The Bad Old Days
Here’s Red Scare monger Sen. Joseph McCarthy in his favorite position…in front of a camera. Thank God for real newsmen and journalists like Edward R. Murrow who took him on and took him out.
The Bad Old Days
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There’s so much I want to say about that uh, gentleman. But the rules of decorum prohibit otherwise 😀
with the able work of the Army’s Chief Legal Representative: Joseph Nye Welch.
Remember watching those when they originally aired. I am an old coot!
To me, current Sen. Ted Cruz looks like he’s a cross between Joseph McCarthy and Colin Mochrie — and NOT in a good way…
My like is because he’s in my favorite position now.
Is that a pint in front of McCarthy? My grandma always said old Joe was a boozer.
TOO BAD we don’t have similar journalists to call out Tea Party bigots and pseudo-Christians who trade on fear and outright falsehoods.. :/
Just remember who was General Counsel for the HUAC, Roy Cohen. “Other Hollywood elite also resisted HUAC. They founded the Committee for the First Amendment as a protest against government abuse. Members included Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Henry Fonda, Gene Kelly, Edward G. Robinson, Judy Garland, Katharine Hepburn, Groucho Marx, Lucille Ball, and Frank Sinatra. In October 1947 the group traveled to Washington to watch the hearings. After each unfriendly witness was sworn in, he was asked the same question: “Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?”
— http://www.authentichistory.com/1946-1960/4-cwhomefront/1-mccarthyism/
Were he alive today, he would have his own show every night on Fox News …..
I hope they’re using a 10mm lens to make him look his best. :O
Although when Murrow took him on, he (McCarthy) was already on the down slope of his bell curve of popularity. That’s not usually told as part of the story.