Just saw "Good night and Good luck".

[yourout]

Substitute Terrorist for Communist and it somewhat represents the current state of affairs.

On another note I am embarrased to say I am from Wisconsin home of some of the alltime best and worst Representatives.

On one side you have Fighting Bob La Follette, Robert Kastenmeier, Russ Feingold.

On the other you have Joseph McCarthy, Jim Sensenbrenner, Mark Green, Paul Ryan

[samdogmom]

1. You forgot future presidential candidate.....

Tommy Thompson!!!!

No other comment from me except--:puke:

[Hardrada]

2. Balance him off with Gaylord Nelson

no longer with us alas.

[pacalo]

3. Another dvd you really need to get is "Point of Order".

It consists of actual footage of the televised Army-McCarthy hearings from 1964. I have this dvd & I highly recommend it.

By this time the alcoholic McCarthy was so puffed-up that he grossly overestimated his influence. Even though the televised hearings gave him the advantage of using his media skills -- bullying, insinuations, sarcastic humor -- McCarthy came up against three big obstacles. First, America got its first extended look at the unpleasant, preening Junior Senator from Wisconsin, who looked more like a boozy, corrupt Broderick Crawford than a champion of Liberty. He was obviously playing cheap games to avoid answering direct questions and using dirty innuendo to attack his questioners. Second, the Army was fed up with McCarthy, having put up with unsubstantiated allegations that the Pentagon was crawling with Communists and fellow travelers. The official Army spokesmen didn't have the telegenic skills to stand up to McCarthy's tirades, so they hired the third big factor in the Senator's downfall, lawyer Joseph Welch, a plain-speaking, unflappable Yankee sage with a voice as trustworthy as Judge Hardy.

Welch didn't cave in or balk at McCarthy's outrageous courtroom tricks, and turned the tide of sympathy against him. Unable to deflect attention by making tiresome points about Army charts, McCarthy was foolish enough to become even more brazen, all but accusing the Army, the CIA, the FBI and even Eisenhower's White House of being the patsies of Communists. Some say it was a stern letter from President Eisenhower that got McCarthy, and others point to senator Stuart Symington's putting the real issue out in the open with the words, "Apparently Senator, you believe that anyone who disagrees with your point of view is a Communist." Desperate, McCarthy revealed his only face card by outing a lawyer in Joe Welch's firm as once having been a member of a liberal organization that he had branded as a Communist front. Welch demolished McCarthy in the eyes of the committee and the country with his response, castigating the senator as a craven villain and reckless ruiner of careers: "Have you no shame? Have you no decency?"

From that point it's all over. After the hearing has been closed we hear McCarthy on the microphone trying to rally indignant outrage, ranting while the audience files out, ignoring him.

McCarthy was also done in by CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow, who literally called the phony demagogue out for a TV debate and publicly eviscerated him. McCarthy could only respond with feeble lectures about abstract theories and more unsubstantiated claims of Communist conspiracies. Incredibly, many Americans still believe that McCarthy was undone by New York fellow travelers. The mindset of America in 1954 is easy to see; when a questioner offers the joking theory that perhaps pixies altered a photo to better illustrate McCarthy's case, McCarthy brings up fairies, and then tries to change the subject with the 'news' that he's uncovered homosexual military officers in an unnamed Southern state. There's no general response to the craven ploy, except for various senators to chime in asking McCarthy to clear their particular state of the innuendo. The elected officials make the less-sophisticated Army personnel at the meeting look like idealists.

http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s1822poin.html

[Mendocino]

4. In the original Manchurian Candidate,

there in a good jab at McCarthy. Doltish senator and presidential hopeful played by James Gregory goes back and forth in a ridiculous fashion, trying to decide that when he goes to some hearings, whether he will announce that there are 26 commies in the State Department or maybe 34, or 29, no make that 44.

Haven't seen it for a few years, so that's the jist of it.

[a kennedy]

5. That's KO's closing sign off statement too isn't it??

"Good night and good luck". :patriot:

[Berry Cool]

6. Yep, and for good reason.

Keith's already done a higher number of Murrow-like commentaries than Murrow ever did.