Was Joe McCarthy really a patriot? Was he actually hated by the people?
Why is there such a big fuss made about Joe?

Some people say that Joe was scaring the Hollywood types and making them feel bad. Hmm... I wonder, Can Hollywood types fake feeling bad?
Some people say that Joe was secretly working for Stalin.
Some people say that communism was completely harmless and that Joe was wrong to make people state their views publicly.
Some people get confused about how much of the democratic party was actually infiltrated by communists (A LOT - just look at the modern day socialism found on the east coast - those people haven't changed a bit).
Some people blame Joe for everything the HUAC (House of Unamerican Activities Comittee) did. Joe was mainly against commies in the government. HUAC was against commies in Hollywood (like that worked).

Well, its no wonder that people say these things. Media literacy and critical thinking are not part of the subjects taught by the educational system (* which must be given more money if it doesn't work in any way whatsoever). Well, no matter. No smart person ever got his smarts from a school anyway.

Some people say that Joe was just distracting us from fighting commies, because, since we weren't going to be able to shoot the liberals, there wasn't much point in making them go on record as being commies. I suppose that's fair enough. He certainly should have shot more people. I must point out that there was no rope shortage in Texas at that time, making his lack of killing commies completely inexcusable. Was Joe a bad anti-communist? At the very least, Joe directed a lot of media attention to something other than shooting commies - It is clearly a felony to not shoot commies. We should all have had pictures of Stalin and been practicing shooting them with rifles.

However its very sad that few people know the actual truth:

With the opening of the KGB archives and the release of the VENONA intercepts - decoded Soviet KGB and GRU traffic - it has been proved that McCarthy was absolutely right about the extensive Soviet penetration of the U.S. government in all the most sensitive sections and its danger to America. According to the KGB archives the NKVD had 221 agents in the Roosevelt administration in April 1941 and the Soviet military GRU probably had a like number. He was proved right that the Communist Party, U.S.A., was an arm of the Soviet intelligence apparatus and the Soviet Union considered the US as their "main enemy." His liberal critics in academe and the mainstream media, who denied there was Communist subversion and made excuses for it, were proved absolutely wrong! This should have discredited the liberal ideology and those who mouthed it. Because the left had no answer or effective reply to the challenge McCarthy posed, they engaged in personal destruction - they smeared and demonized McCarthy because he was truth.

And take this, you commie scum, your own Kennedys betray you:

In February 1952, John Kennedy called McCarthy a "great American patriot." In 1953 Bobby Kennedy joined McCarthy's staff and McCarthy was godfather to Bobby's first child. Bobby was always loyal to Joe.

So, to recap:

1) With the release by the NSA of Venona and the opening of the KGB archives, we know that McCarthy was absolutely right in being drunk and scared and asking people where they stood. There were communist party members at the highest levels of the US government that were reporting directly back to Russia. That's murderous Stalin Russia, not friendly siberian pelmeni, fur hat, vodka and herring Russia. This should have made all normal people drunk and scared and inquisitive.

2) Joe's famous "I have a list in my hands of Commies" speech was precisely correct.
J Edgar Hoover's organization gave the president (a commie - FDR) a list of 200 suspected commie agents in the government. This was later proved to be accurate by the 1995 soviet release. FDR hated Hoover and completely ignored him. The senate wanted to know what happened to these people who Hoover had caught regularly communicating with the SU. That is the real story. McCarty did not make up any list. He was refering to a list made by law enforcement officials which the president ignored, but eventually the criminal president was forced to stop the cover up of the commie infiltrators:

Of the 110 names McCarthy gave to the Tydings subcommittee, 62 were at the time employed by the State Department. Though the subcommittee cleared them all, within one year a State Department Loyalty Board instigated proceedings against 49 of the 62, and by the end of 1954, 81 of those on McCarthy’s list had either resigned from their government posts or been dismissed.

These were not small fish: Head of the Office of Political Affairs of the State Department; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; and even the personal assistant of Bill Donovan, who directed OSS (the predecessor of the CIA). If FDR, a dying man in 1944, had died a few months earlier, then Vice President Henry Wallace would have become President and the Secretary of State for the United States would have been an agent of the Soviet Union. The Rosenbergs were not only guilty of espionage at Los Alamos, but the Soviets actually had several different rings of spies sending masses of documents from Los Alamos to the Kremlin.

The next president almost prosecuted the previous one for treason. Can you imagine 50-100 members of Radical Islam in the State department in the present day?

3) Joe's real crime was that he brought down a dozen powerful democratic senators (including majority leader and whip). All demonization of him in the next half century stems from that fact. Do you really think anyone would care if Joe pointed out that Hollywood types are socialist? Give me a break. That's always been obvious to everyone.

Here's the truth:

By 1953 - McCarthy was credited with defeating a dozen Democrat senators including Senate majority leader Ernst McFarland, majority whip Francis Myers of PA, powerful 4-term Senator Millard Tydings of MD, Scott Lucas of IL, and Elbert Thomas of UT. McCarthy almost single-handedly destroyed the Democrat party and they vowed revenge. A group of left-wing assassins created a group called the Clearing House to smear McCarthy. They got much of their information from columnist Jack Anderson.

So, now we see that Joe McCarthy is famous, not for the evil he was speaking out against, but for who he destroyed - democratic senators.


-posted by Bad Commie @ 9:06 PM