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McCarthy made accusations of Communist infiltration into the State Department, the administration of President Truman, Voice of America, and the United States Army. He also used charges of communism, communist sympathies, or disloyalty to attack a number of politicians and other individuals inside and outside of government.

Is this at all similar to the retardicans accusations of terrorist support by Liberals?

2007-05-17 09:37:18 · 7 answers · asked by the 2nd woody 3 in Politics & Government Politics

stevers; he was on this rant for four years

2007-05-17 10:39:07 · update #1

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Practically none, he was washed up only two years after he made those allegations, and no one took in seriously after that. His reign of terror was very brief.

2007-05-17 09:40:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Senator Joe McCarthy was a great American, certainly more worthy of a holiday than Martin Luther King. Senator McCarthy took on a force that was much bigger than he was. History has vindicated him.

No one is ever able to name a single innocent person that McCarthy ever accused. Can anyone in this day and age doubt Communist infiltration in the State Department? Look at what happened: the betrayal of our allies, Chang Kai Shek, Somoza, Batista, the Shah of Iran, Marcos. And worse, the betrayal of our own servicemen in Korea, and then Viet Nam.

The situation today is not what it seems. We have the Neo Cons who have captured the Republican Party. Their function is to generate terrorism by intervention in the wars of other nations. They respond by imposing totalitarian laws on the American people, to "protect them from the terrorism" they they brought on.

The Democrats are just as bad. They have been working for years to disarm the American people. I guess you could call it bipartisan fascism. That's why we have to elect politicians outside the Democrat/Republican Party. The one exception is Ron Paul from Texas. Dr. Paul is a real American.

If we had a few more Ron Pauls in the House and the Senate, there would be no USA PATRIOT Act. We wouldn't be bogged down in an un-declared war.
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2007-05-17 09:50:01 · answer #2 · answered by iraqisax 6 · 1 2

McCarthy had a big impact on the left. His downfall was a major victory for them, and one they harken back too frequently. Any time someone on the right might take issue with opinions on the left, he will be compared to McCarthy. If that doesn't work, they might up the ante and compare you to Hitler.

The end of McCarthyism, like Watergate, also marked a great victory of the media over government. The media showed that it could take politicians out of power by shifting public opinion. The media has, in fact, become almost addicted to this, and seems to be out to defame every president since Nixon to some extent or another (Reagan and Clinton got off relatively lightly).

There is certainly no valid analogy to be drawn between the government witch hunt of McCarthyism, and the occassional rhetorical accusation of insufficient patriotism or islamist sympathy thrown out by the right.

2007-05-17 09:43:49 · answer #3 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 0 1

McCarthy, a republican senator from Wisconsin, compiled a list of over 200 government employees whom he claimed were communist spies. He was reviled as a witch hunter and became one of the most despised people in public life. He died not long after leaving office. Some say he died of alcoholic poisoning and others report that he committed suicide due to being hated so much. What is usually never reported in biographical articles about him is the fact that decades after his death, when the Soviet Union no longer existed and the files of the KGB were open to foreign inspection, his list turned out to be 100% accurate. All of those he accused of being communist infiltrators actually were in the employ of the KGB.

2007-05-17 10:02:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

When you've got one of the top "conservative" shrills i.e. Ann Coulter singing McCathy's accolades in one of her recent hate spewing books I'd have to say that McCarthy had a significant impact on them and that they're absolutely running a parallel line with their smearing of the Democratic party.

2007-05-17 09:42:25 · answer #5 · answered by pm 5 · 0 1

They are both cheap smear tactics, smacking of desperation.

2007-05-17 09:40:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Wasn't McCarthy a democrat?

2007-05-17 09:39:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 4

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