[NormsRevenge]

Sun May 4,11:28 PM ET

Senate Historian Donald Ritchie sits in his Capitol Hill office Friday, Feb. 7, 2003. Ritchie assembled the 4,000 pages of closed door transcripts from the McCarthy hearings that are scheduled to be released Monday, May 5, 2002 in Washington. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)

Sun May 4,11:27 PM ET

Sen. Joe McCarthy, R-Wis., presides at a hearing of the Senate Investigations Subcommittee, in Washington, in this March 10, 1954 file photo. Seated at right is committee counsel Roy Cohn. The Senate is expected to release 4,000 pages of closed-door transcripts Monday, May 5, 2003 in Washington. (AP Photo/File)

[Free ThinkerNY]

It's always nice to hear only one side of a story from an objective journalist.

[sackofcatfood]

If you're still an unbeliever,

<a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/focus/people/vo03no10_mccarthy.htm>this</a> is an excellent article vindicating one Mr. Joe McCarthy.

[ladyinred]

This should be interesting. My entire life I have heard nothing but bad things about McCarthy, I would very much like to hear the other side of the story.

[xm177e2]

But before McCarthy was brought down, he brought down scores of people, historians say. Many had some degree of leftist politics or sympathies in their past, but none were traitors or spies.

?

McCarthy had a bad influence on this country, by discrediting anti-Communism, but not everyone he went after was pure as the driven snow! These bastards want to rewrite history.

[denydenydeny]

McCarthy himself, a Wisconsin Republican who catapulted himself to fame with his headline-grabbing but ultimately fabricated allegations of vast Communist conspiracies tainting the State Department, the Government Printing Office and parts of the U.S. military, died in 1957.

I would argue, and I think that history has proven, that with the State Department, at least, there were no fabrications necessary.

[Lael]

McCarthy's most notorious hearings, the Army-McCarthy hearings, were held in public and the secret portions of that investigation were released long ago.

And the central QUESTION which prompted the retalitory Army - McCarthy Hearings WAS and STILL IS...

WHO PROMOTED PEREZ???????

[GunRunner]

"...he brought down scores of people, historians say. Many had some degree of leftist politics or sympathies in their past, but none were traitors or spies."

Bull$#!t!

Communists are traitors by their very nature.

[wideminded]

The film "Citizen Cohn" with James Woods, portrayed McCarthy's downfall as being in great measure due to Roy Cohn. It implied the the Army-McCarthy hearings, which did not go so well for McCarthy, were instigated by Cohn after the Army refused to give special treatment to David Schine, with whom Cohn had a homosexual infatuation. Anyone care to comment on the probability that this is historically accurate?

Whatever success McCarthy may have had in weeding out communists, I believe that it is generally accepted that he claimed falsely to have been a tailgunner in World War II and that he may not actually have had a list of 205 communists when he made his Wheeling speech. Perhaps someone can also comment on whether these items are true and how they should be seen in an overall interpretation of McCarthy.

[weegee]

Of course when a certain witch did her own hunting against a vast right wing conspiracy, the media supported her assertions.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

They will be liberally leftest redacted to protect the guilty and impugn the innocent.

Oh goodie. Does this mean they will soon be releasing the secrete files on ML King.

[ARepublicanForAllReasons]

catapulted himself to fame with his headline-grabbing but ultimately fabricated allegations of vast Communist conspiracies tainting the State Department, the Government Printing Office and parts of the U.S. military

Uh huh.

Many had some degree of leftist politics or sympathies in their past, but none were traitors or spies.

Uh huh.
Tell it like it ain't!

[backhoe]

Tailgunner Joe--Patriot Whistleblower or Right-Wing Witch-hunter?

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

McCarthy himself, a Wisconsin Republican who catapulted himself to fame with his headline-grabbing but ultimately fabricated allegations of vast Communist conspiracies tainting the State Department, the Government Printing Office and parts of the U.S. military, died in 1957. He was censured by the Senate in 1954.

The worst part about this is he was right all along he just didnt have the power to do anything about it NOW most democrats in office are communists by deed and signature and arent afraid to admit it and still republicans and conservatives are doomed to repeat history and from the looks of things its only gonna get worse .

Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35

January 10, 1963

Current Communist Goals

EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, January 10, 1963

[nonliberal]

With the declassification of Venona, McCarthy has been proven right more often than not. I will be interested to see what is in his files and how much the libs have bawlderized.

[Tailgunner Joe]

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