Posted on 04/18/2014 8:32:48 AM PDT by smoothsailing
M. Stanton Evans ping!
And by bringing up that people were charged for doing EXACTLY the same thing in the 50’s they admit that this is EXACTLY how the law works.
When you are losing your case based on the factual information provided, argue the law.
When you are losing your case based on the law, argue the facts of the matter.
If both the law and the facts are against you, hammer your fist on the table and accuse your opponents of the very worst motives you can imagine.
And if Joe McCarthy had the worst motives you can imagine, then you are on very thin ice indeed.
McCarthyism: a correct assessment by a man, demonized by Democrats for the actions of the Democrat run HUAC.
Yo, Elijah! McCarthy was right.
An excellent piece by Evans.
No one can convince me that Elijah, his cronies and a good part of the leftist media don’t know the truth of this matter.
They are using the wrong and unfair label McCarthy has been hammered with over the years to besmirch Issa.
I doubt that it will work for them.
He’s going bonkers. Must be getting closer to the head honchos.....
Racist...Homophobe...
Now add McCarthyism to their vocabulary.
When liberals run out of ideas and rational responses,
they always resort to name calling.
It’s further proof that Democrat success can be measured in large part by the ignorance of their supporters.
When my son was in high school (government school) he wondered why his American history teacher would spend five days ripping on Joe McCarthy. It seemed ridiculous to him when so many other historical topics were just breezed by or ignored
Then he figured it out. The democrat-run schools want to show kids it’s uncool to suspect that communists could be devious.
I’m still proud of him.
Oh, snap! That's right - "peasant law" doesn't apply to his Lordship.
“ELIJAH” (sung to “Kaw-Liga was a wooden indian”)
Elijah was a lonely congressman standing by the door
He fell in love with an IRS maiden over in the Treasury store
Elijah - just stood there and never let it show
So she could never answer “YES” or “NO”.
[Chorus:]
Poor ol’ Elijah, he never got a kiss
Poor ol’ Elijah, he don’t know what he missed
Is it any wonder that his face is sad
Elijah, that poor ol’ man’s been bad.
Elijah was a lonely congressman never went nowhere
His heart was set on the IRS maiden with the coal black hair
Elijah - just stood there and never let it show
So she could never answer “YES” or “NO”.
(apologies to Hank Williams and Charlie Pride)
Well done.
Specifically noted by the Democrats and their media allies is the case of a McCarthy witness who likewise claimed the Fifth Amendment and got cited for contempt by vote of the US Senate. The witness, Diantha Hoag, had worked on defense-related projects for a government supplier, and thus got called in a McCarthy inquest into potential Soviet espionage at such installations. Like Lerner, Hoag denied wrongdoing but then refused to answer questions about possible Red activity or people allegedly involved in espionage operations. For this refusal she was cited by the Senate for contempt and indicted by a US grand jury ,but eventually got acquitted in a Federal court decision... the “McCarthyism” plaints of the Democrats and their press allies are inaccurate as to the history of the 1950s – no novelty in the polemics of the left. As it happens, in the case of Diantha Hoag it wasn’t McCarthy who pursued her in the courts, and in the upshot didn’t even vote to pursue her on the floor of the Senate. The contempt citation against her was in fact the work of Senate Democrats, who had the power to go after Hoag, or not, and made the decision to do so.
” Having proclaimed her innocence of wrongdoing, Lerner then refused to discuss specifics, pleading possible self-incrimination.”
That’s it in a nutshell. The contradictions are glaring. If she’s actually innocent, she has no need of fearing self-incrimination. If she has reason to fear self-incrimination; she lied in her opening statement — making her, at least, guilty of perjury.
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