Joseph McCarthy

The most notable examples of McCarthyism include the speeches, investigations, and hearings of Senator McCarthy himself; the Hollywood blacklist, associated with hearings conducted by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC); and the various anti-communist activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under Director J. Edgar Hoover. McCarthyism was a widespread social and cultural phenomenon that affected all levels of society and was the source of a great deal of debate and conflict in the United States.

There we go, again. Associating Senator Joe McCarthy with the House UnAmerican Activities Committee.

There were more Democrats on the HUAC than Republicans.
another distinction without a difference

This is why American socialists are so dangerous. Even when they're blatanly wrong, the demand that the erroneous information be believed.
How am I wrong ?
McCarthy'sand HUAC's witch hunting epically failed at its intended purpose.
There was no large scale elimination of communism in the good old USA.
Even though I know the difference between McCarthy's and HUAC's "investigations" .
It changes nothing .
 
The most notable examples of McCarthyism include the speeches, investigations, and hearings of Senator McCarthy himself; the Hollywood blacklist, associated with hearings conducted by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC); and the various anti-communist activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under Director J. Edgar Hoover. McCarthyism was a widespread social and cultural phenomenon that affected all levels of society and was the source of a great deal of debate and conflict in the United States.

There we go, again. Associating Senator Joe McCarthy with the House UnAmerican Activities Committee.

There were more Democrats on the HUAC than Republicans.
another distinction without a difference

This is why American socialists are so dangerous. Even when they're blatanly wrong, the demand that the erroneous information be believed.
How am I wrong ?
McCarthy'sand HUAC's witch hunting epically failed at its intended purpose.
There was no large scale elimination of communism in the good old USA.
Even though I know the difference between McCarthy's and HUAC's "investigations" .
It changes nothing .

You're wrong, because you keep trying to associate McCarthy with the HUAC.

Name one person wdho was actually investigated by McCarthy's committee.
 
The most notable examples of McCarthyism include the speeches, investigations, and hearings of Senator McCarthy himself; the Hollywood blacklist, associated with hearings conducted by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC); and the various anti-communist activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under Director J. Edgar Hoover. McCarthyism was a widespread social and cultural phenomenon that affected all levels of society and was the source of a great deal of debate and conflict in the United States.

There we go, again. Associating Senator Joe McCarthy with the House UnAmerican Activities Committee.

There were more Democrats on the HUAC than Republicans.
another distinction without a difference

This is why American socialists are so dangerous. Even when they're blatanly wrong, the demand that the erroneous information be believed.
How am I wrong ?
McCarthy'sand HUAC's witch hunting epically failed at its intended purpose.
There was no large scale elimination of communism in the good old USA.
Even though I know the difference between McCarthy's and HUAC's "investigations" .
It changes nothing .

You're wrong, because you keep trying to associate McCarthy with the HUAC.

Name one person wdho was actually investigated by McCarthy's committee.
that does not make me wrong but thanks for playing. they were both investigation the spread of communism in the us.
as I've said before both "
epically failed at its intended purpose.
There was no large scale elimination of communism in the good old USA."

how bout these.
Tydings Committee[edit]
McCarthy himself was taken aback by the massive media response to the Wheeling speech, and he was accused of continually revising both his charges and figures. In Salt Lake City, Utah, a few days later, he cited a figure of 57, and in the Senate on February 20, he claimed 81.[citation needed] During a five-hour speech,[41] McCarthy presented a case-by-case analysis of his 81 "loyalty risks" employed at the State Department. It is widely accepted that most of McCarthy's cases were selected from the so-called "Lee list", a report that had been compiled three years earlier for the House Appropriations Committee. Led by a former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent named Robert E. Lee, the House investigators had reviewed security clearance documents on State Department employees, and had determined that there were "incidents of inefficiencies"[42] in the security reviews of 108 employees. McCarthy hid the source of his list, stating that he had penetrated the "iron curtain" of State Department secrecy with the aid of "some good, loyal Americans in the State Department".[43] In reciting the information from the Lee list cases, McCarthy consistently exaggerated, representing the hearsay of witnesses as facts and converting phrases such as "inclined towards Communism" to "a Communist".[44]


Senator Millard Tydings
In response to McCarthy's charges, the Senate voted unanimously to investigate, and the Tydings Committee hearings were called.[45] This was a subcommittee of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations set up in February 1950 to conduct "a full and complete study and investigation as to whether persons who are disloyal to the United States are, or have been, employed by the Department of State".[46] Many Democrats were incensed at McCarthy's attack on the State Department of a Democratic administration, and had hoped to use the hearings to discredit him. The Democratic chairman of the subcommittee, Senator Millard Tydings, was reported to have said, "Let me have him [McCarthy] for three days in public hearings, and he'll never show his face in the Senate again."[47]

During the hearings, McCarthy moved on from his original unnamed Lee list cases and used the hearings to make charges against nine specific people: Dorothy Kenyon, Esther Brunauer, Haldore Hanson, Gustavo Durán, Owen Lattimore, Harlow Shapley, Frederick Schuman, John S. Service, and Philip Jessup. Some of them no longer worked for the State Department, or never had; all had previously been the subject of charges of varying worth and validity. Owen Lattimore became a particular focus of McCarthy's, who at one point described him as a "top Russian spy". Throughout the hearings, McCarthy employed colorful rhetoric, but produced no substantial evidence, to support his accusations.[citation
 
There we go, again. Associating Senator Joe McCarthy with the House UnAmerican Activities Committee.

There were more Democrats on the HUAC than Republicans.
another distinction without a difference

This is why American socialists are so dangerous. Even when they're blatanly wrong, the demand that the erroneous information be believed.
How am I wrong ?
McCarthy'sand HUAC's witch hunting epically failed at its intended purpose.
There was no large scale elimination of communism in the good old USA.
Even though I know the difference between McCarthy's and HUAC's "investigations" .
It changes nothing .

You're wrong, because you keep trying to associate McCarthy with the HUAC.

Name one person wdho was actually investigated by McCarthy's committee.
that does not make me wrong but thanks for playing. they were both investigation the spread of communism in the us.
as I've said before both "
epically failed at its intended purpose.
There was no large scale elimination of communism in the good old USA."

how bout these.
Tydings Committee[edit]
McCarthy himself was taken aback by the massive media response to the Wheeling speech, and he was accused of continually revising both his charges and figures. In Salt Lake City, Utah, a few days later, he cited a figure of 57, and in the Senate on February 20, he claimed 81.[citation needed] During a five-hour speech,[41] McCarthy presented a case-by-case analysis of his 81 "loyalty risks" employed at the State Department. It is widely accepted that most of McCarthy's cases were selected from the so-called "Lee list", a report that had been compiled three years earlier for the House Appropriations Committee. Led by a former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent named Robert E. Lee, the House investigators had reviewed security clearance documents on State Department employees, and had determined that there were "incidents of inefficiencies"[42] in the security reviews of 108 employees. McCarthy hid the source of his list, stating that he had penetrated the "iron curtain" of State Department secrecy with the aid of "some good, loyal Americans in the State Department".[43] In reciting the information from the Lee list cases, McCarthy consistently exaggerated, representing the hearsay of witnesses as facts and converting phrases such as "inclined towards Communism" to "a Communist".[44]


Senator Millard Tydings
In response to McCarthy's charges, the Senate voted unanimously to investigate, and the Tydings Committee hearings were called.[45] This was a subcommittee of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations set up in February 1950 to conduct "a full and complete study and investigation as to whether persons who are disloyal to the United States are, or have been, employed by the Department of State".[46] Many Democrats were incensed at McCarthy's attack on the State Department of a Democratic administration, and had hoped to use the hearings to discredit him. The Democratic chairman of the subcommittee, Senator Millard Tydings, was reported to have said, "Let me have him [McCarthy] for three days in public hearings, and he'll never show his face in the Senate again."[47]

During the hearings, McCarthy moved on from his original unnamed Lee list cases and used the hearings to make charges against nine specific people: Dorothy Kenyon, Esther Brunauer, Haldore Hanson, Gustavo Durán, Owen Lattimore, Harlow Shapley, Frederick Schuman, John S. Service, and Philip Jessup. Some of them no longer worked for the State Department, or never had; all had previously been the subject of charges of varying worth and validity. Owen Lattimore became a particular focus of McCarthy's, who at one point described him as a "top Russian spy". Throughout the hearings, McCarthy employed colorful rhetoric, but produced no substantial evidence, to support his accusations.[citation

Ah! another committee that McCarthy had absolutely no involvement in. A committee with a Democtet majority.

I'll tell you who McCarthy did expose; the Rosenbergs. Now, they were real traitors.
 
There we go, again. Associating Senator Joe McCarthy with the House UnAmerican Activities Committee.

There were more Democrats on the HUAC than Republicans.
another distinction without a difference

This is why American socialists are so dangerous. Even when they're blatanly wrong, the demand that the erroneous information be believed.
How am I wrong ?
McCarthy'sand HUAC's witch hunting epically failed at its intended purpose.
There was no large scale elimination of communism in the good old USA.
Even though I know the difference between McCarthy's and HUAC's "investigations" .
It changes nothing .

You're wrong, because you keep trying to associate McCarthy with the HUAC.

Name one person wdho was actually investigated by McCarthy's committee.
that does not make me wrong but thanks for playing. they were both investigation the spread of communism in the us.
as I've said before both "
epically failed at its intended purpose.
There was no large scale elimination of communism in the good old USA."

how bout these.
Tydings Committee[edit]
McCarthy himself was taken aback by the massive media response to the Wheeling speech, and he was accused of continually revising both his charges and figures. In Salt Lake City, Utah, a few days later, he cited a figure of 57, and in the Senate on February 20, he claimed 81.[citation needed] During a five-hour speech,[41] McCarthy presented a case-by-case analysis of his 81 "loyalty risks" employed at the State Department. It is widely accepted that most of McCarthy's cases were selected from the so-called "Lee list", a report that had been compiled three years earlier for the House Appropriations Committee. Led by a former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent named Robert E. Lee, the House investigators had reviewed security clearance documents on State Department employees, and had determined that there were "incidents of inefficiencies"[42] in the security reviews of 108 employees. McCarthy hid the source of his list, stating that he had penetrated the "iron curtain" of State Department secrecy with the aid of "some good, loyal Americans in the State Department".[43] In reciting the information from the Lee list cases, McCarthy consistently exaggerated, representing the hearsay of witnesses as facts and converting phrases such as "inclined towards Communism" to "a Communist".[44]


Senator Millard Tydings
In response to McCarthy's charges, the Senate voted unanimously to investigate, and the Tydings Committee hearings were called.[45] This was a subcommittee of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations set up in February 1950 to conduct "a full and complete study and investigation as to whether persons who are disloyal to the United States are, or have been, employed by the Department of State".[46] Many Democrats were incensed at McCarthy's attack on the State Department of a Democratic administration, and had hoped to use the hearings to discredit him. The Democratic chairman of the subcommittee, Senator Millard Tydings, was reported to have said, "Let me have him [McCarthy] for three days in public hearings, and he'll never show his face in the Senate again."[47]

During the hearings, McCarthy moved on from his original unnamed Lee list cases and used the hearings to make charges against nine specific people: Dorothy Kenyon, Esther Brunauer, Haldore Hanson, Gustavo Durán, Owen Lattimore, Harlow Shapley, Frederick Schuman, John S. Service, and Philip Jessup. Some of them no longer worked for the State Department, or never had; all had previously been the subject of charges of varying worth and validity. Owen Lattimore became a particular focus of McCarthy's, who at one point described him as a "top Russian spy". Throughout the hearings, McCarthy employed colorful rhetoric, but produced no substantial evidence, to support his accusations.[citation

Yeah, um, the question was "innocent people accused by McCarthy". All of the people listed were actually guilty of McCarthy's charges, and some of them of even worse.
 
Liberals need to learn about the Pumpkin Papers and Project Verona.

LOL @ using Liberals and learn in the same sentence. They have a 100% Fail rate BECAUSE they are incapable of learning. They blame others for their failing
Damn funny Franky!

The Kulaks! the Jews! The Capitalists! The 1% The Republican Governor! Capitalism!!
the pumpkin papers +Project Verona would appear to be failures also .nice trivia though .
 
Liberals need to learn about the Pumpkin Papers and Project Verona.

LOL @ using Liberals and learn in the same sentence. They have a 100% Fail rate BECAUSE they are incapable of learning. They blame others for their failing
Damn funny Franky!

The Kulaks! the Jews! The Capitalists! The 1% The Republican Governor! Capitalism!!
the pumpkin papers +Project Verona would appear to be failures also .nice trivia though .

Since you never read either, I'm not surprised you "think" that
 
Liberals need to learn about the Pumpkin Papers and Project Verona.

LOL @ using Liberals and learn in the same sentence. They have a 100% Fail rate BECAUSE they are incapable of learning. They blame others for their failing
Damn funny Franky!

The Kulaks! the Jews! The Capitalists! The 1% The Republican Governor! Capitalism!!
the pumpkin papers +Project Verona would appear to be failures also .nice trivia though .

Since you never read either, I'm not surprised you "think" that
classic false accusation ...they did nothing to stop or even slow down communism in the US
here's proof
Communist Party USA
Political Party

The Communist Party USA is a communist political party in the United States. It is the largest communist party in the country. Established in 1919, it has a long, complex history that is closely related to the histories of similar communist p…
en.wikipedia.org · Text under CC-BY-SA license
 
Well it is too late to save McCarthy, the period is over and McCarthy is history and bad history at that. The real question is did we learn anything. Perhaps to not let our fear be used against us, and to keep our heads when all about us are losing theirs.
 
LOL @ using Liberals and learn in the same sentence. They have a 100% Fail rate BECAUSE they are incapable of learning. They blame others for their failing
Damn funny Franky!

The Kulaks! the Jews! The Capitalists! The 1% The Republican Governor! Capitalism!!
the pumpkin papers +Project Verona would appear to be failures also .nice trivia though .

Since you never read either, I'm not surprised you "think" that
classic false accusation ...they did nothing to stop or even slow down communism in the US
here's proof
Communist Party USA
Political Party

The Communist Party USA is a communist political party in the United States. It is the largest communist party in the country. Established in 1919, it has a long, complex history that is closely related to the histories of similar communist p…
en.wikipedia.org · Text under CC-BY-SA license

McCarthy was uncovering communist agents within the United States government

He rooted out the Rosenbergs and put those he starts in the electric chair, where they belonged.
 
Liberals need to learn about the Pumpkin Papers and Project Verona.

LOL @ using Liberals and learn in the same sentence. They have a 100% Fail rate BECAUSE they are incapable of learning. They blame others for their failing
Damn funny Franky!

The Kulaks! the Jews! The Capitalists! The 1% The Republican Governor! Capitalism!!
the pumpkin papers +Project Verona would appear to be failures also .nice trivia though .

In all fairness, educating leftists and making them informed is not a reasonable standard of success to impose on anything.
 

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