MLK, Jr.– the serial adulterer and Marxist– is held up as a paragon and a hero. Joe McCarthy– the determined anti-Communist– was portrayed as a villain:
McCarthy Was Right
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McCarthy has been so demonized that I have avoided the study of his history.
Certainly FDR’s administration was full of Communists. And FDR’s behavior in manipulating the US into WWII [the war that made the world safe for Communism], his massive sending of aid to the Soviet Union at painful expense to US taxpayers and our own war effort, his brutal total surrender method of pursuing the war, and his negotiations with Stalin…it is hard to see how they would have been any different were FDR an actual Communist agent.
In fact, the best thing FDR did in WWII was to die before the war finished. If Truman hadn’t come in, there would be no South Korea, as FDR would have just let the Communist have it all.
It is pretty fascinating, J. Sobran, to see how all that blood sacrifice and effort and expense ultimately gave Stalin all of eastern Europe. We were supposedly fighting Hitler to oppose his expansionistic totalitarian ambitions, and then rewarded Stalin to sate his own expansionistic totalitarian ambition. What a farce!
I am writing in response to a column by Joe Killian which appeared on page 9 of GO TRIAD, November 10, 2005, The banner of the page had one word in 3/4 ” fonts like this:
MOVIES
Well silly me I took it to be a review of the George Clooney movie, Good Night and Good Luck about Edward R. Murrow and his battles with Senator Joe McCarthy. Upon reading it..mirabile dictu.. I found a not so subtle Bush bashing screed . Some examples are in order.
” The movie draws jarring and unmistakable parallels between the unprincipled Cold War paranoia of the 1950s and the culture of fear that grips post Sept. 11 America “. Culture of fear ? Surely Killian doesn’t mean fear of the evil Patriot Act. Yeah, I guess he clearly does. Joe, the Patriot Act is your friend.
” Murrow faces the political right as he exposes ( McCarthy) a bullying coward….and calls anyone who opposes him as a traitor… an allegorical punch that’s tough for any but the most dense and blindly partisan person to avoid connecting to the Bush administration ” . Can you say moveon.org ? This drivel belongs in the hate Dubya section of the op-ed pages..
Killian continues his rant reminiscent of those suffering BDS ( Bush Derangement Syndrome) . ” The movie is more than a cherry bomb in the toilet of an already troubled presidency ” Troubled ? Isn’t Killian the student journalist who in the fall of 2004 urged others to mass suicide if Bush won ?
Killian overlooks Clooney’s Hollywood airbrushing of the Annie Lee Moss case. The movie paints her as an innocent victim of the inquisitional monster McCarthy. She denies, under oath, membership in the CPUSA. Only one problem . Moss was a Communist working in the Pentagon code room . And she was a perjurer. All this was neglected by the movie while lionizing the director’s hero, Murrow.
The Verona Transcripts have definitely shown that American Communists such as Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs did gather our secrets for Moscow. Those ” harmed ” by McCarthy fall in the above category.
Anne Coulter wrote a saner review of the movie ( November 16, 2005 ) and said that liberals have had two years since her book Treason ” to produce a person–just one person—falsely accused by McCarthy. They still can’t do it “. Coulter continues ” Meanwhile I can prove that Murrow’s good friend Lawrence Duggan was a Soviet spy responsible for having innocent people murdered. The brilliant and perceptive journalist Murrow was not only unaware of hundreds of Soviet spies running loose in the U.S. government, he was also unaware his own dear friend was a Soviet spy “. Her piece is available at townhall.com.
Simply put the problem I have with Killian’s journalism is that in this instance he ignores undisputed history and instead is projecting. He concludes by meanly imagining Murrow blowing smoke rings into the face of Rupert Murdoch ( You reckon Killian does’t like Fox News ) ” before putting out his lit cigarette in Murdoch’s eye “. Ouch !
Fred H. Gregory
Greensboro
294-4237
Fred, Killian was a very young man then, but I doubt he has changed much.
We have EVERY reason to enforce sedition laws against socialists, Marxists and communists. It’s time to take up this battle. Once again, McCarthy was right.