but no one seems to remember that the "black lists" were the creation of the movie industry, not the government? Where is the list of the studio honchos that promoted the blacklisting? What we have here is selective demonization by the left. But what else is new?