62 Years Ago Today, Sen. Joseph McCarthy Was Exposed for the Cowardly Scoundrel He Was

[MerryBlooms]

His ghost, however, is still with us.

June 9, 2016

Today is the anniversary of the day in 1954 when attorney Joseph Welch confronted Sen. Joseph McCarthy in a Capitol Hill hearing room: “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”

Four years ago, we did not foresee the rise of Donald Trump, but this Bill Moyers’ essay from then demonstrates that the ghost of McCarthyism has been slithering its way through right-wing politics for a long time. In 2012, it was Florida congressman Allen West hurling false accusations in bursts of fevered McCarthy-style demagoguery. Today it’s Trump, on an even larger national stage, and even more frightening.

http://billmoyers.com/story/senator-joseph-mccarthy-cowardly-scoundrel/

[CanadaexPat]

1. Thanks, just watched video of the hearing on YouTube.

[JanMichael]

2. While I really despise him he was only doing American Red Baiting like most of the establishment.

I mean there were several people attacked by HUAC that were SPUSA and CPUSA members so technically he was right. That does not make it right but that was how most all of America (especially electeds) rolled back then.

Then again I was a SPUSA member and now find CPUSA to be far too Right Wing (supporting Dems like FOREVER) for me. Gus Hall would be rolling in his grave if he was a zombie.