[ClearCase_guy]

what the heck did one little-old senator from Wisconsin have to do what happened in Hollywood?

As I'm sure you know, many people still are angry for the House Un-American Activities Committee and for the touble it caused in Hollywood, what with the whole blacklist thing.

And Senator McCarthy is seen as the ring-leader of the whole HUAC thing. Which is odd, because US Senators don't usually have a lot to do with House Committees.

(FWIW, I consider McCarthy to be a great Amerian hero.)

[Coleus]

(FWIW, I consider McCarthy to be a great American hero.) >>

me too.

You're right, that's what I was trying to get out of fishing guy. Seems he fell into the biased, left-wing trap of the education and media establishment. SENATOR McCarthy and the SENATE did NOT investigate Hollywood, it was the HOUSE. The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) started in 1938, started investigating Hollywood in 1940, when Representative Martin Dies, a Texas Democrat, was chairman of the committee, stopped during WWII and continued in 1946 when the Republicans took over the HOUSE, the committee became permanent in 1945 . We are all victims. I found out the truth about McCarthy here on the FR from other freepers.

Maybe Jim Rob and other freepers can start a Free Republic University.