[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Estrich: . . .

The Army-McCarthy hearings were televised and recorded.  You can get them on videotape if you know where to look.  I suggest that the Pro-Joe camp invite their friends and neighbors over some night for a private screening of "Joe in Action."  If one picture is worth a thousand words, an hour of videotape should be worth a entire library of books like "Treason" and "Slander." If your friends and neighbors are not as repulsed by McCarthy's bullying and unfairness as the American public was when they first watched him in the early 1950s -- when, then, we've gone backwards as a Nation and as a People.

In Treason Ann mentioned the tape, but indicated that it had been edited down to only show McCarthy in a bad light; all McCarthy's effective statements were cut out. Is the whole tape available, or is Estrich blowing smoke over a propaganda version of the truth here?

Fran, you might know?

[DPB101]

Bet the tape is heavily edited. Ever see a conservative who wasn't? There is also the matter of the viewer not having a clue who is testifying, what they said in other hearings and what they are hiding.

[fporretto]

I don't know about the tape, but I'd be disinclined to believe in the objectivity of anything Susan Estrich threw her weight behind. She's a hard-core socialist, and has to be simply furious that one of her camp's most important enemies, whom they thought permanently reduced to a vicious caricature, is being rehabilitated. Remember, these are folks who maintain to this day that Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White were innocent of all complicity with the Soviet Union.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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