Mccarthy was right

[The Sage of Main Street]

McCarthy was an opportunistic fear-monger.

What do free, intelligent people have to fear in discussing and debating anyone and any ideology? Totalitarians are all the same, ideas are different. There is no harm in holding an ideal, only in trying to force others to conform. McCarthy wanted to force conformity.

All Freedoms Have to Be Earned

Aren't the Campus Commie Scum getting away with that? It's time for the Silent Majority to silence them.

 

[Dschrute3]

McCarthy was vilified and ultimately destroyed by the Communists. But everything he claimed was true. Destroying McCarthy was an enormous victory for the Communists. As a result of that victory, they were able to seize control of one of America's major political parties.

They also eventually seized control of much of the America Media. To this day, they control most of the media propaganda in this country. Joe McCarthy saw all that coming. He was a bit of a prophet. And like many other prophets in history, he was condemned and destroyed. It's sad.

 

[dudmuck]

McCarthy was vilified and ultimately destroyed by the Communists. But everything he claimed was true. Destroying McCarthy was an enormous victory for the Communists. As a result of that victory, they were able to seize control of one of America's major political parties.

They also eventually seized control of much of the America Media. To this day, they control most of the media propaganda in this country. Joe McCarthy saw all that coming. He was a bit of a prophet. And like many other prophets in history, he was condemned and destroyed. It's sad.

No, it was destroyed after they witch hunted the military.

Please clue in before spouting off.

 

[regent]

McCarthy was vilified and ultimately destroyed by the Communists. But everything he claimed was true. Destroying McCarthy was an enormous victory for the Communists. As a result of that victory, they were able to seize control of one of America's major political parties.

They also eventually seized control of much of the America Media. To this day, they control most of the media propaganda in this country. Joe McCarthy saw all that coming. He was a bit of a prophet. And like many other prophets in history, he was condemned and destroyed. It's sad.

No, it was destroyed after they witch hunted the military.

Please clue in before spouting off.

McCarthy was destroyed by booze and taking on the US Army as an opponent.

the provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength. Trump is going to rebuild our military. this whole Putin thing, look, America is stronger than Russia. our economy is 15 times larger than Russia, our political system is superior to the crony corrupt capitalist system in Russia in every way. we are stronger in terms of military. we are stronger in terms of everything.

The beauty of course is that America gets a free wall with Trump.

 

[LuckyDuck]

McCarthy pushed the buttons of paranoia and hysteria to unjustly accuse innocent Americans

McCarthy did falsely accuse numerous celebrities of being members of the Communist party. However, the government was mistakenly advised that those who aligned with the Communist party, should just be ignored, as if the government didn't drop the attacks on the Communist party, our government would be seen as no better than actual authoritarian/communist governments. I personally believe that ignoring the Communist party in the US, was a mistake as by largely ignoring it, has allowed it to grow into areas such as, academia, the media and entertainment industry. The basic fact is that Communism is against our very Constitutional Republic and thus a threat to the nation.

 

[there4eyeM]

Another "debate" where real discussion is nullified by an absence of clear definition of terms. Americans often fall into the trap of considering anything remotely associated with social action as socialist, thus 'communist', thus Stalinist. Have you ever met a person who was an avowed communist who detested Stalin? I have, and they are sincere, decent people with constructive ideas, most of which diverge from how I see things, nonetheless. Communist is not synonymous with totalitarian the way Fascist is.
But, what am I doing! Trying to clarify waters so muddied they will never be clear!
Go on, have at it!

 

[bripat9643]

I think McCarthy was right to a certain point, then he started seeing Commies everywhere, accusing random people that were not Communist and trying to create a dictatorship in the process.

Everyone he called to testify and took the 5th turned out to be a communist spy. That was proven by the vanona project.

 

[bripat9643]

McCarthy pushed the buttons of paranoia and hysteria to unjustly accuse innocent Americans

McCarthy did falsely accuse numerous celebrities of being members of the Communist party. However, the government was mistakenly advised that those who aligned with the Communist party, should just be ignored, as if the government didn't drop the attacks on the Communist party, our government would be seen as no better than actual authoritarian/communist governments. I personally believe that ignoring the Communist party in the US, was a mistake as by largely ignoring it, has allowed it to grow into areas such as, academia, the media and entertainment industry. The basic fact is that Communism is against our very Constitutional Republic and thus a threat to the nation.

No he didn't, turd. Everyone he accused was guilty as hell.

 

[bripat9643]

One of the saddest scenes of McCarthy was the hearing where McCarthy and Welch slugged it out. The committee was adjourned and McCarthy was still doing his communist speech thing and the rest were packing up and joking. I almost felt sorry for him, but then good sense took over.

McCarthy was right and the rest of them were dead wrong. You fell for a staged event.

 

[Political Junky]

McCarthy was a drunk and closeted homosexual.

 

[bripat9643]

McCarthy was a drunk and closeted homosexual.

Everything you post is communist propaganda.

 

[MaryAnne11]

He voted for Hillary

Really? That is funny!

 

[MaryAnne11]

McCarthy was a drunk and closeted homosexual.

Everything you post is communist propaganda.

Are you saying McCarthy was not a drunk?

 

[Political Junky]

McCarthy's biographers agree that he was a changed man after the censure; declining both physically and emotionally, he became a "pale ghost of his former self" in the words of Fred J. Cook.[141] It was reported that McCarthy suffered from cirrhosis of the liver and was frequently hospitalized for alcoholism. Numerous eyewitnesses, including Senate aide George Reedy and journalist Tom Wicker, reported finding him alarmingly drunk in the Senate. Journalist Richard Rovere (1959) wrote:

He had always been a heavy drinker, and there were times in those seasons of discontent when he drank more than ever. But he was not always drunk. He went on the wagon (for him this meant beer instead of whiskey) for days and weeks at a time. The difficulty toward the end was that he couldn't hold the stuff. He went to pieces on his second or third drink. And he did not snap back quickly.[142]

McCarthy had also become addicted to heroin. Harry J. Anslinger, head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, became aware of McCarthy's addiction in the 1950s, and demanded he stop using the drug. McCarthy refused.[143] In Anslinger's memoir, The Murderers, McCarthy is anonymously quoted as saying:

I wouldn't try to do anything about it, Commissioner [. . .] It will be the worse for you [. . .] and if it winds up in a public scandal and that should hurt this country, I wouldn’t care [. . .] The choice is yours.[143]

Anslinger decided to give McCarthy access to heroin in secret from a pharmacy in Washington, DC. The heroin was paid for by the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, right up to McCarthy's death. Anslinger never publicly named McCarthy, and he threatened a journalist who uncovered the story with prison.[143] However, McCarthy's identity was known to Anslinger's agents, and journalist Maxine Cheshire confirmed his identity with Will Oursler, co-author of The Murderers, in 1978.[143][144]

Joseph McCarthy - Wikipedia

 

[Billo_Really]

Mccarthy was fully aware of the Marxist subversion of America, we need only look at the MSM and SCOTUS Justice Stevens to see how entrenched these Marxists are. They ddin't appear there overnight, they've been there the entire time...since Mccarthy's time.

They make note of how he targeted Hollywood...just look at Holywood with all the LGBTQ, anti-gun and pro-death bullshit

It is difficult to estimate the number of victims of McCarthy. The number imprisoned is in the hundreds, and some ten or twelve thousand lost their jobs.[59] In many cases simply being subpoenaed by HUAC or one of the other committees was sufficient cause to be fired.[60] Many of those who were imprisoned, lost their jobs, or were questioned by committees did in fact have a past or present connection of some kind with the Communist Party. But for the vast majority, both the potential for them to do harm to the nation and the nature of their communist affiliation were tenuous.[61] After the extremely damaging "Cambridge Five" spy scandal (Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, et al.), suspected homosexuality was also a common cause for being targeted by McCarthyism. The hunt for "sexual perverts", who were presumed to be subversive by nature, resulted in over 5,000 federal workers being fired, and thousands were harassed and denied employment.[62][63] Many have termed this aspect of McCarthyism the "Lavender scare".[64][65]

Homosexuality was classified as a psychiatric disorder in the 1950s.[66] However, in the context of the highly politicised Cold War environment, homosexuality became framed as a dangerous, contagious social disease that posed a potential threat to state security.[66] As the family was believed to be the cornerstone of American strength and integrity,[67] the description of homosexuals as "sexual perverts" meant that they were both unable to function within a family unit and presented the potential to poison the social body.[68] This era also witnessed the establishment of widely spread FBI surveillance intended to identify homosexual government employees

McCarthyism - Wikipedia

Mccarthy should be an honored American hero.

You're living proof of just how extreme and whacked out the right has become. You fuckers are nuts!

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Ultimately, McCarthy vastly understated the extent to which the US Government was working for Stalin since FDR. It's obvious that Stalin used FDR as his sock puppet and had the Americans prosecute the war for the sole benefit of Uncle Joe. It's a sick, sad chapter of history that enslaved tens of millions in eastern Europe until Reagan liberated them

 

[mikegriffith1]

The more likely scenario is that McCarthy, as a drunk, was easily manipulated by Soviet operatives to introduce chaos into the American political scene.

I suspect you have read next to nothing about Joseph McCarthy. Here are two good places to start:

https://www.amazon.com/Blacklisted-History-Senator-McCarthy-Americas/dp/1400081068&tag=ff0d01-20

https://www.amazon.com/Joseph-McCar...c=1&refRID=HQ5TQNB0BKYRWTRGN8HK&tag=ff0d01-20

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

McCarthy pushed the buttons of paranoia and hysteria to unjustly accuse innocent Americans

McCarthy did falsely accuse numerous celebrities of being members of the Communist party. However, the government was mistakenly advised that those who aligned with the Communist party, should just be ignored, as if the government didn't drop the attacks on the Communist party, our government would be seen as no better than actual authoritarian/communist governments. I personally believe that ignoring the Communist party in the US, was a mistake as by largely ignoring it, has allowed it to grow into areas such as, academia, the media and entertainment industry. The basic fact is that Communism is against our very Constitutional Republic and thus a threat to the nation.

Spoiled Trash Assigned to Read Different Scripts. Ideology Is a Stage Costume.

Commies are Preppies; that's why they are protected. Marx advocates a totalitarian leadership, which is right up their alley. From childhood on, they are embedded with a Social Darwinist attitude that they are Born to Rule

 

[regent]

In any case "McCarthyism" has become a joke and a lesson on how easily some Americans can be scared out of their wits at times.
But then again maybe the communists forced McCarthy to overindulge in booze; make outrageous statements and pretend he was gay? They even had Roy Cohn die from
Alds to make the gay story believable.

 

[Dschrute3]

McCarthy was vilified and ultimately destroyed by the Communists. But everything he claimed was true. Destroying McCarthy was an enormous victory for the Communists. As a result of that victory, they were able to seize control of one of America's major political parties.

They also eventually seized control of much of the America Media. To this day, they control most of the media propaganda in this country. Joe McCarthy saw all that coming. He was a bit of a prophet. And like many other prophets in history, he was condemned and destroyed. It's sad.

No, it was destroyed after they witch hunted the military.

Please clue in before spouting off.

McCarthy was destroyed by booze and taking on the US Army as an opponent.

the provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength. Trump is going to rebuild our military. this whole Putin thing, look, America is stronger than Russia. our economy is 15 times larger than Russia, our political system is superior to the crony corrupt capitalist system in Russia in every way. we are stronger in terms of military. we are stronger in terms of everything.

The beauty of course is that America gets a free wall with Trump.

McCarthy was a wise Prophet. Everything he claimed about Communist infiltration, was true. All you have to do is look at today's Democratic Party, Media, and especially Hollywood. The Communists have seized control of those institutions. It's just what McCarthy warned about.