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Posted on 09/11/2007 8:28:16 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
IN THE SPRING of 1954, the US Senate convened hearings at the instigation of Senator Joseph McCarthy to press his anticommunist investigations into the Department of the Army. The hearings were broadcast live on television, and the American public was able to witness firsthand the tactics McCarthy used to intimidate his foes. At a critical moment in the hearings, a key governmental witness, Army lawyer Joseph Welch, rose to defend one of the junior Army lawyers whose career, Welch alleged, McCarthy had destroyed. Welch turned to McCarthy and memorably intoned: "Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"It was remarkable political theater and historians credit it with breaking the back of McCarthy's attack on the Army, which in turn broke the back of his anticommunist efforts. In short order, McCarthy's allies abandoned him, he was discredited, and he left the Senate in disgrace.
We may be about to witness a McCarthy-Army-Welch moment in the debate over Iraq. This time, the role of McCarthy is played by MoveOn.org, a liberal political group that launched its own attack on a respected US Army figure. In yesterday's New York Times, the day that General David Petraeus would give his long-awaited, congressionally mandated report on his military activities in Iraq, MoveOn.org ran a full-page advertisement that accused Petraeus of activities befitting a traitor. The advertisement alleges, without evidence, that Petraeus is not going to give his honest, professional assessment of the situation in Iraq but instead will be "cooking the books" to curry favor with the Bush White House. The heart of the advertisement is a juvenile pun on Petraeus's name: General Betray Us?
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Has Hillary issued any condemnation or rebuke?
I'm really not surprised. I think the "old school" liberals thoroughly dislike the hold the "MoveOn.org" type folks have on the Democrats. They like the money, yes, but they don't want these guys calling the shots. An opening like this is the chance they've been waiting for, I would think.
None of the dems have to my knowledge. A resolution was introduced this morning on the Senate floor and was rejected, however, they are going to keep trying until there is a vote, according to Senator Cornyn on Fox news.
Money. It’s the motivation, and MoveOn has it.
Stop acting like a fringe-wacko and the money dries up.
The Old School libs hate that, but China only has so much to give them. :)
When ever I see MoveOn.org mentioned anywhere all I ever think of is Bill Clinton’s penis in various places it did not belong...MoveOn needs to Move On to a new name.
The MSM got away with character assasination of McCarthy, as several books have detailed beyond a shadow of a doubt, one of which is Ann Coulter’s best book, ‘Treason’.
They cannot do that today with the alternative media available to us all.
Especially fuuny because MoveOn are home grown communists. “Progressive” is Latin for “I’m a liberal too ashamed to admit I’m such a commie.”
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