Posted on 10/15/2017 7:20:52 PM PDT by kathsua
>>I remember seeing some of the television coverage of the Army-McCarthy hearings. I was too young to fully understand what was going on, but I recognized that Murrow thought something was wrong.
The Left said “HOW DARE YOU?!!” accuse members of the State Department and US military of being disloyal to America.
Nidal Hassan, Brad Manning, Bowe Bergdahl, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton. McCarthy was right.
Murrow was a premier leftist FAKE Journalist who used his position to cover up the extensive Communist and Communist sympathizer network within the Federal Government and other institutions. He did grievous harm to our nation.
There is no comparison to the McCarthy hearings and the current Russian supposedly election intervention. Just like the Weinstein coverup for so many years our government was covering up Russian influence in Hollywood while McCarthy was exposing it and in the process has been demonized.
McCarthy was right.
The communist infiltration of media and entertainment is blatantly apparent to all but the most obtuse.
The Left also tried to turn the Army hearings on their head by accusing McCarthy and others of impropriety in some vacation request that an enlisted man got for his testimony.
Also they drop hints about “fairies” aimed at Roy Cohn (a homosexual who did of AIDS).
Even today when the Left writes books about the supposed “witchhunt” of Communists, there is NO reference to the KGB files that were made public in the 1990s. Over 20 years and they still won’t go there.
Stalinists lie. Always
Dead, evil eyes.
Edward R. Murrow was a leftist traitor who used his media power to do as much damage to the U.S. as he could.
http://www.conservapedia.com/Edward_R._Murrow
Glad somebody set the record straight
You are so correct. As I recall McCarthy went after communist spies in the Truman administration. The spies were identified by monitoring Russian communications as we had broken the Russian code. The intelligence community leadership trusted Tail Gunner Joe and provided him the information so He knew who the communists were and had them dead to rights. Accordingly, he was assulted by the communist sympathizing press and academia. The House, not to be outdone, started looking at communists in the film industry etc. McCarthy is usually blamed for the actions of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. McCarthy was quite successful in removing communist spies from our government. For this the communists destroyed the patriotic senators reputation. And even after the truth was made public in the Verona Papers, the lies proffered against this good man continue to be spread. Even here on Free Republic. It is shameful.
Yep. Well said.
Venona.
The left focuses and destroys all that stand in their way. What McCarthy tried to stop festered to what we see today.
Red Channels wasn’t a government publication. The lists of Communist sympathizers were privately compiled.
And the film industry employed the boycotted screenwriters by giving them pseudonyms. Couldn’t let the ticket buying public know the truth.
Ed Murrow was ‘moderate Republican” if you look at his political ancestory.
His forefathers were Republicans in North Carolina who helped the GOP hold onto some political power down there in the Reconstruction, post Reconstruction era until the Democrats could rewrite the laws to disenfranchise black voters.
He did the bidding of the moderate GOPe in trashing Joe McCarthy.
They say in Murrow’s biography that President Eisenhower patted Murrow on the back after the McCarthy hit piece in prime time TV.
I remember the Charlie McCarthy hearings. They were right after Winchell v. Mahoney.
I watched Point of Order on DVD once but it was distributed by a Communist filmmaker (who interviewed the Weather Underground while they were hiding out in the 70s).
It was purported to be “found” news footage of the hearings but I don’t know if there was any editing of said footage.
No, he wouldn’t. They’re following in his tradition.
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