Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy -- M Stanton Evans

[mamooth]

The real commies still give thanks to their bestest pal, Joe McCarthy. By deflecting all the attention on to innocent people, McCarthy diverted attention away from the real commie spies, so they could operate unhindered.

It's possible -- even probable -- that modern conservatives are using the same strategy to aid both their commie pals and their islamofascist pals. The louder they deny it, the more likely it is to be true.

 

[Pogo]

Unlike you, Senator Joseph McCarthy was a true American.
And the public understood that fact.

a. "A June 1950 poll found 45 percent expressed unqualified approval of McCarthy saying "he is anxious to rid us of communists and he is right"; 16 percent expressed qualified approval with remarks such as "there must be some foundation for his charges, but they are greatly exaggerated";31 percent disbelieved McCarthy saying he is "a rabble-rouser seeking personal glory who is trying to get reelected"; 8 percent were unsure what to make of McCarthy."
Cold War International History Conference: Paper by John White


b. "More than a dozen senators told McCarthy that they did not want to vote against him [a censure vote] but had to because of the tremendous pressure being put on them by the White House and by leaders of both political parties."
Ibid.

"June 1950" huh? Too bad they didn't ask me; I would have checked the box for "dishonest megalomaniac drunken womanizing gambling fuckbag who forged his CO's sig to get a medal and made up a war story that even Brian Williams couldn't think up to create a fake nickname who then set about with "at long last, no shame" waggling a "list" of "evildoers" that nobody got to see, the number of which changed every time he brought it up, the lying asshole", but I'm not sure they could have fit that line on the page in 1950 mimeograph machines. Plus it's a really long sentence and some Catholic school penguin would have sentenced her students to diagram it.


I got yer June 1950 right here Toots, and this is a genuine American patriot, not the scumbag waste of human protoplasm of the two-year old topic.

I think that it is high time for the United States Senate and its members to do some soul-searching -- for us to weigh our consciences -- on the manner in which we are performing our duty to the people of America -- on the manner in which we are using or abusing our individual powers and privileges.

I think that it is high time that we remembered that we have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution. I think that it is high time that we remembered that the Constitution, as amended, speaks not only of the freedom of speech but also of trial by jury instead of trial by accusation.

Whether it be a criminal prosecution in court or a character prosecution in the Senate, there is little practical distinction when the life of a person has been ruined.

Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism:
The right to criticize;
The right to hold unpopular beliefs;
The right to protest;
The right of independent thought.
The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen his reputation or his right to a livelihood nor should he be in danger of losing his reputation or livelihood merely because he happens to know someone who holds unpopular beliefs. Who of us doesn’t? Otherwise none of us could call our souls our own. Otherwise thought control would have set in.

The American people are sick and tired of being afraid to speak their minds lest they be politically smeared as "Communists" or "Fascists" by their opponents. Freedom of speech is not what it used to be in America. It has been so abused by some that it is not exercised by others.

The American people are sick and tired of seeing innocent people smeared and guilty people whitewashed. But there have been enough proved cases, such as the Amerasia case, the Hiss case, the Coplon case, the Gold case, to cause the nationwide distrust and strong suspicion that there may be something to the unproved, sensational accusations.

As a Republican, I say to my colleagues on this side of the aisle that the Republican Party faces a challenge today that is not unlike the challenge that it faced back in Lincoln’s day. The Republican Party so successfully met that challenge that it emerged from the Civil War as the champion of a united nation -- in addition to being a Party that unrelentingly fought loose spending and loose programs.

Today our country is being psychologically divided by the confusion and the suspicions that are bred in the United States Senate to spread like cancerous tentacles of "know nothing, suspect everything" attitudes. Today we have a Democratic Administration that has developed a mania for loose spending and loose programs. History is repeating itself -- and the Republican Party again has the opportunity to emerge as the champion of unity and prudence.

The record of the present Democratic Administration has provided us with sufficient campaign issues without the necessity of resorting to political smears. America is rapidly losing its position as leader of the world simply because the Democratic Administration has pitifully failed to provide effective leadership.

The Democratic Administration has completely confused the American people by its daily contradictory grave warnings and optimistic assurances -- that show the people that our Democratic Administration has no idea of where it is going.

The Democratic Administration has greatly lost the confidence of the American people by its complacency to the threat of communism here at home and the leak of vital secrets to Russia though key officials of the Democratic Administration. There are enough proved cases to make this point without diluting our criticism with unproved charges.

Surely these are sufficient reasons to make it clear to the American people that it is time for a change and that a Republican victory is necessary to the security of this country. Surely it is clear that this nation will continue to suffer as long as it is governed by the present ineffective Democratic Administration.

Yet to displace it with a Republican regime embracing a philosophy that lacks political integrity or intellectual honesty would prove equally disastrous to this nation. The nation sorely needs a Republican victory. But I don’t want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny -- Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear.

I doubt if the Republican Party could -- simply because I don’t believe the American people will uphold any political party that puts political exploitation above national interest. Surely we Republicans aren’t that desperate for victory.

I don’t want to see the Republican Party win that way. While it might be a fleeting victory for the Republican Party, it would be a more lasting defeat for the American people. Surely it would ultimately be suicide for the Republican Party and the two-party system that has protected our American liberties from the dictatorship of a one party system.

As members of the Minority Party, we do not have the primary authority to formulate the policy of our Government. But we do have the responsibility of rendering constructive criticism, of clarifying issues, of allaying fears by acting as responsible citizens.

As a woman, I wonder how the mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters feel about the way in which members of their families have been politically mangled in the Senate debate -- and I use the word "debate" advisedly.

As a United States Senator, I am not proud of the way in which the Senate has been made a publicity platform for irresponsible sensationalism. I am not proud of the reckless abandon in which unproved charges have been hurled from this side of the aisle. I am not proud of the obviously staged, undignified countercharges that have been attempted in retaliation from the other side of the aisle.

I don’t like the way the Senate has been made a rendezvous for vilification, for selfish political gain at the sacrifice of individual reputations and national unity. I am not proud of the way we smear outsiders from the Floor of the Senate and hide behind the cloak of congressional immunity and still place ourselves beyond criticism on the Floor of the Senate.

As an American, I am shocked at the way Republicans and Democrats alike are playing directly into the Communist design of "confuse, divide, and conquer." As an American, I don’t want a Democratic Administration “whitewash” or "cover-up" any more than I want a Republican smear or witch hunt.

--- Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME), "Delcaration of Conscience", co-signed by six other Republican Senators, in response to McCarthyism ..... June 1, 1950.​

(or as POTUS Eisenhower called it once McCarthy had met his comeuppance, "McCarthy-wasism")


Oh I made a couple of words bold that are kind of important in their implications.


Revisionists. God love 'em they keep trying, even if it's only selling inside Duh Bubble.

Jeepers! So what happened next Uncle Pogo?

In response to her speech, McCarthy referred to Smith and the six other Senators as "Snow White and the Six Dwarfs."[12] He removed her as a member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, giving her seat to Senator Richard Nixon of California.[22]

He also helped finance an unsuccessful primary challenger during Smith's re-election campaign in 1954.[11] Smith later observed, "If I am to be remembered in history, it will not be because of legislative accomplishments, but for an act I took as a legislator in the U.S. Senate when on June 1, 1950, I spoke...in condemnation of McCarthyism, when the junior Senator from Wisconsin had the Senate paralyzed with fear that he would purge any Senator who disagreed with him."[20] She voted for McCarthy's censure in 1954.[8] (Wiki)
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There's your pathetic hero in action, in typical style. Smith was right, and courageous; McCarthy was an opportunistic asshole who never missed an opportunity to lie, misrepresent, impugn and pander like a crack whore for his own gain.

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Well, if someone wrote it on Wikipedia, we should get busy carving it in stone, because it MUST be true.

Whatever else Wikipedia is, it's a stain on the American political scene for encouraging you dickholes to believe you're researching and becoming informed while allowing you to be as lazy and stupid as you ever were.

Cripes, you leftists will believe anything posted on the Internet if it's what you want to hear, won't you?

Actually most of my knowledge on this comes from history books. You know books? Those things that are used as source material with links on Wikipedia (along with newspaper stories, studies, white papers and other docs)? And I linked to Wiki to supplement my comments because it's a way to point you to those books, since I do not want you coming to my house to read my books. I already did that.

Anything else?

Your "History books" are crap that blame McCarthy for a "Red Scare"

McCarthy gave his first speech on Communist infiltration of the WH and State 8 months AFTER your USSR tried to start WWIII in Berlin and 4 months BEFORE your hero Mao and the NoKo's were killing US soldiers and Marines in Korea.

I wonder sometimes if Democrat Communist spies were relaying Korean troop information back to their masters

I didn't even bring up the Red Scare Frank, but we can imbibe if you're buyin'.
Far as I know the Red Scare preceded McCarthy. It's what he hopped on to ride into the abyss of dishonest demagoguery. But no, he didn't invent it. That would require actual creativity, and that would require, you know -- thought.

I didn't bring up the USSR in Berlin, Mao, or the NoKos either. That's about as honest as Joe McCarthy's crapola.

 

[Pogo]

The best, absolute best and a must have book regarding one of the most successful Communist plots ever devised and executed.

You know the fictional narrative: Joe McCarthy was a drunk, power-hungry liar who used his House UnAmerican Activities Committee (Yeah, why did we even have a HUAC BEFORE Joe was elected?) to destroy so many poor innocents including Zero Mostel.

The truth? You'll want to beat the shit out of ever history teacher you ever had for lying to your face.

Communists in the US Government (oh, we were and are swamped with them!) covered for Stalin's mass execution of Polish officers at Katyn Forest, handed Yugoslavia to Communist Tito and handed China to Mao....and that only 90 pages in!

Don't let Progressive lies go unchecked! Educate Yourself!

We had a HUAC because we had a Communist problem starting with the New Deal and even Democrats cared (before their Party became a wholly owned subsidiary of Moscow)

Buy this book! Own it! Refer to it frequently!

In his 1961 book, The Murderers, Harry J. Anslinger, head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics from 1930 to 1962, announced that he knew of a prominent member of Congress in the 1950s who was addicted to heroin. Anslinger went to the member of Congress and demanded that he stop using heroin. The Congressman refused and dared Anslinger to reveal the addiction, arguing that, if Anslinger did reveal the addiction, it would cause irreparable harm to the Free World.

In order to keep the addiction secret, Anslinger arranged for the Congressman to receive a secret supply of drugs from a pharmacist.

Who was the Congressman? Senator Joseph McCarthy, of anti-communist fame.

Was Senator Joseph McCarthy a heroin addict?

Yup, there's that too. The circumstances of McCarthy's death from hepatitis have always been murky. He certainly consumed enough alcohol for that to have been a causation but the morphine.could certainly have exacerbated it. But to me the story is more instructive for his entitlement attitude and the arrogance of suggesting that revealing his habit would bring down the "free world". What a fucking moron.

 

[g5000]

During the Depression, many Americans were polarized. Some went Left to the communists, and some went Right to the nazis.

The communist memberships of the 30s came back to haunt those people in the 50s.

The problem with assholes like McCarthy is that innocent people were swept up in the pants shitting panic.

Were there Soviet spies in our government? Sure. Absolutely. Even in our nuclear weapons program during the Manhattan project.

McCarthy took advantage of that. He turned the whole mess into theater. A witch hunt where the mere threat of calling you a communist could compromise you and destroy your life forever.

THAT is what makes McCarthy a lying, drunk, asshole.

The fact there were spies among us in no way exonerates that fuckhead.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

If anything, McCarthy vastly understated the extent to which Democrat White House were doing the bidding of Stalin and Mao. He made his first speech in Wheeling in 1950 about halfway between the time that Stalin tried to start WWIII in Berlin and Mao gave North Korea the go ahead to start a war. Every single person he accused of being a Communist or a useful idiot was in fact one of the other.

Remember "Have you no decency?" Well Sen, Welch's accused by McCarthy, was in fact working with the Communists.

McCarthy should be on the $20

 

[koshergrl]

Jeepers! So what happened next Uncle Pogo?

In response to her speech, McCarthy referred to Smith and the six other Senators as "Snow White and the Six Dwarfs."[12] He removed her as a member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, giving her seat to Senator Richard Nixon of California.[22]

He also helped finance an unsuccessful primary challenger during Smith's re-election campaign in 1954.[11] Smith later observed, "If I am to be remembered in history, it will not be because of legislative accomplishments, but for an act I took as a legislator in the U.S. Senate when on June 1, 1950, I spoke...in condemnation of McCarthyism, when the junior Senator from Wisconsin had the Senate paralyzed with fear that he would purge any Senator who disagreed with him."[20] She voted for McCarthy's censure in 1954.[8] (Wiki)
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There's your pathetic hero in action, in typical style. Smith was right, and courageous; McCarthy was an opportunistic asshole who never missed an opportunity to lie, misrepresent, impugn and pander like a crack whore for his own gain.

​

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Well, if someone wrote it on Wikipedia, we should get busy carving it in stone, because it MUST be true.

Whatever else Wikipedia is, it's a stain on the American political scene for encouraging you dickholes to believe you're researching and becoming informed while allowing you to be as lazy and stupid as you ever were.

Cripes, you leftists will believe anything posted on the Internet if it's what you want to hear, won't you?

Actually most of my knowledge on this comes from history books. You know books? Those things that are used as source material with links on Wikipedia (along with newspaper stories, studies, white papers and other docs)? And I linked to Wiki to supplement my comments because it's a way to point you to those books, since I do not want you coming to my house to read my books. I already did that.

Anything else?

Your "History books" are crap that blame McCarthy for a "Red Scare"

McCarthy gave his first speech on Communist infiltration of the WH and State 8 months AFTER your USSR tried to start WWIII in Berlin and 4 months BEFORE your hero Mao and the NoKo's were killing US soldiers and Marines in Korea.

I wonder sometimes if Democrat Communist spies were relaying Korean troops information back to their masters

In the same way "Democrat Communist spies" sandbagged Chiang Kaishek.


1. FDR's insistence on the Soviet agents who infiltrated his administration resulted in the United States sabotage of Chaing Kai-Shek and the Nationalists in China in favor of the Mao and the Communists. From the book “Blacklisted From History,” by M. Stanton Evans:Soviet agents in the U.S. State department (and Treasury)worked actively to damage confidence of our government, in the(Nationalist)

Chinese fighting in their own country, as our allies against the Japanese, and in favor of the Communist unsurgency of Mao Tse-Tungand Chou En-Lai.

While Chiang Kai-Shek was busy as our ally fighting the Japanese, White, Currie, Coe, Glasser, and Hiss were doing all they could to undermine him in favor of Mao and the communists.

a. “Another example of [Harry Dexter]White acting as an agent of influence for the Soviet Union was his obstruction of a proposed $200 million loan to Nationalist Chinain 1943, which he had been officially instructed to execute,[52] at a time when inflation was spiraling out of control.”
Harry Dexter White - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

b. [Owen] Lattimore was leaking information to the Soviets while he was an advisor to Chiang Kai-shek and that theSoviets considered Lattimore to be "working for them".FOIA


c. The spies that FDR put in place continued to move Democrats in the Communist Direction. This, from a newspaper at the time:

"Mr. Truman said that the nationalists should have surrendered because they didn't have a chance to win...the opinion of American ambassador Leighton Stuart was that the failure of American aid to come at the opportune moment was the real cause of the weakness of nationalists and the disintegration of their armies....many military commanders went over to the enemy because they saw the United States withdrawing moral support from Chiang Kai-shek. Mr. Truman boldly defends what Treasury did. He doesn't mention Harry Dexter White, mentioned in congressional hearings as a communist spy, sat at Treasury with full power to say when the money promised Chiang Kai-shek would be forwarded or withheld." Toledo Blade, Toledo Blade - Google News Archive Search

It's amazing how few people know that Communist spies in the WH and State helped Mao take control of Chine. After all, Mao was a Progressive and needed their help

Children are not taught history in school.
And in fact, they are fed an alternate reality altogether.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

During the Depression, many Americans were polarized. Some went Left to the communists, and some went Right to the nazis.

The communist memberships of the 30s came back to haunt those people in the 50s.

The problem with assholes like McCarthy is that innocent people were swept up in the pants shitting panic.

Were there Soviet spies in our government? Sure. Absolutely. Even in our nuclear weapons program during the Manhattan project.

McCarthy took advantage of that. He turned the whole mess into theater. A witch hunt where the mere threat of calling you a communist could compromise you and destroy your life forever.

THAT is what makes McCarthy a lying, drunk, asshole.

The fact there were spies among us in no way exonerates that fuckhead.

Who were these "innocent people"?

Can you name a few of them? Zero Mostel? Wodoy Allen? Brittany Spears?

 

[koshergrl]

McCarthy was absolutely 100 percent right, and we should have kept going.

 

[Cecilie1200]

Wow, this is a blast from the past.

 

[whitehall]

Common sense will tell you that Senator McCarthy couldn't have had influence over HUAC but it doesn't matter to the generations who were taught to blame a single republican for the (unfortunate?) era of Harry Truman's war against communism.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The best, absolute best and a must have book regarding one of the most successful Communist plots ever devised and executed.

You know the fictional narrative: Joe McCarthy was a drunk, power-hungry liar who used his House UnAmerican Activities Committee (Yeah, why did we even have a HUAC BEFORE Joe was elected?) to destroy so many poor innocents including Zero Mostel.

The truth? You'll want to beat the shit out of ever history teacher you ever had for lying to your face.

Communists in the US Government (oh, we were and are swamped with them!) covered for Stalin's mass execution of Polish officers at Katyn Forest, handed Yugoslavia to Communist Tito and handed China to Mao....and that only 90 pages in!

Don't let Progressive lies go unchecked! Educate Yourself!

We had a HUAC because we had a Communist problem starting with the New Deal and even Democrats cared (before their Party became a wholly owned subsidiary of Moscow)

Buy this book! Own it! Refer to it frequently!

In his 1961 book, The Murderers, Harry J. Anslinger, head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics from 1930 to 1962, announced that he knew of a prominent member of Congress in the 1950s who was addicted to heroin. Anslinger went to the member of Congress and demanded that he stop using heroin. The Congressman refused and dared Anslinger to reveal the addiction, arguing that, if Anslinger did reveal the addiction, it would cause irreparable harm to the Free World.

In order to keep the addiction secret, Anslinger arranged for the Congressman to receive a secret supply of drugs from a pharmacist.

Who was the Congressman? Senator Joseph McCarthy, of anti-communist fame.

Was Senator Joseph McCarthy a heroin addict?

Bullshit fucking liar

 

[Pogo]

Wow, this is a blast from the past.

Nine years later Frank still hasn't figured out what the H in HUAC stands for.....