Edward R Murrow's final reply to Senator Joseph McCarthy's See It Now appearance April 13, 1954

[@kaljic1]

Lord, we need people like Edward R. Murrow today!

[@rareblues78daddy]

Sadly, we'll never have someone with this much integrity again. There's a reason people call men like Murrow "legendary."

[@jamiemoody2675]

You do. The country is filled with traitors just like him and the truth will not be told till Shiloh come. All of your so-called "great" news casters: Edward R. Murrow Anderson Cooper Walter Cronkite Cookie Roberts Barbara Walters Eric Sevareid ... we're all trained at Quantico by the CIA. The older ones of WWII variety WERE trained by the OSS. ALL of the heads of every major media outlet are part of T-H-I-S conspiracy. All of them! McCarthy was murdered, as was dear little Dorothy [brave heart] Kilgallen, William Cooper along with the 26 witnesses to the Kennedy debacle in Dallas who saw the "clowns", the shooters behind the picket fence and new the Truth that the Warren commission was setup to cover-up. No!! Nothing has changed. The traitor Alger Hiss and the Luciferian Spangler sold the U.S. out at the League of Nations clownery of 1945 and later...in the U.N. The men & women you love: Obama, Ruth Ginsburg, the Clinton cartel, Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Hillary, Bill and the Bush crime family...will burn in Hell for what they have done. The poor, sole Americans who were murdered on the way to give true testimony...those killed in their sleep...the ravaging of the great Christian Republic of 1776 by embedded, generational moles, elitist, Fabian socialists and satanists have worked for this day. It is your hour!!! Satan is the god of Amerika. Jesus is calumniated. Christians are hated. Women are men.en are women. Our luciferian leaders hate the 3 foundational documents that were the basis of our greatness: The Bible The constitution The Bill-of-Rights Now, we have no honor, no morals, no borders, no God...and...soon... No hope

[@caseystinnett6514]

We have people like him today, but no one listens to them.

[@jimroberts8140]

Murrow was a giant, propelled to fame by his gripping wartime broadcasts from London during the blitz. Rachel Maddow is the closest to being his equal as a crusading writer and broadcaster.

[@davidbostock6933]

Strange, none of you bother to mention Bernie Sanders in your silly whines.

[@schroedericeman7200]

One of the greatest disses in history

[@bigbob1699]

He made speaking an art form . Thanks a lot Ed.

[@timlewis1165]

He was one of those civilised individuals who did not insist upon agreement with his political principles as a precondition for conversation or friendship. Chills

[@kerrykeene6471]

I'd say the closest, if not equal, would be Walter Cronkite. LBJ said that, when he lost Cronkite's support for the Vietnam War, he knee the public's support would also decline. It did. Edward R. Murrow had integrity and the guts to call out McCarthy as a liar. I wonder how he'd be received today, as divided as we are?

[@The_Captain2000]

Walter learned at the feet of Murrow. The closest that we have today is Jon Stewart -- and he isn't even a journalist. But, he's has been one of the very few who has consistently been unafraid to stand up to and confront corruption and abuses of power and the proliferation of misinformation. McCarthy destroyed the careers of brilliant artists like Burgess Meredith who couldn't find work for many years until he was forced to take the role of the Penguin. To a degree, he was able to recover eventually. Many weren't able to. McCarthy even put Lucy on the stand. He saw himself as having limitless power and delusional enough to believe he deserved it. He believed he was immune to wrongdoing. Moreover, he reached a point where he didn't care and deemed no difference between whatever he did and what was right. In essence, he disassociated himself from reality. Thank God and Edward R. Murrow that McCarthy's power didn't last. One would think that America would never make that mistake again. As long as one continues to think, we won't.

[@LPMAN02]

“Good Night, and Good Luck” RIP Edward R. Murrow (April 25, 1908 - April 27, 1965), aged 57 You will be remembered as a hero.

[@matthewwhitton5720]

God bless Mr Murrow.

[@amaramilligan349]

Gather round little children and pay attention! This is real journalism not infotainment.

[@tonnnyy7766]

This great reactionary radio commentator is much needed today. Big business is in bed with big government these days. Monopolies run everything and hold change hostage.

[@messiahsbythesackful6267]

We have learned nothing...

[@pcbacklash_3261]

Once upon a time, Joseph Welch devastated McCarthy by asking him, _"...Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"_ McCarthy had no reply. Now, nearly 70 years later, the GOP finally has an answer: _"Nope."_

[@badgeswedontneednostinking5571]

Exactly right

[@EuropeanQoheleth]

Hitchens had no decency either.

[@johnhummer265]

Dalton Trumbo, a screenwriter, who was one of the 'Hollywood Ten' who refused to testify before HUAC summed it up best in reference the the committees conduct during the HUAC investigations...." It will do no good to look for heros or villians, because there were none, only victims."

[@glennvastine5713]

This from the Party of Jeffery Epstein? I’ll assume you were kidding.

[@pcbacklash_3261]

@@glennvastine5713 So _who_ is the "party of Jeffery Epstein? The Democrats, because Epstein partied with Clinton? Or the Republicans, because Epstein partied with Trump? I stand by my comment. The currency of today's GOP is lies, lies and more lies.

[@deanfiora4227]

I strongly recommend Joseph E. Persico's 1988 biography, "Edward R. Murrow: An American Original."

[@richardwrynn824]

Imagine what McCarthy would have been like if he had twitter...

[@WalkmanYT]

LMAO

[@paulzapodeanu9407]

All one needs to do is look at Trump'# tweets. Though you probably lose 1 iq poin every time you read one.

[@WalkmanYT]

@@paulzapodeanu9407 Yea, and it's also weird to imagine it the other way around, as if Donald never had Twitter.

[@DorvellTStewart]

I assume that’s meant to be sarcastic, tongue in cheek or whatever; we don’t need to imagine, as the current occupant of the White House could easily be McCarthy 2.0 at least.

[@skymaster4743]

Down with Cultural Marxism #COMMIEINFILTRATION

[@brettfavreify]

"I require no lectures from the junior senator from Wisconsin...."

[@mikehersh6192]

None of us do

[@MericaMotherFucker]

Epic takedown. One of the very best when you consider the follow through.

[@adolfeichman9919]

Murrow would be called a radical now because he told the truth. In an Era of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. Also J Edgar hoover was right about Mccarthy "Sen Mccarthy is nothing but an opportunist and lacks any real reason or logic"

[@matthewgabbard6415]

Which is just a bit ironic coming from Hoover. But he was right this time

[@timothymacpherson7452]

McCarthy was 100 percent right though.

[@augustbear6548]

How timely.

[@mikehersh6192]

Good night and good luck. We The People 2023. 🌵🌵🌵💃🕺👩‍🎓👨‍🎓

[@prepostmodern1032]

Mc Carthy was a lot like many in the GOP and Trump today. The difference is that these days people don't take time to see through them.

[@thebossbaby7402]

Nah, if anything trump and the gop have witch hunts and definitely aren’t committed to the truth. Anyone who disagrees them is a “woke liberal commie” or something. I guarantee you if he were alive today, Murrow would denounce Trump and the GOP.

[@lilajagears8317]

So says the leftist moron.

[@thebossbaby7402]

@@lilajagears8317 see that’s what I’m talking about. People like you say anyone who makes fun of your cult leader is a “leftist moron” or some shit. It’s like you have a hard on for him

[@retiredusvet4396]

Right. Ignore the liberal media covering up for and championing the disaster that is Sleepy Joe and his crooked, inept administration. I believe Mr. Murrow wouldn't be a part of that farce today that denigrates and attacks President Trump, and he'd be under the attack of liberals and democrats- and many RINOS, too!

[@lilajagears8317]

@@retiredusvet4396 Absolutely no doubt about it.

[@johnnyballenatl]

Think about it: If it wasn’t for Milo Radulovich, we would’ve had _President_ Joe McCarthy instead of John F. Kennedy. (Milo Radulovich, by the way, was the man responsible for the See It Now broadcast that led to McCarthy’s downfall; he died in 2007 at age 81)

[@canofpizzasauce667]

Thank you Milo.

[@ThomasPashko]

Radulovich wasn't responsible for the broadcast, he was the subject of a news report by Murrow.

[@AGMundy]

A devastating destruction of the horrible McCarthy.

[@arsinoe92283]

"Anchors having an opinion isn't a new phenomenon. Murrow had one and that was the end of McCarthy. Cronkite had one and that was the end of Vietnam."

[@JonWestphall]

I believe you're quoting a line spoken by the character Will McAvoy from "The Newsroom", a terrific HBO show done by Aaron Sorkin. The pilot episode's opening scene was fantastic with Will's rant at Northwestern on the state of America. It's no less applicable today. Sorkin clearly has a lot of respect for what the journalists of yesteryear brought to us that is now sadly lacking- truth spoken directly to those in power.

[@nsnopper]

There is nothing wrong with a news anchor having an opinion. It becomes problematic when we have nothing but opinion and streams-of-consciousness rants - whether on the left or right. The opinions of Murrow and Cronkite mattered because they reported the news AS NEWS - as objectively and matter-of-factly as is possible (without spiralling down into phenomenological analysis which . . . well, let’s not go there). Cronkite was deemed The Most Trusted Man in America. When he spoke from the heart, he clearly said this was now editorial opinion, and people listened.

[@timothymacpherson7452]

Both of them were lying scum of the establishment.

[@djnofly]

Thank you for posting. We need more Murrow's these days

[@pinoyelvis]

why

[@johnhodge1263]

@@pinoyelvis freedom of Speech # FreeAssange

[@wayneenterprises77]

Alger hiss claimed he wasn't a communist as well

[@roystonmason9125]

@@pinoyelvis FREE SPEACH = TRUTH

[@23bnichols]

@@wayneenterprises77 Relevance?

[@bryanthomsen5551]

Somebody needed to stand up to McCarthy and expose him for the bully and the blowhard that he was.

[@PGar58]

‘Good night and good luck.’ (mic drop)

[@-617-destroyer8]

lols, I was think'n the same thing! [=

[@jerometaperman7102]

"He claimed but offered no proof..." This can and has been readily applied to Donald J. Trump today.

[@annalisavajda252]

Well actually Trump was also wrongfully accused of Russian Collusion by the Democrats but he did call the New York AG a communist too Americans seem to enjoy the red scare on both sides of the aisle and people are ignorant about it.

[@nsnopper]

I recommend the movie Good Night and Good Luck (2005), which told story of the McCarthy - Murrow TV duel.

[@johncourt6434]

I would like to have hear what he would think of todays USA. But I am sure he would not pull any punches re MAGA and Trump.

[@edenalcantara8472]

The last nail to the coffin.

[@rgplpc]

Unfortunately, we Americans apparently have learned little from the McCarthy mess. We continue to elect individuals who boast of their love for their country while campaigning, but manifest their hate for any fellow citizen that does not agree after the election.

[@donnasloane9031]

Bravo!

[@emiliek2269]

If only ANYONE in journalism or Congress today had the balls Murrow did, maybe the narcissistic former holder of the office of the President wouldn’t have been able to do such damage to American “democracy “.

[@ronfarbman8124]

A PERFECT reply. Stand up, even if you stand alone!!!

[@BGNOLA]

Right, because the media was too nice to Trump. ;)

[@JDYTC]

I think you’d be surprised how Murrow would expose the hypocrisy, demagoguery and race-baiting of the woke political left nowadays and how utterly ironic it is that after a year of BLM-riots Biden & Harris of all people got elected 🤡 (I don’t think there is a couple of politicians that carry more responsibility for the mass incarnation of blacks than those two lol.) Nonetheless, could you please elaborate and add some arguments to your hilariously baseless and empty opinion? What “damage” did Trump exactly do “to American democracy” and how did he do that?? Since I am a libertarian i.e. against any form slavery, I myself am not a follower of the religion called “democracy”, or political authority at all for that matter, but I am just curious if and how you would backup your primitive and baseless claim? 🤡

[@marcot3333]

@@JDYTC What about the dog whistling to race haters, tax scofflaws, pedophiles, religious fanatics Republicans do?

[@saeed7099]

@@BGNOLA do you even read,/ comprehend what you right? How on earth could have much, if any, impact on African Americans being incarcerated?

[@thegreatrenaldo7718]

Jerry Seinfeld sent me here via the Rich Eisen show interview

[@Afreon]

"He was one of those civilized individuals who did not insist upon agreement with his political principles as a precondition for conversation or friendship" I remember hearing that line in Good Night and Good Luck and grinning from ear to ear. It would be naive and romantic to believe there was a time when that attitude could be assumed. But I would hope it isn't considered naive or romantic to have assumed that we, as a people, we're moving towards such a frame if thought. It saddens me that we (apparently at least) are not

[@totallynotalpharius2283]

Yep. I'm a socialist , several of my friends are conservatives. When politics come up we disagree. We're still friends because we know each other as good people

[@KonElKent]

"... We must conclude that [McCarthy] found [no errors of fact]." And the mic was dropped.

[@BGNOLA]

The Venona transcripts proved McCarthy was more right than wrong.

[@richardn6768]

@@BGNOLA plainly and simply absurd

[@BGNOLA]

@@richardn6768 This is obviously the first time you've heard about Venona, so it does come as a shock.

[@oskarr5201]

@@BGNOLA To some degree, the documents may prove legitimacy of McCarthy's fear, but they do not rationalize his silencing of peoples, sowing fear with broad strokes or his blatant disregard for due process. Fear mongering and accusations born from slander and gossip is unprofessional and not warranted by the proof of spies.

[@BGNOLA]

@@oskarr5201 All of those accused in the McCarthy hearings had due process. I think you're confusing him with HUAC.

[@johnsradios484]

And 70 years later we got Trump!

[@JayCity10]

Who is among the greatest presidents ever. Thank you Sen. McCarthy, you were a hero. Despite what leftists and Communists say or do.

[@petersmith5219]

The Edward R Murrows exist in of all places Australia. Take a look how Jonathan Swan deals with today's politicians. Australia is full of journalists like Swan who have drawn upon the example of Murrow in their own reporting style. Politicians as people are shown no deference - their position is held in high regard but not the individual. Not even their prime minister.

[@hmonster1XL]

So basically Trump wasn’t even original in his methods.

[@heathspencer8450]

Exactly. Demagogues have always existed in American politics, sadly, they're just becoming more effective these days.

[@roystonmason9125]

ROY COHN was TRUMPS LAWYER

[@Deadprez41]

We need more man like him now. I think Keith Oberman is as close as we are going g to vet

[@johnnypastrana6727]

Oh please, Christ are you delusional...

[@mikeorclem]

ed was a true american..good man who stuck to his guns thru thick and thin.

[@mikehersh6192]

Spot on. 😊

[@JW4REnvironment]

Trump sounds a lot like McCarthy, to our potential peril!

[@user-eo9ie7zn9p]

Yeah, THUAC went after Walt Disney, U.S. Army, Red Cross, Fed. French, Spanish, English American. MI KS native.

[@user-bo3qq3ux5k]

영상 잘봤습니다. 학교 과제로 사용해도 될까요?

[@jimmyflanagan5938]

And a Walter Cronkite

[@RobynHode8]

Would have been interesting to see him put Trump in his place.

[@thomasupton2664]

Sound like Trump?

[@johnnyappleseed856]

Wow, how the roles have reversed! Give it time!

[@Rabithebengali]

Murrow did not take on McCarthy till he was on the way out

[@shaystern2453]

sound like trumpism

[@timm_3r]

No wonder why msnbc thinks he's the cat's meow.

[@fountbrooks2997]

This was Tucker Carlson in 1956 pretty much.

[@buckeyewill2166]

Nope.

[@roystonmason9125]

@@buckeyewill2166 YUP

[@damianlynch872]

To refer to tucker carlson in the same sentence as Mr Murrow should only be in terms of polar opposites in terms of temperament and conduct.

[@jimmyflanagan5938]

Carlson couldn't carry water for this great patriot.

[@johnnyappleseed856]

Hey, it's Tucker Carlson!

[@richardn6768]

comparing Murrow to Carlson is like comparing a pumpkin pie to a cow pie

[@JC-jj7kt]

Mmmmm pumpkin pie

[@lilajagears8317]

I will take Tucker over this leftist bozo anyday.

[@johnnypastrana6727]

Carlson is the only real journalist in mainstream America...

[@donlittle732]

Now Carlson is unemployed

[@BGNOLA]

McCarthy was right.

[@amaramilligan349]

😆😆😆

[@roystonmason9125]

he sucked

[@hawks7775]

anyone looking for a great intelligent communicator look into jordan peterson..give him a chance in many topics before judging..

[@mrearlygold]

McCarthy was right!

[@totallynotalpharius2283]

Sadly he wasn't :(

[@richardn6768]

only to rabid, far right, paranoid fanatics

[@thefaith2332]

@jacke sutton pilsner coltrane everyone he accused of he has been proven

[@amaramilligan349]

😆😆😆

[@lilajagears8317]

@@thefaith2332 Exactly.