McCarthyism: The Documentary Better Dead than Red Part1

[verynicelookingguy27]

The war on terrorism is McCarthyism on steroids!!

[lilpep116]

Media fabrication at it's finest... at least until the Fox News of today :D

[thethingthatwants]

you know its funny, McCarthy would out live his popularity and spend the last years of his life in a hell where he tried to warn the U.S. (I think he was deluded enough to think himself to be right) about the communist threat only to be ignored and despised.

A fitting end for such a man, and has lead me to believe that Hell is no pit of fire where one suffers by the hands of demons, but a state of mind where they suffer because of their actions and their inability to think reasonably.

[kait154]

Great Job on the video! very informative.

[siverhawkproductions]

although i dont agree with his methods i do agree with the phrase "better dead then red!"

[MrAwsome9]

what software did you use for this?

[Prolific85]

Very well done. Thank you!

[electric6Funeral]

thanks for this video! I'm using it to revise at the moment and it has really helped. cheers man!

[Pikazilla]

Nazis were anti-communist

[NihilistSlacker]

Ironic how McCarthy's fear mongering campaigns were so similar to Stalin's.

Right wing,left wing,it doesn't matter. There are rabid lunatics on both sides just waiting to sink their teeth into perceived 'enemies of the state'.

[bostonceltics51]

McCarthy was a sick man, but as wisely said by Ed Murrow "...he didn't create this situation of fear, he merely exploited it, and rather successfully"

[98raza20]

Ironic how communists where accused of been "un-american" while one of the biggest American values is freedom and included in that, political freedom.

[TalonMercenary]

the western world is no longer democratic, every day our governments remove our civil liberties and make decisions without our consent

[stjdavis]

The commies have taken over the country.

[Eternalgamers1]

See the people who thought the soviets were going to shoot a bunch of nukes at us is not

True they wouldn't unless we were to

Give them a reason to just like north Korea they won't attack us if we don't attack them

[Eternalgamers1]

McCarthy was a fucking slimy bastard who

Did nothing but ruin people's lives and break

The country into a mass panic. McCarthy did more damage than communism actually did.

he was a fucking dim wit who knew nothing of the good of communism rather he accused

People without any evidence

[JoJosG]

@Eternalgamers1 What good about communism. Communism is everything is devoted to the state no freedom plus it was created by the great banking and ruling families who took your money and kept most of it for themselves. Plus if they said you didn't fit the greater good. Your dead no trial no jury end of you and never seen again.

[profitius]

Well, Sheeple, it looks like McCarthy was right after all. The communists/banking cartel have taken over and most of the population are too stupid to notice.

[TheVoiceOfReason93]

@profitius

Wow, I can't imagine how much your statement contradicts itself. Communists/banking? Don't they oppose each other?

There's a saying that it is better to be dead than red. Well, If McCarthy represents the enemy of communism, I will rather be red than black - black, as in Fascist black.

[profitius]

@TheVoiceOfReason93

Where the contradiction? The top international banking cartel made a fortune from communism. They set it up and tried to set it up in the USA too but were caught on time. They make a fortune from modern capitalism too by slowly getting more people to work longer.

The Neo-cons came about because communism was not working so they decided to take a difference course of action to take power. This is common knowledge.

[TheVoiceOfReason93]

@profitius

No, it's not. There is no conspiracy ruling the world from behind the shadows. Communism did not make profit, capitalism does!

[qwertasdcfghjklmo24z]

Communism was not only a threat to the USA it was a threat to the whole of Western Civilization.

[dimalex8]

keep believing that, commusim is as much threat as capitalism. In case u didnt know commusim is an economical system rather a political, in fact communism economical system is best fited in democracy rather capitalism in democracy. Im not a commusist but i read some books unlike u.

[qwertasdcfghjklmo24z]

@dimalex8 You illiterate moron. Please learn to spell before you insult me. I have read REAL books and not propaganda.

By the way it's YOU not u. I'm not Im and you always start a sentence with a capital letter. Keep.

I'm sorry but you fail at life.

[dimalex8]

hahahah the same old trick, when u got nothing to say, u start to judge the spelling or the way i wrote the comment. U went as far as judging me for not using capital letter, lol thats a first.

English isnt my first language, something that i do not feel i should apologise for. You got something relevant to say? If not then dont play the teacher in youtube and shut up.

I bet in the "real" books category is mein kampf for you. Sometimes Ignorance is not a bless(in cases like urs).

[qwertasdcfghjklmo24z]

@dimalex8 You fucking bastard how dare you say I read Mein Kampf. When I said real books I meant history books, I have read accounts of people who lived under Communist rule.

By the way I despise Fascism as much as I despise Communism so fuck you.

[dimalex8]

Read accounts of people? lol. My parents lived under communism, i was born under communism, even tho they immigrated they tell the best about communism. They though capitalism was better when they immigrated but after 20 years if u ask them they would pick communism anyday. As my father said, in communism people live with less than one in capitalism but in communism u live. Full free education, free health care, a job are guaranteed. The problem was people always wanted more.

[dimalex8]

isnt marx and engels real books? Isnt Platos Republick real book(in case u didnt know, its considered the ideal state bookm, many say its the first marxist-ironic before marx- book). What is real book? A one sided book? Take a piece of advice, when u read something you should always read the opposite opinion, you should always see the other side of the coin. If you dont do that, u cant tell u have an unbiased view and a good argument.

[qwertasdcfghjklmo24z]

@dimalex8 I have read history books too which state that people under Communism lost all their freedoms, freedom of religion, freedom to travel, free speech ect were all abolished.

Plus I come from a poor background and don't need Communism to help me make my life better, maybe it is a pride thing but I stick to views.

[98raza20]

@qwertasdcfghjklmo24z you come from Britain, even the poorest British person benefits greatly from capitalism. We don't need communism, but the 3rd world does. What do you think is the cause of the famines? yes you guessed capitalism. A small percentage (under 10%) of the world owns the majority (over 90%) of the world's wealth and resources (like food, energy ect.) and that needs to change, the rich get richer while the poor get poorer and starve. I aren't selfish and am willing to be equal,

[luizvitalli]

Liberals should live in Cuba or China. They don't deserve the american citzenship.

[Speukan]

@luizvitalli Why?

[MegaAstrodude]

@3:32,

How is this question unfair? In matters of national security, if the government asks you a question, you should answer it. If you don't want to answer it, you can take the fifth amendment. As far as the blacklist goes, good! Private employers have a right to fire/hire people for their political views and this is enforced to this day by most big corporations and the government.

[MegaAstrodude]

@0:50,

If that old bat were a constitutional republic/free enterprise supporter in a Communist country, she never would have lived. The Communists explicit goal is to make every single country in the world a communist country in which a giant bureaucracy and a military leader run everything people have no real rights, all for the ostensible purpose of "equality".

McCarthyites and HUAC were proven right. Most of the "Hollywood ten" had been members of the Communist Party.

[jvarela965]

The Hollywood hearings were in 1947. The Mcarthy hearings came years later.

[1906965181507]

guy was nazi, wasn't he? agreement with the pope who blessed nazi crimes?

[safariinc]

Hey, do you think you could let me know some of the sources you used to create this video? Thank you :)

[johnsammyanfal]

The cultural output of hollywood did not suffer - arguably it improved. Opening the doors to new talent that had been shut out by this small group of Jewish screen-writers and directors. It was no accident that this group of Communist sympathisers had enjoyed close relationships for decades, going back to their days of early obscurity. Hijacking the labor movement has long since been a profitable stairway to success - your more likely to find these types at a Republican Convention today.

[filosurfer]

Great documentary. My students learned a lot from it.

[MrGrevy]

McCarthy was RIGHT!

[mrearlygold]

Joe was right!

[Willredd94]

Better dead than red!!

[Alexper12]

McCarthy was a borderline traitor to our Constitution. No matter how utterly stupid someone's philosophy is, it is infinitely times more important to protect freedom of speech and expression. I might hate communism but I protect people's rights to believe and to support it.

[lokitpiy]

@Alexper12

It has nothing to do with freedom of speech and expression!!!! Supporting communist in any form is a crime of conspiracy against human right, those ppl should be put behind bars. Just how do you think communist run a country? They killed countless ppl just so their have a single thought in their political party. When i said killed countless of ppl, i don't mean they kill citizens, i meant members in communist party.

Lets face it, you have no idea how lucky to have mccarthy.

[Alexper12]

@lokitpiy

Words and actions are two completely different things.

[jeisonjeison]

Jeez!! Your beloved country of liberty. "We have a freedom of speech as long as you say what we say"

[lokitpiy]

@jeisonjeison

NO, it's more like you have your freedom of speech as long as your speech doesn't promote the end of my freedom of speech, or else i will stop you first before you stop me.

[doncarlsanders]

What is or was unfair by asking if you our now or ever been a communest party member?

[dragknuckle]

Lies! McCarthy had nothing to do with Hollywood.

He didn't just accuse Truman officials of being sympathizers, he called them Soviet spies, which declassified documents prove they were!

[GidgetTheSurferGirl]

"But were there spies in the U.S. Government"?

[GidgetTheSurferGirl]

While tens of millions were being executed, torn from their families, subjected to forced starvations as a matter of government policy, packed on trains, and sent to Siberian gulags in the glorious USSR, about two hundred people in America were blacklisted from a single frivolous industry. They could still go to Paris or sell real estate or do any number of things. They just couldn’t work in the movies. That was the only price they paid for shilling for a mass murderer.

[hotmarriedgays]

@GidgetTheSurferGirl "two hundred people in America were blacklisted from a single frivolous industry. They could still go to Paris or sell real estate or do any number of things. They just couldn’t work in the movies". WOW...you seriously need to back away from World Net Daily and the Ann Coulter books. You are so far in the right wing revisionist cocoon you are not getting oxygen. Read some books on the subject by someone not published by Regnery Publishing or Crown Forum.

[lokitpiy]

@hotmarriedgays

ya, you really need to read some books about world history. How many ppl suffer directly from communists? more than billions,at least 50millions dead during peacful time. thousand of americans were blacklisted? get over it.

[hotmarriedgays]

@lokitpiy So lets act like Communists and give our government MORE power and do something utterly un-American and un-Constitutional and have a witch hunt! And anyone who disagrees with us must love communism! (do you not see this as problematic?)

[lokitpiy]

@hotmarriedgays

geez, which parallel universe you came from? This is exactly the american way! GO read the F__ing American history. Why did americans try to convert native? Why did Black ppl can not vote until after WWII which was 100 years after free from slavery? Why did americans intern japanese american during WW2? Because only the trustworthy can enjoy full privilege of constitutional rights. Like it or not, this is how americans survive and this is how americans success.

[lokitpiy]

@lokitpiy

Communism WAS A REAL THREAT AT THAT TIME! They took half the world and were about to convert the rest, they were about to take away everyone's freedom, they were about to bring down constitutional so that they can give you a death penalty just because you hide little extra food for your family. geez, you have no idea what did communists do to the rest of the world, did you? I say lets consider mccarthyism was a civil war ended civilized way without blood.

[GidgetTheSurferGirl]

These horrors, Nazi and Communist, all arose out of European ideas, political and philosophical, being put into practice. Even the Cambodian genocide had its genesis in the cafes of Paris where Pol Pot got his ideas. Hitler got his ideas in the cafes of Vienna. SLATE

[GidgetTheSurferGirl]

McCarthy has so BADLY stigmatized Communism, his victory has survived him! Treason by Ann Coulter

[hotmarriedgays]

@GidgetTheSurferGirl And so BADLY stigmatized himself and Republicans that the words "Joe McCarthy" are now synonymous with witch-hunts, anti-intellectuals, and fear-mongering, anti-American, hack politicians of the very worst order. Coincidentally, the words "Ann Coulter" are now an established synonym for revisionist history, controversy-baiting, faux articulate bimbos, stooges for right wing interests, and shrieking know-nothings. What a great victory!

[GidgetTheSurferGirl]

Liberals' vehemence in declaiming the evils of "McCarthyism" was only equaled by their vehemence that Alger Hiss (Soviet Spy) Julius Rosenberg (Soviet Spy) Laurence Dugan (Soviet Spy) and Harry Dexter White (Soviet Spy) were soviet spies.

[MrBunnerabb]

What a bastard..

[farbrorbla]

Fun that people where anti-nazi but the nuts where anti-communism. Didnt they kill about the same amount? Whats so nuts about hating commies?

[GovPark]

First, I don't have any problem with what HUAC did, however, this video lumps what McCarthy did with HUAC in Hollywood is not factually accurate. If you are going to slam McCarthy... at least be accurate and don't make up lies.

McCarthy went after people in government... like the State Department and in the Army and no one from Hollywood. Declassified documents from this era (read Venona Secrets) shows that most of his charges were true.

[Halftrac]

Leftists OUT of U.S. NOW!

[johnsammyanfal]

America's anti-virus software for the 40/50s - a true patriot! Lets look forward to the next clear out - particularly in unholywood and trash popmusic.

[tictacman90]

To everyone who has commented on the video or has watched it, thank you!

It is absolutely amazing how conversation and arguments can arise/relate to problems around the world today with an Era that happened almost 60 years ago.

[incognitus101x]

Thanks for the info, I am doing research on the salem witch trails of 1692 from the movie The Crucible v.s. McCarthyism. It is for a writting class, several simalarities. One recent one perhaps could be 9/11 when every single person of arabic descent was a target. Local stores that been there for years were vandalized. Several other people that are not even arabic where on the "cant fly one airplane list" aswell.

[gaafar88]

hi, i was wondering if i could use your video in a class project of mine. please let me know as soon as you can. thank you in advance. :)

[tictacman90]

@gaafar88 yes of course you can! just dont turn it in as yours :P

[darrellmellissa]

@gaafar88Why would you want to use a commuist propaganda film for.. they were working for the downfall of the US and they still are,,In fact they have almost succeded.

[frantic1971]

The strength of the U.S.S.R. in the 1950's was vastly over-exaggerated. Russia had been totally devastated in World War II and was in no position to take on NATO. Despite the Kremlin's bluster, it had no real desire to start another war, since the Russians had lost 20+million in World War II. Their army was poorly equipped, their airforce antiquedated, and their technology primitive. Later it came out that they had only a couple dozen nukes (of doubtful accuracy) vs. hundreds of ours.

[aidang623]

thanks for this it really helped me revise for my history exam :-)

[aidang623]

part 2?

[jiimy21]

WHAT THE FUCK, IS CHARLIE CHAPLIN A FUCKIN COMMIE.

GIVE UP YOUR RIGHTS SO DADDY GOVERNMENT CAN SAVE YOU..

BETTER DEAD THEN RED.

[blsny213]

well put together, good job

[HistorysMysterys]

Sounds a bit like a witch hunt....

[reziztanze]

Joe McCarthy was 100% right. Jew commie spies were everywhere.

[TheVoiceOfReason93]

@reziztanze You have no evidence that could stand in court, and neither did McCarthy. Saying things like that is absolutely against the American Way, even if you call me a Jewish Communist in turn (which i am not, though it didin't matter about whether or not i am or what evidence running against it, so long as i am against your beliefs, right?)

[reziztanze]

@TheVoiceOfReason93 The VENONA decrypts prove Joe McCarthy was RIGHT.

[TheVoiceOfReason93]

@reziztanze

VENONA decrypts had been in dispute ever since they were published - some experts says they were genuine, other says that they were forged. Unless the NRA backs it up or confesses over the genuineness of the tape, we can't use it to prove anything.

And besides, the scale of the infiltration as described in the tape is so ridiculously deep i wonder why the USSR didn't win the Cold War even with McCarthy around

[Perseiden2]

@TheVoiceOfReason93

they did win. they won china, vietnam, korea, cambodia, cuba etc...anything else ?

[TheVoiceOfReason93]

@reziztanze

But i suppose it didn't matter to you, does it? You hate the Jews and you hate the left, so anything that appears to support that view, even if it is forged, is true, right? I on the other hand is open to the idea but i would not believe it unless you present evidence saying that Jewish Bolshevik spies are everywhere

[reziztanze]

@TheVoiceOfReason93 All the books (some even written by Jews) are out there to read to prove Jews were the dominant force behind Soviet Espionage. I HATE all TRAITORS (Jews and Gentiles).

[CyeOutsider]

@reziztanze - so, apparently, are assholes.

[WoodlandRavah]

McCarthy was RIGHT! NWO ring a bell people?

[2902ao]

ole mccarthy had the right idea, he just took it way too far.......he knew communism was a threat and usually leads to death camps........but putting people on trial because they have different beliefs? that's un-american.........

[germaniajim]

McCarthyism was good for US, It shook up the jews in their ever complacency of the movie industry.

[frankvallisinatra]

Fuck the reds!

[RebelSonBand]

Better dead then red,you say ?! ---------That can be arranged

[NOBULLSPIN1]

McCarthy was right in the 1940's and the 1950's and McCarthy is still right today in 2010!!  The person doing the voice over for this video is 100000% wrong period! McCarthy was a great man indeed! A++++ The left wing and or liberals will always hate America! If you don't like America and if you do don't like Capitalism then you need to move out of America now and move into a communist or a socialist country!

[JimmyEatBass]

@NOBULLSPIN1 This is just why communism made its way up back then. Capitalism is only about greed and the selfish. A world of capitalism will not provide balance in the world. Therefore those who are pushed down to the poor side of society will not tolerate it at one time. Communism actually had good moral believes. Though, communism also lacks a good balance. Neither of these are good for the world in my eyes, but communism actually cared for those who are less wealthy than others.

[MD40LD50]

@JimmyEatBass you are an idot...whats 200 million lives for the nobel experement in comunisum?..but i guess that means nothing when you view people as cattle and see starvation as a great teaching aid for stupid cattle that just cant become equal

[JimmyEatBass]

@MD40LD50 You didn't get my point with communism. I know about the way communism evolved and eventually got abused. I just wanted to point out that capitalism isn't everything, but also communism isn't everything.

In the end there is no political system that will serve every civilian on the world. People are just too different.

[TheVoiceOfReason93]

@MD40LD50

Figures, people who manipulates paranoia, uncertainty and insecurity of the masses to their own gains, under a false pretense of good intentions, doing witch hunts which would lead to the ruining of thousands of people is every bit even worse than that of Communism, and that's what McCarthy did back in the 1950s. Nobody stood against him because they all thought he was a good guy, when he was not. He is worse as Stalin and as bad as Hitler.

[MrPatrickcollins]

@NOBULLSPIN1 that seems a little retarded

[TOFELDTLUV]

I don't really understand a bit of this but i so need to answer my question on how it affected the political thinking of the us people and was it or was it not appropriate.

[Tuphut]

Well America is pretty fucked now, so something must of went terrible wrong

[Geostrategic1]

@Tuphut that something in 2011 is Obamaism.

[MrAlexKeaton]

The recently released Venona Papers prove that the U.S. government, in the 30's, 40's and 50's, WAS in fact infested with communists.

And when we say communist in this time period we don't mean just people with a different point of view. These were active spies.

[creezboos]

previous comment posted by creezboos not loumeboy

[loumeboy]

"Tin foil hat." Good one. I guess there is no refuting that. Nothing like a little ad hominem to dismiss a challnege. I guess making fun of someone makes the things they are saying untrue. Can you honestly say you have reviewed the Venona project documentation and then claim there was nothing substantiated? Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs were the tip of the iceberg.

[creezboos]

This video is quite frankly pathetic.and devoid of the facts regarding McCarthy. He was troubled by the amazing amount of communist infiltration of the State Department. For anyone who wants know the real facts of so-called McCarthyism please read M. Stanton Evans "Blacklisted by History"

Read about the Venona Papers. They are de-classifed documents that prove indisputably that Senator McCarthy was absolutely correct.

"All the nuts in the country became anti-communits" - that's fair, right?

[Rahab111222]

@creezboos

You do realize none of McCarthy's outlandish claims of spy rings infiltrating the U.S. were substantiated, right?  Take the tin foil hat off your head.

[Rahab111222]

@creezboos

...and it's funny you mentioned M. Stanton Evans, a kook involved with a conservative think tank that bought the whole "Vincent Foster was murdered by Bill Clinton" conspiracy theory.

Yeah that book ain't biased at all! *sarcasm*

[MrFlojomofo]

Take an anti communist speach by McCarthy, remove the word communism and replace it with the word terrorist, modernize the language a bit and suddennly you have what sounds like every post 911 speach GW Bush ever made.

[KingDingaLing090]

@MrFlojomofo With your logic Bush is an American hero and Islamists are the greatest threat of the 21rst century.

How many people died from communism in the 20th century?

[ToJ01978]

@KingDingaLing090,

Of course the communists killed a lot of people. So did Mao and so did Pol Pot. May I also remind you that most examples that americans use are of leaders that went through civil wars which inflates the numbers to your liking. Here is a better question: How may innocent people have died because of the US and your disgusting foreign policy??? It is more than any extremist excuse you can you use. I await your response.

[KingDingaLing090]

@ToJ01978 No. Actually that number does not include civil wars, if it did, that number would be a lot higher. And you dont even know what that number is. Mao and Pol Pot were communists. No the US didnt slaughter millions of people anywhere. You are confused, it is a sickness. You need help, I suggest the Encyclopedia dipshit. 

[dharmashooter]

@MrFlojomofo Wrong. Terrorism is a communist creation.

[kittywinter]

@dharmashooter,

Please explain to me concisely how terrorism is strictly a communist creation. The idea of an individual being afraid of harm and/or persecution is a human emotion that far predates communism. Just because you say it is so and have not one stitch of proof does not make it so, it make you look dumb. I await your response.

[dharmashooter]

@kittywinter I'm referring to terrorism as it is popularly known at present. The people who funded communism, Wall Street and the central banks, are the same people behind the staged events of 9/11, 7/7, the underwear bomber, etc. This 'War on Terror' is in reality a war OF terror. The aim of this war of terrorism is to unify the world under a global communist dictatorship.

[acmilan93333]

@dharmashooter say what?

[MrGrevy]

@MrFlojomofo Which points to McCarthy being correct, moron.

[ToJ01978]

@MrGrevy,

Thank you for calling me a moron for a comment without sourcing it so I have no idea what your small mind has conjured up. Since it relates to this video let me explain something to you about that pig McCarthy. Up until the last decade he was responsible for the most innocent people being held in prison without trial. Since you fuckers down there seem to like to do that to people while clutching your paper thin constitution it is no wonder small minded yankees like yourself love him.

[MrGrevy]

From Using new information obtained from studies of old Soviet files in Moscow and now the famous Venona Intercepts - FBI recordings of Soviet embassy communications between 1944-48 -- the record is showing that McCarthy was essentially right. He had many weaknesses, but almost every case he charged has now been proven correct." -From Dan Flynn, director of Accuracy in Academia's national conference on McCarthy in 2000. So, checkmate, and grow the hell up. Emotional weirdo.

[UncleIrv]

@MrGrevy

Thanks for fighting for the truth, MrGrevy!

Whether a person likes or dislikes McCarthy's personality or tactics is not the issue. The issue is whether he was right or wrong. History proves he was right. Incontrovertible evidence has proven that during the 30's and 40's the federal government was infiltrated to it's highest levels with Soviet agents engaged in espionage and systematic subjugation.

Yet, leftist mythology still passes as "history" for the intellectually slothful.

[UncleIrv]

@MrGrevy

Thanks for fighting for the truth, MrGrevy!

Whether a person likes or dislikes McCarthy's personality or tactics is not the issue. The issue is whether he was right or wrong. History proves he was right. Incontrovertible evidence has proven that during the 30's and 40's the federal government was infiltrated to it's highest levels with Soviet agents engaged in espionage and systematic subjugation.

Yet, leftist mythology still passes as "history" for the intellectually slothful.

[RainbowManification]

@MrFlojomofo "The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, to often, sinister threats to the Bill of Rights, to the freedom of a mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak of anti-communism" -Adlai Stevenson

Just replace anti-communism with anti-terrorism and there you go. That is the state of our country in the last 10 years.

[TrishMP879]

This is awesome! I have been looking for a video to really explain McCarthyism. This is perfect!!

[debbiejwilson]

does it end there? or is there more?

[debbiejwilson]

excellent! thanks for posting

[k0j03]

pena lol