Tank
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To liberals, nothing is wrong unless it's right.
I was not talking politics, I was talking about right and wrong.Fair enough.
But to conservatards nothing is wrong unless it is left.
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To liberals, nothing is wrong unless it's right.
I was not talking politics, I was talking about right and wrong.Fair enough.
But to conservatards nothing is wrong unless it is left.
I read an article a couple of years ago about McCarthy that totally exonerated him, but I wasn't sure whether to trust the source or not....
Is terrible behavior exonerated by revisionist historians? McCarthy ruined lives in the same way the young Maoists did. He even attacked the Army, if you had read a bit about him, you'd realize he was blow hard, liar, and publicity hound. Not even close to being a good honorable man.
This video gives a bit of the sense of the times, and thankfully while 911 and Bush created another atmosphere of fear and hatred that led to war and maybe a million deaths in Iraq, it did not lead to many McCarthy like acts in the US. We have matured a tiny bit, but fear and hatred still exist just below the surface as the Mosque hysteria demonstrates.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQiwR6YwJWw]YouTube - McCarthyism and the Red Scare[/ame]
This was thankfully the beginning of the end for McCarthy. Welch Assails M'Carthy's 'Cruelty' And 'Recklessness' In Attack On Aide; Senator, On Stand, Tells Of Red Hunt
Check out William Manchester's Glory and the Dream sometime for an accurate picture of McCarthy. Library may be best source as it is 13 hundred pages, but is an excellent narrative history that remains above the identity politics of today.
"Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you no sense of decency?" Joseph Nye Welch, the Armys chief counsel
(There is a reason McCarthyism has become a synonym for false and ridiculous accusations.)