No Sense Of Decency: A Documentary

My group presented this documentary at the 2007 National History Day district competition. Out of 23 group documentaries, they named two winners and five honorable mentions. Unfortunately this doc was not included in that group.

It is about Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and the effect of televsion on his fall from power.

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[RichardSwayne]

For someone who hated communism, McCarthy acted allot like Stalin.

[cmhmuscle]

God, I can't even believe there is a single person like some of these on here who would defend this evil man to this day and not see the parallel with the evil reign of Cheney and Puppet Boy Bush.

[digital2500]

Very well done and a good companion piece to the documentary I have with Murrow and McCarthy!

[dman1311974]

Senator McCarthy an American hero..thank you Senator for all you have done

[doucher9]

2007? right on! let us never forget one of the most pathetic chapters in american history. anyone know how mccarthy died? he was a raging alcoholic and after he was disgraced as a result of naming powerful people as commies he died in a barroom brawl. he bled to death after having a broken beer bottle stuck in his neck.

[mrearlygold]

Joe was right!

[hamhock99able]

Also, Jesus was a Communist.

[hamhock99able]

Technological advances change the playing field. TV destroyed McCarthy in the end when the public saw his behavior in hearings and turned on him. The internet will destroy the fascist Right Wing in America once again. All they know is fear. They are taught it by their ministers and priests. Their politicians use it. They hate other Americans if they're not afraid. The cult of fear is an absolute scourge in this country.

[jesdar65]

Judging from a lot of these comments I believe the liberal mentality is going to pay a horrible price for their mindless stampede toward the most needless & destructive blood letting the world has ever known. Why do you idiots refuse to acknowledge the millions & millions of innocent people that have been murdered by communist ?

[PrisonerNumber9653]

@jesdar65 Nothing, NOTHING McCarthy said was truth. The people he said were "communists" usually weren't, those who WERE were not "spies of Moscow" but good Americans looking for a better way to establish American justice and equality. There is NOTHING unAmerican about socialism or Marxism, and making it "the ememy" destroyed plenty of innocent lives in this country, and has led to the murder of millions worldwide for no reason. McCarthy or Reagan as the worst American ever is a tossup.

[PrisonerNumber9653]

@DELTAFORCE851 No, McCarthy was a scumbag, who destroyed the lives of good people out of his desire to promote the ideals of hate and greed. There was no "influence" of those trying to 'destroy our country' in the ACLU, NAACP, SCLC, media or academics. Yes, there was socialism, and instead of saying why it was wrong, the despicable LIE that it was "unAmerican" and had to be viewed as 'enemies' was cooked up. NOBODY was "exposed" except McCarthy himself, as a liar and fraud.

[JCHM13]

McCarthy was a drunken buffoon. The figures he trotted out about the number of communists went up and down like a bride's nightdress.