tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post8528825803735204273..comments2024-03-28T15:39:28.239-04:00Comments on Vital Remnants: They Have a List: What McCarthy would do if he were gayMartin Cothranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-56281914745702237562008-11-14T13:59:00.000-05:002008-11-14T13:59:00.000-05:00> "Since the time of McCarthy, the word &q...> "Since the time of McCarthy, the word "McCarthyism" has entered American speech as a general term for a variety of distasteful practices: aggressively questioning a person's patriotism, making poorly supported accusations..."<BR/><BR/>Is there a word to describe aggressively questioning a person's humanity? E.g., calling someone you disagree with a bigot, or a Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12974887002402743628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-4145755499153979442008-11-14T07:58:00.000-05:002008-11-14T07:58:00.000-05:00> I do apologize - HUAC and McCarthy do become ...> I do apologize - HUAC and McCarthy do become one if one doesn't examine closely. But is it your position no one was imprisoned for contempt of congress by the HUAC chaired by McCarthy?<BR/><BR/>Fine, but just so we're clear, since there still seems to exist some confustion: McCarthy was a senator, not a rep. He did not chair HUAC. He wasn't even on HUAC. He had precisely Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12974887002402743628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-15797438017018565732008-11-14T07:46:00.000-05:002008-11-14T07:46:00.000-05:00See? I did it again - McCarthy wasn't on the HUAC,...See? I did it again - McCarthy wasn't on the HUAC, he headed a Senate Investigations Committee. But I don't feel so bad.<BR/><BR/>"Since the time of McCarthy, the word "McCarthyism" has entered American speech as a general term for a variety of distasteful practices: aggressively questioning a person's patriotism, making poorly supported accusations, using accusations of disloyalty to pressure aAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-56897453237249881912008-11-14T07:35:00.000-05:002008-11-14T07:35:00.000-05:00I do apologize - HUAC and McCarthy do become one i...I do apologize - HUAC and McCarthy do become one if one doesn't examine closely. But is it your position no one was imprisoned for contempt of congress by the HUAC chaired by McCarthy?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-6861668930791960952008-11-13T22:55:00.000-05:002008-11-13T22:55:00.000-05:00Just one more thing, Martin. One of the more hila...Just one more thing, Martin. One of the more hilarious aspects of this whole thing is that, during McCarthy's heyday, liberals did try to smear Cohn as being a homosexual. There were rumors about him and another aide of McCarthy's, G. David Schine.<BR/><BR/>Well, Cohn vehemently denied being a homosexual his entire life. Turns out, he was a homosexual, at least by most people's definition. I Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12974887002402743628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-35499396989987095872008-11-13T21:54:00.000-05:002008-11-13T21:54:00.000-05:00Right. 1947 to be precise, the year McCarthy was ...Right. 1947 to be precise, the year McCarthy was elected to the Senate. I don't think we'll be hearing any more from them on this Lee.Martin Cothranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-34725778984029227272008-11-13T10:29:00.000-05:002008-11-13T10:29:00.000-05:00The term "The Hollwood Ten" refers to an investiga...The term "The Hollwood Ten" refers to an investigation of Hollywood, not by Sen. McCarthy, but the House Committee on Un-American Activities, conducted in the late 1940s.<BR/><BR/>That was the House of Representatives. McCarthy was a Senator. McCarthy had yet to make his first speech about communism, which happened in Wheeling, WV, in 1951, when he was looking for an issue to get re-elected on.Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12974887002402743628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-58737408283372492862008-11-13T00:37:00.000-05:002008-11-13T00:37:00.000-05:00Are you saying the Hollywood 10 were sent to priso...Are you saying the Hollywood 10 were sent to prison for disagreeing with Joseph McCarthy?Martin Cothranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-20259722362951337032008-11-13T00:12:00.000-05:002008-11-13T00:12:00.000-05:00These people were sent to prison because they incu...These people were sent to prison because they incurred McCarthyism<BR/><BR/>The Hollywood 10 http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAhollywood10.htm<BR/><BR/>On another note, wasn't Joseph McCarthy gay along with his friend, Roy Cohn? Certainy Andrew Scheim was gyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-30385190921273617562008-11-12T22:59:00.000-05:002008-11-12T22:59:00.000-05:00Jah,Who was sent to prison for eliciting McCarthy'...Jah,<BR/><BR/>Who was sent to prison for eliciting McCarthy's disapproval?Martin Cothranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-61749836900177367732008-11-12T20:23:00.000-05:002008-11-12T20:23:00.000-05:00I don't think you could go to prison for just runn...I don't think you could go to prison for just running afoul of Sen. McCarthy. It might help, however, if you had perjured yourself in questioning about where your loyalties might lie. There certainly was an awful lot of quibling about what a liar McCarthy was for claiming, say, Owen Lattimore belonged to 21 communist front organizations, when it's hard to see how he could have belonged to more Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12974887002402743628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-36442449299084898302008-11-12T19:28:00.000-05:002008-11-12T19:28:00.000-05:00McCarthy? Before my time, but wasn't he an importa...McCarthy? Before my time, but wasn't he an important influential Senator whose disapproval could get you sent to prison? Is Mr Cothran seriously suggesting that gays are that powerful a group?<BR/><BR/>Did Sen. McCarthy get physically assaulted (with resulting exultation) in his heyday? http://spartanspectator.blogspot.com/2008/11/anti-prop-8-protester-gets-socked-in.html <BR/><BR/>jahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com