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(VANITY) Why did the left hate Senator Joe McCarthy?
June 10 2012 | me

Posted on 06/10/2012 6:04:18 PM PDT by moonshot925

He was correct about the Soviet atomic spies.

The whole focus of the Soviet atomic bomb program was to build a copy of the American "Fat Man" implosion device.

Klaus Fuchs, Theodore Hall, David Greenglass, Rosenbergs and the other spies provided all of the info on the bomb to the Soviets.

The first Soviet atomic bomb called "RDS-1", detonated on 29 August 1949 was an almost exact copy of the American "Fat Man".


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: atomic; cold; mccarthy; war
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1 posted on 06/10/2012 6:04:27 PM PDT by moonshot925
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To: moonshot925

Simple. The left was and is a bunch of commies, and they did not like McCarthy pointing out their treason.


2 posted on 06/10/2012 6:05:53 PM PDT by kosciusko51 (Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
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Period.

“Witness” by Whittaker Chambers. Required reading.


3 posted on 06/10/2012 6:08:25 PM PDT by bonfire
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To: moonshot925

He exposed the communist infiltration of our government...of course the left hated him. He was an honorable man that was destroyed by the left, but thankfully he got a few licks in. (In so doing he exposed Eisenhower for the RINO that he was)


4 posted on 06/10/2012 6:10:30 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: bonfire
"“Witness” by Whittaker Chambers. Required reading."

I'll second that!

5 posted on 06/10/2012 6:11:41 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: kosciusko51

This is what Theodore Hall said on CNN in 1998.

“I decided to give atomic secrets to the Russians because it seemed to me that it was important that there should be no monopoly, which could turn one nation into a menace and turn it loose on the world as ... as Nazi Germany developed. There seemed to be only one answer to what one should do. The right thing to do was to act to break the American monopoly.”


6 posted on 06/10/2012 6:12:18 PM PDT by moonshot925
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To: bonfire
“Witness” by Whittaker Chambers. Required reading.

Yes, that book had a profound impact on my thinking. If I were to run a school it would be part of the required reading in US Hostory.

7 posted on 06/10/2012 6:12:40 PM PDT by jtal (Runnin' a World in Need with White Folks' Greed - since 1492)
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To: moonshot925

Anyone who exposes the people who want to kill American has to go. It has been true since America was founded.


8 posted on 06/10/2012 6:14:10 PM PDT by bmwcyle (Romney - not Obama - not a Conservative - not a real Christian)
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To: gorush
There is NOTHING the left hates more than truth (please see tagline). And this man brought the unvarnished, pure truth to America and every single media outlet in the '50s (and up through today) worked in an unrelenting manner to smear his good name. Their hero, Edward R. Murrow, became famous by trashing McCarthy.

If he was full of it, they never would have closed ranks and gone nuclear on the guy as they did...my first clue.

9 posted on 06/10/2012 6:17:25 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: moonshot925

It seems that I remember this guy on some PBS program about homegrown atomic spies.


10 posted on 06/10/2012 6:18:34 PM PDT by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: moonshot925
Why do cockroaches hate light?
11 posted on 06/10/2012 6:18:45 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: moonshot925

National socialism was already discredited after the 1939-1945 war between the socialists. The left certainly could not have international socialism also discredited. The bigger the threat you are to the left as in a union family, female, attractive, well spoken, married to a minority VP candidate like Sarah Palin the more they see it necessary to destroy you. So naturally Joe McCarthy was hated as Palin is hated by the left.


12 posted on 06/10/2012 6:19:42 PM PDT by JLS (How to turn a recession into a depression: elect a Dem president with a big majorities in Congress))
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To: gorush

Eisenhower was not a RINO. He balanced the budget in 1956, 1957 and 1958. He startd the policy of “massive retaliation”. If the Soviets ever threatened us we would unload outr nuclear arsenal on them.


13 posted on 06/10/2012 6:21:19 PM PDT by moonshot925
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To: moonshot925

Because he OUTED them. They had their nice little plan to ‘transform’ American and they got nailed. They had to go back to drawing board and it took decades to recover.


14 posted on 06/10/2012 6:22:08 PM PDT by BobL
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They hated Nixon for exactly the same reason -- he understood that communists were a real threat inside this country. The Left didn't hate Nixon because of Watergate. The Left had been tryign to take Nixon down for about 25 years -- it just wasn't until Watergate that they were able to get it done.

Nixon and McCarthy: two American heroes.

15 posted on 06/10/2012 6:23:11 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Obama needs more time. After all -- Rome wasn't burned in a day.)
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To: moonshot925

Eisenhower cut the feet from beneath McCarthy because McCarthy had focused upon a fellow general for fraudulent spending. Eisenhower’s loyalty to that general was a spineless act.


16 posted on 06/10/2012 6:24:59 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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Exactly! And John and Bobby Kennedy were both big fans. Bobby even chose Joe McCarthy as Katherine’s Godfather...that’s Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. Ain’t life funny?!


17 posted on 06/10/2012 6:29:10 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: moonshot925
VANITY) Why did the left hate Senator Joe McCarthy?

That's easy.
Because he was right.

His suspects (the usual ones we still have today) were enemies of the country, overt communists and the sneaky ones, pretending to be activists. Traitors, every one.

All, directly or indirectly supported in spirit and in cash by the Soviet Union.

Read the "Venona" papers.

Also...

Blacklisted by History by M. Stanton Evans

18 posted on 06/10/2012 6:30:23 PM PDT by publius911 (Formerly Publius 6961, formerly jennsdad)
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To: gorush

Marshall was diffrent from Eisenhower. Marshall was a bit of a pinko and good friend of Mao Zedong. Eisenhower knew of the threat of communism. That is why he ramped up military spending and CIA intelligence operations.


19 posted on 06/10/2012 6:33:39 PM PDT by moonshot925
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We knew there was a spy in the Manhattan program who was working for Japan. The Army set about baiting him ~ which I don't really need to go into. He fled before we could catch him.

How we found our about that spy is far more interesting. Victor Sorge, who'd penetrated the Manhattan program himself on behalf of Joe Stalin, reported that fact back to the Kremlin.

Apparently Stalin himself reported that there was a spy in the program working for Japan ~ and that's when all hades broke loose ~ because for the Soviets to tell us about the spy for Japan they were also telling us they'd penetrated the program to build "the Bomb"!

Stalin had an interest in the successful completion of "the Bomb" ~ just in case the Red Army faltered, or Hitler came up with advanced weapons.

He also had an interest in "the Bomb" itself ~ he wanted one, or a dozen.

The Leftwingtards who thought the spies were doing well by sending our secrets to Stalin tended to justify that with the "no nation should have a monopoly on something that powerful". They had no idea that Stalin had, for all practical purposes, partnered with us in building "the Bomb".

He probably should have pulled his spies and taken them to Moscow to safety as soon as everyone realized we had TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF BOMBS, were working on a fission fusion device and there were plenty of unemployed Germans around who could be picked up to complete the Soviet's own atom bomb program later.

Well, Stalin was not a nice guy so he let his spies hang (or fry), got the German engineers anyway, and set off his own test bombs.

The Left, as is usually the case, is stupid. Most of them simply cannot detect evil and imagine the good guys are plotting against them.

Being a Leftwingtard is to have a serious mental illness that degrades your ability to make judgments and can get you killed.

20 posted on 06/10/2012 6:37:58 PM PDT by muawiyah
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