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Senator Joseph R. McCarthy‘s Reply to Edward R. Murrow, See it Now (CBS-TV, April 6, 1954):
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/murrowmccarthy2.html
Edward Murrow was built up in his lifetime and since as a great journalist and exemplary, and no doubt journalism schools everywhere lift him up as a fine example to follow.
But there are things that you won’t find in the standard boilerplate biographies that are relevant to the story.
Edward Murrow had already presented all kinds of attacks against Senator Joe McCarthy’s post-war investigations of the infiltration of Communist agents, and more specifically Soviet agents, in the United States government and the state department.
The fact that it was a valid pursuit was vindicated when investigators later discovered that Alger Hiss was passing secret information to the Soviets. Alger Hiss was one of the subjects of the McCarthy hearings, and those hearings exposed him. A former member of the Communist Party produced physical evidence that Alger Hiss was not only a member of the Communist Party with him, but that they had collaborated to pass secret government documents to the Soviet Union.
Remember, that was Josef Stalin‘s Soviet Union.
Then there was Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted of treason for passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union.
There have been lots more exposed ever since, and there are characters of higher positions who have also been exposed but not in the sources that the public is force-fed from Big Media. “None Dare Call it Treason” exposed some of that, and of course the nameless faceless characters in the shadows have decreed to put the facts exposed with that tome behind the psychological smokescreen of “conspiracy theory” labeling.
When has history ever been free of conspiracies by the rich and powerful to increase their riches and their power and fool us?
I stayed at a motel once where the manager was one of the Hungarian “freedom fighters” of 1956. Those brave souls threw out their Communist masters in one day! and they had control of the country for one whole week. They had quickly formed the structure of a republican government and they were already in charge of the country, this man told me, and immediately requested official recognition from the Western nations.
Russian troops were massed quickly on the borders but they stayed there waiting for orders. This freedom fighter veteran told me that it was common knowledge at the time around the world that the Russians were waiting to see what the USA reaction would be, and the entire world knew this. Everybody waited.
Remember, Truman had rushed to official recognized the state of Israel within hours of the declaration by their nascent government.
But it took Eisenhower a week to declare his intentions about Hungary. Finally, he used a speech to proclaim that they had already taken care of that issue (of Hungary) at the Yalta conferences. We know from history that’s where the West gave post-war Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union. Eisenhower was saying they would not recognize the new free republic of Hungary and they would not interfere with Soviet interests there. The next day, Stalin’s tanks rolled into Hungary, the freedom fighters fled alongside all the Hungarians that could manage to scramble across the river to Austria.
Barry Farber, a master of many languages, was there to help the refugees get out, and described some of that escape effort in his book, “How to Learn Any Language”.
Murrow rebutted later and “explained away” some of the accusations in the piece, but then ever since then he is the one that has gotten the last word in Ivy League journalism, history books used in government schools, in mass media references, and every time anti-Communism gets mentioned.
And the fact that Murrow and his stories knocked back any attempt to expose surreptitious infiltration of socialist ideology into federal government, despite the fact that McCarthy had exposed its reality, is suggestive.
And note here, that he also protested when his bosses began to allow their own equal-time rebuttals to his attacks. Like I say, fascist leftists believe in “free speech for me, but not for thee”. They believe it’s okay to take our money for their pet causes but don’t believe it’s okay for the people to take their money for the people’s causes. Increase taxes on oil producers, but give money to subsidize inefficient energy.
In other words, Murrow made Joe McCarthy into a club that knocks critics of socialism and Communism into exile from the land of free speech and public consciousness.
The word “irony” is overused, but I think it applies here.
The left and the control freak press has used the same tactics they accused Joe McCarthy of to do the same things to anybody who exposed socialist strategies, tactics, methods, penetrations, and plans.
It is also telling that Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs are still held as heroes and martyrs by Communists and leftists even as they claim their “innocence”, saying they were never Communists and traitors. They denounce opposition to communism while they demand the government they claim to despise apply the same “McCarthy” and “witch-hunt” tactics against free-market advocates and dissenters.
Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known. – Matthew 10:26
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