[Hugin]

He doesn't say (in that bit, anyway) that Ann lied or exaggerated - he says Joe McCarthy did.

The whole point of Ann's book is that he did not lie and any exaggeration were minor and inconsequntial. This guy ridicules her thesis without making any serious attempt to back up his claims about McCarthy.

Have you read Ann's book? If not you should.

[m1911]

No, I haven't read it. I will before I comment on it.

[johnb838]

The whole point of Ann's book is that he did not lie and any exaggeration were minor and inconsequntial.

Now that we've had a chance to read and digest the book (I'm only just past the Red Scare portion and on to Vietnam) I sense the conversation rightly turning to McCarthy. I've had a sense that he was right for some time, seeing how many fellow travelers there really are in the State Department and Hollywood. Now I find out the the blacklists were a fiction, and the liberals then were just as mean and nasty as they are now.

[stop_fascism]

I agree, a very good read. They footnotes are a good source for further reading.

It would be nice if one of these critics would give one example of what a vile sociopath McCarthy was. They never do. They seem to believe that if you call someone enough names, you can destroy his reputation. Oh, isn't that what they accuse McCarthy of doing.