Real newsman exposes right wingnut. (Historic)

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During the early fifties Joseph P. McCarthy, the imfamous, red-baiting Senator from Wisconsin was taken down by one newsman, Edward R. Murrow, who more or less made it his mission to expose Tailgunner Joe as a fraud.

Murrow made a name for himself as the CBS bureau chief in London during the Blitz. He and his coworkers at CBS invented what we would call broadcast news during that decade.

Here is a fifteen minute radio news program hosted by Murrow in which he takes out Joe McCarthy. It's refreshing to listen to what a real journalist can do against a reckless thug like McCarthy.

Edward R. Murrow, where are you today? We need you.

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Edward R. Murrow - McCarthy

Please be kind and preserve my bandwidth. Don't share the link with non-DUers.

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1. Thanks for this

I'm putting this in the rotation for my ovrrnight show tomorrow night. I've got the Welsch-MaCarthy "Have you no decency?" clip on the show, and this will go well w/ it..

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2. Audio is a bit scratchy.

Audio is a bit scratchy in parts. Sorry, it's an old aircheck.

I have a lot of this stuff, mostly from WW II. Let me know if I can help.

on edit: Sorry, Murrow does not mention Welch. He certainly mentions McCarthy, though.

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3. Seriously?

Can you pm me? I'm always on the lookout for this kind of stuff; I'd love to find out what you have..

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4. Here's a taste

I thought that this one was particularly appropriate.

Churchill on London during the Blitz.

This is a fairly rare recording in that it was recorded at the time it was first delivered. Many WW II Churchill speeches exist only as rerecordings made after the war by Churchill himself in conjunction with his Nobel prize winning history of World War II.

This speech was delivered at the Lord Mayor's luncheon on July 14, 1941.

Winnie grabs the crowd at the onset:

London is so vast and so strong; she's like a prehistoric monster into whose armored hide showers of arrows may be shot in vain...

Here's the link:
Churchill at the Lord Mayor's luncheon, 14 July 1941

How do I PM you? I don't see the link for it?

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5. I'll pm you

just a sec..

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6. Thanks for the vintage radio clip. I have a 15 min ride to work

and will listen to it this morning on my way to the salt mine.