Editors note: A shorter version of this article first appeared in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
1 posted on
05/15/2015 10:28:49 AM PDT by
OK Sun
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2 posted on
05/15/2015 10:29:42 AM PDT by
Bidimus1
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my answer quoted directly from the article:
” more often right than his detractors imagined, feared, or would grudgingly concede.”
3 posted on
05/15/2015 10:34:26 AM PDT by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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McCarthy was right - therefore he had to be destroyed.
4 posted on
05/15/2015 10:37:48 AM PDT by
Old Sarge
(Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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5 posted on
05/15/2015 10:39:34 AM PDT by
txhurl
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McCarthy was right on the general principles, as the Venona decrypts have clearly shown.
But he shot from the hip so poorly in most of his specific accusations that it's hard to see him as a net contributor to defeating Communism.
6 posted on
05/15/2015 10:40:40 AM PDT by
Eric Pode of Croydon
(I wish someone would tell me what "diddy wah diddy" means.....)
To: OK Sun
Hero in my book.
Been saying for years, Joe McCarthy was right!!!!
8 posted on
05/15/2015 10:41:40 AM PDT by
Uversabound
(Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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All good men have flaws, McCarthy was no different, but he was right on what mattered the most.
9 posted on
05/15/2015 10:44:32 AM PDT by
dfwgator
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Congress, of course, is constitutionally tasked with investigating domestic security threats.Where?
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Ol’ Joe was more than 90% right and has been proved to have been right but the leftists will never admit it.
13 posted on
05/15/2015 10:54:41 AM PDT by
Bayan
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I think the history coming out of most all the nuclear secret spies being jewish with communist sympathies pretty much exonerated him. Hollywood was run by the same as far as I know at that time. History has proven him correct and that seems to inflame liberals.
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A PROPHET! THAT’S WHY HE HAD TO BE KILLED!!
16 posted on
05/15/2015 10:59:28 AM PDT by
Dick Bachert
(This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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Great hero of course.
If anyone has any doubts, may I suggest reading Blacklisted by History by the late M. Stanton Evans.
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I suspect McCarthy's 'deplorable' tactics had very much in common with those of today's homosexualists, racialists, feminists, the modern democrat party and their mainstream media allies.
The major difference is, of course, that McCarthy had the advantage of being correct in his goals.
20 posted on
05/15/2015 11:10:14 AM PDT by
skeeter
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He was a hero, and I wish liberals would be honest about one thing: "McCarthyism," to be "McCarthyism," must be "reactionary," aimed against the "forces of progress." Any amount of hysterical false charges or paranoia or career destruction could take place and not be "McCarthyism" so long as it wasn't politically "reactionary."
23 posted on
05/15/2015 11:41:04 AM PDT by
Zionist Conspirator
(The "end of history" will be Worldwide Judaic Theocracy.)
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When I started reading and watching the news in the late fifties-early sixties, whenever McCarthy's name was brought up it was like he was Hitler's brother. Nobody ever said a good word about him. Pure evil incarnate.
As I got older I started to wonder if McCarthy actually did uncover communists. Well, yes he did. There were commies and fellow travelers well insulated in gov. and the Dem Party. If communism was evil as many people said it was, why was it so bad for McCarthy to try and uncover commies?
The truth was it wasn't. McCarthy was a little wild in some of his accusations, but the chief reason he was so reviled was because many members of the media were, like today, extreme leftists who looked fondly on communism and the Soviet Union. McCarthy was never going to get a fair shake from them. The media tried to minimize the threat from communism and turn the scummy Hollywood Ten into heroes.
They've made a number of pro-Hollywood Ten type movies over the years. And sure enough, they're making a new movie about one of the head Hollywood commies, Dalton Trumbo starring Brian Cranston of "Breaking Bad" fame. I loved "Breaking Bad." But there's no way I'm going to pay money to watch a movie making a hero out of Trumbo.
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Joe got it right and the left feared him for it. We could use him now, that’s for sure.
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Joe McCarthy: Despicable or Prophetic? Joe McCarthy was exactly right. In fact, he wasn't vicious enough.
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My take. McCarthy was a flawed man. And a patriot.
29 posted on
05/15/2015 1:15:40 PM PDT by
MileHi
(Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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The term McCarthyism was first coined by the Communist “Daily Worker” to smear Sen. McCarthy. Ayn Rand said that naming an ideology after a person is a statist technique. Ayn Rand did not name her philosophy randism, afterall, she named it Objectivism.
30 posted on
05/15/2015 1:16:03 PM PDT by
Stepan12
(Our present appeasementof Islam is the Stockholm Syndrome on steroids.)
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