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Posted on 06/26/2003 2:47:36 AM PDT by backhoe
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The Real McCarthy Record (Warning...Lengthy Article) (FR Thread)
The Real McCarthy Record (Source at The New American)
Venona Project Homepage, NSA (Decrypted Soviet Cables, Coulter source for Treason book)
Ann's book is very timely because the left, and their zombies in the media, WITH THE WILLFUL COLLUSION OF THE SENATE HISTORIAN WHO EDITED THE DOCUMENTS, have consistently spun this largely exculpatory material in a (heretofore) largely successful effort to keep the lieberal "McCarthyism" myth alive. Here is an excellent article on this from Human Events which specifically nails Senate historian Donald Ritchie:
M. Stanton Evans: Senate Historian Botched Newly-Released Data on McCarthy
Joe McCarthy was Right - www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b8413ff050a.htm
Persecuted Paladin (Sen. Joseph McCarthy) -- 20th Century Hero - www.freerepublic.com/forum/a37e6d3366cc9.htm
Btw..the AYC was a favorite of Eleanor Roosevelt.
Human beings brought up in the countries of our Western civilization, no matter how commonplace or simple their lives may be, cannot conceive of the actual conditions in Soviet Russia. They cannot imagine the wretchedness of the lives of the people--everybody except the commissars and their favorites.
Oppie Was A Commie
Accuracy In Media ^ | June 27, 2003 | Notra Trulock
Hopkins and Alger Hisses wife were close in NYC and she baptised Hiss into the commie movement.
Oppie Was A Commie
Accuracy In Media ^ | June 27, 2003 | Notra Trulock
Two Cheers for "McCarthyism"? (Goldberg, NRO, good article, but actually about Patriot Act)
Hollywood's Missing Movies - Why American films have ignored life under communism (Excellent, excellent, must read. Lots of history on hollywood commies, and the thesis asks an important question)
http://www.blueskypie.com/nonfictionbycategory/history/historynonfxnbooks/josephmccarthy.asp
Joseph McCarthy -Reexamining The Life And Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator by Arthur Herman (ISBN: 0684836254)...In retrospect, McCarthy's disgrace and obloquy has come at a certain price to historical truth. He has become so taboo a figure, someone presented only in Rovere-style caricature rather than flesh and blood, that confusion and ignorance about what he did and the times in which he operated are widespread. Books like David Caute's The Great Fear, which implicitly compared the anti-Communist crusade of the fifties to Stalin's Great Terror, or Ellen Schrecker's Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America, can portray the entire period in the most terrifyingly nightmarish colors, and be believed. So part of dispelling the myths about Joe McCarthy has to include dispelling the myths about the 1950s and the so-called red scare.
We need to remember that during the entire period, from 1947 to 1958, no American citizens were interrogated without benefit of legal counsel, none was arrested or detained without due judicial process, and no one went to jail without trial. As George Kennan, no admirer of the investigations, stated, "Whoever could get his case before a court was generally assured of meeting there with a level of justice no smaller than at any time in recent American history." All through the "worst" of the McCarthy period, the Communist Party itself was never outlawed, membership in the party was never declared a crime, and it continued to maintain public offices, publish books and the Daily Worker, and recruit new members (admittedly a tough sell by then).
In fact, most of what people ordinarily mean when they talk about the "red scare" -- the House Un-American Activities Committee; anti-Communist probes into Hollywood, labor unions, and America's schools and universities; the Rosenberg trial; blacklisting in the media and schoolteachers fired for disloyalty -- had nothing to do with McCarthy and he had nothing to do with them (although when asked, he generally approved of them, as most other Americans did). McCarthy's own committee in the Senate, the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which he chaired for less than two years, had a specific duty to investigate communism in the federal government and among government employees. It had done so before he became chairman, and it did so after he left, under Senator John McClellan and Bobby Kennedy. The men and women McCarthy targeted, rightly or wrongly, as Communists or Communist sympathizers all shared that single characteristic: they were federal employees and public servants, and therefore, McCarthy and his supporters argued, they ought be held accountable to a higher standard than other American citizens.
That fact tends to get lost when historians dwell exclusively on the stories of harassment, professional disgrace, and other indignities suffered as a result of McCarthy's and other anti-Communist investigations. Dalton Trumbo, Dashiell Hammett, Howard Fast, Paul Robeson, Steve Nelson, Frances Farmer, and Lillian Hellman appear in standard treatments of the period in the same way in which the names of martyrs grace the pages of histories of the early church. Their personal ordeals are constantly presented as proof that America in those days must have been in the grip of an anti-Communist hysteria and a "witch-hunt." (In order not to be left out, Hellman told her own tale of woe in a short book of breathtaking dishonesty, entitled Scoundrel Time.) The best and most generous estimate is that during the entire decade of the red scare, ten thousand Americans lost their jobs because of their past or present affiliation with the Communist Party or one of its auxiliary organizations. Of those who lost their jobs, two thousand worked in the government, and in perhaps forty cases McCarthy himself was directly or indirectly responsible for their being fired. In only one case -- that of Owen Lattimore -- can anyone make the argument that McCarthy's allegations led to any actual legal proceedings, and there a judge eventually threw out most of the indictment. Paradoxically, the fact that McCarthy never sent anyone to prison is also turned against him; opponents claimed that during his entire career, he never actually exposed a single spy or Communist -- a claim that is manifestly untrue, as we will see...
Actually, I never thought she was. Kinda skinny and anorexic looking actually.
Absolutely!
| What Red Scare? HUAC And Venona ^ |
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I tend to agree, but nevertheless I can't help noticing, in that profile shot, that she's not skinny everywhere.
"Ruh-roh!" Here, you might be needing this...
The Redhunter: A Novel Based on the Life and Times of Senator Joe McCarthy, by William F. Buckley Jr.
and...
The View From Alger's Window: A Son's Memoir, by Tony Hiss
Alterman will make you puke profusely (and/or laugh at his mincing evasions), and Radosh is pretty hard on McCarthy on a number of points, mainly for weakening (or making it possible for the hard-left to weaken) liberal anti-communism, but there is plenty of good stuff in here. Buckley even pops in at one point. You need to click the days of the week at the upper right of the window to read all the messages:
The Redhunter and The View From Alger's Window
http://slate.msn.com/id/2000089/entry/1003047/
There is also an addendum with an extended quote from WFB's (depicting Dean Acheson's obsessive anti-McCarthyism):
William Buckley Quotes Himself in Self-Defense
http://slate.msn.com/id/31496/
Levin and Collins Trigger Disinformation. Senate Historian Clams Up When Queried On McCarthy
5/10/03 | M. Stanton Evans
In a key step toward unravelling the secret history of the Cold War, the U. S. Senate last week released 50-year-old executive hearings on subversion and internal security matters conducted by Sen. Joe McCarthy (R.-Wis.).Running to more than 4,000 pages, these hearings are crammed with backstage data on a host of once-torrid issues—including controversial McCarthy sessions on the Voice of America, United States Information Agency libraries, State Department personnel, and the Army Signal Corps installation at Fort Monmouth, N.J., to name a few. The last is of special interest as it was the prelude to the famous Army-McCarthy fracas in the spring of 1954, the event most people are probably aware of, if only dimly, when they think about McCarthy.
Having these documents available for study will be a major boon for scholars.
Unfortunately, the send-off they have been given by Senators Carl Levin (D.-Mich.) and Susan Collins (R.-Me.), and Donald Ritchie, the Senate historian who edited the hearings, has stirred up an orgy of media disinformation. All three have made invidious comments about McCarthy, putting a huge negative spin on the story.
[Msg #44 has links to the documents in question.]
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