[VOA]

Even PBS's series "NOVA" has an episode that says McCarthy was right about the
Communist infiltration of the US government (just wrong about who the perps were)...
I think the episode was titled something like "Secrets, Lies and Atomic Spies".

[steve-b]

Even PBS's series "NOVA" has an episode that says McCarthy was right about the Communist infiltration of the US government (just wrong about who the perps were).

He was not "right" in any meaningful sense of the word, any more than a quack who feeds people snake oil is "right" when one of his patients happens to recover. Basically, his accusations were the equivalent of tabloid psychic predictions that occasionally score lucky hits -- and did great damage to the cause of legitimate and rational investigation into real Communist infiltration.

[johnqueuepublic]

Was not aware of that program, like NOVA very much however.