Senator Joesph McCarthy was right about the Communist Threat...?

Question

so why do some people (liberals) try to act like he wasn't?

Joe McCarthy was right, but by now his name has been turned into a dirty word by the same liberal, leftist propaganda machine that today is trying to convince Americans the President “lied” to them about Iraq.

The Venona files revealed that the commies had over 250 spies within the US including at such agencies as the Department of State.

http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article2539.html

"Many lives were ruined by him" - yes, thats entirely the point! Anyone who is a communist or sympatheizer DESERVES to have their life ruined, if not taken.

The anology of a "witch hunt" is inaccurate, as witches never existed....communist did exist

LOL, George Orwell? You mean that old commie didn't like McCarthy? There's a shocker, I tell ya!

Answer 1

No other American did more to rouse the nation to fury over the Left's failure to confront, and battle, the 20th-century's greatest enemy of freedom. No man did more to horsewhip out of town the New Deal-Fair Deal Democrats who had frittered away the fruits of victory. In 1952, Republicans swept the House, Senate and White House, and it was Joe McCarthy who led the bayonet charge.

That is why Joe is hated. Not for what he did wrong, but for what he did right. America's young should ask themselves: If Joe McCarthy was such a monster, why did Joe Kennedy back him, the Kennedy girls date him, Robert Kennedy work for him and JFK defend him as a "great patriot" in his year of censure? And why was McCarthy asked to be the godfather to Bobby Kennedy's firstborn? True American Democratic patriots (such as the Kennedys) LOVED HIM--of course the Kennedys (sans Teddy-boy) were not COMMUNISTS like so many "democrats" are today.

Answer 2

Worldnetdaily is not a credible news source. The problem wasn't that Joe McCarthy was hunting communists. The problem was that he was making blanket accusations against entire groups of people without ever presenting evidence or giving them a chance to defend themselves. He was censured by the Senate for being a liar and a drunk.

Answer 3

God, go look under your bed for some more "commies." I was there during the McCarthy era, he was a liar and a charlatan! He pulled garbage out of the air and swore it was true and had everyone running around and pointing their fingers at each other. He used fear to scare Americans into giving up their constitutional rights; not unlike to the present administration. We are well rid of McCarthy and we do not need that kind of lying propaganda to be spewed across America anymore.

Answer 4

Senator McCarthy was indeed correct in his general direction for pursuing Communists in our society, but he fell into the classic trap waiting for all who become extremists.
As a result, he hurt the essential cause of supporting free enterprise.
Always keep in mind: Power corrupts and total power begets total corruption.
Out founding fathers knew that.They gave us a republic with democratically elected representatives who are sworn to uphold the constitution.
That Constitution gave us a government with powers limited by the people.
Know and uphold the constitution and you can't go wrong.
NEVER elect anyone who has as a goal the changing of our constitution.
Never elect anyone who thinks this is a democracy only. They don't even understand the basics of our government.
The U.S. Constitution along with the Bill of Rights is the single greatest legal document ever written.
Know it and live it.

Answer 5

"McCarthy himself was taken aback by the massive media response to the Wheeling speech, and he continually revised both his charges and his figures. In Salt Lake City, Utah, he cited a figure of 57, and in the Senate on February 20, he claimed 81.
During a marathon six-hour speech, McCarthy fought Democratic attempts to disclose the actual names of these people. Four times during McCarthy's February 20 speech, Democratic Senator Scott W. Lucas demanded McCarthy make the 81 names public, but McCarthy refused to do so. In fact, McCarthy had no actual names; his evidence for this particular list came from summaries of State Department loyalty review files, from which the names had been removed."

LOLOLOLOL

Answer 6

Enslavement is Freedom. Impotence is Power. Hate is Love. Lies are the Truth.

- - - Sen. J. McCarthy (R)-Wisconcin in a speech before the Peoria Women's Club Garden Tea in 1954. Paraphrased by George Orwell in 1984 for satirical purposes

Answer 7

Ah, more neocon "fuzzy logic" of the kind that insists Hitler was a socialist (which they invalidly equate with liberalism) instead of what he actually was, which was a fascist (which equates in reality with conservatism).

McCarthy cashed in on the false belief abroad in the land among those who never touch a book that being a communist was illegal. It isn't, and never was. The neocons have tried to revive this in the malignant form of Bush Sr. and Limbaugh and Reagan saying "card-carrying liberal". But this, too, will backfire in time. Wait and see.

Answer 8

McCarthy was the con Al Sharpton of his day --- a crass opportunist, a career charge-leveller. He trumped a few flimsy charges of commies in the State Department into a good long run off off broadway.

But history has dumped him in the same subcategory as Marshall Patin and Lord Haw Haw and Ezra Pound. He was a TRAITOR to American Ideals of freedom of thought and speech.

Where in the constitution does it say it's wrong to believe in communism? Or pay your dues to a communist association?

We will wait for a feezing day in hell for a TRUE answer from you on that question...

Answer 9

McCarthy was a paranoid bigot. And a liar who deliberately set out to destroy people who dared to disagree with him. And--just to answer your "question"--WRONG. There was no threat by communists to subvert our government. The only threat was from him and his disregard of the Constitutional rights of the Amrican people.

And no real American can possibly endorse him, his insane and bigoted fantasies, or his dictatrial and dishonest methods.

Answer 10

Most of the Commies he found were real. After the Wall came down and the KGB went out of business, there was a whole list of "Americans" who were found to be on the payroll of the KGB. Including were journalists, professors and intellectuals who were bitter enemies of Tail gunner Joe. Unfortunately people with their own agenda overlook this and think nostalgically of old Reds and still spit bile at enemies of communism