Joseph McCarthy: Was He Right After All?

[DriftingSand]

Joseph Raymond "Joe" McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread Communist subversion.[1] He was noted for making claims that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers inside the United States federal government and elsewhere. Ultimately, his tactics and inability to substantiate his claims led him to be censured by the United States Senate.

Joseph McCarthy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It appears that Joe McCarthy saw an emerging threat back in the 50s that almost nobody else was able to see. During his military career in the Marine Corp he was an "intelligence briefing officer." Many may not know that he was favored by Catholic Democrats including the Kennedy family even though he was a Republican.

Anyway, he knew what Communism was and was able to put two-and-two together as the Socialist agenda began to rear its ugly head. At the time, he became one of America's most hated Senators. He became the target of endless barbs, jeers, jabs, stabs, and was ultimately censured by the Senate. He literally became a laughing stock and was mocked off of the public stage.

But hindsight is 20/20. Many scholars today recognize that McCarthy was almost always right concerning his accusations and insights:

Using new information obtained from studies of old Soviet files in Moscow and now the famous Venona Intercepts — FBI recordings of Soviet embassy communications between 1944-48 — the record is showing that McCarthy was essentially right. He had many weaknesses, but almost every case he charged has now been proven correct. Whether it was stealing atomic secrets or influencing U.S. foreign policy, communist victories in the 1940s were fed by an incredibly vast spy and influence network.

Most-hated senator was right

In my book, McCarthy goes down in history as one of America's heros even though he ultimately died of character assassination. The Leftists have always resorted to defamation of character when their cover is about to be blown. It's how they roll.

Senator Joe McCarthy is one of the strongest pro-American figures in the history of the United States. Despite many attempts by socialists to demonize McCarthy and "McCarthyism" with revisionist history, McCarthy's achievements shine through the propaganda. At a time when America was threatened by a murderous, backward, anti-freedom ideology of Soviet communism, Joseph McCarthy was a champion of capitalism and Democracy. Even when his career was threatened because of his vocal anti-communist speeches, McCarthy did not back down from the cause of freedom. For the courage Senator McCarthy showed in sticking to his American principles, he is today considered to be a hero by many.

Joseph McCarthy, American Hero. Truth about McCarthyism, Red Scare, Communism, and Good Night and Good Luck.

 

[DriftingSand]

Bump. Just in case you missed it and are interested. Does anyone feel badly that McCarthy wasn't taken seriously and can we see now that he had good insight as to what was happening in his day?

 

[Vigilante]

Waiting to hear the fear mongering from the current SUBVERSIVES that post here!

 

[DriftingSand]

Waiting to hear the fear mongering from the current SUBVERSIVES that post here!

I'm fully expecting it. Their tactics of name-calling and defamation haven't changed one iota.

 

[Vigilante]

Waiting to hear the fear mongering from the current SUBVERSIVES that post here!

I'm fully expecting it. Their tactics of name-calling and defamation haven't changed one iota.

They simply use bigger words now, as many of them went into hiding in our education system.... making young minds full of mush, into minds full of mush!

 

[whitehall]

It freaking doesn't matter what McCarthy thought or did. HUAC (House Unamerican activities committee) was developed by the democrat Truman administration in the House of Representatives. It was HUAC that exposed the communist menace and it is HUAC that was responsible for the alleged "blacklisting" of whiny communists in the entertainment industry although the federal government had no power to blacklist anybody. The chicken shit Hollywood moguls fired suspected communists because they thought the scandal might cut into their profits and together with the liberal media they managed to blame it all on a single member of the minority republican party. The propaganda was so powerful that the myth of "McCarthyism" persists today.

 

[JakeStarkey]

This OP has been vetted at least six times in the last several years.

The result is the same: Tail Gunner Joe comes out looking even worse than before.

The drunk could not even keep the same stories straight.

He was pulled down and censured at the insistence of his own party.

Let's move on.

 

[Vigilante]

This OP has been vetted at least six times in the last several years.

The result is the same: Tail Gunner Joe comes out looking even worse than before.

The drunk could not even keep the same stories straight.

He was pulled down and censured at the insistence of his own party.

Let's move on.

Sounds just like CONSERVATIVES today under the RINO ELITE of "BONER" and the boys!.... So Old Joe NAILED IT, and the subversives in his own party along with the communist 4th estate drove him out!
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At least tell the truth for a change, Flakey!

 

[whitehall]

Democrats held the total majority after the election of 1948. Harry Truman sent US Troops to Korea in 1950 and so grossly mismanaged the conflict that the mainstream media decided not to cover it and called it "the Forgotten War". Democrats were running the show in HUAC and in the senate and freaking cartoonist who hated republicans Harry Block decided to blame republicans for everything. It shows how propaganda in a one sided liberal media can create a myth. Block's cartoon in 1950 coined the phrase "McCarthyism" and democrats got a pass even though they were in the majority. Communism was the acknowledged enemy of capitalism but the liberal media managed to turn logic on it's ear and blame a big mouth republican for the entire democrat majority era of anti-communism.

 

[Stephanie]

Of course he was and they now control our government with this Obama REGIME and his Democrat/progressive comrades in arms

people better wake up

 

[guno]

Joe McCarthy, who was supported by the John Birch Society (the old Tea Party) thought a communist was under every rock. He was disgraced in the House and died a broken and drunken idiot.

Joe McCarthy's was just a loudmouthed drunk.

That's why todays rightwingers still love him

 

[guno]

Joe McCarthy, who was supported by the John Birch Society (the old Tea Party) thought a communist was under every rock. He was disgraced in the House and died a broken and drunken idiot.

Joe McCarthy's was just a loudmouthed drunk.

That's why todays rightwingers still love him

Was Senator Joseph McCarthy a heroin addict

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?

The case is mentioned in chapter 5 of the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs.

Another noteworthy case of a distinguished addict was reported in 1962 by Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. "This addict," Commissioner Anslinger stated, "was one of the most influential members of the United States Congress. He headed one of the powerful committees of Congress. His decisions and statements helped to shape and direct the destiny of the United States and the free world." Commissioner Anslinger heard of this man's addiction, recognized the political damage that might follow exposure, and therefore arranged a continuing supply of drugs for the elderly Congressman from a pharmacy on the outskirts of Washington. When a nationally syndicated columnist got a tip on the story from the pharmacist, Commissioner Anslinger staved off exposure by warning the journalist that "the Harrison Narcotic Act provided a two-year jail term for anyone revealing the narcotic records of a drug store." 7 The Congressman died in office, still legislating, still addicted, and still unexposed. *

 

[whitehall]

Joe McCarthy, who was supported by the John Birch Society (the old Tea Party) thought a communist was under every rock. He was disgraced in the House and died a broken and drunken idiot.

Joe McCarthy's was just a loudmouthed drunk.

That's why todays rightwingers still love him

The "John Birch Society? FDR appointed a former KKK member to the supreme court and he wrote the bigoted decision that established the modern version of "separation of church and state". The "dixiecrats" were a KKK affiliated mob that dominated the democrat party for the 50's and the 60's. Bill Ayers "weatherman anarchists" took up the slack in the democrat party during the 60's and 70's. It makes John Birchers look like choir boys.

 

[kiwiman127]

As Wikipedia was used as a base reference for this thread, let me add this:

Ongoing debate
In the view of a few conservative latter-day authors, such as commentators William Norman Grigg[117] and Medford Stanton Evans,[118][119] McCarthy's place in history should be reevaluated. Many scholars, including some generally regarded as conservative, have opposed these views.[120][121]

Other authors and historians, including Arthur Herman,[122] assert that new evidence—in the form of Venona decrypted Soviet messages, Soviet espionage data now opened to the West, and newly released transcripts of closed hearings before McCarthy's subcommittee—has partially vindicated McCarthy by showing that many of his identifications of Communists were correct and that the scale of Soviet espionage activity in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s was larger than many scholars suspected.[123][124]

After reviewing evidence from Venona and other sources, historian John Earl Haynes concluded that, of 159 people identified on lists used or referenced by McCarthy, evidence was substantial that nine had aided Soviet espionage efforts. He suggested that a majority of those on the lists could legitimately have been considered security risks, but that a substantial minority could not.[125] Among those implicated in files later made public from the Venona project and Soviet sources were Cedric Belfrage, Frank Coe, Lauchlin Currie, Harold Glasser, David Karr, Mary Jane Keeney, and Leonard Mins.[125][126][127][128][129][130][131]

These viewpoints are considered revisionist by many scholars.[132] Challenging efforts aimed at the "rehabilitation" of McCarthy, Haynes argues that McCarthy's attempts to "make anti-communism a partisan weapon" actually "threatened [the post-War] anti-Communist consensus", thereby ultimately harming anti-Communist efforts more than helping.[133]

Diplomat George Kennan drew on his State Department experience to provide his view that "The penetration of the American governmental services by members or agents (conscious or otherwise) of the American Communist Party in the late 1930s was not a figment of the imagination ... it really existed; and it assumed proportions which, while never overwhelming, were also not trivial." Kennan wrote that under the Roosevelt administration: "warnings which should have been heeded fell too often on deaf or incredulous ears."[134]

William Bennett, former Reagan Administration Secretary of Education, summed up this perspective in his 2007 book America: The Last Best Hope:

The cause of anti-communism, which united millions of Americans and which gained the support of Democrats, Republicans and independents, was undermined by Sen. Joe McCarthy ... McCarthy addressed a real problem: disloyal elements within the U.S. government. But his approach to this real problem was to cause untold grief to the country he claimed to love ... Worst of all, McCarthy besmirched the honorable cause of anti-communism. He discredited legitimate efforts to counter Soviet subversion of American institutions.[13
Joseph McCarthy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Vandalshandle]

The topic is not even worthy of serious comment.

 

[guno]

Joe McCarthy, who was supported by the John Birch Society (the old Tea Party) thought a communist was under every rock. He was disgraced in the House and died a broken and drunken idiot.

Joe McCarthy's was just a loudmouthed drunk.

That's why todays rightwingers still love him

Was Senator Joseph McCarthy a heroin addict

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?

The case is mentioned in chapter 5 of the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs.

Another noteworthy case of a distinguished addict was reported in 1962 by Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. "This addict," Commissioner Anslinger stated, "was one of the most influential members of the United States Congress. He headed one of the powerful committees of Congress. His decisions and statements helped to shape and direct the destiny of the United States and the free world." Commissioner Anslinger heard of this man's addiction, recognized the political damage that might follow exposure, and therefore arranged a continuing supply of drugs for the elderly Congressman from a pharmacy on the outskirts of Washington. When a nationally syndicated columnist got a tip on the story from the pharmacist, Commissioner Anslinger staved off exposure by warning the journalist that "the Harrison Narcotic Act provided a two-year jail term for anyone revealing the narcotic records of a drug store." 7 The Congressman died in office, still legislating, still addicted, and still unexposed. *

He also had a very "close" and "special" relationship with Roy Cohen.

 

[Vigilante]

Joe McCarthy, who was supported by the John Birch Society (the old Tea Party) thought a communist was under every rock. He was disgraced in the House and died a broken and drunken idiot.

Joe McCarthy's was just a loudmouthed drunk.

That's why todays rightwingers still love him

Was Senator Joseph McCarthy a heroin addict

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?

The case is mentioned in chapter 5 of the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs.

Another noteworthy case of a distinguished addict was reported in 1962 by Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. "This addict," Commissioner Anslinger stated, "was one of the most influential members of the United States Congress. He headed one of the powerful committees of Congress. His decisions and statements helped to shape and direct the destiny of the United States and the free world." Commissioner Anslinger heard of this man's addiction, recognized the political damage that might follow exposure, and therefore arranged a continuing supply of drugs for the elderly Congressman from a pharmacy on the outskirts of Washington. When a nationally syndicated columnist got a tip on the story from the pharmacist, Commissioner Anslinger staved off exposure by warning the journalist that "the Harrison Narcotic Act provided a two-year jail term for anyone revealing the narcotic records of a drug store." 7 The Congressman died in office, still legislating, still addicted, and still unexposed. *

Was he one of Obuma's dealers?

 

[Vigilante]

As Wikipedia was used as a base reference for this thread, let me add this:

Ongoing debate
In the view of a few conservative latter-day authors, such as commentators William Norman Grigg[117] and Medford Stanton Evans,[118][119] McCarthy's place in history should be reevaluated. Many scholars, including some generally regarded as conservative, have opposed these views.[120][121]

Other authors and historians, including Arthur Herman,[122] assert that new evidence—in the form of Venona decrypted Soviet messages, Soviet espionage data now opened to the West, and newly released transcripts of closed hearings before McCarthy's subcommittee—has partially vindicated McCarthy by showing that many of his identifications of Communists were correct and that the scale of Soviet espionage activity in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s was larger than many scholars suspected.[123][124]

After reviewing evidence from Venona and other sources, historian John Earl Haynes concluded that, of 159 people identified on lists used or referenced by McCarthy, evidence was substantial that nine had aided Soviet espionage efforts. He suggested that a majority of those on the lists could legitimately have been considered security risks, but that a substantial minority could not.[125] Among those implicated in files later made public from the Venona project and Soviet sources were Cedric Belfrage, Frank Coe, Lauchlin Currie, Harold Glasser, David Karr, Mary Jane Keeney, and Leonard Mins.[125][126][127][128][129][130][131]

These viewpoints are considered revisionist by many scholars.[132] Challenging efforts aimed at the "rehabilitation" of McCarthy, Haynes argues that McCarthy's attempts to "make anti-communism a partisan weapon" actually "threatened [the post-War] anti-Communist consensus", thereby ultimately harming anti-Communist efforts more than helping.[133]

Diplomat George Kennan drew on his State Department experience to provide his view that "The penetration of the American governmental services by members or agents (conscious or otherwise) of the American Communist Party in the late 1930s was not a figment of the imagination ... it really existed; and it assumed proportions which, while never overwhelming, were also not trivial." Kennan wrote that under the Roosevelt administration: "warnings which should have been heeded fell too often on deaf or incredulous ears."[134]

William Bennett, former Reagan Administration Secretary of Education, summed up this perspective in his 2007 book America: The Last Best Hope:

The cause of anti-communism, which united millions of Americans and which gained the support of Democrats, Republicans and independents, was undermined by Sen. Joe McCarthy ... McCarthy addressed a real problem: disloyal elements within the U.S. government. But his approach to this real problem was to cause untold grief to the country he claimed to love ... Worst of all, McCarthy besmirched the honorable cause of anti-communism. He discredited legitimate efforts to counter Soviet subversion of American institutions.[13
Joseph McCarthy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Well, that's SOMEONE OPINION on Wiki!

 

[Stephanie]

The topic is not even worthy of serious comment.

then you and guano should keep your heads buried in the sand

 

[Vigilante]

The topic is not even worthy of serious comment.

Then leave! Why are you here at all, if it's worthless?