I have read the book and McCarthy is used as an axample of how effective the left is on demonizing people who point out that they (The Left) don't have what it takes to defend America. She could have picked someone besides Joe McCarthy.
President Dwight Eisenhower thought McCarthy was a swashbuckling, grandstanding lunatic, for Christ's sake!
And, he was.
I've read plenty on McCarthy and, while he was right about Communists in the government, he cast his net too wide, and damaged a lot of innocent people.
I also question the sanity of ANYBODY who would defend the Waffen SS in 1952, seven years after they were proven to be the executioners of over 6 million European Jews, Poles, and others.
>>I've read plenty on McCarthy and, while he was right about Communists in the government, he cast his net too wide, and damaged a lot of innocent people.
Could you name a few, with summaries/links/references for further reading?
One of the main points Ann makes in Treason is that your exact statement has been made numerous times over many years by liberals, with little back up. Her assertion is that this is nothing but another liberal Big Lie.
Do you have concrete information to the contrary? I'd like to read it.