Joseph McCarthy's Downfall Was Accusing the Army of Communism

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  • @iammrbeat
    @iammrbeat 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +68

    Today the power of social media is destroying politicians.

    • @ivegotnoselfesteem506
      @ivegotnoselfesteem506 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Power of information

    • @CashMoneyChris
      @CashMoneyChris 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I know my research on the second Red Scare is heading in the right direction when I see Mr. Beat in the comments

    • @DontWalkRunProduct
      @DontWalkRunProduct 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You can say that again 😂🎉

    • @DontWalkRunProduct
      @DontWalkRunProduct 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Remember when everyone thought that Donald Trump was working for the Russians and that all social media was talking about it? Well, that aged badly.😂🎉

    • @user-uz24y37g
      @user-uz24y37g 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Depends on the algorithm people watch. Who is controlling the algorithm?
      You can look for opposing views to add to your algorithm.

  • @TakumProti
    @TakumProti 3 ปีที่แล้ว +145

    Too bad that James Gandolfini died. He would've been uncanny in a McCarthy biopic.

    • @schnoodle3
      @schnoodle3 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Perfect

    • @michaelterrell5061
      @michaelterrell5061 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Absolutely spot on.

    • @Black_Caucus
      @Black_Caucus 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      "Aye Tone, you hear about that funny business happening down in DC at that Congressional hearing last week?"

    • @SD_SPIRIT
      @SD_SPIRIT 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hollywood is owned by communists . This film will never get made.

  • @malayali-appreciator-69
    @malayali-appreciator-69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +148

    His downfall was having Eisenhower against him. Which probably was of course a result of probing our own Army, seeing as Ike was a 5-star General

    • @JohnB-dr8sk
      @JohnB-dr8sk 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, and what people didn't know about Eisenhower at the time was that although he was a Republican, he was a member of Leftist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), which was founded by a Marxist in 1921 for the purpose of slowly establishing world government and dissolving America's borders and Constitution. Eisenhower was also instrumental in removing all the anti-communist laws at the time that barred Marxists from working in schools, colleges and in the government.

    • @doctorstrangelove8815
      @doctorstrangelove8815 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That is the most comforting alternative, yes.

  • @CUMBICA1970
    @CUMBICA1970 3 ปีที่แล้ว +176

    Unbelievable how he looked 25 years older than his actual age.

    • @AsiaMinor12
      @AsiaMinor12 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      It's that Midwestern diet lol

    • @MichaelJ44
      @MichaelJ44 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He doesn’t really look 65

    • @mykoniichistorychannel
      @mykoniichistorychannel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Well, when you're an alcoholic and a drug addict, it ages you rather quickly.

    • @eriksatieofficiel
      @eriksatieofficiel 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's what communists do to people

    • @karlthomas6995
      @karlthomas6995 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Totally, I was thinking the same. I’d guess the bottle played a role there too.

  • @prestonowens4594
    @prestonowens4594 7 ปีที่แล้ว +219

    I kinda wish there were captions for the dialogue in the court. I had a hard time understanding what was said between McCarthy and Welch due to the understandably bad audio of the time and my not so understandably bad hearing. Other than that, thanks for uploading the video.

    • @paulmetcalfe6855
      @paulmetcalfe6855 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      You can find same video in black and white with clearer audio. Hope it helps.

    • @paulmetcalfe6855
      @paulmetcalfe6855 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You can find same video in black and white with clearer audio. Hope it helps.

    • @GhostEmblem
      @GhostEmblem 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      He says that until today he didnt realize how cruel mccarthy was, that he likes to think himself a gentle man but mcarthy will have to look elsewhere for forgiveness and that he has smeared the witness enough have you no sense of decency.

  • @525Lines
    @525Lines 7 ปีที่แล้ว +312

    Joe McCarthy wasn't the only one calling out people for being communist.

    • @logic7374
      @logic7374 7 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      JFK.

    • @525Lines
      @525Lines 7 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      And veterans organizations.

    • @techblogger8323
      @techblogger8323 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      525Lines he kicked it off though to try and prolong his political career

    • @525Lines
      @525Lines 7 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      I don't know about that. It started in the 30s, at least. After World War One, America occupied Russia and we've been paranoid about communism ever since.

    • @525Lines
      @525Lines 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      FDR definitely wanted in the European war because he had to be there with the peacetime carveup. That's a fact. I hate to think that he knew Pearl Harbor was coming and did nothing because nothing else would get the US on board with going into the war, but all signs point to it.

  • @TrillaDilla410
    @TrillaDilla410 5 ปีที่แล้ว +408

    Sounds like history is repeating itself.

    • @iidripx_0377
      @iidripx_0377 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Wanna know something? My friend said that in class today.. She said that it sounds like history repeating itself but it's not supposed to do that

    • @everettduncan7543
      @everettduncan7543 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Missouri needs a Senator like Symington again

    • @sayyestofairness4266
      @sayyestofairness4266 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Definitely. The GOP is now using McCarthy-ite tactics by blaming China for everything that's wrong with the world.

    • @everettduncan7543
      @everettduncan7543 4 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      @@sayyestofairness4266 more worrying than that, they've fooled people across rural america into thinking democrats are all communists

    • @10Vernonplace
      @10Vernonplace 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@everettduncan7543 - And they have done a great job convincing them that the GOP cares about them when GOP only cares about tax cuts and government money for people that are rich (paycheck protection act).

  • @wajidhussain5305
    @wajidhussain5305 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    This was like the Salem Witch Trials, point your finger at anyone and call them a communist

    • @FuzDoesStuff
      @FuzDoesStuff ปีที่แล้ว +14

      "Oh you like potatoes? COMMUNIST, ARREST HIM!" That era was just a huge 1st ammendment violation.

    • @folofus4815
      @folofus4815 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Actually, that isn’t remotely how the Salem witch trials went down. The play “The Crucible” was written as a criticism of the red scare, but in real life people were not convicted of witchcraft based on the accusations of children. 53 people admitted to being witches and werewolves on their own accord. Likely hallucinogenic drug use.

    • @HowieHoward-ti3dx
      @HowieHoward-ti3dx 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      He was right though. We should have listened.

    • @davidbryce6970
      @davidbryce6970 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Arthur Miller wrote the play The Crucible on the Salem trials. Miller wrote it as an allegory of McCarthyism.

    • @carlsnyder4833
      @carlsnyder4833 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @wajidhussain5305 it wasn't remotely like that at all. The Salem Witch Trials were a clear case of the Emperor wearing no clothes. McCarthy and those who were weary of Communists were not looking for people who thought taxes should be raised to pay for more welfare. They were not looking for people who'd read the Communist Manifesto in college. They were asking "Were you a member of a secret organization taking orders from a foreign power intentionally designed to destroy the current political system and implement a totalitarian dictatorship based on violence."
      In Salem, there were no witches. In the 50's there WERE communists. Stalin and the USSR got the nuclear bomb through a network of communist spies that stole the tech from Los Alamos. MacCarthy may have over reached but he wasn't delusional. It was a legitimate threat.

  • @matlew1960
    @matlew1960 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    He enjoyed the power to destroy innocent people for no reason other than them having a different ideology than his own. His demise was swift, and justice was served in an ice-cold glass of Bourbon.

    • @Jim-su7en
      @Jim-su7en ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Thanks Trotsky

    • @loganvanderwier8866
      @loganvanderwier8866 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      A lot of them were completly innocent too.
      The whole thing started when McArthy made an offhanded comment at a very small venue, and got an extremely big reaction. As he was failing politically and not likely to get re-elected, he leaned into it, making accusing people of communism his political brand.
      Some of them, there was some sort of communist connection, but not all of them, and that's not why he made the accusations.

    • @guybrushwayne4388
      @guybrushwayne4388 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You are a communist

  • @keeblergraham211
    @keeblergraham211 7 ปีที่แล้ว +398

    McCarthy and Ted Cruz look a lot alike.

    • @kaizersoze
      @kaizersoze 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Ya, they don't promise free stuff for votes to pathetic losers that don't want to get a job

    • @rainerk5951
      @rainerk5951 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Conservatism is a mental disability.

    • @remenir97
      @remenir97 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      RedditISahole Oh look, a Ted Cruz supporter?

    • @manofsan
      @manofsan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Joe McCarthy and Adam Schiff look a lot alike to me.

    • @GrimmjowJaegerjaquez1003
      @GrimmjowJaegerjaquez1003 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      jon j this took me out homie 🤣🤣🤣

  • @broaddusmarines
    @broaddusmarines 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    48? He looked awful.

    • @josh18230
      @josh18230 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Anybody believing that you can die at the age of 48 from alcohol abuse is extremely susceptible to the propaganda they are trying to push. You'd have to be drinking like 2 gallons of liquor a day to die that early from alcohol.

    • @dehavillandcanadatwinotter9621
      @dehavillandcanadatwinotter9621 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Seemed like a big alcoholic and/or smoker, plus for some reason people aged much quicker back then

    • @juannaym8488
      @juannaym8488 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@dehavillandcanadatwinotter9621Because they all smoked and their foods were extremely lacking in nutrients

  • @johnallenismynameandmusici2796
    @johnallenismynameandmusici2796 3 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" is the line I'll always remember. I knew it was big news cause I sold papers on the street. But I was only 9 and I never knew what it really was all about until I got older. After he said that, McCarthy continued to ramble along in that monotone voice, not really making any sense about mundane things. It was pitiful to see him speaking with nobody listening to him.

    • @Alen725
      @Alen725 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Old geezer mumbling about decency, yeah a big line there. Nothing they said was big.

    • @rc7625
      @rc7625 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Alen725 Found the red-baiter.

    • @alienlife7754
      @alienlife7754 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      And you are a fool if you don’t see that every single thing he predicted has come true.

    • @therealtecktonik
      @therealtecktonik ปีที่แล้ว

      McCarthy was 100% right were are going into communist fast. The majority is always liberals that know nothing and are filled with hate carrying water for the communist so ofc he got laughed at that's exactly whats happening now.

    • @raistlin3462
      @raistlin3462 ปีที่แล้ว

      @alienlife7754
      McCarthy was right about Russian agents infiltrating the government. However, he never catched a single one of them.
      All his policies amounted to nothing but mere fear mongering. Keeping the plebs scared and obedient at the cost of a few hundred lives and careers ruined.
      That's his legacy.

  • @leeb.7188
    @leeb.7188 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Actually there may have been some truth to what he was saying about Communists being tolerated in the military. Years ago I read a book about Oswald, and it said that when he was a young Marine stationed in Japan working as a radar tech, that he openly received Communist magazines in his mail and that the Marine Corps didn’t care. Some of his fellow Marines were shocked that he was so open about his support of Russian and Communism, receiving books and magazines, attending meetings of a Communist group in town (I don’t recall the name of the city where he was stationed), and basically thumbing his nose at the Corp, all without any inquiry or action being taken. This would have been in the late 50s.

  • @celebrityrog
    @celebrityrog ปีที่แล้ว +15

    We need to stop electing people named McCarthy.

  • @r.williamcomm7693
    @r.williamcomm7693 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Some books & even Wikipedia states that McCarthy was a morphine addict & died from hepatitis (sometimes contracted by addicts) so to this day the alcohol related death may be kinder to him than the truth.

    • @HowieHoward-ti3dx
      @HowieHoward-ti3dx 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He was murdered by the commies.

  • @Orf
    @Orf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    0:30 McCarthy: "This committee may determine whether this country will live or die"

    • @fredrikchristmansson3700
      @fredrikchristmansson3700 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      And the USA died that day when the Hollywood communists succeed in their skillfully crafted smear campaigns, lies and character assassinations of McCarthy.

    • @carlsnyder4833
      @carlsnyder4833 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This was accurate. Stalin and the Soviets were bent on world domination and the subjugation of the US

  • @Beyonder1987
    @Beyonder1987 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    The Original Alex Jones

    • @manofsan
      @manofsan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Original Adam Schiff

    • @father042
      @father042 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      And just like him he was right about everything

    • @purromemes7395
      @purromemes7395 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@father042 Alex Jones ends up being right eventually. I always thought he was crazy until bit by hit he’s been proven correct

    • @xavihdez5060
      @xavihdez5060 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@purromemes7395 Right? about what? I'm lost

    • @purromemes7395
      @purromemes7395 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@xavihdez5060 he said there would be a massive pandemic a while back, he talked about trump winning, he talked about the UFO footage... all of which became known to be true eventually

  • @dgodrummer8110
    @dgodrummer8110 6 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Coming soon to US History Channel: "6 months later the senate censors him. His reign of terror is over... he falls into the grip of alcoholism."

    • @romanboxing3959
      @romanboxing3959 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      …and is still a senator.
      But it was a terror for the pinkos 😆

    • @user-eq7zq6so3j
      @user-eq7zq6so3j ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@romanboxing3959 McCarthy had people doctor photos and forge stuff, he wasn't actually rooting out any communists(maybe some I guess considering the scale), he was putting on a show, and that's why the army thing failed. He's an actor, not a crusader.

    • @Theonetrueerenyeager
      @Theonetrueerenyeager 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      *censures

  • @Enrique-h6g
    @Enrique-h6g 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Yeah, but he was also taken down by a fearless and moral journalist named Edward R. Murrow who went after the POS at great risk to himself.

    • @usmale49
      @usmale49 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, exactly and too many people don't remember or never heard of Edward R. Murrow! Great point!!

  • @Alex-kk8is
    @Alex-kk8is 4 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    Interesting how he and Yuri Bezmanov both died of “alcoholism” 🙄

    • @zackp5294
      @zackp5294 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      if it were you against the world how well would you do?

    • @jaredmast2335
      @jaredmast2335 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@zackp5294 he chose the fight and had plenty of support.

    • @martymcfly5423
      @martymcfly5423 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      the communists murdered them both

    • @fullyboluldaewoo423
      @fullyboluldaewoo423 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      They’re both are hero’s n truth tellers

    • @Headbanger9000
      @Headbanger9000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Makes you wonder what they have planned for us common truth-tellers 😰

  • @michaelkelly3221
    @michaelkelly3221 3 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    I'm surprised the Smithsonian omitted McCarthy's addiction to morphine, as well as alcohol.

    • @newsnowbc1934
      @newsnowbc1934 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm surprised they omitted he was also a homosexual and a communist himself. The way he acted he was clearly projecting. History should remember him for being all the things he weaponized against others.

    • @Geo-ko2sx
      @Geo-ko2sx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Umm they mentioned his alcoholism at the end
      Quite clearly

    • @joelonzello4189
      @joelonzello4189 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Ever hear of Hunter Biden ?

    • @michaelkelly3221
      @michaelkelly3221 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@joelonzello4189 Apples and Oranges, Einstein.

    • @jonathans3878
      @jonathans3878 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Here we go again 🙄

  • @DivineSimply
    @DivineSimply 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    McCarthy reminds me of all the other angry, aggressive boozers with no recovery that I've known and had to deal with in my life - all swinging wild and destructively against those around them in order to feel powerful. He died of cirrhosis.

  • @becauseitscurrentyear8397
    @becauseitscurrentyear8397 5 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    but then you find out about the soviet cables and find out the truth.

    • @joshuawillis602
      @joshuawillis602 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Because it's current year there was no cables

    • @becauseitscurrentyear8397
      @becauseitscurrentyear8397 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      BS.
      But a question for you; Why was communism so v!0lent and fail every time it was tried? It was sold as the reasonable answer to the worlds economic and social problems yet what it opposed thrived and won and represented greater freedom.

    • @zissler1
      @zissler1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Joshua Willis not in the current year but there years later someone’s whistle blew to the soviets that we had intel on them. Not only that but Russia had put in couples from Russia acting as American citizens. It is the only conspiracy theory proven true.

    • @86SuperRay
      @86SuperRay 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@becauseitscurrentyear8397 Only 9 of the hundreds of names McCarthy named were found in the Venona Reports, it was unlikely that McCarthy actually knew anything about it. If anything McCarthy was hindering actual efforts to find communists with his fearmongering.

    • @iruma4857
      @iruma4857 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@86SuperRay fast forward to 2020 and you can see clear as day that the subversion and disinformation tactics have worked wonders for them hahaha you continue to believe the media's propaganda about McCarthy just like the mindless zombie they trained you to be.

  • @Orf
    @Orf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    1:15 "I don't think you have any conception of the danger of the Communist Party"

  • @valmid5069
    @valmid5069 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Historical Fact: *it was very interesting to find out that House of Representatives, Democratic Representative Samuel Dickstein of New York and the politician who founded the House UnAmerican Activities Committee in the first place, was being paid by the NKVD (WW2 Soviet predecessor of the infamous KGB) for classified information. Ironically, the founder of the very committee wrongly associated with McCarthy was a Soviet agent. Instead, McCarthy was a Senator and Tail Gunner (McCarthy's nickname) was the chairman of the Government Operations Committee and its Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the United States Senate*

  • @BerraPettersson
    @BerraPettersson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Remember horrible mcCarthy during the fifties - now, 70 years later, we have a new awful mcCarthy...

    • @openmind2464
      @openmind2464 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Everything you believe about Joe McCarthy and trump is false.

    • @airplanegod
      @airplanegod 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yup, Joe Biden.

    • @BerraPettersson
      @BerraPettersson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@openmind2464 I see, you are totally CLOSED ...

    • @openmind2464
      @openmind2464 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@BerraPettersson to what information?

    • @BerraPettersson
      @BerraPettersson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@openmind2464 CLOSED AGAINST T R U E INFORMATION...

  • @bobbysands6923
    @bobbysands6923 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    On the original TV broadcast, you don't get the sense of how physically close Welch and McCarthy were. There at the same table!! I thought they were across the room from each other. So Welch was really in his face. That took a lot of guts.

  • @djmdallas72
    @djmdallas72 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The world has been a better place since he passed lol

  • @johnperrry215
    @johnperrry215 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Fascinating. It's a brilliant thing that he was stopped!

  • @ZIGSVIDS
    @ZIGSVIDS 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Today He'd just join Fox news

  • @AllyGray
    @AllyGray 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Now as we look back on this, it seems he was right.

  • @angloaust1575
    @angloaust1575 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The manchurian candidate 1962 portrayed a similar event!

  • @afropick5934
    @afropick5934 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    History repeats itself. All I could think while watching this is MTG.

  • @RichardAndewSwayne
    @RichardAndewSwayne 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    What gets me is the fact that it's 1954 the US Army has just come out of the Korean War. So why would anyone believe it?

    • @Alen725
      @Alen725 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah its not like we have marxist on the streets and brainwashed comnunist youth right? Wrong.

    • @jonnyd9351
      @jonnyd9351 ปีที่แล้ว

      Maybe the fact the army was already having investigations into probable subversives

    • @ComradeOgilvy1984
      @ComradeOgilvy1984 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Because the right wing extremists saw Korea as a failure, and they were looking for a scapegoat. Of course, this is nothing more than a childish emotional response, which, as you correctly point out, was not likely to land well with the general populace who still saw Eisenhower as a hero and were comfortable giving both him and the Army the benefit of the doubt. Emotions are emotions, and thinking had little to do with it.

  • @scottedwards5191
    @scottedwards5191 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Very weak... I guess it was too short to get into any detail? What did his hearings accomplish? Anyone prosecuted? Any good biographers document now the allegations?

    • @kieranbrown1590
      @kieranbrown1590 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      of course not

    • @surandissidus3243
      @surandissidus3243 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Study a history book to find out that McCarthy was a stone cold liar.

    • @ZombyMammoth
      @ZombyMammoth 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Read blacklisted by history

    • @kieranbrown1590
      @kieranbrown1590 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ZombyMammoth the assassination of James Forrestal

  • @jamesjones999
    @jamesjones999 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    In the end, he was right!

  • @aaronstark5060
    @aaronstark5060 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    “armed with the flimsiest of evidence”
    You just described his entire campaign in a nutshell.

  • @davidvanderven
    @davidvanderven ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Just look at the situation now. He was far more right than he could ever have known.

    • @joshuawillis602
      @joshuawillis602 ปีที่แล้ว

      No he wasn’t. We’re not communist. We’re more capitalist than before

    • @ffff7164
      @ffff7164 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@joshuawillis602 All of our institutions have been infiltrated by neo-commies

    • @bman3794
      @bman3794 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      How?

    • @davidvanderven
      @davidvanderven ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bman3794 what do you mean how? Look around see General Milley was talking about reading marx etc not long ago. Don't forget his secret communications with the ccp regime. The woke political ethos infecting the military.

    • @jonnyd9351
      @jonnyd9351 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@bman3794 The Verona files proved he was much more correct than anyone thought. Multiple cases where the FBI ruled people were innocent but in reality they weren’t.

  • @deanronson6331
    @deanronson6331 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It's symptomatic of YT viewership's general ignorance that no commenter is mentioning Roy Cohn, McCarthy's chief counsel, who was Trump's mentor during his formative years and taught him, among other things, to flout rules and the law as well as never to admit that he's wrong.

    • @sandrabrooksher666
      @sandrabrooksher666 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I can’t imagine why anyone would mention his relationship with Trump being that it’s not related to topic unless of course one is trying to swing in a different direction. Clearly one can see which party the communists stand with.

  • @ericwanderweg8525
    @ericwanderweg8525 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    It’s a good thing none of Gen Z is enticed by the ideas of socialism and communism, whatsoever

  • @jrk9679
    @jrk9679 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    “But evidence accumulated from a variety of sources-including Soviet archives-since the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s shows that McCarthy’s charges were, in numerous cases, neither false nor hysterical-but correct.”
    From The Vindication of Joseph McCarthy by Andrew Bernstein

  • @haruhisuzumiya6650
    @haruhisuzumiya6650 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    He deserved to lose his power

  • @jamesdavis6036
    @jamesdavis6036 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hes a hero. He was right. He saw it coming & its here today made possible by the ignorant dangerous voter.

  • @thatsnodildo1974
    @thatsnodildo1974 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    *Ain't no good red but a dead red*

  • @MorroTreece
    @MorroTreece ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Shame someone didn't take him out earlier.

  • @ZiaRDS
    @ZiaRDS ปีที่แล้ว +9

    He did all that damage and he hadn't even hit _fifty_ yet?!

    • @TheSaltydog07
      @TheSaltydog07 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      He preyed on people's fears, as all demagogues do.

    • @adammuncy8475
      @adammuncy8475 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@TheSaltydog07 He was actually correct. One of the greatest Russian Spies was a man who sold artwork in Langley Virginia. CIA employees routinely purchased from him all the time. And you can't deny the subversive actions in colleges in the 60's through today of sworn socialists. He was correct. He always was.

    • @MARIANSCATLIFFE
      @MARIANSCATLIFFE 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Despicable human

  • @romgtr
    @romgtr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Are there any videos giving the other side of the story?

    • @malayali-appreciator-69
      @malayali-appreciator-69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hardly. Your best bet is to TH-cam search Army McCarthy hearings and filter the results to only show long (20+ min) videos and watch some of the hearings for yourself.

    • @davidkast3587
      @davidkast3587 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      the commies probably censored all those.

    • @frankiel3767
      @frankiel3767 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There is no other side of the story, just like how there’s no other side to how Johnson lied about the Gulf of Tonkin or how JFK approved of the Bay of Pigs

    • @switchbladekid1365
      @switchbladekid1365 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      McCarthy's side of the story was the same as today's. He was lying in order to gain political power. He, wife Jean and Roy Cohn were upfront about it, at least to each other. They went so far as to manufacture fake memos, which were shown to be fake when the secretary said to have typed them wavered on the stand.

    • @evelynn_teoh
      @evelynn_teoh 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@switchbladekid1365 oh that's evil. but some form of cancelism is necessary at times when political infiltration becomes outrageous and toxic, that it threatens your own existence.

  • @annalisavajda252
    @annalisavajda252 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "Good Night and Good Luck"

  • @jcosta8546
    @jcosta8546 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    No one messes with the Army!

    • @dennis4774
      @dennis4774 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The present of time was a former General in World War II

    • @evelynn_teoh
      @evelynn_teoh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ya.. so if i were the enemy, i'd find way mess up the Army first!

  • @SandfordSmythe
    @SandfordSmythe 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There was a prior private agreement between them not to ruin this innocent lawyer's career.

  • @christinearmington
    @christinearmington 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Many in his own party turn against him. 🤦‍♀️☹️

    • @joelonzello4189
      @joelonzello4189 ปีที่แล้ว

      See how Dems turn on their own today ?

  • @khankrum1
    @khankrum1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Joseph McCarthy's downfall was too much Bourbon!

  • @lard_lad_AU
    @lard_lad_AU 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    "Have you no sense of decency, sir?"
    If these words were said in 2020 in respect of President Trump's cruel slurs and lies, they would have no impact at all.

    • @conveyor2
      @conveyor2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Okay comrade

    • @RoddyPipersCorneas
      @RoddyPipersCorneas ปีที่แล้ว

      Your brain is obsessed. you're being played like a fiddle.

    • @erosionhead420
      @erosionhead420 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Mockingbird media really has you in its clutches.

    • @marymitchell8625
      @marymitchell8625 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@conveyor2OK, Adolf.

  • @Caesar0804
    @Caesar0804 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    He tried to warn us

  • @1N73RC3P7OR
    @1N73RC3P7OR 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Venona project proved McCarthy was right!

    • @Brandon210-q4n
      @Brandon210-q4n 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Not really . . .

    • @jamesm.3967
      @jamesm.3967 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Huh...right about what? McCarthy was just making up fake news. Lies that had nothing to do with actual espionage.

  • @markjasper1127
    @markjasper1127 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Another sad chapter in Congressional history

  • @blackcanaryable
    @blackcanaryable 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Look at the Generals we have.

  • @WeAreBeingInvaded
    @WeAreBeingInvaded ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Notice these Commies will never let you here McCarthy speech . Just character attacks like good Commies!

  • @sunnymagnuson1809
    @sunnymagnuson1809 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    McCarthy was way ahead of his time, wasn’t he?

  • @MrDino1953
    @MrDino1953 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A “Happy Days” version of Alex Jones.

  • @WildwoodClaire1
    @WildwoodClaire1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    It's surprising McCarthy was so bitterly determined to punish the Army just because it wouldn't promote David Shine, Roy Cohn's love interest at the time, to the rank he felt he deserved.

    • @JohnB-dr8sk
      @JohnB-dr8sk 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      History has proven that to be a lie and a fabrication.

    • @switchbladekid1365
      @switchbladekid1365 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JohnB-dr8sk No, it hasn't. That is exactly the reason he attacked the Army. And he may have had a false sense of security because no one in the GOP wanted to stop him as long as he was winning elections for them.

    • @JohnB-dr8sk
      @JohnB-dr8sk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@switchbladekid1365 Post your direct, legal proof then (hint -- you can't).

  • @JFR-hh3qv
    @JFR-hh3qv 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Today we're just starting to realize that Joe was right ever since

  • @johnhasty3411
    @johnhasty3411 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    He looks healthy to me for some one who died from alcoholism.

    • @michaelkelly3221
      @michaelkelly3221 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      He was addicted to morphine as well.

    • @afriqiyyya
      @afriqiyyya 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Healthy? He looks 70 yet he was in his 40s

    • @josh18230
      @josh18230 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@afriqiyyya people aged faster back then.

    • @leeb.7188
      @leeb.7188 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He was overweight, smoked like a fiend, and was an alcoholic. I think he looked terrible for his age.

  • @billcooperc-luke573
    @billcooperc-luke573 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    More like "America's Downfall Was Not Listening To McCarthy."

  • @quidproquo82
    @quidproquo82 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Sounds familiar?

  • @johnallen7807
    @johnallen7807 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It may be unsavoury but it shows the vital role of a free media in a democratic society. Can anyone image that happening in the USSR or China?

    • @SteveOmnipotent
      @SteveOmnipotent 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, one can, the USSR was a democracy, if the 2 party dictatorship of the US was a democracy, then USSR certainty is

    • @johnallen7807
      @johnallen7807 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You're right, I noticed Donald Trump deliberately starved 20 million people to death while he collectivised US agriculture and Joe Biden send thousands every week to the penal camps in Alaska@@SteveOmnipotent

  • @romanlegion2621
    @romanlegion2621 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    His “downfall” was going to the back of the bus. He was never punished.

    • @duffman18
      @duffman18 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Well he completely lost his entire political career, all his power, and all his money, and he spent the last few decades of his life drinking himself to death as a sad old broke alcoholic, eventually his liver killing him from cirrhosis from the alcoholism.
      President Eisenhower is the one who brought him down although he did it all in secret. He planned this for years, and his plan worked perfectly, it made Mccarthy lose all his credibility and they prevented him from ever getting elected again. Mccarthy's mistake was to criticise the military, claiming that it was overridden with communist spies. Eisenhower, being the top military General before his presidency and now was obviously the commander in chief, absolutely hated Mccarthy from that day onwards. Though he never spoke about it publicly. But yeah, that was such a slap in the face to a 5 star general like Eisenhower that it became his mission to take down Joe mcarthy completely and utterly so that he'd never be able to tear the country apart with lies again. And Eisenhower won that war, that secret war, like he won every war. That's what he does. He's _THE_ General of generals, generally

    • @romanboxing3959
      @romanboxing3959 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@duffman18 I know, Ike was awesome!
      Meanwhile, lies? What lies? A lot McCarty mentioned was true! He was still a senator, he voted, he didn’t lose his career, unless you want to say he lost his power that he had (unrivaled till this day). He was always an alcoholic….He is Irish don’t you know. I’d say who he took out suffered way worse…yes? And if you ask me, some of them deserved that fate

  • @TheMichaelBeck
    @TheMichaelBeck 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Don't mess with the U.S. Army. You've been warned.

  • @berlin3873
    @berlin3873 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Hero who fought communism!

  • @manuelseniceros9550
    @manuelseniceros9550 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    McCarthy was right

  • @philbaxter9372
    @philbaxter9372 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Although McCarthy needed to be disposed of, this account does very little to explain how it was actually carried out.

  • @LichenAndMoss
    @LichenAndMoss ปีที่แล้ว +1

    PBS AMERICAN EXPERIENCE did a much more complete retelling of this

  • @billakers6082
    @billakers6082 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Looks like he was right after all.

  • @nemoegosum8350
    @nemoegosum8350 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Didn’t this Smithsonian channel do a series on all the communists in FDR’s and Trumans cabinet…?

  • @leviticuscornwall9631
    @leviticuscornwall9631 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Who’s here after the space force officer got discharged after criticizing Marxism?

    • @TyranyFighterPatriot
      @TyranyFighterPatriot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Definitely. Not to mention the rampant stench of Wokizm in the Navy and Marines right now. American Army has indeed become the next victim to the phrase "becoming the very monsters they despised and sought to destroy".

    • @pemdemica1712
      @pemdemica1712 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Since when is diversity considered Marxism.

    • @pemdemica1712
      @pemdemica1712 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@leviticuscornwall9631 so POCs should remain a minority in the US?

    • @pemdemica1712
      @pemdemica1712 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@leviticuscornwall9631 not everything against your view is Marxism. Your not Joe McCarthy.

    • @leviticuscornwall9631
      @leviticuscornwall9631 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@pemdemica1712 yes they should remain a minority. In fact, they shouldn’t be here at all. And yes everything i disagree with is Marxism

  • @MichaelWolf940
    @MichaelWolf940 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Republicans still never changed.

  • @histriamagna1014
    @histriamagna1014 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    In the grip of the grape...
    Chasing phantoms.

  • @uppishcub1617
    @uppishcub1617 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    if only McCarthy were here today

    • @AustinCDennis
      @AustinCDennis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      He kinda is in spirit with the right calling anything they don't like as "Marxist, socialist etc."

    • @masinissaibrahimi5569
      @masinissaibrahimi5569 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@AustinCDennis On the contrary the left called Trump fascist, lol

    • @BODLive08
      @BODLive08 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@AustinCDennis weird how a lot of that stuff is admitted Marxism.
      Leftists. Willful sheep of the ccp

  • @myamya5571
    @myamya5571 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    wow i just love online classes

  • @romanboxing3959
    @romanboxing3959 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The “downfall” was thanks to Ike, Flanders and other GOP guys. His “downfall” was that he was still in the Senate. Some “downfall”

  • @notarmchairhistorian7779
    @notarmchairhistorian7779 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Well with all that's happening right now, he's not exactly wrong. Unfortunately he just tried to find it in the wrong place. He shouldve started in the Universities where it had now metastasized.

    • @Crystaldegreef
      @Crystaldegreef 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I suspect you are speaking of once revered institutions like Harvard, etc that now seem to be churning out authoritarian political cult leader wanna-be’s?

    • @bt3743
      @bt3743 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      please define to me what communism is because i promise you it is not what you think it is

    • @nataliep.9047
      @nataliep.9047 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@bt3743 ; i promise you that know matter how a normal person answers that question, you'll twist his wording around or twist the word's definition around and claim that he's wrong. Nice goin' there, Saul Alinsky.

    • @TheillMadeKnght
      @TheillMadeKnght 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Everyone tries to act like this was a witch hunt - Please see Saul Alinsky's book "Rules For Radicals" where he directly blames McCarthy for hollowing out the communist intelligentsia from American society and stunting its development in the US

    • @tk-6967
      @tk-6967 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You are confusing woke idiots with communists. Those university students are pampered idiots, not poor workers who believe that communism will end their oppression.

  • @brocktonma.1816
    @brocktonma.1816 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    One of the greatest ad lib quotes of all time.

  • @rickenman9844
    @rickenman9844 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This guy had the audacity to criticize War Hero Eisenhower as well, may he burn in hell!

    • @GCNavigator
      @GCNavigator 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Rick Enman Eisenhower was a stain on American history. War hero? He spent the war shacked up with a hoe.

    • @JohnB-dr8sk
      @JohnB-dr8sk 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Eisenhower was in fact a member of the Left-wing, pro-Communist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He was a traitor and a phony who duped the American people into thinking he was a conservative Republican.

  • @slamdunk406
    @slamdunk406 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    He looked 65. Not 48. Lol 😂

  • @johnkudasik3133
    @johnkudasik3133 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Explain Lee Harvey Oswald.

    • @JohnB-dr8sk
      @JohnB-dr8sk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      True. Oswald was an admitted Marxist at aged 16, yet the Marine Corps still enlisted him.

  • @angelinobernal6899
    @angelinobernal6899 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well after that it backfired.

  • @Platewarp
    @Platewarp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Joe was right.

  • @peterschairer488
    @peterschairer488 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    McCarthy's right hand man, Roy Cohn, was Donald Trump's mentor.

    • @curtisthomas2670
      @curtisthomas2670 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cohn was bedding McCarthy and Edgar Hoover

  • @purromemes7395
    @purromemes7395 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I wasn’t wrong

  • @IStoleHerFromKen
    @IStoleHerFromKen 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    As you can see now, he was right about them as well.

  • @paulmetcalfe6855
    @paulmetcalfe6855 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Dunno about the Army but he was definitely right that reds were everywhere. Just look at today's Universities or the MSM

    • @jaredmast2335
      @jaredmast2335 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Huh, same argument that fascists used in the 50s and 60s. Not much has changed.

    • @BODLive08
      @BODLive08 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@jaredmast2335 cnn pushed literal CCP propaganda.
      Sit down, sheep

    • @francescorossi3796
      @francescorossi3796 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Of course he was right. And this video seems to be done by CNN or MSNBC.

  • @tailsprowerfan2729
    @tailsprowerfan2729 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    He was right sadly he was born way to early

  • @diegosilang4823
    @diegosilang4823 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    He is my hero now, my middle finger to global communism.

  • @Orf
    @Orf ปีที่แล้ว

    1:20 new media cameras

  • @becsocsci621
    @becsocsci621 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Wow this channel has no bias opinion does it.

  • @eekamouse-js8lr
    @eekamouse-js8lr 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why does the number "45" suddenly come to mind?

  • @user-ks5ff
    @user-ks5ff 7 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Reign of terror? for wanting to weed out traitors who want to destroy his country? hardly.

    • @TheFarebanksTroll
      @TheFarebanksTroll 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      user12345 this shithole is ran by traitors, and I hope they destory it further ;)

    • @DumbledoreMcCracken
      @DumbledoreMcCracken 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      A man without principles is unable to identify, nor correct, destructive forces. You sir are that traitor you claim to seek to eradicate. You hide in the shadows, ready to pounce on those who are ill equipped to deflect your unwarranted stain. You are the tool of the communists.

    • @mre2u2
      @mre2u2 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      We're trying, but they seized control of the legislative and executive branches

  • @DStuart-s1q
    @DStuart-s1q 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bless all who worked to remove this monster, who ruined so many lives.

  • @vicspegveg
    @vicspegveg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    He was right about everything.

    • @joshuawillis602
      @joshuawillis602 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      He was wrong about everything

    • @michaelxo4436
      @michaelxo4436 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@joshuawillis602 nah

    • @sbc383zz
      @sbc383zz 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Pure republican garbage.

  • @ChiGuy1837
    @ChiGuy1837 ปีที่แล้ว

    Not one communist was caught by Joe McCarthy 😂😂😂😂