The Disgusting Embrace Of Witch-Hunting McCarthyism By ‘Liberals’
By Tyler Durden
Submitted by Wayne Madsen via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
So-called “liberals? and “progressives?, who once derided those on the political right who accused their ideological forbearers of kowtowing to the “Reds? and “Soviets? during the era of Senator Joseph McCarthy, have dusted off McCarthy’s playbook and are using the very same tactics against Donald Trump and his supporters. The modern-day McCarthyites, mostly neo-conservative Republicans and Hillary Clinton Democrats, are hitting the airwaves, print media, and the Internet hard with accusations of Russian links by Trump and his advisers while haphazardly throwing around lists of alleged “Russian agents?.
There is very little difference between what McCarthy told the Ohio County Republican Women’s Club in Wheeling, West Virginia in 1950:
“I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department?.
In November 2016, a shadowy and anonymous group of self-described “nonpartisan? public policy wonks, computer scientists, and national security specialists calling themselves “PropOrNot? (Propaganda or Not) published a list of 200 websites cited as “peddlers of Russian propaganda during the election season, with combined audiences of at least 15 million Americans?. The Washington Post, Associated Press, and other corporate-controlled media outlets dutifully reported this diatribe as “news?. At least during the witch-hunting days of McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), those accused of being Communist agents knew who their accusers were and could face them down publicly.
Rather than condemn the modern-day witch-hunting by faux liberals and progressives, the American media has provided the accusers with maximum support. When CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow called out McCarthy for his bullying tactics on nationwide television, he received support from America’s major newspapers:
The conservative Washington Evening Star wrote: “everyone… resents and detests the bully boy tactics which Senator McCarthy so often employs.
The New York World Telegram: [describing McCarthy’s tactics] “Bamboozling, bludgeoning, distorting way?.
The New York Times: [Condemned] “the unwarranted interference of a demagogue?.
Today, The New York Times has been leading the charge against Trump and his transition team, citing an unfounded U.S. Intelligence Community report calling out the news network RT and Sputnik News for “interfering? in the U.S. election by pushing “fake news?. The Times is engaged in a sort of demagoguery that Murrow, if he were alive today, would assuredly condemn. After exposing McCarthy before the nation as a dangerous demagogue, Murrow summed up his broadcast by issuing a stark warning the American public:
“We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home?.
The list of 200 “pro-Russian? websites produced by an anonymous entity and endorsed by the corporate media also crept into the U.S. intelligence report on alleged Russian hacking of Democratic National Committee computers and private email of Clinton campaign officials. The U.S. Intelligence Community, which is well-known for marketing false intelligence …read more
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