Joseph McCarthy's Downfall Was Accusing the Army of Communism

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  • Опубликовано: 13 янв 2025

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  • @iammrbeat
    @iammrbeat 8 месяцев назад +80

    Today the power of social media is destroying politicians.

    • @ivegotnoselfesteem506
      @ivegotnoselfesteem506 7 месяцев назад +5

      Power of information

    • @CashMoneyChris
      @CashMoneyChris 7 месяцев назад +6

      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 5 месяцев назад +1

      You can say that again 😂🎉

    • @DontWalkRunProduct
      @DontWalkRunProduct 5 месяцев назад +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 3 месяца назад +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 года назад +152

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

    • @schnoodle3
      @schnoodle3 2 года назад +16

      Perfect

    • @michaelterrell5061
      @michaelterrell5061 2 года назад +10

      Absolutely spot on.

    • @Black_Caucus
      @Black_Caucus 7 месяцев назад +6

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

    • @SD_SPIRIT
      @SD_SPIRIT 4 месяца назад

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

  • @CUMBICA1970
    @CUMBICA1970 3 года назад +183

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

    • @AsiaMinor12
      @AsiaMinor12 2 года назад +18

      It's that Midwestern diet lol

    • @MichaelJ44
      @MichaelJ44 2 года назад +4

      He doesn’t really look 65

    • @mykoniichistorychannel
      @mykoniichistorychannel 2 года назад +32

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

    • @eriksatieofficiel
      @eriksatieofficiel 2 года назад

      That's what communists do to people

    • @karlthomas6995
      @karlthomas6995 Год назад +7

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

  • @ManicMovesDrowsyDreams
    @ManicMovesDrowsyDreams 3 года назад +159

    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 года назад

      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 года назад +4

      That is the most comforting alternative, yes.

  • @525Lines
    @525Lines 7 лет назад +313

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

    • @logic7374
      @logic7374 7 лет назад +57

      JFK.

    • @525Lines
      @525Lines 7 лет назад +41

      And veterans organizations.

    • @techblogger8323
      @techblogger8323 7 лет назад +14

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

    • @525Lines
      @525Lines 7 лет назад +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 лет назад +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.

  • @prestonowens4594
    @prestonowens4594 7 лет назад +222

    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 года назад +10

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

    • @paulmetcalfe6855
      @paulmetcalfe6855 4 года назад +2

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

    • @GhostEmblem
      @GhostEmblem 3 года назад +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.

  • @matlew1960
    @matlew1960 Год назад +62

    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 Год назад +6

      Thanks Trotsky

    • @loganvanderwier8866
      @loganvanderwier8866 Год назад +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 9 месяцев назад +1

      You are a communist

  • @TrillaDilla410
    @TrillaDilla410 5 лет назад +418

    Sounds like history is repeating itself.

    • @iidripx_0377
      @iidripx_0377 4 года назад +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 года назад +3

      Missouri needs a Senator like Symington again

    • @sayyestofairness4266
      @sayyestofairness4266 4 года назад +48

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

    • @everettduncan7543
      @everettduncan7543 4 года назад +79

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

    • @10Vernonplace
      @10Vernonplace 4 года назад +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 Год назад +108

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

    • @FuzDoesStuff
      @FuzDoesStuff Год назад +14

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

    • @folofus4815
      @folofus4815 Год назад +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 Год назад +21

      He was right though. We should have listened.

    • @davidbryce6970
      @davidbryce6970 11 месяцев назад +11

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

    • @carlsnyder4833
      @carlsnyder4833 11 месяцев назад +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.

  • @keeblergraham211
    @keeblergraham211 7 лет назад +401

    McCarthy and Ted Cruz look a lot alike.

    • @kaizersoze
      @kaizersoze 5 лет назад +24

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

    • @rainerk5951
      @rainerk5951 5 лет назад +50

      Conservatism is a mental disability.

    • @remenir97
      @remenir97 4 года назад +5

      RedditISahole Oh look, a Ted Cruz supporter?

    • @manofsan
      @manofsan 4 года назад +4

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

    • @GrimmjowJaegerjaquez1003
      @GrimmjowJaegerjaquez1003 4 года назад

      jon j this took me out homie 🤣🤣🤣

  • @johnallenismynameandmusici2796
    @johnallenismynameandmusici2796 3 года назад +95

    "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 года назад +4

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

    • @rc7625
      @rc7625 2 года назад +6

      @@Alen725 Found the red-baiter.

    • @alienlife7754
      @alienlife7754 Год назад +8

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

    • @therealtecktonik
      @therealtecktonik Год назад

      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 Год назад

      @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.

  • @broaddusmarines
    @broaddusmarines 3 года назад +33

    48? He looked awful.

    • @josh18230
      @josh18230 2 года назад

      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 6 месяцев назад +1

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

    • @juannaym8488
      @juannaym8488 4 месяца назад +2

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

  • @Enrique-h6g
    @Enrique-h6g Год назад +11

    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 Год назад

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

  • @celebrityrog
    @celebrityrog Год назад +16

    We need to stop electing people named McCarthy.

  • @AllyGray
    @AllyGray 7 месяцев назад +5

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

  • @Orf
    @Orf 2 года назад +15

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

    • @fredrikchristmansson3700
      @fredrikchristmansson3700 2 года назад

      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 11 месяцев назад

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

  • @r.williamcomm7693
    @r.williamcomm7693 5 лет назад +17

    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.

  • @bobbysands6923
    @bobbysands6923 5 месяцев назад +2

    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.

  • @jrk9679
    @jrk9679 Год назад +7

    “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

  • @leeb.7188
    @leeb.7188 Год назад +11

    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.

  • @Orf
    @Orf 2 года назад +15

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

  • @valmid5069
    @valmid5069 9 месяцев назад +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*

  • @deanronson6331
    @deanronson6331 Год назад +3

    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 4 месяца назад

      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.

  • @Alex-kk8is
    @Alex-kk8is 4 года назад +84

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

    • @zackp5294
      @zackp5294 4 года назад +6

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

    • @jaredmast2335
      @jaredmast2335 4 года назад +7

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

    • @martymcfly5423
      @martymcfly5423 3 года назад +25

      the communists murdered them both

    • @fullyboluldaewoo423
      @fullyboluldaewoo423 3 года назад +8

      They’re both are hero’s n truth tellers

    • @Headbanger9000
      @Headbanger9000 3 года назад +5

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

  • @michaelkelly3221
    @michaelkelly3221 3 года назад +52

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

    • @newsnowbc1934
      @newsnowbc1934 2 года назад

      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 года назад +3

      Umm they mentioned his alcoholism at the end
      Quite clearly

    • @joelonzello4189
      @joelonzello4189 2 года назад +5

      Ever hear of Hunter Biden ?

    • @michaelkelly3221
      @michaelkelly3221 2 года назад +8

      @@joelonzello4189 Apples and Oranges, Einstein.

    • @jonathans3878
      @jonathans3878 Год назад +2

      Here we go again 🙄

  • @becauseitscurrentyear8397
    @becauseitscurrentyear8397 5 лет назад +86

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

    • @joshuawillis602
      @joshuawillis602 5 лет назад +1

      Because it's current year there was no cables

    • @becauseitscurrentyear8397
      @becauseitscurrentyear8397 5 лет назад +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 лет назад +3

      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 лет назад +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 года назад +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.

  • @BerraPettersson
    @BerraPettersson 4 года назад +14

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

    • @openmind2464
      @openmind2464 3 года назад +2

      Everything you believe about Joe McCarthy and trump is false.

    • @airplanegod
      @airplanegod 3 года назад +3

      Yup, Joe Biden.

    • @BerraPettersson
      @BerraPettersson 3 года назад +8

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

    • @openmind2464
      @openmind2464 3 года назад +1

      @@BerraPettersson to what information?

    • @BerraPettersson
      @BerraPettersson 3 года назад +1

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

  • @Beyonder1987
    @Beyonder1987 5 лет назад +31

    The Original Alex Jones

    • @manofsan
      @manofsan 4 года назад +1

      The Original Adam Schiff

    • @father042
      @father042 4 года назад +15

      And just like him he was right about everything

    • @purromemes7395
      @purromemes7395 3 года назад +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 года назад +10

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

    • @purromemes7395
      @purromemes7395 3 года назад +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

  • @RichardAndewSwayne
    @RichardAndewSwayne 5 лет назад +13

    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 года назад

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

    • @jonnyd9351
      @jonnyd9351 Год назад

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

    • @ComradeOgilvy1984
      @ComradeOgilvy1984 Год назад +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.

  • @ZIGSVIDS
    @ZIGSVIDS 2 года назад +23

    Today He'd just join Fox news

  • @ericwanderweg8525
    @ericwanderweg8525 Год назад +9

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

  • @DivineSimply
    @DivineSimply 5 лет назад +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.

  • @davidvanderven
    @davidvanderven Год назад +36

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

    • @joshuawillis602
      @joshuawillis602 Год назад

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

    • @ffff7164
      @ffff7164 Год назад

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

    • @bman3794
      @bman3794 Год назад +3

      How?

    • @davidvanderven
      @davidvanderven Год назад

      @@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 Год назад +11

      @@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.

  • @haruhisuzumiya6650
    @haruhisuzumiya6650 Год назад +10

    He deserved to lose his power

  • @aaronstark5060
    @aaronstark5060 4 месяца назад +1

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

  • @scottedwards5191
    @scottedwards5191 5 лет назад +15

    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 лет назад +1

      of course not

    • @surandissidus3243
      @surandissidus3243 4 года назад +5

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

    • @ZombyMammoth
      @ZombyMammoth 4 года назад +5

      Read blacklisted by history

    • @kieranbrown1590
      @kieranbrown1590 3 года назад

      @@ZombyMammoth the assassination of James Forrestal

  • @MichaelWolf940
    @MichaelWolf940 11 месяцев назад +2

    Republicans still never changed.

  • @djmdallas72
    @djmdallas72 Год назад +6

    The world has been a better place since he passed lol

  • @annalisavajda252
    @annalisavajda252 11 месяцев назад +2

    "Good Night and Good Luck"

  • @afropick5934
    @afropick5934 Год назад +4

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

  • @JFR-hh3qv
    @JFR-hh3qv 6 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @jamesjones999
    @jamesjones999 8 месяцев назад +6

    In the end, he was right!

  • @tomlehr861
    @tomlehr861 2 месяца назад +5

    Trumps playbook

  • @angloaust1575
    @angloaust1575 Год назад +2

    The manchurian candidate 1962 portrayed a similar event!

  • @lard_lad_AU
    @lard_lad_AU 4 года назад +33

    "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.

  • @nemoegosum8350
    @nemoegosum8350 Год назад +1

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

  • @thatsnodildo1974
    @thatsnodildo1974 7 лет назад +17

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

  • @johnallen7807
    @johnallen7807 Год назад +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 11 месяцев назад

      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 11 месяцев назад

      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

  • @sunnymagnuson1809
    @sunnymagnuson1809 Год назад +5

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

  • @khankrum1
    @khankrum1 Год назад +1

    Joseph McCarthy's downfall was too much Bourbon!

  • @WildwoodClaire1
    @WildwoodClaire1 4 года назад +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 года назад

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

    • @switchbladekid1365
      @switchbladekid1365 3 года назад

      @@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 года назад +3

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

  • @johnperrry215
    @johnperrry215 Год назад +17

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

  • @MorroTreece
    @MorroTreece Год назад +2

    Shame someone didn't take him out earlier.

  • @leviticuscornwall9631
    @leviticuscornwall9631 3 года назад +28

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

    • @TyranyFighterPatriot
      @TyranyFighterPatriot 3 года назад +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 года назад +9

      Since when is diversity considered Marxism.

    • @pemdemica1712
      @pemdemica1712 3 года назад +5

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

    • @pemdemica1712
      @pemdemica1712 3 года назад +8

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

    • @leviticuscornwall9631
      @leviticuscornwall9631 3 года назад +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

  • @markjasper1127
    @markjasper1127 Год назад +2

    Another sad chapter in Congressional history

  • @johnhasty3411
    @johnhasty3411 3 года назад +12

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

    • @michaelkelly3221
      @michaelkelly3221 3 года назад +6

      He was addicted to morphine as well.

    • @afriqiyyya
      @afriqiyyya 3 года назад +11

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

    • @josh18230
      @josh18230 2 года назад +2

      @@afriqiyyya people aged faster back then.

    • @leeb.7188
      @leeb.7188 Год назад

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

  • @TheMichaelBeck
    @TheMichaelBeck 11 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @philbaxter9372
    @philbaxter9372 5 лет назад +17

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

  • @jcosta8546
    @jcosta8546 5 лет назад +10

    No one messes with the Army!

    • @dennis4774
      @dennis4774 5 лет назад +1

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

    • @evelynn_teoh
      @evelynn_teoh 3 года назад +1

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

  • @ZiaRDS
    @ZiaRDS Год назад +9

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

    • @TheSaltydog07
      @TheSaltydog07 Год назад +2

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

    • @adammuncy8475
      @adammuncy8475 11 месяцев назад +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 8 месяцев назад

      Despicable human

  • @romanboxing3959
    @romanboxing3959 4 месяца назад

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

  • @romgtr
    @romgtr 4 года назад +12

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

    • @ManicMovesDrowsyDreams
      @ManicMovesDrowsyDreams 3 года назад +3

      Hardly. Your best bet is to RUclips 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 года назад +14

      the commies probably censored all those.

    • @frankiel3767
      @frankiel3767 3 года назад +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 года назад +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 года назад

      @@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.

  • @SandfordSmythe
    @SandfordSmythe 3 месяца назад

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

  • @1N73RC3P7OR
    @1N73RC3P7OR 5 лет назад +23

    Venona project proved McCarthy was right!

    • @Brandon210-q4n
      @Brandon210-q4n 5 лет назад +8

      Not really . . .

    • @jamesm.3967
      @jamesm.3967 5 лет назад +8

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

  • @LichenAndMoss
    @LichenAndMoss Год назад +1

    PBS AMERICAN EXPERIENCE did a much more complete retelling of this

  • @berlin3873
    @berlin3873 4 года назад +26

    Hero who fought communism!

  • @romanlegion2621
    @romanlegion2621 4 года назад +6

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

    • @duffman18
      @duffman18 2 года назад +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 года назад +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

  • @billcooperc-luke573
    @billcooperc-luke573 4 года назад +7

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

  • @peterschairer488
    @peterschairer488 Год назад +1

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

  • @billakers6082
    @billakers6082 3 года назад +17

    Looks like he was right after all.

  • @MrDino1953
    @MrDino1953 Год назад +1

    A “Happy Days” version of Alex Jones.

  • @quidproquo82
    @quidproquo82 5 лет назад +4

    Sounds familiar?

  • @uppishcub1617
    @uppishcub1617 3 года назад +15

    if only McCarthy were here today

    • @Austin-t3k
      @Austin-t3k 3 года назад +11

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

    • @masinissaibrahimi5569
      @masinissaibrahimi5569 3 года назад +10

      @@Austin-t3k On the contrary the left called Trump fascist, lol

    • @BODLive08
      @BODLive08 3 года назад +2

      @@Austin-t3k weird how a lot of that stuff is admitted Marxism.
      Leftists. Willful sheep of the ccp

  • @paulmetcalfe6855
    @paulmetcalfe6855 4 года назад +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 года назад +5

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

    • @BODLive08
      @BODLive08 3 года назад +5

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

    • @francescorossi3796
      @francescorossi3796 3 года назад +1

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

  • @notarmchairhistorian7779
    @notarmchairhistorian7779 3 года назад +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 года назад +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 года назад +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 года назад +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 3 года назад

      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 года назад

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

  • @eekamouse-js8lr
    @eekamouse-js8lr 9 месяцев назад

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

  • @christinearmington
    @christinearmington 2 года назад +8

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

  • @felixyu4979
    @felixyu4979 4 года назад +9

    being socialist isn't a bad thing. Just because you are socialist doesn't mean you hate your country, you just don't think the current economic system is the way you see fit. Mccarthy accusing people he didn't agree with wasn't right, he was violating their first amendment rights by not allowing them to speak their rights.

    • @HateTheIRS
      @HateTheIRS 4 года назад +10

      Look at every socialist country, USSR with the NKVD secret police etc.
      Socialists want big government and to silence their opposition.

    • @felixyu4979
      @felixyu4979 4 года назад +5

      @@HateTheIRS Yes, but socialism in it's own terms is different. "a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole." There is nothing said that includes big government or silencing opponents. Evil socialists may want these things. But all evil dictators want these things, so I'm not sure this is the issue. I'm not supporting these communist nations. I had family executed by communist china. But, in some forms, socialism may be the ideal way to do things.

    • @uppishcub1617
      @uppishcub1617 3 года назад +4

      the concept of seizing private property is innately evil, its theft

    • @tk-6967
      @tk-6967 2 года назад

      @@HateTheIRS The USSR wasn't socialist. It was sort of communist in the 1920s, but under stalin it became a dictatorship

    • @HateTheIRS
      @HateTheIRS 2 года назад

      @@tk-6967 it was socialist

  • @rickenman9844
    @rickenman9844 6 лет назад +4

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

    • @GCNavigator
      @GCNavigator 4 года назад +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 года назад

      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.

  • @tailsprowerfan2729
    @tailsprowerfan2729 8 месяцев назад +1

    He was right sadly he was born way to early

  • @purromemes7395
    @purromemes7395 3 года назад +7

    I wasn’t wrong

  • @Orf
    @Orf Год назад

    1:20 new media cameras

  • @becsocsci621
    @becsocsci621 4 года назад +24

    Wow this channel has no bias opinion does it.

  • @SerenaLaws-Kilt-This
    @SerenaLaws-Kilt-This 3 месяца назад

    All because Roy Cohn was about to lose his lover, H. David Shine. Cohn had this much power, long before Trump became his boy toy.

  • @francesbernard2445
    @francesbernard2445 2 года назад +4

    He was accusing them of Communism only because he wasn't getting his way concerning how he believed China should be bombed. How many people today are like him with their own cause while hoping for more followers online and in public when offering false accusations towards others with less things who have diverted any attention at all away from them? - Like only a harmless work of art given by indigenous children to them in a public place. Good thing pope Francis is not prone to that kind of narcissism.

  • @user-ks5ff
    @user-ks5ff 7 лет назад +25

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

    • @TheFarebanksTroll
      @TheFarebanksTroll 7 лет назад

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

    • @DumbledoreMcCracken
      @DumbledoreMcCracken 7 лет назад +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 лет назад

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

  • @IStoleHerFromKen
    @IStoleHerFromKen 6 месяцев назад +3

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

  • @jamesdavis6036
    @jamesdavis6036 3 месяца назад +2

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

  • @diegosilang4823
    @diegosilang4823 4 года назад +9

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

  • @JohnJones-n8p
    @JohnJones-n8p 4 месяца назад

    He had Roy Cohn on his side who would represent Donald Trump in lawsuits before his death in the 80s.

  • @coreytumulty816
    @coreytumulty816 3 года назад +11

    The military industrial complex was/is big business. And business was booming in the 50s. McCarthy wasn't completely wrong accusing the army of communism . They basically enforced communism like tyranny around the world. But they used capitalism's money to do so.

  • @anonymousdev1l
    @anonymousdev1l Год назад +1

    lol but he coddled fascists, needed those bomb makers

  • @blackcanaryable
    @blackcanaryable 2 года назад +6

    Look at the Generals we have.

  • @johnny316b
    @johnny316b 9 месяцев назад

    say what you want, but there still seems to be an awful lot of commies, socialist marxist, and eben nazis pulling some strings

  • @codacreator6162
    @codacreator6162 Год назад +3

    The palpable fear and paranoia over an ideology that makes more sense for human beings than the one we have would be funny, if it weren’t tragic.

    • @barrontrump3943
      @barrontrump3943 Год назад

      Then why don't you go live in China?

    • @jonnyd9351
      @jonnyd9351 Год назад

      You’re ignorant of the history

    • @carolingio1152
      @carolingio1152 Год назад

      Communism is the equivalent of a cancer affecting the world

  • @angelinobernal6899
    @angelinobernal6899 4 года назад +1

    Well after that it backfired.

  • @johnkudasik3133
    @johnkudasik3133 4 года назад +8

    Explain Lee Harvey Oswald.

    • @JohnB-dr8sk
      @JohnB-dr8sk 3 года назад +1

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

  • @slamdunk406
    @slamdunk406 5 месяцев назад

    He looked 65. Not 48. Lol 😂

  • @Platewarp
    @Platewarp 4 года назад +16

    Joe was right.

  • @dne50
    @dne50 10 месяцев назад +1

    Unfortunately "Have you no sense of decency Sir" would have no effect on Donald Trump or in fact any MAGA Republican