The Vindication of Joseph McCarthy

[Lesh]

Every couple of years the right wing tries to resurrect Tail Gunner Joe.

He was a drunken asshole who ruined lives because he could

Fuck him

 

[Manonthestreet]

Remember when Teddy K begged Russia to help him win the election.....then Hilly did the same

 

[whitehall]

The Harry Truman administration created HUAC (House UnAmerican Activities Committee). The federal government had no power to blacklist anyone but when it all went bad the liberal media managed to blame the era on a single republican senator who didn't even chair a committee and Truman and the democrats got a pass.

 

[Marchimedes]

In February 1950, McCarthy, a Republican senator from Wisconsin, launched a massive campaign against alleged Communists and Soviet agents working for, and perhaps spying on, the U.S. government.

Nah, he went after ALL communists. If your neighbor thought you were in your dark basement reading Karl Marx with a flashlight you might get ratted out, interrogated and pressured to name names.

This is America where you have every right to be a POS communist without Mother government leaning on you.

Authoritarian right-wingers and the woke, cancelling Marxists. Opposite sides of the same idiot coin.

 

[bodecea]

Remember when Teddy K begged Russia to help him win the election.....then Hilly did the same

"Russia, if you're listening........."

 

[kaz]

The Vindication of Joseph McCarthy

The Vindication of Joseph McCarthy - The Objective Standard

Examines the myths and facts surrounding Joseph McCarthy and his efforts to expose communist infiltration into the U.S. government in the 1950s.

theobjectivestandard.com

20 Nov 2016 ~~ By Andrew Bernstein

Joseph McCarthy is the most unjustly demonized individual in American history.

In February 1950, McCarthy, a Republican senator from Wisconsin, launched a massive campaign against alleged Communists and Soviet agents working for, and perhaps spying on, the U.S. government. In Senate hearings stretching across much of the first half of the 1950s, he accused numerous U.S. government employees, including many in the State Department, of being Communists or even agents of Soviet Intelligence. He was bitterly opposed by powerful members of the Senate, by numerous high-ranking officials within both the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, and by the overwhelming preponderance of the press corps. He was finally censured by the U.S. Senate in December 1954 and died, possibly of effects of alcoholism, several years later. He was forty-eight.
The demonization's, then and now, involve charges that McCarthy lied, badgered, intimidated, victimized innocents, and fanned the flames of a massive anti-Communist hysteria. A typical account of his methods is provided by History.com’s “This Day in History,” which claims, “In widely publicized hearings, McCarthy bullied defendants under cross-examination with unlawful and damaging accusations, destroying the reputations of hundreds of innocent officials and citizens.” 1
The pejorative term “McCarthyism” was coined by his critics to denote “The practice of making accusations of disloyalty, especially of pro-Communist activity, in many instances unsupported by proof or based on slight, doubtful, or irrelevant evidence.”2
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Soviet Espionage Penetration of the U.S. Government
The Soviets targeted the Communists’ main ideological enemy, the capitalist United States, even during World War II, when the two nations were supposedly allied in a death struggle against fascism. Soviet agents achieved widespread penetration of the American government, spying, stealing secrets, ultimately supplying data enabling Stalin’s blood-drenched regime to develop an atomic weapon years earlier than otherwise.
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McCarthy’s Critics
Even today, some of McCarthy’s critics deny the extent, or even the existence, of Soviet espionage on the part of CPUSA members. But given the evidence now available, this position is impossible to uphold honestly. Evidence from numerous sources definitively establishes a massive Soviet espionage barrage, employing numerous CPUSA partisans, against the United States government.
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The Causes of McCarthy’s Demonization
Why, then, the endless denunciations of McCarthy and the widespread use of the epithet “McCarthyism” as a pejorative? There are several reasons.
One is that, as noted, the full data necessary to assess his cases was locked away in archives of both Cold War adversaries until at least the mid-1990s. It is only in the past twenty years that this information, a little at a time, has become accessible to researchers.
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McCarthy’s major enemies are (for the most part) either supporters of communism or sympathetic to it, or, at the very least, unwilling to recognize its murderous totalitarian nature. This is the dirty little secret of the anti-McCarthy hysteria that continues to permeate both American history texts and contemporary journalistic references to him.
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Because of the dirty little secret mentioned above. American journalists and intellectuals have romanticized socialism—full socialism, real socialism—so much that they cannot bring themselves to see that communism is evil and that a man who exposed this evil within the U.S. government is a hero for having done so. They recognize and properly denounce the murderous totalitarianism of race-based socialism (National Socialism, aka Nazism)—but obdurately refuse to do so regarding the equivalent evils of class-based socialism (Communism). Instead, they are unrestrained in their vicious denunciations of the courageous man who typifies and symbolizes American opposition to this murderous creed.

Commentary:
Far from being an evil “witch Hunter” McCarthy was a Patriot and perhaps one of the 3 greatest Americans of the 20th century.
While 7 years old this article shows conclusively that communist agents had and were still actively infiltrating and working to destroy the USA from within. It names them and offers proof of his accusations mostly being accurate by documents that later surfaced such as the 'Venona Files'.

Venona Documents

Note that the DSA Democrats (funded by CPUSA) are the first to accuse members of the GOP as Putin's allies.
In my view, Joe McCarthy never needed vindication.
Just look at the fact that the former Director of the CIA John Brennan is an admitted Commie sympathizer.

CIA Director Reveals He Was Once a Communist Sympathizer

But Congress is being chill about it.

nymag.com

My favorite McCarthy quote was if Democrats were merely stupid then just by pure chance some of their policies would be in America's interest.

That is still a perfect description of the Democrat party

 

[kaz]

"Russia, if you're listening........."

Hillary created that lie seven years ago, and word still hasn't reached your cave and you're still repeating that lie. Now THAT is hilarious.

On the other hand, MAJOR Trumpater there babe. Greatest political picture ever taken. Trump is a bad ass, that he is

 

[Mac1958]

Every couple of years the right wing tries to resurrect Tail Gunner Joe.

He was a drunken asshole who ruined lives because he could

Fuck him

He'll always appeal to the segment of the population that is prone to paranoid conspiracy theories.

 

[kaz]

He'll always appeal to the segment of the population that is prone to paranoid conspiracy theories.

LOL, you are so clueless about what you are supporting, sweetness. Find a nice guy to take care of you, MAGA man. I eagerly await your three year old response

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

lol!!!

he warned us against cancer like you

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

McCarthy was right!

Nasty drunkard

He ruined the lives of countless innocent people.

 

[kaz]

"Russia, if you're listening........."

That is so funny you still pounding a seven year hoax that was outed four years ago.

Damn that Trumpatar though. Fanfuckingtastic

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

That is so funny you still pounding a seven year hoax that was outed four years ago.

Damn that Trumpatar though. Fanfuckingtastic

"The nearly 1,000-page report, the fifth and final one from the Republican-led Senate intelligence committee on the Russia investigation, details how Russia launched an aggressive effort to interfere in the election on Trump’s behalf. It says the Trump campaign chairman had regular contact with a Russian intelligence officer and says other Trump associates were eager to exploit the Kremlin’s aid, particularly by maximizing the impact of the disclosure of Democratic emails hacked by Russian intelligence officers."

Senate panel finds Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election

The report purposely does not come to a final conclusion, as the other reports did, about whether there is enough evidence that Trump’s campaign coordinated or colluded with Russia to sway the election, leaving its findings open to partisan interpretation.

www.pbs.org

note bodecea These dupes and dopes believe ever lie Trump spouts.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

McCarthy was right!

"Enough new information has come to light about the communists in the U.S. government that we may now say that point by point Joe McCarthy got it all wrong and yet was still closer to the truth than those who ridiculed him."

Nicholas von Hoffman, a columnist for the New York Observer, is a frequent contributor to Outlook.

 

[Frankenstein]

Well, look here. A poster who says Jane Fonda was on his list......

McCarthy waved his list in 1950 and Jane Fonda was born in 1937 so she was 13 years old when she was on his list.

So it is very obvious she was groomed the commie whore

 

[whitehall]

Hollywood whined for over 40 years about blacklisting but the truth is that the government had only subpoena power and Hollywood blacklisted it's own when they thought they might lose money from hiring Commies.

 

[fncceo]

The last movie I watched was "You don't mess with The Zohan".

That's like saying, " The last person I had sex with was Rosie O'Donnell ".

 

[Marchimedes]

details how Russia launched an aggressive effort to interfere in the election on Trump’s behalf.

Trump was the last person Putin wanted in power. Check your logic here, Mr. Dante. You liberals are saying that Putin pulling for Trump is gonna make Americans want Trump. In what fu(kin universe does that make sense? It's the exact opposite. How does the endorsement/support/head nod of a sawed off, tyrannical, murdering communist thug make Americans want the endorsed?

Derrrr... the bad guy wants this guy so he too must be a bad guy so we're gonna vote for the other guy. (Gal is that case.) The only people that fell for that is you stupid liberals. For God's sake, retards crack a Robert Ludlum novel. Going off track I heard Ludlum was gay.



More off track...

I remember when the lead singer of Judas Priest, Rob Halford...



came out as gay. Us metal heads were... "that's nice, Rob but when's your next album coming out?" Which of course proves metal heads are wicked cool.

That means that conservative metal heads are cool squared. Just saying.

 

[Edgetho]

McCarthy was right!

Ever heard, "It isn't what you say, it's how you say it"....?

McCarthy was 'right' but he was the wrong man for the job. And he went about it totally wrong.

Ranting, raving, sweating, drinking..... Lunatic behavior.

A better man would have convinced the American People permanently. Instead, we had to go through Hell for 70 years.

And, yes. I fault him for that. Bigly

 

[22lcidw]

Possibly???

McCarthy was a raving lush.

Calling a politician, a raving lush. Thats a stretch.