by M. Stanton Evans | Nov 24, 2009
Tailgunner Joe
Joe McCarthy is the poster boy for the 'Shoot the Messenger' mindset of this country. In a recent Jeopardy episode an answer was "He never named a Communist", of course, "Who was Senator Joe McCarthy", the question. Tailgunner Joe named hundreds of Communists, removed hundreds of security risks and fulfilled a role no one in government had the backbone to take on. I have learned through this book to admire him greatly.
History has not been kind to St. Joseph of Wisconsin. To get a genuine feel for the man one has to read the times and understand the men involved in context. Throw away the repeated lies, mis-information and disinformation surrounding the Senate investigations during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations. Understand that the House committee on UnAmerican Activities, the Dies Commision, was up and running for 10 years before McCarthy showed up in Congress in 1948. McCarthy at first picked up some unfinished investigations and appealed to his Senate colleagues to look into the affairs of the Government, mostly the State Department. Sen. Tidings (D, MD), Chairman of the Intelligence Committee, had the State Department investigate Joe for his uppityness. He was run through the wringer, but had nothing to hide. I'm glad to say it only made him ornrier.
The Truman administration covered for extremely questionable people, and allowed the influence of these advisers to undercut Chiang Kai Chek, allowing and supporting Mao. They yielded and gave away the store at the Yalta conference. Whatever Truman did to put a face on his show anti-Communist policy was done in reaction to McCarthy's persistent questioning. At this time, America was only a few years away from Russia being our ally. There was a transition of diplomats, or was there? At the same time, Kim Philby and the Cambridge 5 spy ring were in the highest levels of the UK. Philby defected when the noose was tightening.
When Eisenhower was sworn in, he had historical bodies needing to stay buried. It was an interesting time of a Republican President surrounded with Democrat advisers. McCarthy became Chairman of the Committee and followed FBI reports highlighting infiltrating agents like Markwood and whistle-blowers Bentley and Chambers. He had some good info on the CP and he was doggedly, with Roy Cohn and Robert Kennedy, following through. (Interestingly, RFK's first child Kathleen has Joe McCarthy as her Godfather. And Roy Cohn was Trump's mentor.) The Venona papers released in 1995 by the KGB archives seems to corroborate his suspicions. It's Joe's speech semi-accusing Gen Marshall of either treason or incompetence in his handling/bumbling of international affairs, particularly the Far East, that got under Eisenhower's skin. His continued looking into security breeches in the US Army, mostly in Monmouth, NJ, coincidentally where the Rosenberg/Sobell cell was centered, that set the General on course to destroy Joe.
The record of Senator McCarthy stands for itself, and I'm glad Stan Evans actually went and read it and brought it forward in this book. The term 'Russian Collusion' is thrown around today by the elitist Democrats even when they can't prove it. In the 50's, the idea was put forward by a homegrown Republican and proven in spades. Fake news and media character assassination at the advent of television on Joe McCarthy were practice runs to the cognitive dissonance the American people suffer from today. Told who to hate by the Idiot Box, the draining of the swamp will not happen because the public believes lying Hollywood movies before their own common sense.
I'll take Dis-information for 1000, Alex.
Bing.
Inability to see the Truth
What is McCarthyism?
I'll take Dis-information for 1000, Alex.
Bing.
Inability to see the Truth
What is McCarthyism?
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