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		<title>By: Hank Rearden</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/harvey-klehr/setting-the-record-on-joe-mccarthy-straight/comment-page-1/#comment-5409639</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hank Rearden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2014 15:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote you a reply which didn&#039;t seem to get uploaded.  
Haynes is talking around the subject.  He is talking about people &quot;identified on lists&quot; USED BY McCarthy rather than talking about people identified by McCarthy.  McCarthy avoided naming people in public unless he was required to do so by Senate procedure.  His record on the people he DID identify is excellent - Solomon Adler, Adler&#039;s roommate in Chungking John Stewart Service, Lauchlin Currie, Harry Dexter White, Gregory Slivermaster.  And that is just a few.  McCarthy was rooting out people who were influencing or making policy.  Espionage was a factor, but not the main factor in his investigations.


It is simply a fact that McCarthy&#039;s record is excellent.  And Haynes does no refute that.  There were several lists in Washington at that time from various officials and investigations.  Haynes&#039; point is a nothingburger.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wrote you a reply which didn&#8217;t seem to get uploaded.<br />
Haynes is talking around the subject.  He is talking about people &#8220;identified on lists&#8221; USED BY McCarthy rather than talking about people identified by McCarthy.  McCarthy avoided naming people in public unless he was required to do so by Senate procedure.  His record on the people he DID identify is excellent &#8211; Solomon Adler, Adler&#8217;s roommate in Chungking John Stewart Service, Lauchlin Currie, Harry Dexter White, Gregory Slivermaster.  And that is just a few.  McCarthy was rooting out people who were influencing or making policy.  Espionage was a factor, but not the main factor in his investigations.</p>
<p>It is simply a fact that McCarthy&#8217;s record is excellent.  And Haynes does no refute that.  There were several lists in Washington at that time from various officials and investigations.  Haynes&#8217; point is a nothingburger.</p>
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		<title>By: Rick Stevens</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Stevens]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2014 14:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;After reviewing evidence from Venona and other sources, historian John Earl Haynes concluded that, of 159 people identified on lists used or referenced by McCarthy, evidence was substantial that nine had aided Soviet espionage efforts.&quot;

Nine people, names delivered to him by the FBI (so already known) at the expense of ruining the lives of 150 people. 

There are books on this history.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;After reviewing evidence from Venona and other sources, historian John Earl Haynes concluded that, of 159 people identified on lists used or referenced by McCarthy, evidence was substantial that nine had aided Soviet espionage efforts.&#8221;</p>
<p>Nine people, names delivered to him by the FBI (so already known) at the expense of ruining the lives of 150 people. </p>
<p>There are books on this history.</p>
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		<title>By: Jean Fraser McCarthy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jean Fraser McCarthy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2014 07:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[His purpose was not individual Communists, but the bigger picture. Was there Communist spies in the State Department and did the government do anything? Also, who were some innocents who McCarthy formally falsely accused of espionage? C&#039;mon, Harvey, stop worrying about P.C whiny liberals and be honest with yourself.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>His purpose was not individual Communists, but the bigger picture. Was there Communist spies in the State Department and did the government do anything? Also, who were some innocents who McCarthy formally falsely accused of espionage? C&#8217;mon, Harvey, stop worrying about P.C whiny liberals and be honest with yourself.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark LaRochelle</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark LaRochelle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2014 18:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miller was a communist. Even the Nazi-Soviet pact didn&#039;t deter him. Miller admitted that in 1939 or &#039;40 he “signed some form or other” -- although he just couldn&#039;t recall, he testified, whether it was an application to join the Communist Party. It was. His application number was 23345.

Apparently unaware that Miller had already applied for membership, “Sue Warren” (Mildred Heiligman, alias Susan Frank), secretary to “millionaire Communist” Frederick Vanderbilt Field, also proposed him for membership in 1943.

As a “cultural worker,” Miller was assigned to the CPUSA “cultural section,” a covert unit whose members were ordered to keep their party affiliation secret, even from other Communists. Under the pseudonym “Matt Wayne,” Miller served as drama editor of the communist periodical &#039;&#039;New Masses&#039;&#039; in 1945-46.

Miller exploited his pose as an “independent” to defend Soviet spies (from veteran Comintern agent Gerhard Eisler to GRU agent Alger Hiss) and to attack anyone who investigated them – from Martin Dies to Joseph McCarthy.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Miller was a communist. Even the Nazi-Soviet pact didn&#8217;t deter him. Miller admitted that in 1939 or &#8217;40 he “signed some form or other” &#8212; although he just couldn&#8217;t recall, he testified, whether it was an application to join the Communist Party. It was. His application number was 23345.</p>
<p>Apparently unaware that Miller had already applied for membership, “Sue Warren” (Mildred Heiligman, alias Susan Frank), secretary to “millionaire Communist” Frederick Vanderbilt Field, also proposed him for membership in 1943.</p>
<p>As a “cultural worker,” Miller was assigned to the CPUSA “cultural section,” a covert unit whose members were ordered to keep their party affiliation secret, even from other Communists. Under the pseudonym “Matt Wayne,” Miller served as drama editor of the communist periodical &#8221;New Masses&#8221; in 1945-46.</p>
<p>Miller exploited his pose as an “independent” to defend Soviet spies (from veteran Comintern agent Gerhard Eisler to GRU agent Alger Hiss) and to attack anyone who investigated them – from Martin Dies to Joseph McCarthy.</p>
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		<title>By: ernie1241</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2014 19:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A free society cannot survive or thrive if we adopt the standards employed by McCarthy. 

As former FBI Special Agent Robert Lamphere who worked as a Supervisor in the Espionage Section of the Bureau&#039;s Security Division observed in one interview:

“The problem was that McCarthy lied about his information and figures. He made charges against people that weren’t true. McCarthyism harmed the counterintelligence effort against the Soviet threat because of the revulsion it caused.” [The Real Joe McCarthy, Wall Street Journal, 4/22/08, pA25]]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A free society cannot survive or thrive if we adopt the standards employed by McCarthy. </p>
<p>As former FBI Special Agent Robert Lamphere who worked as a Supervisor in the Espionage Section of the Bureau&#8217;s Security Division observed in one interview:</p>
<p>“The problem was that McCarthy lied about his information and figures. He made charges against people that weren’t true. McCarthyism harmed the counterintelligence effort against the Soviet threat because of the revulsion it caused.” [The Real Joe McCarthy, Wall Street Journal, 4/22/08, pA25]</p>
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		<title>By: Hank Rearden</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hank Rearden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2013 16:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good question on Murrow.  I think he was more a keeper of the conventional wisdom than anything else.  He was friends with Laurence Duggan who committed suicide in 1948, i.e., PRE-McCarthy.  But Duggan was under investigation for being a spy.  Very likely, Murrow thought that charge to be preposterous and saw McCarthy as continuing in the same vein - I am guessing here.  The Venona transcripts released in the 1990&#039;s showed that Duggan WAS a spy.


It&#039;s a little hard from our perspective to understand WHY McCarthy&#039;s enemies, which included almost everybody in power, thought that it was IMPOSSIBLE that he could be right about communists in the government when the world had just gone through 20 years of idolizing communism since the Great Depression was taken by many to be the end of capitalism.  It probably relates to the fact that it was the DEMOCRATS that were being charged with being in bed with communists and we can&#039;t have THAT.  I.e., the Dems put party before country and not only got away with it, they were PRAISED for it.  


If you are interested in the subject, &quot;Blacklisted by History&quot; is the go-to book on McCarthy.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good question on Murrow.  I think he was more a keeper of the conventional wisdom than anything else.  He was friends with Laurence Duggan who committed suicide in 1948, i.e., PRE-McCarthy.  But Duggan was under investigation for being a spy.  Very likely, Murrow thought that charge to be preposterous and saw McCarthy as continuing in the same vein &#8211; I am guessing here.  The Venona transcripts released in the 1990&#8242;s showed that Duggan WAS a spy.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a little hard from our perspective to understand WHY McCarthy&#8217;s enemies, which included almost everybody in power, thought that it was IMPOSSIBLE that he could be right about communists in the government when the world had just gone through 20 years of idolizing communism since the Great Depression was taken by many to be the end of capitalism.  It probably relates to the fact that it was the DEMOCRATS that were being charged with being in bed with communists and we can&#8217;t have THAT.  I.e., the Dems put party before country and not only got away with it, they were PRAISED for it.  </p>
<p>If you are interested in the subject, &#8220;Blacklisted by History&#8221; is the go-to book on McCarthy.</p>
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		<title>By: Newspaniard</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Newspaniard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2013 13:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I watched with great interest the film, &quot;Good Night &amp; Good Luck&quot; in which Murrow destroyed McCarthy and thought it a great piece and was convinced by it that McCarthy had a screw loose.   Recently, I have been reading &quot;American Betrayal&quot; by Diana West which tells a completely different, and more credible story about the Senator.   Which raises the question for me, was Murrow a communist sympathiser or did he work for a heavily infiltrated organization?   Reading the book brought me to this point which is turning out to be quite fascinating, especially the poor way Mrs West was treated by the FPM.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I watched with great interest the film, &#8220;Good Night &amp; Good Luck&#8221; in which Murrow destroyed McCarthy and thought it a great piece and was convinced by it that McCarthy had a screw loose.   Recently, I have been reading &#8220;American Betrayal&#8221; by Diana West which tells a completely different, and more credible story about the Senator.   Which raises the question for me, was Murrow a communist sympathiser or did he work for a heavily infiltrated organization?   Reading the book brought me to this point which is turning out to be quite fascinating, especially the poor way Mrs West was treated by the FPM.</p>
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		<title>By: FrontPgSubscr</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2013 02:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the same note, the author&#039;s comment at the end of this article 
where he analogizes the &quot;Lost Cause myth&quot; of the south (his &#039;take&#039;) 
to the general domestic approach to &#039;American communism in the 
50s&#039;, these two analogs coming through seemingly disparate agencies,
clarifies like a laser beam!! The former formulated from &#039;the right&#039; while
the latter formulated from &#039;the left&#039; (leftists). Underneath, there seems 
to be, if &#039;hazy&#039;, a common thread.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On the same note, the author&#8217;s comment at the end of this article<br />
where he analogizes the &#8220;Lost Cause myth&#8221; of the south (his &#8216;take&#8217;)<br />
to the general domestic approach to &#8216;American communism in the<br />
50s&#8217;, these two analogs coming through seemingly disparate agencies,<br />
clarifies like a laser beam!! The former formulated from &#8216;the right&#8217; while<br />
the latter formulated from &#8216;the left&#8217; (leftists). Underneath, there seems<br />
to be, if &#8216;hazy&#8217;, a common thread.</p>
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		<title>By: Hank Rearden</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hank Rearden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2013 22:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK.  But here&#039;s a problem.  McCarthy didn&#039;t name any names in his first speeches on communists in the government.  He called for an investigation and said that it would not be proper to name any names in public until they had a chance to defend themselves.  He would give names in a closed committee hearing, but not in public.  The Dems pressed him for names in public hoping to embarrass him.  And he did finally mention a few at the beginning of the Tydings&#039; Hearings.  So that story does not ring true to me.  I get it that the source - Stewart Alsop - is good, but it does not fit with McCarthy&#039;s timeline.


McCarthy was approaching the problem from a security point of view - was such and such a security risk?  I cannot imagine McCarthy giving a response like &quot;sit down, old man&quot; unless that particular senator had sorely pressed and insulted McCarthy prior to that.  It does not ring at all true.


And, you still haven&#039;t given a name.


You have to remember that the MSM was totally - totally - in the tank for the progressives/liberals/Democrats.  You will find that CBS will not show the Murrow piece on McCarthy now as it has lost all credibility.  It was a hit piece.


And ask yourself this.  The Great Depression was thought at the time to mark the failure and thus the end of capitalism.  The Great Depression resulted in a lot of suffering for a lot of people.  There were a lot of people, particularly in the Academy and the helping professions, who thought that communism was the wave of the future.  Remember this is before it got out that Stalin was slaughtering the kulaks.  Roosevelt drew New Dealers from the Left - from the Academy, from social workers (Harry Hopkins), from leftists in general.  And then in World War II we became allies with the Soviet Union.


Given that background, is it so incredible, so unthinkable, so outrageous to think that some communists ended up in the bureaucracy after 20 continuous years of leftist rule?  


McCarthy was making the claim that there were such communists.  The Dems, the MSM, the Academy all said PREPOSTEROUS, IMPOSSIBLE, only a charlatan would think such a thing.  


Who was likely to be right, leave aside all the nasty characterizations of McCarthy?  Just deal with the situation.  Was it simply beyond the realm of possibility that there were communists in the government?  THAT after all, is what McCarthy&#039;s critics are saying.  Yes they pile on that McCarthy was a bully, but they are saying he WAS a bully because what he was saying couldn&#039;t possibly be true.


That just doesn&#039;t hold up.  


You are misinformed about Joseph Welch.  He had NO reason to say &quot;have you no shame?&quot;  You can find that hearing on YouTube.  For two hours - TWO HOURS - Welch had been hectoring Roy Cohn in his mock-pleading voice, &quot;Please, Mr. Cohn, when you find a communist in government will you promise me, as I put in my small word, that you will run, RUN, Mr. Cohn, to the authorities and tell them &quot;there is a communist in the government.&quot;  Will you promise to do that BEFORE SUNDOWN on that day?&quot;


This line of browbeating over and over again.  Cohn was the soul of politeness.  The point of that line of &quot;questioning&quot; by Welch was to suggest without saying so that there WERE no communists in government and that Cohn and therefore McCarthy were frauds.


So, AFTER that badgering had gone on for two hours, McCarthy finally said, &quot;Well, Mr. Welch, if it is that important to you to be notified immediately about communists, you have one in your own firm.&quot;  A totally justified riposte by McCarthy.  And you will note that in all that tearful headshaking by Welch after McCarthy says that, all Welch actually says is that he will not discuss it, not that McCarthy is wrong.


And, if you watch that hearing to the end, you will see McCarthy say to no one in particular &quot;if I have said anything that is not true, I would like to know about it.&quot;


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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK.  But here&#8217;s a problem.  McCarthy didn&#8217;t name any names in his first speeches on communists in the government.  He called for an investigation and said that it would not be proper to name any names in public until they had a chance to defend themselves.  He would give names in a closed committee hearing, but not in public.  The Dems pressed him for names in public hoping to embarrass him.  And he did finally mention a few at the beginning of the Tydings&#8217; Hearings.  So that story does not ring true to me.  I get it that the source &#8211; Stewart Alsop &#8211; is good, but it does not fit with McCarthy&#8217;s timeline.</p>
<p>McCarthy was approaching the problem from a security point of view &#8211; was such and such a security risk?  I cannot imagine McCarthy giving a response like &#8220;sit down, old man&#8221; unless that particular senator had sorely pressed and insulted McCarthy prior to that.  It does not ring at all true.</p>
<p>And, you still haven&#8217;t given a name.</p>
<p>You have to remember that the MSM was totally &#8211; totally &#8211; in the tank for the progressives/liberals/Democrats.  You will find that CBS will not show the Murrow piece on McCarthy now as it has lost all credibility.  It was a hit piece.</p>
<p>And ask yourself this.  The Great Depression was thought at the time to mark the failure and thus the end of capitalism.  The Great Depression resulted in a lot of suffering for a lot of people.  There were a lot of people, particularly in the Academy and the helping professions, who thought that communism was the wave of the future.  Remember this is before it got out that Stalin was slaughtering the kulaks.  Roosevelt drew New Dealers from the Left &#8211; from the Academy, from social workers (Harry Hopkins), from leftists in general.  And then in World War II we became allies with the Soviet Union.</p>
<p>Given that background, is it so incredible, so unthinkable, so outrageous to think that some communists ended up in the bureaucracy after 20 continuous years of leftist rule?  </p>
<p>McCarthy was making the claim that there were such communists.  The Dems, the MSM, the Academy all said PREPOSTEROUS, IMPOSSIBLE, only a charlatan would think such a thing.  </p>
<p>Who was likely to be right, leave aside all the nasty characterizations of McCarthy?  Just deal with the situation.  Was it simply beyond the realm of possibility that there were communists in the government?  THAT after all, is what McCarthy&#8217;s critics are saying.  Yes they pile on that McCarthy was a bully, but they are saying he WAS a bully because what he was saying couldn&#8217;t possibly be true.</p>
<p>That just doesn&#8217;t hold up.  </p>
<p>You are misinformed about Joseph Welch.  He had NO reason to say &#8220;have you no shame?&#8221;  You can find that hearing on YouTube.  For two hours &#8211; TWO HOURS &#8211; Welch had been hectoring Roy Cohn in his mock-pleading voice, &#8220;Please, Mr. Cohn, when you find a communist in government will you promise me, as I put in my small word, that you will run, RUN, Mr. Cohn, to the authorities and tell them &#8220;there is a communist in the government.&#8221;  Will you promise to do that BEFORE SUNDOWN on that day?&#8221;</p>
<p>This line of browbeating over and over again.  Cohn was the soul of politeness.  The point of that line of &#8220;questioning&#8221; by Welch was to suggest without saying so that there WERE no communists in government and that Cohn and therefore McCarthy were frauds.</p>
<p>So, AFTER that badgering had gone on for two hours, McCarthy finally said, &#8220;Well, Mr. Welch, if it is that important to you to be notified immediately about communists, you have one in your own firm.&#8221;  A totally justified riposte by McCarthy.  And you will note that in all that tearful headshaking by Welch after McCarthy says that, all Welch actually says is that he will not discuss it, not that McCarthy is wrong.</p>
<p>And, if you watch that hearing to the end, you will see McCarthy say to no one in particular &#8220;if I have said anything that is not true, I would like to know about it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Indeed.</p>
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		<title>By: nightspore</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2013 19:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#039;s an example, taken from Steward Alsop&#039;s The Center. Alsop was in the visitors&#039; gallery listening to McCarthy&#039;s maiden communists-in-the-govt speech. During the speech he read some names. At one point, an old senator heard a name he knew and who he knew was not a Communist. So he walked up to the lectern and asked McCarthy for the evidence. More or less in Alsop&#039;s words: &quot;McCarthy paused for a moment, gave his nervous giggle, and then said, &quot;Sit down, old man.&quot;&quot; That was Joseph McCarthy, a grandstander and a bully. In addition, the movie Point of Order shows examples of McCarthy and his aides fiddling with data (forged letter, cropped photograph), so Joseph Welch had some reason to ask, &quot;Have you no shame?&quot;


In a &#039;funny&#039; way, people who are hagiographers of McCarthy are the Tweedledees opposing the left-wing Tweedledums who want to pretend there was not Communist menace. The psychology is very similar, and equally depressing.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s an example, taken from Steward Alsop&#8217;s The Center. Alsop was in the visitors&#8217; gallery listening to McCarthy&#8217;s maiden communists-in-the-govt speech. During the speech he read some names. At one point, an old senator heard a name he knew and who he knew was not a Communist. So he walked up to the lectern and asked McCarthy for the evidence. More or less in Alsop&#8217;s words: &#8220;McCarthy paused for a moment, gave his nervous giggle, and then said, &#8220;Sit down, old man.&#8221;&#8221; That was Joseph McCarthy, a grandstander and a bully. In addition, the movie Point of Order shows examples of McCarthy and his aides fiddling with data (forged letter, cropped photograph), so Joseph Welch had some reason to ask, &#8220;Have you no shame?&#8221;</p>
<p>In a &#8216;funny&#8217; way, people who are hagiographers of McCarthy are the Tweedledees opposing the left-wing Tweedledums who want to pretend there was not Communist menace. The psychology is very similar, and equally depressing.</p>
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		<title>By: FrontPgSubscr</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2013 06:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s interesting that Edmund A. Walsh S.J. (founder of Georgetown U. School 
of Foreign Service in 1919) was Joseph McCarthy&#039;s primary mentor before his emergence into (so-called) politics.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s interesting that Edmund A. Walsh S.J. (founder of Georgetown U. School<br />
of Foreign Service in 1919) was Joseph McCarthy&#8217;s primary mentor before his emergence into (so-called) politics.</p>
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		<title>By: Independent Voter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Independent Voter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2013 01:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are suffering from what he warned of. And by the same people who killed John Birch.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We are suffering from what he warned of. And by the same people who killed John Birch.</p>
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		<title>By: TheSunDidIt</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/harvey-klehr/setting-the-record-on-joe-mccarthy-straight/comment-page-1/#comment-5323282</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TheSunDidIt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2013 19:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have to agree.  I&#039;ve never heard of a single case where Joe was wrong about someone.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have to agree.  I&#8217;ve never heard of a single case where Joe was wrong about someone.</p>
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		<title>By: TheSunDidIt</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/harvey-klehr/setting-the-record-on-joe-mccarthy-straight/comment-page-1/#comment-5323277</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TheSunDidIt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2013 19:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slam Joe McCarthy all you want but, he was more right than anyone could imagine including himself.  Obama is the chief communist.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Slam Joe McCarthy all you want but, he was more right than anyone could imagine including himself.  Obama is the chief communist.</p>
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		<title>By: Ammianus</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/harvey-klehr/setting-the-record-on-joe-mccarthy-straight/comment-page-1/#comment-5322393</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ammianus]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2013 15:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You are so right and now their followers in our age tout their supposed victimization as if it bestows on them a badge of honor.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are so right and now their followers in our age tout their supposed victimization as if it bestows on them a badge of honor.</p>
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		<title>By: Hank Rearden</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/harvey-klehr/setting-the-record-on-joe-mccarthy-straight/comment-page-1/#comment-5333587</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hank Rearden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, that doesn&#039;t happen in this country. 


Europe, and particularly Germany, have a problem.  The Nazis came to power through legal means.  Since Germany doesn&#039;t want to repeat that experience, it has to put some limits on free speech, at least as they see it.  I think that Holocaust denial is not so related to the Jews as to the breakdown of law in the Nazi state.  A lot of non-Jews were also killed in the camps.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, that doesn&#8217;t happen in this country. </p>
<p>Europe, and particularly Germany, have a problem.  The Nazis came to power through legal means.  Since Germany doesn&#8217;t want to repeat that experience, it has to put some limits on free speech, at least as they see it.  I think that Holocaust denial is not so related to the Jews as to the breakdown of law in the Nazi state.  A lot of non-Jews were also killed in the camps.</p>
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		<title>By: Spencer Warren</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/harvey-klehr/setting-the-record-on-joe-mccarthy-straight/comment-page-1/#comment-5322357</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Spencer Warren]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many years the host of Turner Classic movies, Robert Osborne, has peddled the Communist/liberal lies in his film introductions. Turner has played about half a dozen series glorifying justifiably blacklisted Communist writers like Dalton Trumbo and one-sidedly condemning the &quot;witch hunt.&quot; Osborne is so dishonest it is reasonable to conclude he is a Communist.
This is a superb essay, reasoned, factual, fair-minded]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For many years the host of Turner Classic movies, Robert Osborne, has peddled the Communist/liberal lies in his film introductions. Turner has played about half a dozen series glorifying justifiably blacklisted Communist writers like Dalton Trumbo and one-sidedly condemning the &#8220;witch hunt.&#8221; Osborne is so dishonest it is reasonable to conclude he is a Communist.<br />
This is a superb essay, reasoned, factual, fair-minded</p>
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		<title>By: Tanks-a-lot</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/harvey-klehr/setting-the-record-on-joe-mccarthy-straight/comment-page-1/#comment-5322318</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tanks-a-lot]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2013 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[no
these issues are rooted in the Jewish marxist&#039;s visions of ruining all good things.


Did you not even get the irony of telling someone to shut up rather than address the fundamental injustice of jailing people that are not sufficiently reverent of Jews?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>no<br />
these issues are rooted in the Jewish marxist&#8217;s visions of ruining all good things.</p>
<p>Did you not even get the irony of telling someone to shut up rather than address the fundamental injustice of jailing people that are not sufficiently reverent of Jews?</p>
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		<title>By: Cuppa</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cuppa]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2013 05:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He wasn&#039;t.  He was a drunken grand-stander.  Nothing more.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He wasn&#8217;t.  He was a drunken grand-stander.  Nothing more.</p>
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		<title>By: Hank Rearden</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/harvey-klehr/setting-the-record-on-joe-mccarthy-straight/comment-page-1/#comment-5322180</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hank Rearden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2013 05:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Absolutely, although I think you are too mild in McCarthy&#039;s defense.  As he himself said at the Army/McCarthy hearings on the day of the Joseph Welsh episode &quot;if I have said anything that is not the truth I&#039;d like to know about it.&quot;


Then and now...crickets.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Absolutely, although I think you are too mild in McCarthy&#8217;s defense.  As he himself said at the Army/McCarthy hearings on the day of the Joseph Welsh episode &#8220;if I have said anything that is not the truth I&#8217;d like to know about it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Then and now&#8230;crickets.</p>
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