Murrow Or McCarthy?

[whoisit]

Who was right, Tail Gunner Joe or Good Luck Ed?

Edward R. Murrow vs. McCarthy: The True Story Behind 'Good Night, and Good Luck'

Discover the real-life confrontation between CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954. Learn how Murrow's brave stand against McCarthyism, as depicted in 'Good Night, and Good Luck', changed American television and politics forever.

www.factualamerica.com

 

[Oddball]

McCarthy by a mile...

 

[whoisit]

A couple minutes on the men in question,

 

[whoisit]

I'm not totally sure of which one I agree with the most yet.

 

[0311]

Who was right, Tail Gunner Joe or Good Luck Ed?

Edward R. Murrow vs. McCarthy: The True Story Behind 'Good Night, and Good Luck'

Discover the real-life confrontation between CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954. Learn how Murrow's brave stand against McCarthyism, as depicted in 'Good Night, and Good Luck', changed American television and politics forever.

www.factualamerica.com

Tail Gunner was a loud moth bully. Murrow was a great journalist. McCarthy was trash, pure and simple.

 

[Soupnazi630]

Tail Gunner was a loud moth bully. Murrow was a great journalist. McCarthy was trash, pure and simple.

McCarthy was a good man who was destroyed for trying to defend the US against communism

 

[whoisit]

Tail Gunner was a loud moth bully. Murrow was a great journalist. McCarthy was trash, pure and simple.

Thanks for your reply, I'm still studying this.
History has the answer is there is one.
I do know there is good and evil in all mankind.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Joe went to extremes. When he got discredited, the Left was allowed to go to extremes when any criticism of it was called "McCarthyism."

One of his mistakes was to only attack Communist Party members. He ignored the Campus Commie Scum because they were the sheltered sons of the ruling class.

Hacendado Hidalgo Fidel Castro got the same kid-gloves treatment. He would have nothing to do with the Cuban Communist Party, which he called a "debating society." So the C"I"A ignored his obvious threat. Only Nixon was suspicious, as he had correctly been about Alger Hiss, another upper-class Commie.

 

[Mushroom]

Simply look up the Venona Project.

Something very secret at that time was that the US was reading a great deal of the Soviet messages. And between the declassified Venona intercepts and KGB archives, it does indeed show that McCarthy was indeed correct. And almost everybody he exposed was to one degree or another working for the Soviets. The Rosenbergs, Greenglass, Harry Gold, Alger Hiss and Harry White, the list is extensive.

That is one thing that a lot of people use to do when the Senator comes up, and try to deflect away from what he was saying by attacking him personally.

Or just smearing him by blaming him for things he had nothing to do with. Like the blacklisting in Hollywood. A lot of people call that "McCarthyism", yet he had not a damned thing to do with that. McCarthy was a Senator, that was all done by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Started by Democrat Ed Hart of New Jersey, that became a permanent body that existed for thirty years. And was mostly involved in seeking out "Communists" in the general public like actors, singers, authors, and the like. Senator McCarthy was only interested in those that were employed by the US government.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

He died of alcoholism, which means he was drinking heavily while in the Senate.

It affects the senses and rationality.

Thanks for your reply, I'm still studying this.
History has the answer is there is one.
I do know there is good and evil in all mankind.

 

[hjmick]

Murrow.

 

[Soupnazi630]

He died of alcoholism, which means he was drinking heavily while in the Senate.

It affects the senses and rationality.

So did Ted Kennedy

 

[CrusaderFrank]

McCarthy by a mile...

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[Blaster]

Murrow was a chain smoking liberal and Joe was a patriotic American.

 

[whitehall]

Americans trusted liberal idiots like Murrow and Cronkite because they controlled what passed for the media at the time. It was Harry Truman and the democrats who created and operated HUAC and when it went bad they blamed the era on a single republican senator who didn't even chair a committee. Hollywood blacklisted it's own when they thought they would lose money and then they blamed McCarthy and it stuck because left wingers ran the media and there was no other voice.

 

[Blaster]

The old days of propaganda liberal news.

 

[Litwin]

Who was right, Tail Gunner Joe or Good Luck Ed?

Edward R. Murrow vs. McCarthy: The True Story Behind 'Good Night, and Good Luck'

Discover the real-life confrontation between CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954. Learn how Murrow's brave stand against McCarthyism, as depicted in 'Good Night, and Good Luck', changed American television and politics forever.

www.factualamerica.com

Whenever "McCarthyism" is used, I never fail to reply that McCarthy was right.

Post in thread 'A History of the communist Party of the United States of America: the most dangerous, most fanatical crime gang in the USA. McCarthy was right!!'

Sep 5, 2025

It's hard to compete with people like Elvis Presley in the scene..The USSR's imperialistic- Marxist never came close to anything more than spying.

1. I'm 100% with you on this. If I were a Red Tsar and saw Elvis Presley on the scene, I'd shut down the Bolshevik Empire project that very day.
2. "Well, you're 100% wrong on this. The communists have penetrated all U.S. institutions—they've achieved a lot.

Currie and White were part of this Bolshevik -aligned strategy, which included manipulating U.S. policy toward China to favor...

• Litwin

 

[Mushroom]

The old days of propaganda liberal news.

What I can not forgive in modern Academia is the purposeful distortions and lies they tell for propaganda purposes.

Every time somebody brings up Senator McCarthy and goes immediately into the activities of HUAC and the blacklisting of actors and others in Hollywood, I just want to smash their head into a wall. The Senator was involved in the Army-McCarthy Hearing in 1954, and was only interested in individuals who had security clearances and actually worked for the US Government. People in the military, people working in the State Department, people like that.

The House Un-American Activities Committee is the organization that went after people who did not work for the Government, like actors. And that was actually started by Congressman Ed Hart (D) in 1945. That is the organization that conducted the "Hollywood Blacklist", and that started in 1947 - 7 years before the Army-McCartney Hearings. And continued for almost two decades after the McCartney Hearing (finally ending in 1975).

What bothers me not so much that it is "propaganda", but it is an almost absolute lie. Yet a lot of people want to believe it and will absolutely ignore facts because they contradict their beliefs.

 

[Blaster]

What I can not forgive in modern Academia is the purposeful distortions and lies they tell for propaganda purposes.

Every time somebody brings up Senator McCarthy and goes immediately into the activities of HUAC and the blacklisting of actors and others in Hollywood, I just want to smash their head into a wall. The Senator was involved in the Army-McCarthy Hearing in 1954, and was only interested in individuals who had security clearances and actually worked for the US Government. People in the military, people working in the State Department, people like that.

The House Un-American Activities Committee is the organization that went after people who did not work for the Government, like actors. And that was actually started by Congressman Ed Hart (D) in 1945. That is the organization that conducted the "Hollywood Blacklist", and that started in 1947 - 7 years before the Army-McCartney Hearings. And continued for almost two decades after the McCartney Hearing (finally ending in 1975).

What bothers me not so much that it is "propaganda", but it is an almost absolute lie. Yet a lot of people want to believe it and will absolutely ignore facts because they contradict their beliefs.

McCarthy was a hero.

 

[Mushroom]

McCarthy was a hero.

I am not saying one way or another. But that history should be taught correctly and not perverted as propaganda.

Also kinda like how they always ignore the importance of the Kennedy Clan in his rise to power. JFK was a lifelong supporter of his, and one of his main assistants. And RFK was as well. But notice whenever the majority talk about "McCarthyism", there is almost no mention of the Kennedy's.

I find it fascinating that even looking at documentaries about the Senator, the roles of JFK and RFK are barely ever mentioned. However, interestingly enough in several they do talk a lot about Richard Nixon. Once again, clear proof that they are not trying to be accurate but pushing inaccurate propaganda.