28 Replies to ““How, pray tell, does a Senator conduct a House committee…?””

  1. On some sites, having your comments banned is the sincerest form of flattery. I still fondly remember being the first person even banned from “My Blahg” by Robert McClelland.
    Good times… 🙂

  2. Horse pucky!
    The committee did valuable work. With the help of Whittaker Chambers, they were able to expose Alger Hiss as a Commie spy. (Pumpkin Papers.)
    It’s interesting to note that one of the committee members who supported it was none other than on of the left’s heroes of the time, then Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
    The only thing that put the committee into disrepute was McCarthy’s obsession and paranoia.

  4. You accept the comment of course. It then simply begs for rebuttal. Either you believe in free speech or you don’t. The post was neither personal nor insulting. Those are the only things which should be banned, aside from outright criminality.

  5. Yeah……the Verona Files showed there were indeed “Reds under our beds”…….
    Yer not paranoid if’n they really are out ta get ya……….

  6. Clearly ‘Theo’ is used to getting away with writing ‘revisionist’ history, and preaching to an uneducated choir.
    Kathie just burst ‘Theo’s’ bubble.
    Never heard of that site…love it when Kathie finds these people and rattles them.

  8. It seems to be only lefties moderate or close down comments that disagree with their version of history. Could it be they fear facts, data and logic?

  11. for theo not only is math hard, so is history
    there were ,several items that verified that McCarthy was rite, even before the collapse of the USSR and the release of those damning documents form the KGB and the ministry of the interior

  12. McCarthy WAS right about there being communists in government agencies, BUT he created an atmosphere of fear and paranoia far beyond the usefulness of his HUAC,of which,btw, Bobby Kennedy was one of his assistants.
    Sir William Stephenson and a few of the intelligence stalwarts including JE Hoover, left over from WW2 were trying desperately to thwart the real Soviet agents who had penetrated almost every U.S. and Canadian government agency, as well as those of Britain and every Western Country in Europe.
    They were quite pissed off at the showboat McCarthy,who made their serious hunt all that more difficult to conduct as his paranoia and public “witch hunt” became ever more distasteful to politicians.This is clearly stated in “Intrepid’s Last Case”, by Bill Stevenson.
    McCarthy outted a bunch of Hollywood dummies,with the exception of Hiss,while the real KGB agents burrowed ever deeper into all the agencies. It’s quite probable the USSR penetrated every important government intelligence agency in the U.S. while the FBI was afraid to dig too deeply lest they be accused of “McCarthyism”.
    Some people believe the Russians managed to put an agent into the top position in the U.S., but of course,that’s paranoid conjecture of the McCarthy-ist type,as the top position is held currently by a man whose patriotism and love of Country is beyond any doubt.

  13. bitterclinger : John Kennedy was a member of House Representatives 1946-52, but did not sit on the HUAC committee. As a Senator,1952-60, he like McCarthy was not elgible to be on a House committee. McCarty never set in the House and of course had nothing to do with the 1948-49 Hollywood investigations. Some of the left know this well but ignore the truth because it makes for a better headline.
    That is the gist of the thread headline above,

  15. Theodoros II November 13, 2013 at 11:41 am – ReplyReport user
    Misstating the facts about the HUAC was an editing error. Theodoros II regrets the error and salutes the alert and intelligent readers who caught it. TIFO readers are kickass great!!!!!!
    Cheers guys.
    SNORT

  17. A lot of sites are now banning comments. Even so called conservative sites like the NRO if they offend Muslims or contradict “received wisdom”.
    Its only been a few months since I’ve noticed this. Even innocuous statements get banned.While trolls are free to post any thing. Which is fine by me being a free speech-er.
    Beginning to wonder how many Conservative sites have been infiltrated by Leftists as moderators.
    These are not Captcha ( half these sites don’t even have it)mistakes or word code violations which are different. This censorship is ideological, social engineering in aspect.
    Even funny remarks, or political humour are now being targeted.
    All I can say is the NSA is working overtime. Along with the collectivists.
    If you don’t believe me just watch.

  18. John Lewis:
    Neither of the Kennedy brothers were involved with the House HUAC. That is the point of the original thread subject.
    Joe McCarthy never set in the House so never was on the HUAC. As A Senator he chaired the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Robert Kennedy was counsel to this Senate committee. Richard Nixon was a member of HUAC, John Kennedy wasn’t.
    At the time of the Hollywood hearings, by HUAC, Joe McCarty was an obscure freshman Senator, unknown except to his Wisconsin constituents,

  19. don morris;
    Loved the last shot!
    Read William Randolf Hurst(?) bio to grasp the extent of communist activity in America back to post WW I. He was fighting them in his press unions.
    By the time Hollywood was finished with McCarthy and that period the average citizen concluded there was no communist threat. Who says propaganda doesn’t work?

  21. That Cold War story is full of factual errors. The Venona transcripts showed that every person McCarthy accused really was a communist: he didn’t accuse enough people. He died suddenly from ‘alcohol-related liver disease’ but he had no history of alcoholism. The penetration of the US (and Canadian) government(s) was profound and pervasive. Oppenheimer was a communist, and one of Roosevelt’ vice presidents was a communist. The White House official who wrote the bizarre ultimatum letter to Japan that led the US into WWII was a KGB agent. Stalin benefited tremendously from the US entry into WWII.
    Communists infested every union and every level of government. Communists stole the atom bomb secrets, then stole the hydrogen bomb secrets. Truman did little to prevent the communist takeover in China (1949). When he had to face them in North Korea he failed. Eisenhower stopped the war by testing nuclear artillery shells right close to the North Korean border. Soviet missile technology mainly came from captured Nazi scientists and the research of Robert Goddard in the US. The Russians have yet to develop a properly functional car on their own.
    Before WWII, New York city was riven by frequent ant-war demonstrations which continued until the day Hitler invaded Russia. Then they stopped. The Cold War started in earnest in 1950, when Truman (reluctantly) signed NSC (National Security Council) document 68. It was top secret for decades, and it was the master plan to defeat global communism. It’s now available online. NSC-68 is key because it has shaped all our lives, and it will continue to do so, because the struggle isn’t over. In the 60’s, in Edmonton, my grade 9 teacher handed out copies of the Communist Manifesto. Almost all the student radical groups in the 60’s were communist-affiliated. One of the few high schools that HUAC investigated was a communist-ridden place near Seattle. Obama’s mother was an enthusiastic student there. Her parents knew very well what they were doing.
    The Cold War has been a very close-run, knock-down drag-out fight to the finish. Small Dead Animals focuses on the same issues of ideological conflict that NSC-68 warned about. The Russians and communist parties have allied themselves with Islamists and Islamist countries and they still strive for world dominance. China collaborates with Russia and maintains all the systems and hierarchies of totalitarianism. Communism has killed more than 100 million people so far, and the war continues.
    P.S. Google these statements and you can find the evidence yourself.

  22. Daven Hiskey November 13, 2013 at 2:57 pm – Reply
    “As a general note to everyone, I’m noticing here a lot of comments instead of just saying “Hey, I noticed a mistake…” and politely pointing it out, are more being extremely confrontational and even in some cases insulting.”
    richfisherman November 13, 2013 at 5:50 pm – Reply
    Your comment is awaiting moderation.
    “Hey I noticed a mistake” used to convince a continuous group of useful idiots responsible for killing a hundred million people since the 1940′s.

  23. AMC is set to run a new replacement for Mad Men that highlights the McCarthy era and how a family moves back to Kentucky to escape the blacklist. It’s supposed to be called “Ashland” which BTW is the homeplace of the singing/acting Judds.
    When you read the synopsis of the drama, you can tell it’s designed to keep the left/Hollywood story of the right wing fanatic McCarthy and his poor, innocent victims alive.

  24. From a blurb for AMC Ashland seies, this sentence:
    “during the time of the Red Scare, when America was insanely fearful of Communist threats, the government created the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and organizations suspected of having Communist ties.”
    The HUAC committee was actually set up in 1938, 12 years and one global war before the period in question. It was initially set up to look at all subversive groups fascist and communist included.
    The black list of motion picture workers alluded to was not set up by the government, they lacked power to enact such legislation. It was enacted by the studio heads themselves, at the time with the studio system they had the power to operate such a list.The studio owners hoped to end further investigations by setting a restrictive workplace.
    Judging by this advanced publicity I would not expect great accuracy, it is a dramatic TV series.

  26. Then, the “right” thought there was a Red under every bed.
    Now, the left thinks there’s a racist under every bed.

  27. OK, one of my comments has been approved but one not.
    The moderator says this was because I called the author an “idiot.” He says he doesn’t allow this language on the site but of course mentions it anyway in scolding me 🙂
    This post also pointed out that the author seems less concerned about the murder of tens of millions of Russians, who are nowhere mentioned, but quite incensed that 10 Hollywood hacks had to stick fake names on mediocre screenplays for a few years.
    The moderator says this comment was reject on the grounds of “civility.”
    Because tact and good manners are more important than corpses _when liberals say they are._
    Congrats to the dozens of more polite folks from SDA who made it through and at least provided a counterpoint to an article that students may very well use for their homework.
    We HAVE to keep pushing back about this stuff, as boring as it gets.

  28. Blacklisted By History
    The Untold Story Of Senator Joe McCarthy
    And his fight against America’s Enemies
    M.Stanton Evans.
    Crown Forum Books 2007.
    Having been in England at the time of the press coverage of Joe McCarthy, all I had was the venomous British tabloid newspapers.
    I found the book most revealing. It was the American military complex at Fort Monmouth that was investigated by McCarthy. Morton Sobell served time and was the absolute martyred darling of the press. Alger Hiss also fell into that category. Sobell finally confessed when over ninety years of age, that he did sell out to the communists.
    I presume the public – those that are interested in McCarthy still relish the fatuous statement “Have you no shame Senator?”
    They still buy the Hollywood obscenities about the poor driven victims of McCarthy. He had little or nothing to do with it. HUAC did.

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