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man this really sounds like what is happening today.
“Our job as Americans and as Republicans is to dislodge the traitors from every place where they’re been sent to do their traitorous work”
Joseph McCarthy
Old Joe McCarthy wasn't wrong in many instances. Just that his being wrong received more attention than when he was absolutely correct. I get the disdain for him,
You guys should do Stevie wonder
Glad we don’t have crazies like this in elected office anymore…
Plot twist: He wasn't wrong.
I'm not sure if anyone thought about it, but now an Ed Murrow episode on Biographics is absolutely necessary.
what happened is McCarthy made a strategic mistake. He went against the military. He lost that fight. In the US even today you don't mess with the military.
There were a few spies in USA around 1940s and 1950s. The Manhattan project was infiltrated helping the USSR to get the nuclear bomb. There were a couple of the "Cambridge Five", Burgess and Maclean, at the British Embassy in Washington DC.
The Venona Project found a few.
Otherwise McCarthyism created a moral panic in which many people accused had their lives unjustly blighted.
I recently remember a powerful elected figure who brought out the worst in others and demonized the military
Seems like most republicans today
Another brilliant video, thank you. Please consider doing one on Gibran Kahlil Gibran, a Lebanese-American writer who turned his pain and loss into sanguine and inspiring poetry. There are biographies about him, of course, but I feel like we're missing a comprehensive yet bite-sized account of his life as Biographics so often delivers. Please keep up the good work.
Wasn't this guy proven right after the fall of the soviet union. Many of the soviet documents that became unclassified were supposed to have verified his claims
So.. jack nicholson…anyone else notice the similarity in his smile and eyes to that of the smilers brigade? Big half moon smile with manic looking eyes?
Gets to showboat around the movie scene like he owns the gaff though he barely acts at all..
Not to mention all the women he gets to hit on.. who're too afraid to say it out loud.. got a temper with the ladies does our jackie boy leaves them with brain injuries when they actually ask for the payment he promises..
And then of course there is the women he discards and never openly admits to rearing children with.. some guy..
My thoughts? He's the grandfather link to the luciferian cult/chain of spirituality
Why is his channel only reporting bad things about Republicans but never the bad things about what the Democrats have done
Is Joe MCCARTHY Kevin MCCARTHY Father? I truly wonder 🤔
Karl Marx was a conspiracy theorist long before McCarthy.
Considering the media is now more than willing to use McCarthyist tactics against people that speak against their message, nothing's really changed.
I would like you do a video on the influential historian, Howard Zinn.
I hope plenty of people desecrated his grave.
Love from a Vaush fan!
This is an over simplification of the entire McCarthy era. He began when Alger Hiss, a high ranking member of the State department was found guilty of being a communist agent within cells of others than routinely turned information to Moscow. The Rosenbergs were a pair of spies that smuggled out atomic and military secrets to their contacts. They were executed by the state even though they were given the option of turning over their contacts in exchange for life imprisonment. They chose to leave their children as orphans rather than betray the USSR. What these two cases, in fact, showed that this type of spying was going on at all levels of government. McCarthy did find a number of spies at low level jobs but that was never mentioned in this piece. Edward R. Morrow challenged McCarthy many times on his popular tv show and couldn't seem to make him look as foolish as you claim. The term McCarthy tactics are used in everyday language but seem not to be used as a description of our president calling MAGA hat wearers as evil, or everything you don't like as racist.
Terrific. I've always felt so compelled to pursue the greatest interests of mankind, to wit. A way to be influential, powerful and protected. Population control and the need for a singular world order and universal government. the inner me is gasping to find out knowledge about the human race and about the things that not everyone is destined to know. I wish to blossom into the enlightenment that our forebears wanted so desperately for us to gain.
I'm happy to see McCarthy's legacy drug out for a new generation to learn about. Today's GOP is a direct descendent of this trash
in the end mccarthy was right
A few suggestions (not sure how many have done)
Tom Lehrer (so controversial banned from US television)
Robby the Robot
Ray Steven's song writer and performer
He was trying to nail jello to a wall……
Hollywood, social justice, crt… he seemed to be correct. His implementation was way off, though.
What you have to remember, he was friendly with Harry Cohn, and had Tricky Dicky as an attorney for the committee.
The Orange Monster has always reminded me of MacCarthy.
McCarthy is being rehabilitated by many conservatives to justify investigating Democrats.
McCarthy was a terrible person in so many ways. There really do need to be minimum educational and intellectual requirements for running for office. People like him are not worthy of serving in any democracy.
Joe McCarthy was right. Watch razorfist.
McCarthy was a bit early. Because it is no longer a conspiracy theory, it's happening now.
False…he was right..we had alot of commies in the government. Go watch Michael malice talk about that era
McCarthy must be Alex Jones' relative. 🤣
But there WERE lots of Communists in the US (and British) governments! McCarthy was outta control, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true
The classic Narcissist? Even if we’re not certain, McCarthy was definitely somewhere on that Dark Triad.
Why Mccarthy so luck so identical to Ted Cruz
As I look at the modern DNC…. McCarthy was right.
Um, this is not well researched at all. McCarthy was right about a lot of his claims and had legitimate evidence. The issue was the way he went about it made him lots of enemies and they all used every bit of their influence and power to bring him down. It didn't matter to them if they had to cover up just about everything (which they did), he was going down. This came from both sides of the political aisle, the media, and anyone else he'd pissed off (which was just about everyone).
Specifically, McCarthy's claims about communist infiltration of the government and major institutions was absolutely right. There is no arguing against that if you've looked into all the declassified releases in the recent past. If you actually look into this issue, and look at the actual intelligence and actual data you'll realize there was a problem and that it was significant. However, his tactics basically assured that everyone would do anything to discredit him. There is no doubt that he lied, manipulated evidence, and was unable to take any criticism. However, he wasn't wrong about his overall point, but was not able to be trusted when it came to details. Also, you're 100% correct about the immoral attacks on people for things that have nothing to do with anything political. He wasn't a nice man, that's true, but that doesn't mean he was wrong about the government and major institutions being compromised. The facts are clear about that. Anyone can look into it, you just have to be willing to dig beneath the propaganda that still attempts to discredit McCarthy's overall point.
Till the fall of Soviet Union where declassified documents showed that most of the stuff he accused them of was 100% true
The funny thing about conspiracy theories is every once in a while one is true. Like this, now we're seeing that the lab leak theory is not a wild conspiracy theory any longer, it's now considered the most likely theory by many people and government agencies.