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Edited exchange between legal counsel for the army Mr. Welch and Senator Joe McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) during the height of the Second Red Scare.

This is credited by many as the moment where McCarthy began to lose his power and influence, as the hearings were broadcast on TV and people got to see how McCarthy behaved.

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  • People really should do some research before saying that the Venona project justifies McCarthy. There were about 159 names on McCarthy's various lists. According to Venona only 9 of those were soviet spies. Not a great success rate if you ask me. Plus his prosecution of individuals (Marshall, various liberals in Hollywood, feminists, US military etc) were vastly false. The Venona Project could only identify 349 Americans as Soviet spies and half of those cannot be traced back to real people.

  • epic pwnage

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  • ...and Ann Coulter defends this prick. That should be a clear sign she's got her head entirely up her fat ass!

  • 6:24 emblem of shame.

  • @madmaxonliner Actually he changed the number a lot, it started with 100 names!

  • @Chicksy95 He claimed that he has 205 names.

  • I hate politics

  • It's ridiculous how nobody in the press asked to see his names! Like when he first came out and said that there were originally 100 spies in the State Department!

  • "Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going....strawberry fields forever". Reminds me of economist Alan Grayson, who took down another drunken Irish pig (P. J. O'Rorke) recently over Occupy Wall Street on Bill Maher's program.

  • @Squipplekillzbitches Na, Glen Beck doesn't accuse people of being terrorists ever other second. While his veiws may be controversial and/or unpopular, it's a bit extreme to compare him to idiots like Mccarthy.

    Heck! Mccarthy's veiws were not all that unpopular, so you could say he's the anti Glen!

  • @densaner77 No, you dont understand. Mccarthy was not a lunatic, calling him a lunatic is a smear you see. Critics often say (after McCarthy finished eating babies) that he called them commies and such, I believe he called Marshall "stupid" & was critical of Eisenhower so I concede that McCarthy did attack them so they should be placed under the "victims of McCarthy" category.

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