Posted on 07/17/2005 5:58:36 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
It appears that they have not become any smarter in the past 80 years.
We also see them in the UN, with their constant striving for "social justice" which is code for 'from each according to his ability, to each according to his need', aka communism.
one of the saddest cases to come out that period was the husband of the editor of the washington post: phil graham husband of martha graham.
It was her newspaper, or rather, her dad's newspaper. Graham married into the family. He was groomed to take over the newspaper.
However, during the McCarthy period he was one of the few people who were advised of the contents of the Venona cables.
Never the less, he was unable to stop the Washington Post's attack on everything to do with McCarthy-because by that time the communists had convinced the media that McCarthy was a set up for a pogrom. They took what stalin attempted to do with the doctor's plot and applied it to the republicans in general people like nixon in particular. anyone who sided with McCarthy was immediatly suspect and definitely out.
For someone like graham the difference between the image and the reality was too much. after embarrassing himself with some extra marital flings he committed suicide.
The sad and crazy thing is that martha graham died after the release of the venona cables...but she never understood.
I've added this to my reading list.
You do not have to convice your Komrades of anything.
Unfortunately, there are not a lot of good books about him. I read "Joseph McÇarthy and the Cold War", "The Politics of Fear", "Nightmare in Red" and "Joseph McCarthy : Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator". They all just pissed me off, except the last one, which was pretty good.
However, it was "Witness" that really turned the worm for me. After I read that, I read a couple of books on the Venona Project, and there are a few really good ones out there now.
You must read "Witness", then read up on Venona, and it really brings it all together.
I have to thank Ann Coulter's book for getting me on the path, though. If not for hers, I might never have gone that way.
THAT is a great question!
WHO is going to buy time for us this time, with respect to the socialists, communists and islamofacists?
Who is going to be slandered for telling the truth?
Great post! The penetration of our country by the USSR is just shocking when studied. In return we did basically nothing until the late 1940's. If the CIA had not been established and the FBI not stepped up its efforts, who knows where it might have ended?
Great post. Great comments.
Profound, indeed. It ranks in my top five as well.
I think the thing I found MOST disturbing is that the Left and the Media use the same tactics today that they did back then! Of course, they can no longer use certain insinuations and words with impunity as they did back then, calling Whittaker Chambers a "queer", etc.
But the tactics are the same.
It's not difficult to answer that at all, especially for one who has been through a modern liberal American university.
Communists idealogues descend on the American college campus and commence to exploit the naivete of the brand-new skulls full of mush. They do this by cajoling and belittling all thought that is not in mesh with the communist ideology. If the student doesn't believe it, he is branded as not very bright. All thoughts expousing socialistic utopianism is richly rewarded and all dissent is greeted with failing grades and humiliation.
Thus, by this diabolical excuse for education, the "liberal" mind set becomes the dominant one in academe, and the liberal arts graduate is more inclined to betray his country than to fight for it.
There are several I can think of, of the top of head, that have already been smeared, accused, slandered, defamed, prosecuted and sentenced in the LSM.
Perhaps one of them will rise to the occasion?
Good one Joe!
I wonder why, though, that Eisenhower spoke out against him toward the end.
To answer your question......most were a part of it.
When I was a little girl, my mother made me watch the Army - McCarthy hearings. I really was too little to understand all of it, but I understood enough and my mother filled in the blanks for me. She, like most Americans back then, was a fierce anti-Commie. Most Americans, no matter WHAT the MSM said then, hated Commies and were FOR McCarthy and what he was attempting to do.
I read this book. It also casts serious suspicion onto Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb.
I thought you might like it. I agree with your answer, of course. Wish I could hang out and play connect the dots, but tomorrow looms on the horizon.
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