The only ones who can and will do this are Duncan Hunter nad Fred Thompson.
Good article. Thanks for posting it.
Hate to rain on the author’s parade, but HUAC was the HOUSE [of Representatives] UnAmerican Activities Committee. Joseph McCarthy served in the SENATE.
Would you repeat that, please. As it stands, this quote could go down in the FR annals.
Sorry, I’m a card carrying Republican and I’ll be darned If I can think of anything nice to say about Joe. Roy Cohn and Bobby Kennedy ran Senator McCarthy, especially during his final days. While we badly needed an airing of communists after WW II, what McCarthy did was inexcusable. He ruined thousands, terrorized the country, forced teachers to sign loyalty oaths, and has an entire era of shame named after him.
Frankly, he reminds me a lot of Al Sharpton.
The really impressive thing about McCarthy was that he was right — IN SPADES. That is why he was demonized. It would be interesting to see what his opinion of our Congress today would be!!!
Too bad we don’t have a dozen like him right now.
From 1950-54, Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy, in a series of hearings held in his House Un-American Activities Committee, or HUAC, with irrepressible zeal and courage, sought to root out Communists, Communist sympathizers and spies in the State Department, the Treasury Department, the military and in other areas of the government, but also in Hollywood, in unions, in the academy and throughout American society.
See Tydings Committee.
They don't seem to be reorganizing the fearful, cowardly Repubs enjoying Pres. Bush's prosperity.
WorldNetDaily--the loonie Left is going to come after with pitchforks. So, God bless you and keep the faith, Joe Farah.
McCarthy was wrong. He UNDERESTIMATED the number of Communists in government.
I agree that Joseph McCarthy’s name is to be as honored as
Theodore Roosevelt’s and Ronald Reagan’s. I was 100% in his corner in the ‘50’s. Our government, education, media, and entertainment fields are even more riddled with Communists now than they were in McCarthy’s day, may God rest his valiant soul. And may God restore America to it’s greatness once again.
How can anybody ever not praise the godfather of Congressman Joseph Patrick Kennedy II.
Huh? Newt created a book consisting of a compilation of his old speeches, published it himself, and sold it by the case to his contributors? I don't think so. Gingrich made a book deal from HarperCollins that included an advance, not unlike both Bill and Hillary's book deals.
What ultimately brought down Gingrich was all of the ethics charges made by DemocRATs, all of which were ultimately dismissed.
BUMP for excellence in posting!
First of all HUAC was used as a pejorative -- The House Committee on un-American Activities I believe is the correct name.
McCarthy was a Congressman in the late 1940s and participated in controversial hearings which his enemies used to brand him a Nazi. Then when he took on communism that was the end of him.
W.W.II was the last war that the "progressives," "leftists" whatever sided with the U.S. The U.S. helped defend their Uncle Joe.
The fact that a number of FReepers support the rehabilitation of this joker fifty years after he drank himself into the grave strikes me as evidence of a tragic misinterpretation of the history of the Cold War and the effectiveness of various Red Scares in combating the communist threat. President Eisenhower hated his guts, and the fact that half of his fellow Republican senators voted to censure him speaks volumes about how poorly regarded he and his efforts were in government at the time.
How can a Senator chair a House Committee? This guy does not know squat. McCarthy was chair of PSI, whose pervue was communist infiltration of the federal government.
Good article.
Wonderful article: Mc Carthy was proven correct!
Though there are several problems with this article (the McCarthy/HCUA stuff), there was one blockbuster truth never mentioned in the article. HCUA was begun for the purpose of weeding out Nazis. It’s co-founder was none other than Congressman Samuel Dickstein, a Russian born Brooklyn Congressman. Dickstein was a paid agent of the NKVD (later, the KGB), as later revealed in the Venona files. I believe McCarthy was only scratching the surface. He had to be destroyed by TPTB.
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