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 Joe Conason Reviews Ann Coulter's Treason
In his book "McCarthyism: The Fight for America," for instance, he charged that the Truman aide had "hailed the Communist victory in China as 'a new day which has dawned in Asia.'" Of course, Acheson had neither said nor written anything of the kind.
In her alternate universe, he isn't the slimy traducer Americans have come to know and despise.
Whatever his mission, it was noble and succeeding admirably until 1954, when "liberals immobilized him with their Army-McCarthy hearings and censure investigation."
http://www.yuricareport.com/RevisitedBks/CoulterTreason.html   (2224 words)

  
 McCarthyism
McCarthy took communism as his cause and began to make unsupported accusations towards others.
Not many American citizens stopped to analyze the seriousness of the accusations given against people.
Not only will this web site inform readers about The Hollywood Ten; but it will also provide a brief history lesson of what brought many to fear communism so much.
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~smyth/Webprob.html   (859 words)

  
 McCarthyism
What I'm trying to say is that there is no intelligent basis for coining such a word as "McCarthyism." Unjust persecution is bad regardless of who does it.
What happens in people's minds is that anti-communism becomes associated with something bad--something evil.
So whenever an anti-communist criticizes a person for being pro-communist--bang--before you can say "Rex Murphy," the anti-communist gets smeared as a "McCarthyite." The pro-communist doesn't even have to come up with an argument defending communism--he just yells "McCarthyism" and the argument is over.
http://www.capitalism.org/glennw/letters/mccarthyism.htm   (423 words)

  
 McCarthyism
McCarthy's next target was what he believed were anti-American books in libraries.
However, in a letter to Henry Regnery on 14th January, 1954, he explained why he was having doubts about Joseph McCarthy.
McCarthy made it clear to the witnesses that the only way of showing that they had abandoned their left-wing views was by naming other members of the party.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmccarthyism.htm   (5174 words)

  
 International Socialist Review
McCarthy was an ignorant and irresponsible fanatic, says Powers.
Not only is there no contradiction between an uncompromising, unrelenting protest against McCarthyism and a rejection of the corrupt, self-defeating politics of Stalinism.
McCarthyism wasn't just directed at those in the CPUSA prepared to follow Stalin's wishes to the letter.
http://www.isreview.org/issues/12/mccarthyism.shtml   (6060 words)

  
 McCarthyism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For example, those accused in McCarthy or HUAC hearings had little chance of exonerating themselves once their identities were revealed to the public.
Alfred Kinsey, founder of the Institute for Sex Research, author of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female
Ann Coulter wrote extensively in her book Treason about Senator McCarthy, and offered a defense for many of his activities and those of HUAC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism   (1631 words)

  
 Joseph Raymond McCarthy
McCarthy, Rev. Raymond W.fortified with the Sacraments of the Holy Mother Church
Careers were ruined on the flimsiest evidence, and his methods came under increasing attack by the press and his colleagues.
Challenged to produce his evidence, he refused and instead made new accusations.
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0830834.html   (503 words)

  
 McCarthyism Links @ C-2 Lab
An article from World Book briefly describing the history of HUAC.
An article from World Book briefly describing McCarthyism
A short World Book article about Senator Joseph McCarthy
http://warren.dusd.net/~dstone/Resources/11P/McCarthyism_Links.htm   (129 words)

  
 Rethinking 'McCarthyism'
During the period known today as “the McCarthy era,” it was possible for a group of fanatics to terrorize those that held dissenting opinions regarding the nature of communism.
"McCarthy and his friends had tortured no one more than Lattimore," claims Fried, "whom McCarthy had accused of being the State Department traitor he had in mind when he was throwing his numbers around.
This Queen of Hearts condemnation of McCarthy without the presentation of the full facts of the incident, however, does a disservice to their readers, who are presumably intelligent enough to make up their minds for themselves.
http://www.academia.org/campus_reports/1998/september_1998_5.html   (1794 words)

  
 McCarthyism or "The Red Scare"
Notes, by L. Arthur Minnich, concerning "McCarthyism," June 21, 1955
Notes, by L. Arthur Minnich, Assistant White House Staff Secretary, concerning the McCarthy hearings, May 17, 1954
The political practice of publicizing accusations of disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence, and 2.
http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/dl/McCarthy/Mccarthydocuments.html   (697 words)

  
 Jonah Goldberg's Goldberg File on National Review Online
From the 1950s through the 1980s, the Left was largely content to describe McCarthyism in Hellman's terms: a baseless assault by right-wing paranoids and fanatics.
But that's not what those throwing around the "McCarthyite" smear are up to.
Regardless, wherever you come down on McCarthyism, Communism, and the rest is a matter of opinion.
http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg022603.asp   (1798 words)

  
 CognoCentric
The reference to McCarthy seems to have sparked a debate in the comments at VodkaPundit.
If McCarthy had any evidence to back up his claims, it seems reasonable to believe that we would have gotten it directly from him a whole lot earlier, not four decades after the fact.
Anyone who disagreed with him was ipso facto in favor of communism, which, to most Americans at the time, meant Soviet domination of the world (as if the Soviets were actually communists, but that's a post for another day).
http://cognocentric.blogspot.com/2004_01_25_cognocentric_archive.html   (2904 words)

  
 Edward R. Murrow
What I remember most of that period were Murrow's comments on the kind of America he believed in.
You had to live through the times to know how fearful -- indeed, terrorized -- people were about speaking their minds.
When this nation was drowning in cowardice and demagoguery, it was Murrow who hurled the spear at the terror.
http://www.evesmag.com/murrow.htm   (1670 words)

  
 "McCarthyism" proved: Truth needs no immediate applause to be appropriate.
A liberal writer said of him: "in the realm of ideas he was a species of nihilist; he was an destructive force, a revolutionist without any revolutionary vision, a rebel without a cause."
"McCarthyism" proved: Truth needs no immediate applause to be appropriate.
For 30 years he was pilloried for making absurd claims like: Communists "known to the Secretary of State" were "still working and making policy."
http://www.healthy-elements.com/McCarthyism.html   (813 words)

  
 The New McCarthyism? - Campus Watch
Instead of slandering critics they should try to answer their arguments."
McCarthy was vicious to opponents and most politicians shrunk from criticizing him.
McCarthy's attacks ruined hundreds of careers in government and academia on the flimsiest evidence; both the press and his colleagues decried his inability to provide real evidence, but to little avail.
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/702   (1280 words)

  
 The red scare: mccarthyism
It put a strong doubt in people’s minds.
But McCarthy’s power went to his head, and he went too far.
They asked if the people had ever been communists, they asked if they were communists now, and they asked them for the names of people who could be communists.
http://mtmt.essortment.com/mccarthyismred_rmfw.htm   (881 words)

  
 AlterNet: Rights and Liberties: Will the Real McCarthyists Please Stand Up?
At no time was anybody's teaching or research brought into question.
Schrecker sees an evolution as well, saying, "What's different between now and the McCarthy Era is that then attacks were on individual professors for extracurricular activities with communist groups or whatever.
"The current climate and the McCarthy Era are of course both similar and different," she explained about the post-9/11 United States.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/27334   (2952 words)

  
 U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Historical Minutes > 1941-1963 > A Declaration of Conscience
McCarthy followed her into the chamber and watched as she began her remarks—her "Declaration of Conscience"—in a soft and trembling voice.
Without mentioning McCarthy by name, she decided to take a stand against her colleague and his tactics.
Initially, Smith had shared McCarthy's concerns, but she grew angry at the ferocity of his attacks and his subsequent defamation of those whom she knew to be above suspicion.
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/A_Declaration_of_Conscience.htm   (466 words)

  
 McCarthyism - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about McCarthyism
Although groundless, his allegations provided a fearful US public with an explanation for the spread of communism and sparked mass anti-communist hysteria.
Although McCarthy was officially censured by the Senate for misconduct in 1954 (most of his evidence was fabricated), his claims induced an atmosphere of suspicion and paranoia that destroyed many careers.
McCarthyism finally began to wane after the end of the Korean War in 1953.
http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/McCarthyism   (446 words)

  
 "The Legacy of McCarthyism"--by Ellen Schrecker
Moreover, even after the anti-Communist furor receded, the antidemocratic practices associated with it continued.
In the realm of social policy, for example, McCarthyism may have aborted much-needed reforms.
Moderates feared being identified with anything that seemed too radical, and people to the left of them were either unheard or under attack.
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/mccarthy/schrecker6.htm   (1096 words)

  
 The Anti-Communist Crusade and the Rise of McCarthyism
The President is not master in his own house.
Many Americans in the 1950s were afraid to speak their mind or talk about their opinions for fear that they would stand out from the crowd and be called communists.
McCarthyism is the use of the charge of communism to discredit political ideas, cultural values, and individual's lives and reputations.
http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/2010/mccarthy.htm   (2016 words)

  
 CNN.com - Hearing transcripts invaluable after charges of 'new McCarthyism' - May. 9, 2003
McCarthy's shenanigans when hauling some 214 witnesses before his committee for public hearings are well-known.
Those who stood up to his bullying in the closed hearings were not called for public hearings.
But until the release of these five volumes, it was not known that McCarthy used his closed hearings to test witnesses, calling about a third of those he tested in closed session for a public appearance.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/05/09/findlaw.analysis.dean.mccarthy   (1161 words)

  
 6a. McCarthyism [Beyond Books - From the Depression to the New Millennium]
Fed up, McCarthy's colleagues censured him for dishonoring the Senate, and the hearings came to a close.
McCarthy soon began to attract headlines, and the Senate asked him to make his case.
Actors, writers, and producers alike were summoned to appear before the committee and provide names of colleagues who may have been members of the Communist Party.
http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/6a.asp   (1172 words)

  
 Townhall.com :: Columns :: When the right was right by Pat Buchanan - May 12, 2003
McCarthy convinced Middle America that FDR and Truman had been duped by "Uncle Joe," had tolerated treason, and had blundered and lost in five years all the fruits of the victory won by the blood and sacrifice of the Greatest Generation in World War II.
But they had been there, selling out their country.
Even if what is alleged is true -- that McCarthy bullied witnesses and accused men of disloyalty who only made mistakes -- that still does not explain why the Left cannot let go of him.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/pb20030512.shtml   (898 words)

  
 "Fire!" (Herblock's History: Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium, Library of Congress Exhibition)
This was the first use of the word "McCarthyism."
His accusations became headline news, vaulting him into the national political spotlight.
The Senate held special hearings, known as the Army-McCarthy hearings, which were among the first to be televised nationally.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/herblock/fire.html   (1568 words)

  
 The McCarthy Era
President Eisenhower, who was a staunch supporter of McCarthy after the 1952 election, was very unhappy with McCarthy by October of 1953 and realized it was time to put a stop to the witch-hunts that had been taking place.
As McCarthy's anti-subversive efforts wore on, he found himself under more frequent investigation for his questionable practices and scandalous activities.
As the threat of communism became more wildly imagined and as people's fears were fed by McCarthy's strong and convincing tone, other marginalized groups were added to the lists of subversives, including homosexuals.
http://members.aol.com/matrixwerx/glbthistory/mccarthyism.htm   (434 words)

  
 dustbury.com: The ghosts of Tailgunner Joe
And that goes for the rest of you poor souls who think that because no one is buying your argument, it's because you're being suppressed.
This might be a useful metaphor had Joe McCarthy been a silly-but-cute character like Ko-Ko from The Mikado, who had a little list of his own.
This weekend on Usenet, some person with an exaggerated sense of his own importance (no need to identify him here; if you need to, you can Google the thread later), slapped down in a discussion, played the McCarthyism card and further likened himself to one of the Hollywood Ten.
http://www.dustbury.com/archives/000641.html   (419 words)

  
 U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Historical Minutes > 1941-1963 > "Have You No Sense of Decency?"
These charges struck a particularly responsive note at a time of deepening national anxiety about the spread of world communism.
Censured by his Senate colleagues, ostracized by his party, and ignored by the press, McCarthy died three years later, 48 years old and a broken man.
Republican senators also stopped attending, in part because so many of the hearings were called on short notice or held away from the nation's capital.
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Have_you_no_sense_of_decency.htm   (470 words)

  
 History Channel Exhibits: The Fifties
His hold on the public mind became weaker in the years until his death in 1957, but the seeds of anti-Communism were planted deep in American culture.
In the following years, McCarthy would expand his accusations to include high-ranking officials of the U.S. Army and even President Eisenhower.
The anti-Communist fervor in America began to wane in the late fifties, but continued with diminished force well into the sixties, spreading fear and discord among Americans.
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/fifties/mccarthy.html   (390 words)

  
 American Masters . McCarthyism PBS
Some had their passports taken away, while others were jailed for refusing to give the names of other communists.
Though eventually his accusations were proven to be untrue, and he was censured by the Senate for unbecoming conduct, his zealous campaigning ushered in one of the most repressive times in 20th-century American politics.
In all, three hundred and twenty artists were blacklisted, and for many of them this meant the end of exceptional and promising careers.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/mccarthyism.html   (319 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: I Dare Call it Treason by Ann Coulter
For all his flaws, Truman unquestionably loved his country.
Through their infernal politics of personal destruction, liberals stayed in the game for a few more years.
It might have detracted from stories of proud and unbowed victims of "McCarthyism." They were not so innocent after all, it turns out.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=8610   (914 words)

  
 BBC ON THIS DAY 9 1950: McCarthy launches anti-red crusade
Senator McCarthy has made his claims against a background of growing anti-Communist feeling.
We did not furnish Senator McCarthy with any such list and we would be interested in seeing his list."
Senator McCarthy told the Ohio county women's Republican Club that Secretary of State Dean Acheson knew the names of 205 people who were in his words still "working in and shaping the policy of the State Department".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/9/newsid_3703000/3703305.stm   (554 words)

  
 HUAC, McCarthy, and the Reds: McCarthyism and the Blacklist
It is in these hearings that the "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted and sentenced to prison terms for contempt of Congress.
Among other things, it authorizes the creation of concentration camps "for emergency situations." Though Truman originally vetoes the legislation, the Senate overrides him by a vote of 89-11.
Shortly thereafter, McCarthy joins the Senate Housing Committee and goes on the road to speak out against public housing for veterans, extolling the benefits of the pre-fabricated home and offering it as an alternative.
http://huac.tripod.com   (623 words)

  
 Stereophile: Audio McCarthyism
McCarthyism came to mean any unjustified persecution and the false conformity this strategy engendered (footnote 1).
So virulent were his methods the term "McCarthyism" entered the language.
In the early 1950s, a quiet, undistinguished Senator named Joseph Raymond McCarthy began a crusade against what he imagined were subversive, dangerous elements in American government.
http://www.stereophile.com/asweseeit/107   (1095 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: McCarthyism in Action at Yale by Eliana Johnson
He dubs the students "Straussians" and "neo-cons," not-so-secret code words for "Jews." All the named government officials are Jewish, and it is the Jewish students he seeks to identify as such.
University professors and administrators frequently throw the term "McCarthyism" around as a term of abuse under inappropriate circumstances, but when the phenomenon actually appears, as in Professor Qumsiyeh’s message, they are tongue-tied.
Professor Qumsiyeh’s message contains all the hallmarks of the phenomenon usually described as McCarthyism.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=8180   (759 words)

  
 Technorati Tag: McCarthyism
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http://www.technorati.com/tag/McCarthyism   (535 words)

  
 McCarthyism Doing my Homework
This period, called McCarthyism was not just a political phenomenon but it had certain effects on the people.
This period, called McCarthyism was not just a political phenomenon but it had certain effects on the American society.
The period of McCarthyism might remain one of the darkest one in the history of the United States.
http://www.doingmyhomework.com/show_essay/449.html   (109 words)

  
 MaxSpeak, You Listen!: McCARTHYISM WATCH
In the you-can't-be-serious category, there has been an argument in this vein that those "whining" about McCarthyism have no compunctions accusing the Right of racism, sexism, and desiring the starvation of infants.
Interesting that the original poster on this, a vet (like Smash but unlike you-know-who) confined himself to objecting to the anonymous Indymedia post, rather than expanding it into a blanket indictment of the non-existent (in the unitary sense) "peace movement."
In the past, this has been used to justify persecution by the State and vigilantism.
http://maxspeak.org/mt/archives/000396.html   (247 words)

  
 The New McCarthyism
What made McCarthy and his allies so insidious was their eagerness to level the "soft on communism" charge against even staunchly anticommunist liberals.
The McCarthyites' real enemies were not communists but the New Deal liberals who had dominated U.S. politics for 20 years.
The McCarthy crowd was willing to divide the nation at a time of grave international peril if that's what it took to beat the liberals.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/27/AR2005062701317.html   (778 words)

  
 Artists Network of Refuse & Resist!
SAG said suggestions that "well-known individuals who express 'unacceptable' views should be punished by losing their right to work" was a "shocking development" which recalled the 1950s House Committee on Un-American Activities under Senator Joseph McCarthy.
More than 320 people, including Arthur Miller, Orson Welles, Dashiell Hammett, Paul Robeson and Charlie Chaplin were placed on a blacklist that stopped them working for the entertainment industry because of views considered left-wing or unpatriotic.
McCarthyism expert Ellen Schrecker, professor of history at Yeshiva University in New York, said the level of rhetoric against anti-war campaigners could presage a return to the era of witch-hunts and blacklists.
http://www.artistsnetwork.org/news8/news366.html   (650 words)

  
 The War of Words
McCarthy's actions are described with several facts and additional details are included.
McCarthy's actions are described with a few facts.
No facts are used to explain McCarthy's actions.
http://www.milton.k12.vt.us/WebQuests/JEckerson/war.htm   (1578 words)

  
 HUAC (The House Un-American Activities Committee) and the Rise of Anti-Communism
One hundred and eleven of these people refused to sign that paper -many of them because they were afraid that it was some kind of subversive document and that they would lose their jobs or be called Communists."(source 14)
The 1950s is the decade which has come to be paired with McCarthyism.
Joe McCarthy's hearings and the man himself got much more press coverage than HUAC ever did.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/McCarthyism/HUAC_Rise_AntiCommun.html   (8583 words)

  
 American Realities, Joseph McMarthy URLs
Describes McCarthy as perhaps the best demagogue this country has ever produced and tries to delve into the mind of McCarthy to explain who he was and why he did what he did.
This is a tremendous resource for anyone doing research on the '50s.
House UnAmerican Activities Committee Excerpted from The Encyclopedia of the American Left, by Dan Georgakas, this article provides a detailed overview of the formation of the House on Un-American Activities Committeee and their efforts to root out any communist infiltration in the United States.
http://www.narhist.ewu.edu/ar/jm/jm_urls.html   (520 words)

  
 International Socialist Review
This is a bad path, and we know it is because it has been followed before.
The history of McCarthyism teaches us that we would do well to fight now and fight hard.
In the fight against the witch mania in this country and in Europe, there were few enough to defend individual victims but fewer still who were willing to assert publicly that belief in witchcraft was groundless.
http://www.isreview.org/issues/41/new_mccarthyism.shtml   (3958 words)

  
 McCarthyism
McCarthyism is a term for the widespread accusations and investigations of suspected Communist activities in the United States during the 1950's.
In the late 1940's and the 1950's, a number of events related to this struggle alarmed and frustrated many Americans.
McCarthyism developed during the Cold War, a period of great hostility between the Communist and non-Communist nations.
http://www.puhsd.k12.ca.us/chana/staffpages/eichman/Adult_School/us/spring/foreign_policy/2/mccarthyism.htm   (181 words)

  
 McCarthy, Joseph
With little if any proof of his charges, McCarthy relied on accusation, slander and innuendo to tarnish his opponents' reputations (a practice now known as "McCarthyism").
He died at the age of 49 of complications related to alcoholism.
In 1954, televised hearings allowed millions to view McCarthy's methods for the first time, sparking a public backlash and official censure.
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/bios/31.html   (222 words)

  
 Joe McCarthy and the Great Red Scare
Perhaps the darkest days for rockfish research occurred during the McCarthy period of the 1950s.
In that speech, Senator McCarthy declared that the State Department, with the full knowledge of the Secretary of State, had become infested with Reds.
And I had just lined them up in a baking dish when Senator McCarthy came in.
http://www.lovelab.id.ucsb.edu/joe.html   (510 words)

  
 The Crucible by Arthur Miller
What was no doubt a powerful and emotive effort in the 1950s, when it was written as a scathing critique of Senator McCarthy's crusade against supposed communist sympathizers, falls flat in the '90s." Even the star-studded cast was not enough to save the film for some.
It was written in response to Senator McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee's crusade against supposed communist sympathizers.
Despite the obvious political criticisms contained within the play, most critics felt that "The Crucible" was "a self contained play about a terrible period in American history."
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SAL_CRU.HTM   (487 words)

  
 Mccarthyism - Return of campus McCarthyism - Campus Watch
They’ve been whining about McCarthyism for so long I say we give it to them.
``We hope that the excesses of McCarthyism will serve as a cautionary tale for This witch-hunt and anti-communist hysteria became known as McCarthyism.
Ann Coulter's call for McCarthyism does not surprise me.
http://www.forsurfer.com/?q=mccarthyism   (210 words)

  
 Mccarthy - McCarthyism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
McCarthy was worried that communism would spread into America and internal Senator McCarthy and his followers felt there was a dangerous subversive
Eventually McCarthy's own subcommittee decided to hold hearings on the matter,
The McCarthy Family Foundation is a small private foundation established in 1988.
http://surffine.com/srfn/mccarthy.htm   (222 words)

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