I highly recommend this book about Communist infiltration into the US Government. It is hard to read, but worth it. You will see what I mean.The most notable campaign waged by Olya Margolin was NCJW’s ‘Freedom campaign’ targeting Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).
SENATOR Joseph McCarthy was never at any time a member of the HOUSE Committee on Un-American Activities. McCarthy was in the Senate. The HCUA was a committee in the House. Is it beginning to make sense?
The Left regularly identifies Senator McCarthy with HUAC, but for conservative and anti-Communist authors to do so is just unforgivable. I hate to think it, but if the author is this sloppy, what else is he getting wrong?
Sorry. But this just happens to be a pet peeve of mine. Every time some Stalinist apologist like Mankowicz (sp?) of TCM opines about the "victims of the blacklist" he always blames it on McCarthy. Senator McCarthy never at any time investigated Hollywood. The closest to such a thing that could be said of him was his investigation of books written by Communists that were on sale at offices of the Unites States Information Service overseas.
This confusion is all for the purpose of identifying all anti-Communist investigations and activities with the allegedly "disgraced" Senator so that anti-Communism is itself rendered an indefensible position.
I think you’re being just a little harsh on the authors. I have many friends who are well-versed in history, and by slip of the tongue similar things have been said.
Yes, he was a Senator. But he is lumped together with HUAC in people’s minds.
It is an error and should have been caught in the edit, but it not integral to the rest of the evidence that is presented (with primary source, photographic documentation).
So I wouldn’t really gripe, unless you want to be a troll about it...
I highly recommend this book about Communist infiltration into the US Government. It is hard to read, but worth it. You will see what I mean.