The Truth Be Told: The Real Story Of Joe McCarthy

Posted by johnhouk on Jan 09, 2008
 I was taking a stroll over at the Intellectual Conservative blog and was gratified to find a post on Senator Joseph McCarthy as portrayed by the book “Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies” by M. Stanton Evans.

I was gratified for the blog author – Bernie Reeves – pronounced resounding favor for the Evans’ book. Which if you read here you know it exonerates McCarthy as a deluded destroyer of lives by being on a witch hunt for Communists in America.

I was reading the comment section of the Intellectual Conservative for this post and read a few Leftie comments. I am convinced Lefties live in the true delusion for even after the enumerated facts of Blacklisted by History some moonbats STILL called McCarthy a destroyer of lives and a fabricator of the accusation the Soviet Communist agents had infiltrated some of the highest levels of government.

The life that was destroyed was McCarthy after a cabal of Leftists and embarrassed Republicans tried to cover-up the Communist infiltration by doing a smear campaign on Senator McCarthy. Talk about government conspiracy.

JRH 1/9/08
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The Truth Be Told: The Real Story Of Joe McCarthy

By Bernie Reeves
January 8, 2008
Intellectual Conservative

    While Venona proved that “McCarthy was right,” M. Stanton Evans' Blacklisted By History demonstrates in exact detail that his enemies created a false portrait of McCarthy that continues today with passionate participation from newly minted detractors.


Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies
by M. Stanton Evans
published by Crown Forum (November 6, 2007)
Hdbk., 672 pgs.
ISBN-10: 140008105X
ISBN-13: 978-1400081059

It’s like finding out you’ve been cheated by everyone you know. And they have all been lying about it for a long time. The deceit and dissembling required to maintain the devious conspiracy becomes an ersatz reality comprised of lies. Even when the truth is revealed, the effort of the conspirators carries a potent influence. It’s hard for others to accept that it happened. Even after full disclosure, the attraction to the intricacy of the deception lingers. The truth may be finally free, but it flies hesitantly.

This is how it happened with the saga of Senator Joseph McCarthy, besides Hitler and Stalin the most maligned figure in the modern era, a veritable Beelzebub everyone loves to hate. To discover that McCarthy was the victim of a massive campaign to discredit him, rather than the other way round, takes some time to absorb. But it turns out McCarthy didn’t ruin lives – it was his life that was destroyed by a big lie designed to protect a cadre of despicable traitors unprecedented in US history. Everyone seemed to agree that McCarthy was “tearing the nation apart” with his false accusations that departments of government – even the US Army – were infiltrated with Soviet Communist agents. The nation was indeed torn apart, but not by McCarthy. It was the ideological forces against him who won the day, and wrested control of the future political debate that still divides the country.

From the 1950s to today, political and intellectual conspirators have made hating McCarthy a national pastime. Young people don’t know who Winston Churchill is, but they can orate confidently on McCarthyism. It’s a magnificent achievement when you think about it. Not only has the radical Left destroyed learning in the process, they’ve deleted the accepted facts of Western history and replaced it with political sociology of their own making.

In this environment – the prevailing one in education today – Thomas Jefferson and the “founders” are racist white male pigs, but the Communists who spied on America right under our collective nose – working in our own government on behalf of the Soviet Union – are well-meaning heroes. Some have even been beatified as martyrs, including Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Alger Hiss. These so-called “innocents” are praised in today’s culture as heroes, victims of a fascist, imperialist America. Genuine achievers are consequently maligned by the revisionist historians as enemies of the people.

The Wheel Of History Turns

In 1995, the NSA and CIA turned the wheel of history toward the truth by declassifying the Venona files, intercepted messages from Moscow to their American agents from 1942 until 1964. And lo and behold there they are: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White, Lachlan Currie and hundreds of other American Soviet agents working for the US government – code names and all. Not only were these alleged victims guilty, they and their apologists made fools of us all. Yet, what followed in the national press after Venona was resounding silence.

After Venona sank in, despite violent opposition by the usual suspects, some of the more rational members of the intellectual Left – such as the venerated historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. – opined that McCarthy may have been right after all, but he was a bad person and he did great harm to innocent people. Then it was back to the same shopworn clichés, such as “McCarthy didn’t uncover one communist.” Actually, according to Venona, he was way short in his estimations, but the anti-McCarthy propaganda machinery churned on to be sure history goes their way. Recently, George Clooney’s nifty propaganda stunt in the film Good Night and Good Luck was an example of the conspiracy to continue to malign McCarthy in the light of Venona, allowing the smug anti-McCarthy fellow travelers to sweep the facts under the rug and move on in their obsessive manipulations to protect their own.

Final Verdict

And that’s where things stood until Nov¬ember 2007 with the publication of Blacklisted By History: The Untold Story of Joe McCarthy And His Fight Against America’s Enemies by M. Stanton Evans, columnist, editor and former director of the National Journalism Center in Washington, DC. Drawing on previously classified FBI and governmental files – and new information available from Venona – Evans upends the McCarthy myth and turns the tables on the real guilty parties: Presidents Truman and Eisenhower; a majority of Congress; heads of several government agencies; lawyer Joseph Welch (who hurled the famous words at McCarthy: “have you no shame”); and media icons from the 1950s and 60s, including Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson. Even Ben Bradlee – who went on to fame as the editor who fanned the flames of Watergate – is not spared by the facts uncovered by Evans.

The panorama of the McCarthy Era comes to life in the book, as do the dirty deeds by those who betrayed the public trust by maligning McCarthy to cloak the massive penetration of the US government by the Soviets via their American operatives. While Venona proved that “McCarthy was right,” Blacklisted By History demonstrates in exact detail that his enemies – our enemies it turns out – created a false portrait of McCarthy that continues today with passionate participation from newly minted detractors.

Evans and his book serve as existential locks in the canal to truth. First comes nausea, followed by anger when the awful reality sinks in. The American political dialogue from the mid-20th century has been dominated by the events of the McCarthy Era. The continuing anti-American harangue that continues to serve as the platform of the Left was born and nurtured in the campaign against McCarthy. The manipulation of US China policy in the 1930s and 40s by the Soviet-influenced American operatives – resulting in the victory of communism and the genocides of Mao – was applied to US efforts to stem the Red tide in Vietnam, resulting in defeat due to political manipulation on the home front by the very same ideologists. The torrent of hate directed against President George Bush over the war in Iraq sprang from the same well, waiting and warming in the oven of the McCarthy Era.

It is sad to realize that none of this would have happened, thus sparing us the past 50+ years of political distortion, if government intelligence agencies had released the Venona transcripts during the string of congressional hearings investigating the infiltration of Soviet-American agents in nearly all US government agencies during the McCarthy Era. If the evidence was made available, McCarthy would be a hero rather than a pariah "blacklisted by history." Instead, as is usually the case, history was manipulated and public policy stained due to the intelligence community’s obsessive desire to keep their secrets – no matter the consequence to the well-being of the nation.

Blacklisted By History is available on Amazon.com.
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 Bernie Reeves is the editor/publisher and columnist for Metro Magazine, a four-color city-regional magazine covering the Raleigh-Research Triangle-Eastern North Carolina region.

reevesmedia@ncrrbiz.com
http://www.metronc.com

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