09-27-2012, 12:15 PM
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Banned
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Sharing my mother's basement with several liberals who can't hold a job.
Posts: 32,604
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Was more than right.
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The Fall of Joe McCarthy
In December 1954, the Senate condemned McCarthy for "conduct… unbecoming a Member of the United States Senate…" The resolution focused on the senator’s conduct and did not refute any of his anti-Communist accusations. This effectively ended McCarthy’s career, as his colleagues avoided him and the public abandoned him. He continued serving in the Senate until his death in 1957 from cirrhosis, which some have claimed was the result of heavy drinking.
Even as McCarthy was being condemned, a series of strong anti-Communist bills were being introduced in Congress. Some historians have claimed that McCarthy conducted a "reign of terror," but even at the peak of McCarthy’s popularity, the Communist Party continued operating undisturbed in the U.S. and nobody testifying before McCarthy was ever indicted, tried or jailed for any crime.
Furthermore, classified documents released after the fall of the Soviet Union revealed that McCarthy had actually underestimated the number of Communist sympathizers in the U.S. government. While McCarthy’s methods were unethical and intrusive, he may have been closer to the truth than those who ridiculed and condemned him.
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