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“The mccarthy meme does not counter the fact mccarthy was 100% right about the communists.”

Why would they let the facts taint their opinion! Ever notice there was little mention of the commies and fellow travelors in the government in the 30s-50’s when those details became known after the fall of the USSR? Little mention of Ted the Swimmer’s activities either. The press makes me sick.

McCarthyite! Wow, makes me think of my very intelligent son (now a brand-new engineer) who graduated high school in 2008. He once brought up the fact that his public high school history teacher spent a full week talking (teaching?) about Joe McCarthy. On his own, my son surmised that it was just an effort to introduce to kids the idea that opposing or exposing communism is ridiculous, and that it’s “not cool.”

Throughout the 20th century, Communists used ridicule to discredit and destroy their enemies. We know it as a Saul Alinsky rule, but commies used it long before him. It was a brilliant tactic...commies burrowed into our government enlisted fellow-travelers to ridicule the very idea that commie enemies had burrowed into our government. This was why Whittaker Chambers knew he had to publish his book quickly, otherwise he would be thoroughly discredited and Hess vindicated.

"The Venona Secrets" is a long and tedious book, but it sheds a bright light on all the infiltration of our government by commie spies. Indeed, McCarthy was 100% right.

Even in the 20s and 30s, the commies and fellow-travelers had a tight hold on much of the press in the US and worshipful articles about the old Soviet Union were commonplace.

There was an excellent article by Norman Berdichevsky on FR this week (Feb 13) about this very phenomena in the film industry: Hollywood’s Intentional Ignorance of the Crimes of Communist and Muslim Regimes in the New English Review.