Posted on 10/19/2003 12:57:49 PM PDT by Forgiven_Sinner
The press revolted as well, with Edward Murrow of early television fame showing plain, unedited clips from the hearings to show the fraud in McCarthy.
Over the span of thirty-six days, there were thirty-two witnesses, 71 half-day sessions, 187 hours of TV air time, 100,000 live observers, and two million words of testimony.19 Joe kept up his attacks, which gradually weakened. Every day, millions of TV sets showed McCarthy pointing his finger yet again at another man. McCarthy was obviously slipping, but he didn't give up. Then, when he was attacking an associate of Joseph N. Welch, chief attorney for the Army, Welch stood up, faced the senator, and said:
Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you no sense of decency?
And with that, the hearings ended, and so did McCarthy's witch hunting career. On December 2, 1954, the senate voted 67-22 to condemn him for "conduct contrary to Senatorial traditions." The condemnation—only the third one in 165 years—noted the abuse of his Senatorial powers. After the condemnation, he tried to pass a few of bills written by him, but most senators didn't approve these, probably to avoid association with the "worst senator". He had lost his honor, and rightly so.
McCarthy was a drunken clown who was an embarrassment to this country. Why Ann can't figure this out is puzzling.
Source of the excerpt: http://mccarthy.cjb.net/
Ah, but would you be ready for her critique when you were done?
Yes, but only because of the acoustic similarities.
Certainly not in the Homeric sense.
Most correct and you help make my point. The ends can not justify the means and McCarthy obviously did not have the substance to figure that out. Why Ann thinks he is worthy of adulation is, again, very puzzling.
Barbarella pix acceptable as an alternative.
Oh yes, what is quoted is accurate. Read some more of the referenced source; it will give you a better idea of what McCarthy was about (mostly ego). Ann should have picked a better hero - this one could not even figure out that the ends do no justify the means (a basic moral principle).
JFK was an admirer.
Just being right is not enough - as the Senate Censure indicated. The ends do not justify the means. That is a basic moral principle and if you can't figure out that you do not deserve to be a Senator much less a hero (as Ann has tried to make him).
Here is a brief description of Ann's hero......written by a typical McCarthy-basher.
Your post reflects the "truth" which has been taken as gospel by many - on both the left AND right, until Ann's new book.Until you are able to read "Treasson" - here is a small taste of her argument, from:
I dare call it treason (SLAMMING LIBERALS AND DEMOCRATS BUT GOOD) (Ann Coulter)
World Net Daily ^ | 6/25/2003 | Ann Coulter
Posted on 06/25/2003 4:22 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
I DARE CALL IT TREASON
BY ANN COULTER
The myth of "McCarthyism" is the greatest Orwellian fraud of our times. Liberals are fanatical liars, then as now. The portrayal of Sen. Joe McCarthy as a wild-eyed demagogue destroying innocent lives is sheer liberal hobgoblinism. Liberals weren't hiding under the bed during the McCarthy era. They were systematically undermining the nation's ability to defend itself, while waging a bellicose campaign of lies to blacken McCarthy's name. Liberals denounced McCarthy because they were afraid of getting caught, so they fought back like animals to hide their own collaboration with a regime as evil as the Nazis. As Whittaker Chambers said: "[I]nnocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does."
At the time, half the country realized liberals were lying. But after a half century of liberal myth-making, even the disgorging of Soviet and American archives half a century later could not overcome their lies. In 1995, the U.S. government released its cache of Soviet cables that had been decoded during the Cold War in a top-secret undertaking known as the Venona Project. The cables proved the overwhelming truth of McCarthy's charges. Naturally, therefore, the release of decrypted Soviet cables was barely mentioned by the New York Times. It might have detracted from stories of proud and unbowed victims of "McCarthyism." They were not so innocent after all, it turns out.
Soviet spies in the government were not a figment of right-wing imaginations. McCarthy was not tilting at windmills. He was tilting at an authentic communist conspiracy that had been laughed off by the Democratic Party...
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