@allenshepard He was not a neo-Nazi, but an old Nazi. His anti-communism and bullying would have made him good Volksgericht material. For most positions in the Third Reich he would be deemed unfit though,because he was such a drunk bum of low intelligence.
@DrHeinersSanatorium He was a bully and a blowhard who was brought down by his own words and pictures who was brilliantly exposed as such by Edward R. Murrow.
God, I hate commies, but this fuckin idiot ruined it. Now it's it's socially acceptable to be a patron of communist activities. The ass just claimed random officials as commies. At least he wasn't as bad as the hippies.
What a hero Senator McCarthy was its amazing what he had to go through but he had amazing courage just like MLK fighting for civil rights for blacks he had to go though the same exact thing to fight communism what a patriot
@OldSchopenhauer He was more of a welfare Capitalist or Market Socialist, if you read his speeches & writings. If you knew ANYTHING about the history of Left-wing politics in Europe, you'd know that the Communists were often at great odds w/ the Democratic Socialists, who favored equitable markets & private ownership all business that were not part of the common national infrastructure. King supported Basic Guaranteed Income - a kind of enhanced EITC. Anyway, Hoover killed King.
in fascist joe's slow rambling nonsensical accusation he literally says "communism" and "communist" 10 times. he then interrupts to say "communist" 2 more times. pretty much proves it's a "red" baiting witch hunt.
Its funny how life is so cyclical in nature. If you study history you see a constant pattern of repetition. Our grandparents and parents had their real life Joe McCarthy back then and now we have our broke-ass version Joe McCarthy now. The Glen Becks, the Limbaughs, and the Palins. Fifty years from now we will have another round of demagogues who will lead the hateful, the ignorant, the misinformed, and the scared and repeat the same cycle again.
@GentlemanThunder7 I'd just like to reassure any intelligent Americans watching this video, like yourself, that although Joe McCarthy is infamous outside America as a political villain, Ann Coulter is not famous at all, and insofar as she gets mentioned in the media, it's only in Rupert Murdoch's newspapers. And not even by them anymore.
If mccarthy was alive today he'd be a host on fox news. another thing about senator mccarthy is that he didn't bother to marry until someone called him a homosexual.
@Reverendjim1 No, just an american that believes anyone can believe whatever they want, even communism, socialism or as you obviously do, in facism. Not jewish at all, though I see nothing wrong with being jewish, but I am gay if that makes you feel better about knowing what ignorant slur to use. Obviously you are a fox news devotee. Don't you have a klan rally to go to and a cross to burn?
@RobNLynchburgVA I very rarely watch FOX news or any other mainstream sources. However, if you think that FOX news is as right wing as MSNBC or ABC is left then you are very left. I have no issue with gay people, black people or any ethnicity for any reasons inherent. My issues with the jews is due to the manner of their existence within society as a whole. I have written enough about it so if you are interested you can follow my many many comments if not then don't.
@RobNLynchburgVA I would like to say this about those who are homosexual in orientation. I believe that the vast majority of this occurrence is due to some kind genetic difference. I also note that this occurrence also brings about other difference including mild physiological & often a noticeable increase in creative faculty. At heart i am a live and let live person but when it comes to the jews as a group I have a problem with them...!
@Reverendjim1 I have the same attitude concerning fundamentalist christians. As a gay man I have more fear of these people than I could ever have about the Hebrew Nation.
@RobNLynchburgVA Considering that you are gay, you have a more narrow agenda & that is understandable. The Christians & I am one have been taught traditionally to believe that homosexuality is sinful & that it can be "corrected". I do not believe that, I believe what I stated previously. I think that there are some people who for psychological reasons take part in a gay lifestyle but I think that they are a minority. I knew a girl like this.
@RobNLynchburgVA The Christians are getting more tolerant & i do not believe you need to fear them. I do believe however that the Gay lifestyle will not anytime soon be considered equal or as natural as a heterosexual one. Even in ancient Greece it was not considered the same. Those who believed it was were influenced by the thoughts of Philosophers & other pundits who often spoke of their own values and not of the people in general.
@RobNLynchburgVA I wish you were right! As McCarthy was absolutely correct. Many KGB agents of the former USSR have admitted to a propaganda program that used Hollywood as a vector to the American people. The Majority of these people were jews, sympathetic to the Bolshevik Jewish movement of Russia. The Rosenbergs were also a part of this crew. I will post some of the books that provide 1st person accounts from KGB officials of the time.
Actually, while he broke civil rights rules to acuse people without eveidence, the Venona Intercepts proved that McCarthy was right when they were released in 1995. Look into it.
@something9313 Throughout history, you'll find that people that love to laud the Constitution never stand by what's actually in the document. When McCarthy was sworn in, he was supposed to uphold the founding documents of this country and defend them.
Its a lot like how religious people like to misquote the Bible (which they usually haven't even read to begin with). Pretty sad.
@MrColeStone As I have already said, this was the 1950's, a very different time, before the Counterculture Era. What priests have done in this day in age is inexcusable. But dont condemn a past generation for the mistakes of this one.
The Venona Papers and declassified Soviet files has proved beyond reasonable doubt that McCarthy was right. If anything, he underestimated the level of Communist infiltration. He was right about Lauchlin Curie, Harry Dexter White, Owen Lattimore, all of them. They also show the Rosenbergs were guilty. Well, maybe not ethel, but definitely julius. And Alger Hiss was guilty as charged.
Why is it so difficult to voice an opinion without being ridiculed and called a moron? This is America. I am not making inflammatory statements or insulting anybody. I would greatly appreciate it if you keep to the subject at hand and leave the personal abuse aside.
Even though liberals say McCarthy ruined lives and went after "innocent" people, the American public loved him. When McCarthy died the Catholic Church bestowed on him their highest honor, the Solemn Pontifical Requiem Mass before 100 priests and 2,000 well wishers. 70 senators, including FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, attended his funeral. More than 30,000 people filed through St. Marys Parish Cemetery to pay their respects. Americans don't do that for just anybody. Only patriots.
@patriot2805 To call McCarthy a patriot is a joke! And to invoke the Catholic church as your argument???? They abuse little boys on a regular basis....but im sure they are still reputable just like McCarthy was right? moron!
@patriot2805 First off, Hoover was as bat-shit paranoid about Communism and homosexuality (Hoover didn't like black people either - I don't know about McCarthy) as McCarthy was. Having that corrupt and power-hungry individual attending a funeral is a bad sign.
The mindless masses - or this context sheep - actually believed his crazy claims, yes. Again, it should be
a bad thing.
If we're going by funeral count for patriotism, I think JFK and MLK Jr. win. McCarthy was just loud.
@TheScottKirk John F. kennedy and his brother Robert supported McCarthy through everything, to the disbelief of their liberal peers. they hated communists as much as he did
@patriot2805 In a private conversation with a reportor (I think it was a reporter) Kennedy was asked why he didn't criticize McCarthy's actions. Kennedy said something like, "Hell, half of my voters support him."
Kennedy's actions in office show a far different approach to battling Communism than McCarthy's, which is the important part.
@patriot2805 They were personal friends with him. I believe Joe McCarthy was godfather to Robert Kennedy's children. He stuck with him as long as he could, then broke with him when he realized he had gone too far.
By the way, it is possible to dislike both McCarthyism and Communism. A lot of Americans do.
@steveinchelsea I have given evidence that has been already proven to be true and that vidicates McCarthy, but all you liberals seem to be able to give are vicious insults. It is impossible to debate with you. Liberals feel, the argue with what they feel. Conservatives, in most cases, debate with reason and logic. It is a terrible thing, not to be able to speak your mind with coming under attack. Being called Nazis, Fascists, racists. Why are only you bleeding hearts allowed to speak your mind?
@patriot2805, look up Dr Revilo P Oliver's lecture from 1966, "Can Liberals Be Educated". You will find that he came to the same conclusion as you did. lol
@patriot2805 McCarthy was a total fraud and wouldn't know the truth if it bit him on the ass. He forged a citation from his c.o. in the Air Force trying to show he was a war hero, "tail gunner Joe" when he was actually a public relations officer who went on 1 mission as a photo shoot. He also was prosecuted for running a scam which defrauded g.i.'s trying to got auto loans. He also intervened to get pardons for the ss troops who murdered captured american soldiers in cold blood during the
@steveinchelsea He did not intervene to get pardons for the SS. He intervened because of the how the trial was conducted and judicial irregularities. They all went to prison, many received death sentences, but many were commuted, not because of McCarthy. He did lie about his war record, that was very wrong of him. But he also flew 12 combat missions, that is for certain. He joined when he didnt have to, since he was exempt as a sitting court judge is Wisconsin.
@patriot2805 He was very quick to go to bat for REAL Nazi's, while publicly excorciating phantom communists. He was a public relations officer in the Air Force so whatever so-called missions he flew was for pr purposes, because he was not actually a "tail gunner" as he later claimed during his senate campaign. You didn't mention his auto loan scam. Face it, the man was a total fraud. But not to worry. He has been rechanneled in the likes of Beck, Palin, and Bachman.
@steveinchelsea The SS units in Kampfgruppe Pieper were real Nazis. Battle-hardened veterans of the Eastern Front. And McCarthy was an Intelligence officer in the Marine Corps, not the Army Air Corps. The Air Force did not exist as a separate branch in WWII. The Army and Air Force separated into their own branches in 1947. And he flew as a gunner-observer. He couldn't have lied about that since he was always with a pilot in the air. And I have never heard of any auto loan scam. I swear.
@patriot2805 Your facts are essentially correct. But he did forge the letter of recommendation for the DFC citing 32 missions, not 12, with Adm. Nimitz's signature. This was to embellish his war record in his politiacal campaigns. I read about his auto loan scam in a biography of him I read some years ago. I will try to remember the name of it or find some other source.. I still ask why if he was such a patriot going after our "enemies" why intervene at all for the ss men who didn't show
@patriot2805 any similar concern for the us soldiers they murdered in cold blood. No did 'ol Joe show any concerrn for the legal niceties in his own defamation of countless americans with unsubstantiated charges. Most of the names on the lists he waved around were either already known or were no longer in government. In the 1950s the American Communist party was a tiny impotent group. Probably half it's membership were FBI agents. As a matter of fact the Russian's most valuable spy
@steveinchelsea In the mid 1950's the membership of the USA Communist Party was around 5,000. About 1,500 were FBI informants. Robert Hanson betrayed his country for money, not ideology. And the most dangerous was Aldric Ames, who worked for the CIA and really was a Communist. Things have happened in my life the past few weeks that have forced me to rethink some of my positions. I will admit, McCarthy went overboard in more than a few cases. But I agree with his intentions.
@patriot2805 Well I appreciate your honesty. No doubt McCarthy was sincere in his intentions but he nevertheless demagogued the issue for his political gain and having lived through that era I know of the harm he inflicted on innocent people , Welch's aide being just 1 example. Roy Cohen was no better, a closeted gay, who nevertheless jumped the line when trying to get treatment for his AIDS.
McCarthy was a fear monger, he operated by going after defenseless people, and ruining their lives through vicious rumors. And people are trying to defend him? He was, in the absolute worst sense of the word, despicable.
McCarthy was a real patriot, the left has smeared him as a witch hunter when in fact there were many commies in the government and in Hollywood, and there still are soday.
@omnius5757 He was a witch hunter, and he ruined countless lives. I am sure his motives were sincere and he probably believed he was really hunting communists down, but that doesn't excuse the damage he did. I stand with Murrow, now and always.
@MiserableOldFart ..No, actually he spoke the truth,,the degeneration of our country on every level is the planned result of the Zionist Jewish Communist cabal...hahaha...maybe I am mad....hahaha....where are my meds from the Jewish psychiatry.haha,haha....I should have pulled the plug on their TV/Radio monopoly years ago..hahah
Look up "The National Lawyers Guld" on youtube. Welch's aid, (Frederick Fisher) was a part of this organization. Welch admits this in his testemony in the Army hearings and is embarresed in to tears, refusing further testimony. Also look up the NLC in "descover the networks" on google. I loved it when Macarthy nailed Welch by outing his commie assistant!
@justaddcorn Name calling in the absence of fact or reason? A desperate man's last resort. Its spam as well. Seriously, if have nothing to contribute then just keep quiet. If I wanted to be called silly names I would argue with a child.
"I loved it when Macarthy nailed Welch by outing his commie assistant!"
Outing? More like framing. McCarthy knew his neck was on the line since Welch was calling him on his bullshit claims. McCarthy never revealed his "research" or "sources" because he had none. When it became apparent his political career was at stake, he put Welch's partner on the Commie list as a last desperate measure.
It was a classic guilt by association fallacy and a bad one at that.
@CWSmith1982 I can't believe that you are continuing McCarthy's argument against Fisher, which Welch answered more than adequately in the 1950s, today. Are we still having this fight? Are we *still* going to condemn people by association?
What next, are you going to accuse people of being card-carrying members of the ACLU?
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Senator McCarthy was a great patriot and was proven correct when the Venona Papers were released. Even when history proved McCarthy was correct, liberals revisionist still find a way to try to tear down Senator McCarthy. Have they no decency?
@campusliberty1 Lied about his war record, worked to exonerate SS officers accused of massacring American POW's, tore his country apart using smears and downright lies - a "great patriot" indeed.
@campusliberty1 Life's too short, try this: The Censure of Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin.
46 counts of misconduct including contempt of the Senate and encouraging federal government employees "to violate the law by providing him with classified materials"
This is the judgement of his fellow Senators. The man was a disgrace to democracy.
@enochsneed The U.S. Senate voted on two counts to condemn not censure Senator McCarthy on spurious accounts. Please get the information correct. Bill Clinton who was impeached was a much bigger disgrace to our country.
@campusliberty1 Bill Clinton was NEVER impeached, Richard Nixon is the only president. Get you facts straight moron. don't believe me? google it before you say another stupid comment.
@natalitola Three U.S. Presidents have had impeachment proceedings: Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton WAS impeached by the House of Representatives but wasn't convicted by the U.S. Senate (same as Johnson). Nixon resigned before the Senate trial. Please stop using google and read a book sometime.
@natalitola Actually, he was impeached, just not removed from office or forced to resign. It was the stupidest, most politically-motivated, partisan impeachment in the history of our country, and it wasted both money and bandwidth on something I and most other Americans don't give a sh*t about, but he was impeached.
@campusliberty1 OK, you have now qualified as a total f**king idiot.
A man who turned the American people against themselves, looking askance at every neighbor because s/he might be a Communist infiltrator--vs a man who had sex outside of marriage and lied about it. Honestly, you are either stupid or you've got the crappiest set of moral values I have ever seen. The good of the country matters more than sexual fidelity. If you can't understand that, what kind of patriot are you?
@campusliberty1 Crap. The Venona decrypts revealed that there was more Soviet espionage than many 50s liberals suspected, but McCarthy's nakedly opportunistic and self-serving efforts probably turned more people to the Soviet cause than helped America. McCarthy wasn't in it to fight Communism, he was in it for himself, and in that respect he was, as Joseph Welch said, cruel, reckless and indecent. Not to mention a bullshitter. (Many of his accusations weren't true and he knew it.)
@KingDingaLing090 If you think that Joe Welch was a 'Soviet sympathizer' then you are from another planet, and it's not even worth my while trying to engage with you.
Why people like you, has the audacity to opine, without the propper knowledge. What do you know about McCarthy..? have you ever read or investigate anything about him..? I think your opinion come from hearsay and rumors.
Read, my man....Read..! buy a book, spend your money in books...not in grass.!
@KAIROA For your information, I am no longer young, and I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I've smoked dope. If you had an argument you'd have made it, instead of resorting to crude abuse and unfounded suppositions about my personal life. If you have the evidence to support what you say, bring it on. If you don't, go to bed.
Sorry, I went over my head. Is not my intention to abuse people. Sometimes when I read something like that, I think people don't understand what patriotism is.
@lexo30 Disgusting. I guess our work isn't done. God rest you, Mr. Welch, I'll try to do the best I can with what I've got. God knows I don't have your abilities or resources, but what I've got I'll bring to the fight.
@lexo30 I meant, in case it wasn't clear, that the notion that Joe Welch was a Soviet sympathizer is disgusting. A disgusting attack along the lines of McCarthy himself, just done to the dead this time.
@ultramegachicken68 Understood. I consider myself left-wing, but am very tired of the ignorant assumption on the part of many right-wingers that anybody left of themselves is a Soviet sympathiser. I don't think that Joe Welch was even left-wing. It was McCarthy who was the extremist: Welch was in the historical mainstream of the American political tradition (until it shifted drastically to the right in the 70s and 80s) and he just got exasperated with McCarthy fouling the nest.
@lexo30 Couldn't agree with you more. As another example, consider one of my favorite authors, Rex Stout, who wrote against fascism during the war, against communism after, and then against McCarthyism once the McCarthy squad came after him for having been on the board of a magazine which later went Communist. Stout had no problem seeing the flaws in fascism, communism, and McCarthyism. Lots of Americans didn't, and don't. The heart of Americanism rejects all those views, IMO.
@KingDingaLing090 But, just to prove that you're an idiot, McCarthy accused Owen Lattimore of being a Soviet agent - oh no, correction, of being ' the top Russian espionage agent in the United States' - and there was not a shred of evidence to support this accusation. Lattimore was not a Soviet agent. If McCarthy knew Lattimore wasn't a spy, then McCarthy was a liar; if he didn't know Lattimore wasn't a spy, he was a reckless and destructive idiot.
@lexo30 You removed your comment "Definatively is not a real word"?
Awe, dont be a weak coward. It is definativly.
The hearings documented Lattimore's sympathetic statements about Stalin (mass murderer) and the Soviet Union, He surrounded himself with communist spies, friends, employees etc. The Senate Committee unanimously agreed he was a "conscious articulate instrument of the Soviet conspiracy."
McCarthy named him a spy only after a former communist named him a spy.
@KingDingaLing090 I removed 'Definatively is not a real word' because taking pot shots at your crappy spelling is not good argument technique. Being sympathetic towards the Soviet Union did not make Lattimore 'the top Russian espionage agent in the United States'. Go to bed, you child.
@KingDingaLing090 I realise that you have some difficulty with rational thought so let's recap: I am arguing that just because McCarthy called Lattimore a spy, doesn't mean he was a spy, especially when nobody else found any evidence that he was a spy. You are arguing that because Lattimore expressed some sympathy with the Soviet Union, and McCarthy called him a spy, therefore he was a spy. The burden of proof is on you. But seriously, go to bed, because it's way past your bedtime.
@KingDingaLing090 And, in fact, nothing I have read about Lattimore convinces me that he was a Soviet sympathiser. You are hypnotised by the 'hearings' and the 'Senate Committee' but the Committee was headed by Pat McCarran, who was a McCarthyist stooge. So your whole case is bullshit and I have finished discussing it with you. McCarthy was a menace to America and he died too late, if anything.
@lexo30 You are like a child screaming things at me and then running away before I can respond. Liberals always write 3 comments or 4 or 5 for every ONE comment that I write. McCarthy never called Lattimore a spy in public.. Drew Pearson, the anti-McCarthy zealot leaked it to the public. By the time McCarthy named Lattimore a spy 46 people associated with Lattimore's IPR were named under oath as members of the communist party and 8 others as bonafide espianioge agents for the USSR. (continued)
@lexo30 You have not read anything that convinces you Lattimore was a Soviet sympathiser because you are a Soviet sympathiser.
But try this out... after a tour of Stalin's slave-labor camps in 1944 he compared them the gulags to "a combination Hudson's Bay Company and TVA [Tennese Valley Authority]."
After Stalins show trials and executions he dismissed criticisms by saying "A great many abuses have been discovered and rectified."
Sympathy for executions without due process and slavery
@Buttpower -I makes sense when you are answering multiple comments. If one's opponent during a debate take 15 minutes instead of the allowed 5 minutes are you supposed to respond in 5 minutes or longer? I responed to 2 comments in response to his 3 comments.
Dont try to think Buttpower. Youre not any good at it.
i'd love to see evidence of how beck is anything at all like mccarthy. or you can continue with your baseless ad hominem, i'm sure it's all you're capable.
@YuutubeLosesAgainlol Why do I have to "prove" anything to you? I am stating an opinion. If you need proof, then watch his show. I don`t seriously think however that anything I say, or anything Beck does or says will change your opinion of him. Don`t pretend you want any sort of discussion, your mind is already set as is mine, so at least just admit to that.
@campusliberty1 His widow has remained silent, considering she died in the 1970's. and his daughter Tierney does a lot of internet posting as a private citizen.
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It wasn't baseless: Mr. Fisher had been removed from the legal team by Mr. Welch himself and this was reported in the NY Times. McCarthy is not a bully; he was the victim of CYA by both the Dems and Repubs. A true patriot who dared to expose how the US Government is fat and lazy and never stands for liberty and justice for all.
McCarthy was a drunk disgrace to this country. He ruined peoples lives based on accusations and heresy; it was NOT an example of "liberty and justice" in any sense of the word. I wish someone before Welch had the balls to tell McCarthy off to his face like he deserved.
Mr. McCarthy was an American Patriot, he exposed the rats. Try to read and investigate, before you make an estupid opinion, without the propper knowledge.
Buy the book: TREASON by Ann Coulter, and you will find out things, that you never knew it might happen in the land of the free.
Just look around 56 years later, and ask yourself...why we are splashing on mud ?
@KAIROA I stopped reading after you mentioned Ann Coulter. She loved McCarthy and you obviously do too.
I would not come to the opinion that I hold without reading extensively about McCarthy or the whole era in general. He was a fraud, a hate monger, and a vicious power hungry politician that used his power to espouse a certain viewpoint and scare anyone who dared disagree. That is NOT what America is about. His actions suppressed free speech and hurt thousands of Americans.
@KAIROA I admit to little knowledge of McCarthy. So in all truth I mean no harm when I ask you this. What about those he is said to have accused that were truly NOT communists? What about his response to Murrow? I only know what I've been told so far so I would like to hear your opinion of those.
@cfwpiano He was a bully and a coward,he only picked on lone people and people too weak to oppose him,they said the same things welch said,but they were too small to make a difference,Mccarthy was way overconfident and thought he could take on the big dogs,he was entirely wrong,resulting in his utter destruction.
@cfwpiano, yeah, what a disgrace he was! He held up the communist takeover for nearly 10 years! You are a piece of shit television drone, not capable of independent, cognitive thought.
@FreiCleveland Please name for me ONE communist that McCarthy stopped that, had he/she not been exposed, would've done damage to this country. Prove to me that he "held up the communist takeover". Sounds like you're the brainwashed one.
@cfwpiano, uh...hmmm. You aren't too bright are ya? Incase you didn't notice the mid-1960's was a time of revolution not only in this nation, but the entire world. About 80% of the objectives from the communist revolution from that time have been reached and are/or have been implemented in ALL facets of society throughout the Western world.
To put this exchange in context, just before this clip took place, Welch's cross examination was taking apart McCarthy's croney Roy Cohn. Attempting to "save" Cohn, McCarthy baselessly attacks an associate of Welch's firm, Fred Fisher, with a bogus charge. Welch then unmasks McCarthy.
Lol McCarthy thought he was slick with his accusations and just got verbally destroyed. This is the greatest verbal destruction in American history. I guess on every level there are bullies that use their influence to bully others, and it takes someone who refuses to take their crap to come along and completely shut them down
What's really funny is, that at this time, there really was a Communist mole in the U.S. government. This individual remained active until the 1970s. All that hysteria-- it was over a real threat. But it did nothing to stop that threat or expose the mole. I'm sure the Soviets were enormously entertained to see us chasing our tails for years. We were truly outfoxed.
That was never the intention. For the Soviets, the key things was just having information. They were and are a very paranoid people . . . kind of like us. We were running agents too.
What a scumbag, figures he would be a repiglican. You know the ironic thing about all this is how close the current republican party represents the end results of communism. The rich get everything, everyone else feasts on scraps. The top 1% of this country have more wealth than everyone else combined something is exceedingly wrong with that.
Lots of Army officers had/have Communist sympathies. All one has to do is look at the people that prosecuted Adam Kokesh. There is indisputable evidence that military officers have taken bribes from Communist organizations to aid them tactically. The war in Vietnam was largely promoted by officers, who simply took bribes from Communist authorities to let them kill American soldiers.
Joe McCarthy was the most accurate politician of that time.
I guess a good way to think about is if the Republican Party, the ostensibly very anti-Communist party, represents the end results of communism, Communism must infiltrate very effectively.
Scrapes? you want someone to give you a steak? Bill gates started Microsoft in his garage. H.Wayne started waste management with 2 trucks. Walton 1 store.
Nobody owes you anything.
Why don't you get off your azz and go create or build something ?
You can wait until the stars fall from the sky, or get off the couch and go build something. Go to work !
McCarthy was a drunk and did a lot of harm. Learn and move on, never forget.
juliegrimme 3 weeks ago
We have less rights today, think about it.
t2k777 1 month ago
Mccarthy was an alcoholic bully and neo nazi with no soul.
allenshepard 1 month ago
@allenshepard He was not a neo-Nazi, but an old Nazi. His anti-communism and bullying would have made him good Volksgericht material. For most positions in the Third Reich he would be deemed unfit though,because he was such a drunk bum of low intelligence.
DrHeinersSanatorium 4 weeks ago
@DrHeinersSanatorium Sorry I used the wrong words there. not a Neo nazi but defiantly a NAZI
allenshepard 4 weeks ago
@allenshepard Agreed! :)
DrHeinersSanatorium 4 weeks ago
@DrHeinersSanatorium He was a bully and a blowhard who was brought down by his own words and pictures who was brilliantly exposed as such by Edward R. Murrow.
fatcatsathat 2 weeks ago
McCarthy just had the look of an evil man
tacitus2244 1 month ago
God, I hate commies, but this fuckin idiot ruined it. Now it's it's socially acceptable to be a patron of communist activities. The ass just claimed random officials as commies. At least he wasn't as bad as the hippies.
TheSgtDouglas 1 month ago
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MrSww9999 2 months ago
@PkInWild i need info on him
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12348erboy 3 months ago
What a hero Senator McCarthy was its amazing what he had to go through but he had amazing courage just like MLK fighting for civil rights for blacks he had to go though the same exact thing to fight communism what a patriot
dman1311974 3 months ago
@dman1311974 Martin Luther King was a communist. It's a shame McCarthy didn't go after him.
OldSchopenhauer 3 months ago
@OldSchopenhauer He was more of a welfare Capitalist or Market Socialist, if you read his speeches & writings. If you knew ANYTHING about the history of Left-wing politics in Europe, you'd know that the Communists were often at great odds w/ the Democratic Socialists, who favored equitable markets & private ownership all business that were not part of the common national infrastructure. King supported Basic Guaranteed Income - a kind of enhanced EITC. Anyway, Hoover killed King.
musicalidea 1 month ago
@OldSchopenhauer proof mlk was a communist?
jaroncreed 1 month ago
@PkInWild ~ interesting, so you idolize mccarthy like you do hitler. let me guess, a sociopath with a ninth grade education?
tomitstube 3 months ago
in fascist joe's slow rambling nonsensical accusation he literally says "communism" and "communist" 10 times. he then interrupts to say "communist" 2 more times. pretty much proves it's a "red" baiting witch hunt.
tomitstube 4 months ago
@tomitstube Hello, commie.
OldSchopenhauer 3 months ago
@OldSchopenhauer ~ your just mad cuz commies kicked your racist nazi asses.
tomitstube 3 months ago
@tomitstube It's not so much that they kicked our asses as much as we killed so many Judeo-Bolsheviks that we began to drown in their blood.
It's all very sad, though. ):
OldSchopenhauer 3 months ago
Its funny how life is so cyclical in nature. If you study history you see a constant pattern of repetition. Our grandparents and parents had their real life Joe McCarthy back then and now we have our broke-ass version Joe McCarthy now. The Glen Becks, the Limbaughs, and the Palins. Fifty years from now we will have another round of demagogues who will lead the hateful, the ignorant, the misinformed, and the scared and repeat the same cycle again.
RightWingHunter666 7 months ago
Is McCarthy pissed out of his mind, or what?
JohnDoe66669 8 months ago
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Yes - he was always drunk out of his mind
MuscleDaddyCMH 5 months ago
@benkata Yes, absolutely! He looks like a hero to me.
frankklaassen 9 months ago
if these men he was accusing were communists, which they wernt, they wouldnt really be any threat to america anyway. they wouldnt have enough power
tom4cfc123 9 months ago
It looks like Ann Coulter made a profile and voted down against this video.
GentlemanThunder7 10 months ago 22
@GentlemanThunder7 I'd just like to reassure any intelligent Americans watching this video, like yourself, that although Joe McCarthy is infamous outside America as a political villain, Ann Coulter is not famous at all, and insofar as she gets mentioned in the media, it's only in Rupert Murdoch's newspapers. And not even by them anymore.
lexo30 5 months ago
If mccarthy was alive today he'd be a host on fox news. another thing about senator mccarthy is that he didn't bother to marry until someone called him a homosexual.
RobNLynchburgVA 11 months ago
@RobNLynchburgVA So what? You hate him so much huh...I bet your a Pinko Commie Jew yourself!
Reverendjim1 11 months ago
@Reverendjim1 No, just an american that believes anyone can believe whatever they want, even communism, socialism or as you obviously do, in facism. Not jewish at all, though I see nothing wrong with being jewish, but I am gay if that makes you feel better about knowing what ignorant slur to use. Obviously you are a fox news devotee. Don't you have a klan rally to go to and a cross to burn?
RobNLynchburgVA 11 months ago
@RobNLynchburgVA I very rarely watch FOX news or any other mainstream sources. However, if you think that FOX news is as right wing as MSNBC or ABC is left then you are very left. I have no issue with gay people, black people or any ethnicity for any reasons inherent. My issues with the jews is due to the manner of their existence within society as a whole. I have written enough about it so if you are interested you can follow my many many comments if not then don't.
Reverendjim1 11 months ago
@RobNLynchburgVA I would like to say this about those who are homosexual in orientation. I believe that the vast majority of this occurrence is due to some kind genetic difference. I also note that this occurrence also brings about other difference including mild physiological & often a noticeable increase in creative faculty. At heart i am a live and let live person but when it comes to the jews as a group I have a problem with them...!
Reverendjim1 11 months ago
@Reverendjim1 I have the same attitude concerning fundamentalist christians. As a gay man I have more fear of these people than I could ever have about the Hebrew Nation.
RobNLynchburgVA 11 months ago
@RobNLynchburgVA Considering that you are gay, you have a more narrow agenda & that is understandable. The Christians & I am one have been taught traditionally to believe that homosexuality is sinful & that it can be "corrected". I do not believe that, I believe what I stated previously. I think that there are some people who for psychological reasons take part in a gay lifestyle but I think that they are a minority. I knew a girl like this.
Reverendjim1 11 months ago
@RobNLynchburgVA The Christians are getting more tolerant & i do not believe you need to fear them. I do believe however that the Gay lifestyle will not anytime soon be considered equal or as natural as a heterosexual one. Even in ancient Greece it was not considered the same. Those who believed it was were influenced by the thoughts of Philosophers & other pundits who often spoke of their own values and not of the people in general.
Reverendjim1 11 months ago
Glad that sack of shit isn't around anymore.
MasterAdam100 11 months ago
@MasterAdam100 Oh but mccarthyism is alive and well at fox news.
RobNLynchburgVA 11 months ago
@RobNLynchburgVA I wish you were right! As McCarthy was absolutely correct. Many KGB agents of the former USSR have admitted to a propaganda program that used Hollywood as a vector to the American people. The Majority of these people were jews, sympathetic to the Bolshevik Jewish movement of Russia. The Rosenbergs were also a part of this crew. I will post some of the books that provide 1st person accounts from KGB officials of the time.
Reverendjim1 11 months ago
Actually, while he broke civil rights rules to acuse people without eveidence, the Venona Intercepts proved that McCarthy was right when they were released in 1995. Look into it.
meanjab 11 months ago
Show trials? Accusing without proper evidence? Assault on personal liberty to further one's own political career?
...sounds a bit like what was going on in the Soviet Union.
AHafan1 11 months ago
@something9313 Throughout history, you'll find that people that love to laud the Constitution never stand by what's actually in the document. When McCarthy was sworn in, he was supposed to uphold the founding documents of this country and defend them.
Its a lot like how religious people like to misquote the Bible (which they usually haven't even read to begin with). Pretty sad.
cfwpiano 1 year ago
Of all the twats of history 1901-1999, McCarthy seems the worst to me. He's just such a prick.
EthanThePerson 1 year ago
@MrColeStone As I have already said, this was the 1950's, a very different time, before the Counterculture Era. What priests have done in this day in age is inexcusable. But dont condemn a past generation for the mistakes of this one.
patriot2805 1 year ago
The Venona Papers and declassified Soviet files has proved beyond reasonable doubt that McCarthy was right. If anything, he underestimated the level of Communist infiltration. He was right about Lauchlin Curie, Harry Dexter White, Owen Lattimore, all of them. They also show the Rosenbergs were guilty. Well, maybe not ethel, but definitely julius. And Alger Hiss was guilty as charged.
patriot2805 1 year ago
Why is it so difficult to voice an opinion without being ridiculed and called a moron? This is America. I am not making inflammatory statements or insulting anybody. I would greatly appreciate it if you keep to the subject at hand and leave the personal abuse aside.
patriot2805 1 year ago
Even though liberals say McCarthy ruined lives and went after "innocent" people, the American public loved him. When McCarthy died the Catholic Church bestowed on him their highest honor, the Solemn Pontifical Requiem Mass before 100 priests and 2,000 well wishers. 70 senators, including FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, attended his funeral. More than 30,000 people filed through St. Marys Parish Cemetery to pay their respects. Americans don't do that for just anybody. Only patriots.
patriot2805 1 year ago
@patriot2805 To call McCarthy a patriot is a joke! And to invoke the Catholic church as your argument???? They abuse little boys on a regular basis....but im sure they are still reputable just like McCarthy was right? moron!
haye7880 1 year ago
@haye7880 this was the 50's, not the last decade. it was a different time.
patriot2805 1 year ago
@patriot2805 First off, Hoover was as bat-shit paranoid about Communism and homosexuality (Hoover didn't like black people either - I don't know about McCarthy) as McCarthy was. Having that corrupt and power-hungry individual attending a funeral is a bad sign.
The mindless masses - or this context sheep - actually believed his crazy claims, yes. Again, it should be
a bad thing.
If we're going by funeral count for patriotism, I think JFK and MLK Jr. win. McCarthy was just loud.
TheScottKirk 1 year ago
@TheScottKirk John F. kennedy and his brother Robert supported McCarthy through everything, to the disbelief of their liberal peers. they hated communists as much as he did
patriot2805 1 year ago
@patriot2805 In a private conversation with a reportor (I think it was a reporter) Kennedy was asked why he didn't criticize McCarthy's actions. Kennedy said something like, "Hell, half of my voters support him."
Kennedy's actions in office show a far different approach to battling Communism than McCarthy's, which is the important part.
TheScottKirk 1 year ago
@patriot2805 But did Joe McCarthy really hate communists or was he just an attention seeker that needed a platform..
princess11222 1 year ago
@patriot2805 They were personal friends with him. I believe Joe McCarthy was godfather to Robert Kennedy's children. He stuck with him as long as he could, then broke with him when he realized he had gone too far.
By the way, it is possible to dislike both McCarthyism and Communism. A lot of Americans do.
ultramegachicken68 5 months ago
@patriot2805 Yeah and Hitler had masses of people cheering him on. What does that prove ?
steveinchelsea 1 year ago
@steveinchelsea I have given evidence that has been already proven to be true and that vidicates McCarthy, but all you liberals seem to be able to give are vicious insults. It is impossible to debate with you. Liberals feel, the argue with what they feel. Conservatives, in most cases, debate with reason and logic. It is a terrible thing, not to be able to speak your mind with coming under attack. Being called Nazis, Fascists, racists. Why are only you bleeding hearts allowed to speak your mind?
patriot2805 1 year ago
@patriot2805, look up Dr Revilo P Oliver's lecture from 1966, "Can Liberals Be Educated". You will find that he came to the same conclusion as you did. lol
FreiCleveland 1 year ago
@patriot2805 McCarthy was a total fraud and wouldn't know the truth if it bit him on the ass. He forged a citation from his c.o. in the Air Force trying to show he was a war hero, "tail gunner Joe" when he was actually a public relations officer who went on 1 mission as a photo shoot. He also was prosecuted for running a scam which defrauded g.i.'s trying to got auto loans. He also intervened to get pardons for the ss troops who murdered captured american soldiers in cold blood during the
's
steveinchelsea 1 year ago
@steveinchelsea He did not intervene to get pardons for the SS. He intervened because of the how the trial was conducted and judicial irregularities. They all went to prison, many received death sentences, but many were commuted, not because of McCarthy. He did lie about his war record, that was very wrong of him. But he also flew 12 combat missions, that is for certain. He joined when he didnt have to, since he was exempt as a sitting court judge is Wisconsin.
patriot2805 1 year ago
@patriot2805 He was very quick to go to bat for REAL Nazi's, while publicly excorciating phantom communists. He was a public relations officer in the Air Force so whatever so-called missions he flew was for pr purposes, because he was not actually a "tail gunner" as he later claimed during his senate campaign. You didn't mention his auto loan scam. Face it, the man was a total fraud. But not to worry. He has been rechanneled in the likes of Beck, Palin, and Bachman.
steveinchelsea 1 year ago
@steveinchelsea The SS units in Kampfgruppe Pieper were real Nazis. Battle-hardened veterans of the Eastern Front. And McCarthy was an Intelligence officer in the Marine Corps, not the Army Air Corps. The Air Force did not exist as a separate branch in WWII. The Army and Air Force separated into their own branches in 1947. And he flew as a gunner-observer. He couldn't have lied about that since he was always with a pilot in the air. And I have never heard of any auto loan scam. I swear.
patriot2805 11 months ago
@patriot2805 Your facts are essentially correct. But he did forge the letter of recommendation for the DFC citing 32 missions, not 12, with Adm. Nimitz's signature. This was to embellish his war record in his politiacal campaigns. I read about his auto loan scam in a biography of him I read some years ago. I will try to remember the name of it or find some other source.. I still ask why if he was such a patriot going after our "enemies" why intervene at all for the ss men who didn't show
steveinchelsea 11 months ago
@patriot2805 any similar concern for the us soldiers they murdered in cold blood. No did 'ol Joe show any concerrn for the legal niceties in his own defamation of countless americans with unsubstantiated charges. Most of the names on the lists he waved around were either already known or were no longer in government. In the 1950s the American Communist party was a tiny impotent group. Probably half it's membership were FBI agents. As a matter of fact the Russian's most valuable spy
steveinchelsea 11 months ago
@steveinchelsea In the mid 1950's the membership of the USA Communist Party was around 5,000. About 1,500 were FBI informants. Robert Hanson betrayed his country for money, not ideology. And the most dangerous was Aldric Ames, who worked for the CIA and really was a Communist. Things have happened in my life the past few weeks that have forced me to rethink some of my positions. I will admit, McCarthy went overboard in more than a few cases. But I agree with his intentions.
patriot2805 11 months ago
@patriot2805 Well I appreciate your honesty. No doubt McCarthy was sincere in his intentions but he nevertheless demagogued the issue for his political gain and having lived through that era I know of the harm he inflicted on innocent people , Welch's aide being just 1 example. Roy Cohen was no better, a closeted gay, who nevertheless jumped the line when trying to get treatment for his AIDS.
steveinchelsea 11 months ago
@patriot2805 was Robert Hanson, an FBI agent and a conservative Catholic Republican.
steveinchelsea 11 months ago
@patriot2805 battle of the bulge in WWII.
steveinchelsea 1 year ago
McCarthy was a fear monger, he operated by going after defenseless people, and ruining their lives through vicious rumors. And people are trying to defend him? He was, in the absolute worst sense of the word, despicable.
iaskyouwhynot 1 year ago
McCarthy was a real patriot, the left has smeared him as a witch hunter when in fact there were many commies in the government and in Hollywood, and there still are soday.
omnius5757 1 year ago
@omnius5757 While that may be true. What about those he accused that were not?
mugglewahfuls 1 year ago
@omnius5757 He was a witch hunter, and he ruined countless lives. I am sure his motives were sincere and he probably believed he was really hunting communists down, but that doesn't excuse the damage he did. I stand with Murrow, now and always.
"We will not walk in fear, one of another."
ultramegachicken68 5 months ago
@iceblueeyes783 here is a link to some clips from the American Rhetoric speech bank
mhoffmann8757 1 year ago
Film and Cinema never recovered from the McCarthy era.
DaHonestAbe 1 year ago
Where did you find these clips? I'm doing a research project and need the original source... Great quality!
iceblueeyes783 1 year ago
@MiserableOldFart ..No, actually he spoke the truth,,the degeneration of our country on every level is the planned result of the Zionist Jewish Communist cabal...hahaha...maybe I am mad....hahaha....where are my meds from the Jewish psychiatry.haha,haha....I should have pulled the plug on their TV/Radio monopoly years ago..hahah
robinxyz101 1 year ago
Look up "The National Lawyers Guld" on youtube. Welch's aid, (Frederick Fisher) was a part of this organization. Welch admits this in his testemony in the Army hearings and is embarresed in to tears, refusing further testimony. Also look up the NLC in "descover the networks" on google. I loved it when Macarthy nailed Welch by outing his commie assistant!
CWSmith1982 1 year ago
@CWSmith1982 moron
justaddcorn 1 year ago
@justaddcorn Name calling in the absence of fact or reason? A desperate man's last resort. Its spam as well. Seriously, if have nothing to contribute then just keep quiet. If I wanted to be called silly names I would argue with a child.
CWSmith1982 1 year ago
@CWSmith1982 supermoron
justaddcorn 1 year ago
@CWSmith1982
"I loved it when Macarthy nailed Welch by outing his commie assistant!"
Outing? More like framing. McCarthy knew his neck was on the line since Welch was calling him on his bullshit claims. McCarthy never revealed his "research" or "sources" because he had none. When it became apparent his political career was at stake, he put Welch's partner on the Commie list as a last desperate measure.
It was a classic guilt by association fallacy and a bad one at that.
RavingDissension 1 year ago
@CWSmith1982 I can't believe that you are continuing McCarthy's argument against Fisher, which Welch answered more than adequately in the 1950s, today. Are we still having this fight? Are we *still* going to condemn people by association?
What next, are you going to accuse people of being card-carrying members of the ACLU?
ultramegachicken68 5 months ago 4
wow, McCarthy is drunk off his ass here, he's slurring speech all over the place. He's got some balls showing up to a big hearing like this....
AlbertEinsteinJr 1 year ago
McCarthy was right about Communist influence in the U.S government. He was just an imperfect vehicle for leading the charge.
joetaiwan1 1 year ago
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Senator McCarthy was a great patriot and was proven correct when the Venona Papers were released. Even when history proved McCarthy was correct, liberals revisionist still find a way to try to tear down Senator McCarthy. Have they no decency?
campusliberty1 1 year ago
@campusliberty1
The Venona Papers identified 3 individual cases of espionage. THREE, you sh#t kicking hick.
Of those two were American and one concerned people investigated by Cohn and McCarthy.
EuchridEucrow1 1 year ago
@EuchridEucrow1 Hey, that's an insult to sh#t kicking hicks, of which I know several, and like many. :-)
ultramegachicken68 5 months ago
@campusliberty1 Of the 500-some people that McCarthy "exposed", would you care to elabore which ones were vindicated by the Venona Report?
bjohn131313 1 year ago 2
@campusliberty1 Lied about his war record, worked to exonerate SS officers accused of massacring American POW's, tore his country apart using smears and downright lies - a "great patriot" indeed.
enochsneed 1 year ago
@enochsneed Seems like you are on your own campaign of smears. Please document your lies.
campusliberty1 1 year ago
@campusliberty1 Life's too short, try this: The Censure of Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin.
46 counts of misconduct including contempt of the Senate and encouraging federal government employees "to violate the law by providing him with classified materials"
This is the judgement of his fellow Senators. The man was a disgrace to democracy.
enochsneed 1 year ago
@enochsneed The U.S. Senate voted on two counts to condemn not censure Senator McCarthy on spurious accounts. Please get the information correct. Bill Clinton who was impeached was a much bigger disgrace to our country.
campusliberty1 1 year ago
@campusliberty1 Bill Clinton was NEVER impeached, Richard Nixon is the only president. Get you facts straight moron. don't believe me? google it before you say another stupid comment.
natalitola 1 year ago
@natalitola Three U.S. Presidents have had impeachment proceedings: Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton WAS impeached by the House of Representatives but wasn't convicted by the U.S. Senate (same as Johnson). Nixon resigned before the Senate trial. Please stop using google and read a book sometime.
campusliberty1 1 year ago
@natalitola Actually, he was impeached, just not removed from office or forced to resign. It was the stupidest, most politically-motivated, partisan impeachment in the history of our country, and it wasted both money and bandwidth on something I and most other Americans don't give a sh*t about, but he was impeached.
ultramegachicken68 5 months ago
@campusliberty1 OK, you have now qualified as a total f**king idiot.
A man who turned the American people against themselves, looking askance at every neighbor because s/he might be a Communist infiltrator--vs a man who had sex outside of marriage and lied about it. Honestly, you are either stupid or you've got the crappiest set of moral values I have ever seen. The good of the country matters more than sexual fidelity. If you can't understand that, what kind of patriot are you?
ultramegachicken68 5 months ago
@campusliberty1 Crap. The Venona decrypts revealed that there was more Soviet espionage than many 50s liberals suspected, but McCarthy's nakedly opportunistic and self-serving efforts probably turned more people to the Soviet cause than helped America. McCarthy wasn't in it to fight Communism, he was in it for himself, and in that respect he was, as Joseph Welch said, cruel, reckless and indecent. Not to mention a bullshitter. (Many of his accusations weren't true and he knew it.)
lexo30 1 year ago
@lexo30 What accusations werent true and how did he "know it"?
How was he "in it for himself" when he was publically humilited by liberal democrat Soviet sympathizers?
KingDingaLing090 1 year ago
@KingDingaLing090 If you think that Joe Welch was a 'Soviet sympathizer' then you are from another planet, and it's not even worth my while trying to engage with you.
lexo30 1 year ago 13
@lexo30
Why people like you, has the audacity to opine, without the propper knowledge. What do you know about McCarthy..? have you ever read or investigate anything about him..? I think your opinion come from hearsay and rumors.
Read, my man....Read..! buy a book, spend your money in books...not in grass.!
KAIROA 1 year ago
@KAIROA For your information, I am no longer young, and I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I've smoked dope. If you had an argument you'd have made it, instead of resorting to crude abuse and unfounded suppositions about my personal life. If you have the evidence to support what you say, bring it on. If you don't, go to bed.
lexo30 1 year ago
@lexo30
Sorry, I went over my head. Is not my intention to abuse people. Sometimes when I read something like that, I think people don't understand what patriotism is.
KAIROA 5 months ago
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@KAIROA And I suggest you spend your money on some English lessons, because its obvious that you don't know how to write.
cfwpiano 1 year ago
@KAIROA Since when were books and grass mutually exclusive.
ultramegachicken68 5 months ago
@lexo30 Disgusting. I guess our work isn't done. God rest you, Mr. Welch, I'll try to do the best I can with what I've got. God knows I don't have your abilities or resources, but what I've got I'll bring to the fight.
ultramegachicken68 5 months ago
@lexo30 I meant, in case it wasn't clear, that the notion that Joe Welch was a Soviet sympathizer is disgusting. A disgusting attack along the lines of McCarthy himself, just done to the dead this time.
ultramegachicken68 5 months ago
@ultramegachicken68 Understood. I consider myself left-wing, but am very tired of the ignorant assumption on the part of many right-wingers that anybody left of themselves is a Soviet sympathiser. I don't think that Joe Welch was even left-wing. It was McCarthy who was the extremist: Welch was in the historical mainstream of the American political tradition (until it shifted drastically to the right in the 70s and 80s) and he just got exasperated with McCarthy fouling the nest.
lexo30 5 months ago
@lexo30 Couldn't agree with you more. As another example, consider one of my favorite authors, Rex Stout, who wrote against fascism during the war, against communism after, and then against McCarthyism once the McCarthy squad came after him for having been on the board of a magazine which later went Communist. Stout had no problem seeing the flaws in fascism, communism, and McCarthyism. Lots of Americans didn't, and don't. The heart of Americanism rejects all those views, IMO.
ultramegachicken68 5 months ago
@KingDingaLing090 But, just to prove that you're an idiot, McCarthy accused Owen Lattimore of being a Soviet agent - oh no, correction, of being ' the top Russian espionage agent in the United States' - and there was not a shred of evidence to support this accusation. Lattimore was not a Soviet agent. If McCarthy knew Lattimore wasn't a spy, then McCarthy was a liar; if he didn't know Lattimore wasn't a spy, he was a reckless and destructive idiot.
lexo30 1 year ago
@lexo30 You removed your comment "Definatively is not a real word"?
Awe, dont be a weak coward. It is definativly.
The hearings documented Lattimore's sympathetic statements about Stalin (mass murderer) and the Soviet Union, He surrounded himself with communist spies, friends, employees etc. The Senate Committee unanimously agreed he was a "conscious articulate instrument of the Soviet conspiracy."
McCarthy named him a spy only after a former communist named him a spy.
Shall I continue????
KingDingaLing090 1 year ago
@KingDingaLing090 I removed 'Definatively is not a real word' because taking pot shots at your crappy spelling is not good argument technique. Being sympathetic towards the Soviet Union did not make Lattimore 'the top Russian espionage agent in the United States'. Go to bed, you child.
lexo30 1 year ago
@KingDingaLing090 I realise that you have some difficulty with rational thought so let's recap: I am arguing that just because McCarthy called Lattimore a spy, doesn't mean he was a spy, especially when nobody else found any evidence that he was a spy. You are arguing that because Lattimore expressed some sympathy with the Soviet Union, and McCarthy called him a spy, therefore he was a spy. The burden of proof is on you. But seriously, go to bed, because it's way past your bedtime.
lexo30 1 year ago
@KingDingaLing090 And, in fact, nothing I have read about Lattimore convinces me that he was a Soviet sympathiser. You are hypnotised by the 'hearings' and the 'Senate Committee' but the Committee was headed by Pat McCarran, who was a McCarthyist stooge. So your whole case is bullshit and I have finished discussing it with you. McCarthy was a menace to America and he died too late, if anything.
lexo30 1 year ago
@lexo30 You are like a child screaming things at me and then running away before I can respond. Liberals always write 3 comments or 4 or 5 for every ONE comment that I write. McCarthy never called Lattimore a spy in public.. Drew Pearson, the anti-McCarthy zealot leaked it to the public. By the time McCarthy named Lattimore a spy 46 people associated with Lattimore's IPR were named under oath as members of the communist party and 8 others as bonafide espianioge agents for the USSR. (continued)
KingDingaLing090 1 year ago
@lexo30 You have not read anything that convinces you Lattimore was a Soviet sympathiser because you are a Soviet sympathiser.
But try this out... after a tour of Stalin's slave-labor camps in 1944 he compared them the gulags to "a combination Hudson's Bay Company and TVA [Tennese Valley Authority]."
After Stalins show trials and executions he dismissed criticisms by saying "A great many abuses have been discovered and rectified."
Sympathy for executions without due process and slavery
KingDingaLing090 1 year ago
@KingDingaLing090 So wait, you scold him for posting more than one comment and then do it yourself? Makes sense to me.
Butzopower 1 year ago
@Buttpower -I makes sense when you are answering multiple comments. If one's opponent during a debate take 15 minutes instead of the allowed 5 minutes are you supposed to respond in 5 minutes or longer? I responed to 2 comments in response to his 3 comments.
Dont try to think Buttpower. Youre not any good at it.
KingDingaLing090 1 year ago
@KingDingaLing090 Buttpower; I think i'll make that my new name. You appear to be very agitated, so i'll leave it at that.
Butzopower 1 year ago
@campusliberty1 He was a drunk and only did this to stay in the senate seat in wisconsin
williamsjenson 1 year ago
OMG...I swear hearing the way McCarthy talk aged me 10 years
98wongjf 1 year ago
Glenn Beck is carrying on this brainless reds und the bed paranoia today.
The lessons of history have no place on crying-boy`s chalkboard.
PhilipPorter 1 year ago
i'd love to see evidence of how beck is anything at all like mccarthy. or you can continue with your baseless ad hominem, i'm sure it's all you're capable.
YuutubeLosesAgainlol 1 year ago
@YuutubeLosesAgainlol Why do I have to "prove" anything to you? I am stating an opinion. If you need proof, then watch his show. I don`t seriously think however that anything I say, or anything Beck does or says will change your opinion of him. Don`t pretend you want any sort of discussion, your mind is already set as is mine, so at least just admit to that.
PhilipPorter 1 year ago
you don't know my opinion of beck. you just know that i think you're a moron, and you haven't been able to prove that you aren't, either.
YuutubeLosesAgainlol 1 year ago
@YuutubeLosesAgainlol Fuck off and stop wasting people`s time.
PhilipPorter 1 year ago
if you can't argue your point of view, just say so. you look like less of a jackass in the end.
YuutubeLosesAgainlol 1 year ago
Antecedently politic!
spinozaic 1 year ago
Of course this is a famous exchange, but both of these guys sure were long-winded...
bailinnumberguy 1 year ago
mccarthy's daughter voted for obama, he must be rolling in his grave
iown813 1 year ago 38
@iown813 This simply isn't true about Senator McCarthy's daughter voting for Obama. Please support your statement with facts.
campusliberty1 1 year ago
@campusliberty1 her name is Tierney Grinavic, you can google her, apparently she's nuts about animal rights
iown813 1 year ago
@iown813 Simply not true. Since the Senator's death both his widow and daughter have remained private citizens and have not spoken to the media.
campusliberty1 1 year ago
@campusliberty1 His widow has remained silent, considering she died in the 1970's. and his daughter Tierney does a lot of internet posting as a private citizen.
iown813 1 year ago
@iown813 I would be as well
zzzzzzzzzz202 1 year ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
It wasn't baseless: Mr. Fisher had been removed from the legal team by Mr. Welch himself and this was reported in the NY Times. McCarthy is not a bully; he was the victim of CYA by both the Dems and Repubs. A true patriot who dared to expose how the US Government is fat and lazy and never stands for liberty and justice for all.
GaryPansey 1 year ago
McCarthy was a drunk disgrace to this country. He ruined peoples lives based on accusations and heresy; it was NOT an example of "liberty and justice" in any sense of the word. I wish someone before Welch had the balls to tell McCarthy off to his face like he deserved.
cfwpiano 1 year ago 15
Are you trying to make a rational, fact-based argument, or just insulting dead people? Happy Chinese New Year! Falun Gong is Good!
GaryPansey 1 year ago
Hm, little bit of both. You got some personal connection to this jackass or something?
cfwpiano 1 year ago
Coincidentally, my wife's maiden name was McCarthy, and her dad, an Irish cop in Boston, used to tell the family about Senator McCarthy.
I think the McCarthys trace their clan back to Tara in Ireland....
But other than that, no...
GaryPansey 1 year ago
cfwpiano, you're absolutly right, but you said "hersey" not "heresay", as I'm sure you meant.
ARP7777777 1 year ago
@cfwpiano
Mr. McCarthy was an American Patriot, he exposed the rats. Try to read and investigate, before you make an estupid opinion, without the propper knowledge.
Buy the book: TREASON by Ann Coulter, and you will find out things, that you never knew it might happen in the land of the free.
Just look around 56 years later, and ask yourself...why we are splashing on mud ?
KAIROA 1 year ago
@KAIROA I stopped reading after you mentioned Ann Coulter. She loved McCarthy and you obviously do too.
I would not come to the opinion that I hold without reading extensively about McCarthy or the whole era in general. He was a fraud, a hate monger, and a vicious power hungry politician that used his power to espouse a certain viewpoint and scare anyone who dared disagree. That is NOT what America is about. His actions suppressed free speech and hurt thousands of Americans.
cfwpiano 1 year ago
@KAIROA I admit to little knowledge of McCarthy. So in all truth I mean no harm when I ask you this. What about those he is said to have accused that were truly NOT communists? What about his response to Murrow? I only know what I've been told so far so I would like to hear your opinion of those.
mugglewahfuls 1 year ago
@cfwpiano He was a bully and a coward,he only picked on lone people and people too weak to oppose him,they said the same things welch said,but they were too small to make a difference,Mccarthy was way overconfident and thought he could take on the big dogs,he was entirely wrong,resulting in his utter destruction.
chaosrex1487 1 year ago
@cfwpiano What kills me is that people love this guy! They believe it all.
cochranexyz 1 year ago
@cfwpiano, yeah, what a disgrace he was! He held up the communist takeover for nearly 10 years! You are a piece of shit television drone, not capable of independent, cognitive thought.
FreiCleveland 1 year ago
@FreiCleveland Please name for me ONE communist that McCarthy stopped that, had he/she not been exposed, would've done damage to this country. Prove to me that he "held up the communist takeover". Sounds like you're the brainwashed one.
cfwpiano 1 year ago
@cfwpiano, uh...hmmm. You aren't too bright are ya? Incase you didn't notice the mid-1960's was a time of revolution not only in this nation, but the entire world. About 80% of the objectives from the communist revolution from that time have been reached and are/or have been implemented in ALL facets of society throughout the Western world.
FreiCleveland 1 year ago
@FreiCleveland I see you can't name one. I prove my point.
cfwpiano 1 year ago
@cfwpiano, McCarthy didn't stop any indivisual communist per se, but he opened a tiny window into what was operating behind the scenes.
You want me to name one communist kremlin approved US government official..EARL WARREN
FreiCleveland 1 year ago
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@FreiCleveland WHAT was going on behind the scenes???
McCarthy FALSELY accused people of being communists without ANY proof whatsoever. You can't seem to get that through your thick skull.
cfwpiano 1 year ago
you are blind and very thick if you hold such an opinion...have YOU no sense of decency?
ThreeWordsFirstWord 1 year ago
To put this exchange in context, just before this clip took place, Welch's cross examination was taking apart McCarthy's croney Roy Cohn. Attempting to "save" Cohn, McCarthy baselessly attacks an associate of Welch's firm, Fred Fisher, with a bogus charge. Welch then unmasks McCarthy.
Gladaseeya 2 years ago
DAM; JOE WAS RIGHT!!!
81Deadpool 2 years ago
That disgusting degenerate just pulled shit from his ass. Why didn't more people question him?
taxmonkey123 2 years ago
because if you questioned him, you were labeled un-American.
Raford146 2 years ago
Communist hating douche bag.
Workers of the world unite!!!!!!!!!
Styx8183 2 years ago
Lol McCarthy thought he was slick with his accusations and just got verbally destroyed. This is the greatest verbal destruction in American history. I guess on every level there are bullies that use their influence to bully others, and it takes someone who refuses to take their crap to come along and completely shut them down
hitmanhart670 2 years ago
@hitmanhart670 I'm not sure it was about bullying. I think Joe was just trying to gather power for himself, and this did it.
Tobaman111 2 years ago
Just watching these hearings makes me think of the Salem Witch Trails. Funny world!
Moisesxrawr 2 years ago
Joseph McCarthy sounds so damn drunk.
crasmane1 2 years ago
He was a drunk...a pretty bad one too.
rasputin1952 2 years ago
@crasmane1 So does Welch
Tobaman111 2 years ago
What's really funny is, that at this time, there really was a Communist mole in the U.S. government. This individual remained active until the 1970s. All that hysteria-- it was over a real threat. But it did nothing to stop that threat or expose the mole. I'm sure the Soviets were enormously entertained to see us chasing our tails for years. We were truly outfoxed.
crasmane1 2 years ago
Wow, one mole huh? Well, I'm sure one soviet spy could take down the entire US government. . . .
LMAO
Raford146 2 years ago
That was never the intention. For the Soviets, the key things was just having information. They were and are a very paranoid people . . . kind of like us. We were running agents too.
crasmane1 1 year ago
Can we just safely say that McCarthy was paranoid and batshit insane, regardless of his political party?
RideTheCatfish 2 years ago
What a scumbag, figures he would be a repiglican. You know the ironic thing about all this is how close the current republican party represents the end results of communism. The rich get everything, everyone else feasts on scraps. The top 1% of this country have more wealth than everyone else combined something is exceedingly wrong with that.
macrocosm144 2 years ago
Lots of Army officers had/have Communist sympathies. All one has to do is look at the people that prosecuted Adam Kokesh. There is indisputable evidence that military officers have taken bribes from Communist organizations to aid them tactically. The war in Vietnam was largely promoted by officers, who simply took bribes from Communist authorities to let them kill American soldiers.
Joe McCarthy was the most accurate politician of that time.
numberonesurvivor75 2 years ago
Your remark on the current republican party is generally accurate though.
numberonesurvivor75 2 years ago
I guess a good way to think about is if the Republican Party, the ostensibly very anti-Communist party, represents the end results of communism, Communism must infiltrate very effectively.
numberonesurvivor75 2 years ago
Macro-
Scrapes? you want someone to give you a steak? Bill gates started Microsoft in his garage. H.Wayne started waste management with 2 trucks. Walton 1 store.
Nobody owes you anything.
Why don't you get off your azz and go create or build something ?
You can wait until the stars fall from the sky, or get off the couch and go build something. Go to work !
Csensewatchdog3 2 years ago
WTF are you talking about?
macrocosm144 2 years ago