2007-11-13 12:14:15 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Read "The Paranoid Style in American Politics"
Richard Hofstader
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2007-11-13 12:18:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Nothing was wrong.
History has shown Joe McCarthy to be right. The communists did have a significant spying campaign during that time, both militarily and industrially.
Do yourself a favor and look up "Venona" which was the top secret project to crack Soviet codes during those times. Those Venona intercepts showed spying to be rampant.
McCarthy's problem is that the whole accusation thing got out of hand, with public investigations and hearings in Congress. At times, really low level people in the communist movement, or people who had trifling dealings with commies, were brought up in front of the panel and made to rat out their accomplices, or even accuse innocent people.
It should have been handled more low key.
2007-11-13 12:20:37 · answer #2 · answered by Uncle Pennybags 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
He's from Wisconsin? I can think of another poster from Wisconsin, the hell-hole full of liberals if I remember the description they used. He's a republican? McCarthy was an attack dog on the prowl for people who didn't fit into his idea of "traditional" America. These people were out to sabotage the country, they were everywhere. It's basically their religious and moral crusade they have been on for decades, it takes some shape or form from every republican administration. It's a witch-hunt.
2007-11-13 12:26:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because he was the only person who recognized how well placed all of the Soviet spies were. In 1992, the Soviet Union released all of it's spy records. They were referred to as the Venona Cables. It named all of the great American Soviet era spies and double agents. McCarthy was all over it. It made him crazy that Alger Hiss went to Yalta and talked FDR into giving away Eastern Europe to be swallowed up behind the Iron Curtain. This cost the lives of 10's of millions of eatsern bloc people.
Now you know, the rest of the story.
2007-11-13 12:27:53 · answer #4 · answered by kirk m 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
McCarthy was a political and religious fanatic. He was also an alcoholic and mentally ill.
2007-11-13 12:23:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
It was a way of silencing opposition to the early civil right movement. What they did to Paul Robeson was a tragedy.
2007-11-13 12:19:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
A little known fact is that he actually did find lots of communists but he did go a little overboard
2007-11-13 12:18:06 · answer #7 · answered by caballero5792 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Not that his tactics were right, but it has been proven that he was correct in that the majority of those he accused of being communist were in fact communists
2007-11-13 12:18:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
He was typical Republican....
interestingly soft on nazi war criminals, anti labor, anti liberal...definitely a forerunner to the repubs we see today....
2007-11-13 12:21:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋