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After the war McCarthy ran against Robert La Follette to become Republican candidate for the senate. As one of his biographers has pointed out, his campaign posters pictured him in "full fighting gear, with an aviator's cap, and belt upon belt of machine gun ammunition wrapped around his bulky torso." He claimed he had completed thirty-two missions when in fact he had a desk job and only flew in training exercises.
In his campaign, McCarthy attacked La Follette for not enlisting during the war. He had been forty-six when Pearl Harbor had been bombed, and was in fact too old to join the armed services. McCarthy also claimed that La Follette had made huge profits from his investments while he had been away fighting for his country. The suggestion that La Follette had been guilty of war profiteering (his investments had in fact been in a radio station), was deeply damaging and McCarthy won by 207,935 to 202,557. La Follette, deeply hurt by the false claims made against him, retired from politics, and later committed suicide.
On his first day in the Senate, McCarthy called a press conference where he proposed a solution to a coal-strike that was taking place at the time. McCarthy called for John L. Lewis and the striking miners to be drafted into the Army. If the men still refused to mine the coal, McCarthy suggested they should be court-martialed for insubordination and shot.
Joseph McCarthy : Biography
Joseph McCarthy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe subcommittee first investigated allegations of Communist influence in the Voice of America (VOA), at that time administered by the State Department's United States Information Agency. Many VOA personnel were questioned in front of television cameras and a packed press gallery, with McCarthy lacing his questions with hostile innuendo and false accusations.[63] A few VOA employees alleged Communist influence on the content of broadcasts, but none of the charges were substantiated. Morale at VOA was badly damaged, and one of its engineers committed suicide during McCarthy's investigation. Ed Kretzman, a policy advisor for the service, would later comment that it was VOA's "darkest hour when Senator McCarthy and his chief hatchet man, Roy Cohn, almost succeeded in muffling it."[63]
History has not been kind to Progressive lies about Joe McCarthy.
You can keep lying but the fact is, and the Soviets admit, they had a robust spy program throughout the US Government.
History has not been kind to Progressive lies about Joe McCarthy.
You can keep lying but the fact is, and the Soviets admit, they had a robust spy program throughout the US Government.
How am I lying? They proved McCarthy lied during his campaign, and they proved VOA had no communists dealings.
And didn't we have a Spy program in Russia?
How about the Hollywood Ten and Annie Moss? All she did was buy a magazine.
Do you not believe in Freedom of Speech? Do you like the government controlling what movies you watch, how about what books you read?
Do you agree with burning books?
Maybe as many as 10,000 were McCarthy's victims indirectly. McCarthy may have been caused forty to fifty directly to lose their jobs. The demagoguery and the defamation of character by McCarthy became a defamation of American fair play and honest inquiry. And once again Columbia College's girl from Missouri continues to be the academic party favor for those she opposes. She can't carry an argument and she can't follow one by her own side.
The very best defense of McCarthy is Arthur Herman's Joseph McCarthy, Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator. Herman unwittingly reaffirms history's judgment of McCarthy as Public Louse Number One After 1950.
Drew Pearson immediately launched an attack on Joe McCarthy. He pointed out that only three people on the list were State Department officials. When this list was first published four years ago, Gustavo Duran and Mary Jane Keeney had both resigned from the State Department in 1946. The third person, John S. Service, had been cleared after a prolonged and careful investigation. Pearson also pointed out that none of these people had been members of the American Communist Party. Jack Anderson asked Pearson to stop attacking McCarthy: "He is our best source on the Hill." Pearson replied, "He may be a good source, Jack, but he's a bad man."
I already pointed out she attended meetings and received the magazine. She was never proven to be a national security risk Is it illegal to belong to the communist party in this county?History has not been kind to Progressive lies about Joe McCarthy.
You can keep lying but the fact is, and the Soviets admit, they had a robust spy program throughout the US Government.
How am I lying? They proved McCarthy lied during his campaign, and they proved VOA had no communists dealings.
And didn't we have a Spy program in Russia?
How about the Hollywood Ten and Annie Moss? All she did was buy a magazine.
Do you not believe in Freedom of Speech? Do you like the government controlling what movies you watch, how about what books you read?
Do you agree with burning books?
1. According to liberal mythology, Annie Lee Moss, a semi-literate black wash-woman, was hauled before the committee and accused of being a Communist. Moss, in fact, had been absolutely identified as a Communist Party member by a reliable FBI informant. (David Oshinsky, A Conspiracy So Immense). She was listed in the Communist Partys records. The Party newspaper, the Daily Worker, was delivered to her home- and followed when she moved. (Rogers v. Communist Party of the United States, Subversive Activities Control Board, September 19, 1958). And, Annie Lee Moss was also working in the Code Room of the Pentagon. At the hearings, Ms. Moss mentioned that there were three other people named Annie Lee Moss in the Washington, DC phonebook. The press, of course, accepted this and called McCarty a demagogue.
Of course, none of the press looked in the phonebook: there were not three other Annie Lee Moss- just one. At 72 R Street, SW. The same address listed in the Communist Party records. (Thomas C. Reeves, The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy, p.568-569) Even after the hearings, and the Rosenberg Case, the Army rehired her.
The myth was projected by a Broadway play, A Question of Loyalty, in which a phonebook actually had three Moss.
2. Hollywood Blacklisting had nothing to do with McCarthy. The Hollywood Ten were called before the HUAC in 1947. McCarthy had just been elected to the Senate, and the Alger Hiss exposure, indictment and conviction occurred before McCarthy made his famous 1950 speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, before McCarthy did any investigating of Hollywood. When anti-communism took its toll in Hollywood, the blacklisting took the deadly form of not having ones name in the credits, or living in Paris, or not being able to sell a teleplay for as much as three years. This for folks who had no problem with Ukrainian farmers and their children eating their shoes.
So you can't answer it. We already knew that. You are merely twisting in the air, girl. The nice thing is that America is growing younger and darker, more attuned to technology, and looking forward to the future. They don't care about Joe McCarthy, they don't care about the Tea Party and its woes, they don't care about racism, they don't care about sexism, and they are going to vote the woes of the whack right and the Tea Party into oblivion.
Under the Freedom of Information Act, the FBI released her file. She didn't spy for Russia, she attended a few meeting and got a magazine. Do you have a problem with people attending meetings?
So you agree with the government controlling where you work due to your political beliefs?Maybe as many as 10,000 were McCarthy's victims indirectly. McCarthy may have been caused forty to fifty directly to lose their jobs. The demagoguery and the defamation of character by McCarthy became a defamation of American fair play and honest inquiry. And once again Columbia College's girl from Missouri continues to be the academic party favor for those she opposes. She can't carry an argument and she can't follow one by her own side.
The very best defense of McCarthy is Arthur Herman's Joseph McCarthy, Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator. Herman unwittingly reaffirms history's judgment of McCarthy as Public Louse Number One After 1950.
OMG- it's the return of JakeStinky...the man who never learns!
"About two hundred people in America were blacklisted from a single frivolous industry. They could still go to Paris or sell real estate of do any number of things, including change their name to get film credits they just couldnt work in the movies. That was the only price they paid for shilling for a mass murderer."
Ann Coulter.
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And Republican chair for our region here. Remember that Republicans pulled Joe McCarthy down.
Under the Freedom of Information Act, the FBI released her file. She didn't spy for Russia, she attended a few meeting and got a magazine. Do you have a problem with people attending meetings?
"...Annie Lee Moss was also working in the Code Room of the Pentagon...."
Plus
"...she attended a few [communist] meetings and got a [subscription to a communist] magazine..." called the Daily Worker...
Did you major in syncretism?
Do you wish to comment on all the other errors that I pointed out in your posts?
From the link I posted before.Friedman concludes that Moss most likely had indirect contact with Communists through her cafeteria workers' union, and at most was probably a "casual recruit to the Communist Party, attracted by its social and economic justice politics," and later abandoned any associations with them.[2
