American Horse
AKA "Mustang"
Joe McCarthy had nothing to do with any of that Hollywood hullabaloo. That was all part of the work of the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) and Joseph McCarthy was a US Senator, and did not work or coordinate with the house committee. None of these people who were "blacklisted" were named by Joseph McCarthy. Whatever blacklisting that occurred came as a result of certain large Hollywood producers and moguls who wanted to be sure their industry was not infiltrated by communists.Joe McCarthy was an alcoholic that fabricated everything he touched.
My uncle was a construction worker in California working for movie studios. McCarthy labeled him and nundreds of others as communists without any evidence to support it. Uncle Bill and all the others were black listed and never worked another day in that industry. Thousands in the movie industry were blacklisted as communists.
Name one that was right.
Sure, McCarthy pointed out there were communists around. Well DUH. Even a blind squirrell finds a nut every once in a while.
You people will believe anything and are too young to know any better.
It's too bad you don't challenge anything you hear on the subject.
Prove what you say. And by the way, prove what you said in another thread that McCarthy said that the communists were poisoning our water supply with fluoride.
Here’s what you said in THIS THREAD
If you do not know that Joe McCarthy stated himself that vaccinations, fluoridation of water and the government funding mental health clinic then you are in denial. He said it and that is documented fact.
So you condone slandering hundreds of innocent people because he "sounded the alarm"?
I repeat my challenge: Show me some evidence, even a credible link that Joe McCarthy ever stated that. Anything will do; I want to see it. So document it; give us a link. Come on! Do it!
You are wrong in saying that McCarthy had nothing to do with the who communist investigations. Of course he wasn't involved with a House committee. However the Senate also had hearings , Tydings Committee, feel free to read about it.
Tydings Committee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As for fluoride, yes MacCarthy led the charge of people who believed it was a communist plot. The man was a delusional prick.
Of course the Senate had hearings in the form of the Tydings hearings which preceded McCarthy, but I repeat that McCarthy had nothing to do with the Hollywood Blacklisting.
McCarthy had those, and developed many more names that had not originated in the house committee, and the great majority of those were to be proven two ways, besides FBI investigaters: they would show up in the Venona transmissions, and many of those people charged by McCarthy sought refuge in the Soviet Union and China.
The Tydings committee was organized ostensibly to evaluate the claims by McCarthy, but instead it's primary purpose was to obfuscate the record and discredit McCarthy's work, by claiming that all the names McCarthy had came from the "Lee List"
And as for the flouride assertion, I say the same to you as I said to Gadawg PROVE IT. I'm willing to admit I'm wrong if you can provide some substantial proof, not just another claim by someone who hated JM and wanted to pile on. And it's not enough to say that Roy Cohn, who was legal counsel to Sen. Joseph McCarthy during the anti-Communist Senate investigations of the 1950s, would later become a member of the John Birch Society, and that since the JBS warned about flouride in the water that, therefore McCarthy did also.
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