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McCarthy Without the ISM
Campus Report ^ | December 17, 2007 | Malcolm Kline

Posted on 12/17/2007 1:54:03 PM PST by bs9021

McCarthy Without The Ism

by: Malcolm A. Kline, December 17, 2007

As with his last book, The Theme Is Freedom, veteran journalist M. Stanton Evans demolishes another set of misconceptions in his new book Blacklisted By History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies. What he did with those disparate subjects—America’s founding and the Cold War in the United States—is to challenge prevailing wisdom accepted by both the left and the right.

In The Theme Is Freedom, he made a convincing case that America’s freedoms come not from the Enlightenment but from the Bible. In Blacklisted By History, he has accomplished another great task: actually measuring up the record of America’s most hated senator, at least by the so-called elites.

At a December 12 Heritage Foundation forum, author Herbert Romerstein offered words of advice that the editors of National Review should have heeded before running Ron Radosh’s error-based review of Evans’ book: “McCarthyism is a term that should not be used by conservatives.”

Romerstein worked as an investigator for the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee. “I know the history of Soviet propaganda,” Romerstein said. “One of the most powerful tools is to take a man’s name and put ‘ism’ at the end of it.”

“All discussion is stopped.” That’s essentially what happens, save for those instances when certain conservatives, in a very maladroit manner, try making hay with the phrase “McCarthyism of the Left.”

That the very mention of the term would turn legions of conservatives into the Petrified Forest was an outcome that the really hard left anticipated early on. “Gus Hall in 1950 urged party members to ‘fight McCarthyism,’” Romerstein told the audience at Heritage.

(Excerpt) Read more at campusreportonline.net ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: communism; evans; history; mccarthy; mccarthyism; rommerstein

1 posted on 12/17/2007 1:54:05 PM PST by bs9021
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To: bs9021

Truth will always find a way out.


2 posted on 12/17/2007 2:08:03 PM PST by victim soul
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To: victim soul

A must read: The Heritage Foundation forum is available at the Heritage Foundation site...it is an eye opening video with Evans and Rommerstein telling the truth about the damn Communist infiltration and the damage done from the 1930’s until today.


3 posted on 12/17/2007 2:13:49 PM PST by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: bs9021

Dig up their bones!


4 posted on 12/17/2007 2:31:39 PM PST by antinomian (Show me a robber baron and I'll show you a pocket full of senators.)
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To: bs9021

McCarthy was right. But I’m confused - the “ISM”? He’s not someone I’d associate with the Interstellar Medium.


5 posted on 12/17/2007 3:06:48 PM PST by Spirochete
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To: bs9021
he made a convincing case that America’s freedoms come not from the Enlightenment but from the Bible.

So did Thomas Jefferson:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are CREATED equal, that they are endowed by their CREATOR with certain unalienable rights ..."

Not so much the Bible, but its author ...

6 posted on 12/17/2007 3:52:14 PM PST by IronJack (=)
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