Comments on: Newest Extreme Right Demand: Bring Back McCarthyism

By: Ruslan Amirkhanov

Ruslan Amirkhanov — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:40:18 +0000

Actually he hasn’t, Jack.

By: Jack S.

Jack S. — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:08:41 +0000

McCarthy has been vindicated by history and the leftist idiots are still using the same arguments.

Sigh…

By: Ruslan Amirkhanov

Ruslan Amirkhanov — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:48:51 +0000

Trotskyists were not prosecuted at Stalin’s behest- on the contrary, from Mexico city Trotsky himself provided the FBI with information on “Stalinist” agents.

That being said, when we speak of security risks- let’s remember that it wasn’t Communists who funded religious fanatics in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, nor were the Communists responsible for America’s financial meltdown.

By: DennisJ

DennisJ — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 06:01:35 +0000

HUAC did actually expose some legitimate security concerns in the late 1940s, but McCarthy and some even loonier types like Senator Jenner derailed it with their excesses. It became a case of the Senators who cried wolf.

I must mention that, while Senator McCarthy was no paragon of civil liberties, A. Mitchell Palmer makes him look like a schoolboy. So, incidentally, does the prosecution of Trotskyists, presumably at Stalin’s behest, during the FDR administration. It didn’t start (or end) with Joe McCarthy.

By: legalhound

legalhound — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:15:01 +0000

Ok now we can all finally see the reason that I absolutely believe that there needs to be an intelligence test to do 2 things. 1 work int he media and 2. run for public office. If someone is as stupid as Beck, Coulter, Palin and that ilk I’m sorry, but we just cannot allow them to have the tools that could change the country-because they’d screw it up!
These crackpots used to be a little humorous, but now they’re just getting dangerous. Where are the men in the white coats? We need them to come take them away – they’ve been off their meds too long and are now a danger to themselves and others.

By: Lex

Lex — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:59:50 +0000

THe soviet union “faking” its collapse makes as much sense as calming that Nazi Germany faked its collapsed, this has got the one of the dumbest and craziest conspiracy theories ive ever heard.

By: JNagarya

JNagarya — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:39:33 +0000

McCarthy was a demogogue who was only in it for the attention and power. He had no principles as concerned truth, let alone “Commie”-ists. When he stood in the Senate, holding up a piece of paper, and said it was a list of “Commie”-ists, the paper was B-L-A-N-K. There was not a single name on it.

Thus it doesn’t surprise that the far-right, the first casualty of which is truth, would glorify that self-serving ball of BS and pseudo-outrage.

Yes — they want McCarthyite witch hunts — which would begin with the insufficiently white, then proceed to the less insufficiently white, until ultimately it would focus upon Jews. Thier excuse for hating Jews includes the fact that Marx was a Jew. It’s ironic that McCarthy was, as are those who glorify him, a thug, whereas Marx was well-intentioned, even if wrong.

And what is Murdoch, and what Roger Ailes, in view of their giving a megaphone platform to these anti-American thugs?

By: Dave P

Dave P — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:58:32 +0000

Correction to my above post I meant to say “were not right wing nut cases” instead of “right wing nutcases”

By: Dave P

Dave P — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:56:55 +0000

The notion that McCarthy’s anti communist paranoia made it harder for actual Soviet/East German agents to operate in America is laughable. The climate of considering every moderate to liberal thinking person as a communist agent in league with a foreign government would allow a foreign agent in deep cover to be more effective since the targets of McCarthyism were Americans who were right wing nut cases and not real foreign agents.

To glorify this fanatic is a sad testament for the political shape of American. The Becks won’t be satisfied until the U.S. is a fascist theocracy.

By: Deb

Deb — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:24:11 +0000

These jokers make me sick. They don’t realize that the rest of the world is laughing their asses off at us because of people like Beck, Limbaugh and the rest. There were some bad communist and socialist governments for sure. But that’s not to say that Communism or Socialism are at their core bad ways to govern. Beck and the rest of the wackos on the right constantly call the President a socialist but the GOP is single handedly turning our country into a facist state. I guess as long as it’s the GOP that is dragging the country down into facism, it’s okay. But the President being a socialist is bad. What a bunch of greasy toe rags.

By: Ruslan Amirkhanov

Ruslan Amirkhanov — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 04:11:08 +0000

Of course I am partial to the KGB and Stasi, but when you accuse people who have nothing to do with Communism of being Communists, it actually makes it harder to sniff out the real agents. Do not forget that McCarthy was the darling of a group of people who believed that Eisenhower was a Communist, that China was “allowed” to go to the Communists(good thing that happened huh?), and that the Korean war was lost on purpose. That kind of conspiracism no doubt distracts attention from real investigations.

Not to mention the fact that beginning in that time, many “leftist” artists, liberals, and academics were actually on the payroll of the CIA anyway.

By: KuffarFalcon

KuffarFalcon — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:45:44 +0000

“McCarthy’s anti-communist crusade divided politicians, captivated the media, and fanned the flames of anti-Soviet zeal in early Cold War America.”

And made it harder for KGB and Stasi agents to conduct their espionage and sabotage work in U.S, I bet.

By: Mitch Beales

Mitch Beales — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:21:00 +0000

One thing the right is right about is that McCarthy was right – extremely far right. The fact that anyone praises him now just shows how much danger we are in from the right. If we listen to these extremists we’ll be burning Muslims at the stake.

By: Difluoroethane

Difluoroethane — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:58:32 +0000

REM had a song called “Exhuming McCarthy”, about this very topic.