"Have You No Decency?" | McCarthy | American Experience | PBS

[@ajhollingworth1]

Back when not having a sense of decency was considered to be a problem for a member of the US Congress. Joe McCarthy's behavior pales into insignificance versus the disgusting antics on display for the past ten years.

[@happyhour4670]

Really?

[@_somerandomguyontheinternet_]

@@happyhour4670you know how many innocent people had their names dragged through the mud in November and December of 2020 alone because of the outrageous indecency that was the Trump disinformation campaign that culminated in Jan. 6th? Also, speaking of: if McCarthy at the height of his popularity had gathered a crowd of armed individuals down the street from the Capitol building and directed them to march down to disrupt a key government function, resulting in the forcible entry of the Capitol building and multiple deaths, he would have been dragged off to jail, his reputation in ruins and his career in shreds. Trump got a slap on the wrist and ran for president, *and he’s winning the primary.* So yes, times have very much changed.

[@chrisspieker4202]

​@@happyhour4670yes

[@ronenfe]

Can you explain what was the problem here? This story was already known in public.

[@chrisspieker4202]

@@happyhour4670 Yes

[@cheaplaffsarefree]

This was the greatest moral rebuke in American history. Nowadays I'm afraid it would have no effect at all.

[@marcusdavenport1590]

You do understand that McCarthy was correct right???

[@simonmekonen5853]

​@marcusdavenport1590 he was right that Fischer had been part of a communist group in his college days. But they questioned his sense of decency when attacking a person not connected to this case. Remember the introduction; the opposing lawyer had remarkably not been drafted to the Korean War, so they agreed to not bring up this fact and keep Fischer out of the limelight. During this time you could lose everything, including friends and family, by just being accused of harboring communist ideas....

[@henrimatisse7481]

pretty sure it's been tried and the Senators shrug it off

[@geoycs]

McCarthy wasn’t correct!! He was horrible, and was very un-American. If you don’t know that, God help you.

[@marcusdavenport1590]

@@geoycs you're just an ignorant person who doesn't read. There's no credible historian on earth that agrees with you. You not knowing that he was correct just makes you ignorant of history.

[@pendafen7405]

"And may I add my small voice, Sir...." The absolute derision with which he delivered that. And rightfully so.

[@sprsmoke]

McCarthy has been proven correct. A shame the corrupt establishment was able to destroy him. Lesson. Do not expose the criminal enterprise.

[@manifestgtr]

Dude, the look on Roy’s face is absolutely timeless…I don’t care if you’re a caveman from the Stone Age, a lawyer in the 50s or someone cruising KZbin in 2023, you recognize that facial expression.

[@robert9016]

Ah yes, the three time periods of history known to Americans

[@donbrynelsen2157]

Joseph McCarthy was at a party where one of the other guests was Theodore Roosevelt's daughter Alice Roosevelt Longworth. McCarthy quipped "You must be my date, I think I'll call you Alice" to which she responded, "Mr McCarthy, the garbage men may call me Alice, the cop on the corner may call me Alice, you sir, may not!"

[@ebaagant2274]

I love alice roosevelt

[@marcusdavenport1590]

❎❎❎PBS spreading more misinformation! 🤣 McCarthy was not wrong, go look at the venona papers, the pumpkin patch papers, etc... These communist were named by other Communist who were involved in the spying like Whitaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley. We have their communist party numbers, we have the checks they used to pay their communist party dues, (it was illegal to be a communist or fascist or any other authoritarian system in the government), these people gave our NUCLEAR SECRETS to Russia and China! North Korea would not be a threat today if not for these people! China would not be Communist and 100 million people wouldn't have died. D day, the holocaust, the Vietnam War and Korea all wouldn't have happened. Not to mention the massive number of people that communist murdered in their own countries via mass execution and starvation in the last 100 years. That's over 250 million people in total! They died because of these spies and here PBS is attempting to act as if McCarthy was wrong because he was tired of democrats lying to help these communist. Keep in mind one of the democrats on this board apologized later when he realized how his lies during these hearing helped Russia control US foreign policy. They were literally having fun lying because they knew that America's justice system couldn't arrest them because the army couldn't make the Venona papers public because we didn't want Russia to know we had broken their code and were reading about the spies they had in our government including the right hand of the president who lived in the WhiteHouse and was taking orders directly from Russia. Alger Hiss, Harry Hopkins, Harry Dexter White, etc... To post this as if we didn't have Intel proving he was guilty is laughable!!! We couldn't release the evidence because we didn't want Russia to know back then... Today we have the evidence... So posting this without context is dishonest!

[@AmateurHistorian999]

Longworth had a magnificent, rapier tongue.

[@57highland]

​@@AmateurHistorian999No, she was a privileged and wholly predictable smart-aleck, nothing more.

[@manfmalachi]

Is that true? It sounds like something a Roosevelt would say honestly

[@pyromania1018]

There was another badass moment that occurred at the end of the hearing, in which a humiliated McCarthy tried to save face by shouting that his opponents "weren't fooling anybody". One of them sneered that the whole nation just saw McCarthy's antics on live TV, then tossed back, "You're not fooling anyone, either."

[@williestyle35]

McCarthy was a... irritable, troublesome heavy drinker. But he would have said he had seen communists" in his own closet, if it got him another 5 minutes in front of the news cameras.

[@HypervoxelRBX]

mccarthy was right

[@AmateurHistorian999]

​@@HypervoxelRBX His moment of being right made his actions right?

[@heatblur1]

They labeled Joseph McCarthy as a drunkard after he died and couldn't defend himself just like they made up the crap about Hoover, who was also a staunch anti-Communist, being a cross dresser and homosexual after he was dead and couldn't defend himself ... Remember the fake "pee dossier" Russian collusion story and the Ukraine phone call story they made up against President Trump?... Same tactic... lies and propaganda from the Communists in the Democrat Party, Hollywood, the Media and Academia. That's how Communists destroy their enemies... Through lies, slander and projection. @@williestyle35

[@adanmaoriaku]

With his gay self...

[@TalkingSoup]

people need to start saying this to modern senators

[@reeferseasalt]

...yup

[@radiocameron]

Trump needs to hear this.

[@BaconBeast11]

Come on man!

[@sylviaross5486]

Talking Soup You got that right.

[@AdamBorseti]

I don't think he'd understand. Grandpa would just waltz off and try to find Kamala lol.

[@Gsoup83]

its crazy how these folks are connected to what is happening now.

[@BrianRenardDavis]

Understandable Statement. However The Oligarchs Plan 50, 100, And Sometimes 200 Years In Advance.

[@AmateurHistorian999]

Roy Cohn was a Trump advisor. I'm shocked, shocked!

[@AmateurHistorian999]

​@@BrianRenardDavisThis sure was. The Southern Strategy was born after the Civil Rights Act, and kicked in for real after Nixon resigned.

[@BrianRenardDavis]

@@AmateurHistorian999 Sho Nuff. And I'd Like To Say You Got A Dope Screen Name.

[@ubprof1]

Don’t ever give up on understanding that a righteous moral rebuke is an obligation in public life , now perhaps as much if not more than in 1954. Bless the memory of Joe Welsh for the example he continues to provide us of righteous indignation. He stands in our history in that regard with Dr. King.

[@senior_ranger]

Amazing opening. I was seven years old and sitting under that ironing board as my mother worked and we watched the hearings!!! Got a recap at dinner as my mother told my father what had happened.

[@kp4574]

If you have to constantly tout your patriotism, then you’re probably not much of a patriot, imho; i.e., actions speak louder than words.

[@sylviaross5486]

K P Yeah, it's just like the fake Christians who are constantly preaching about God & the Bible, & shame both the people who aren't evangelical - I'm a U.S. Episcopalian, an extremely progressive Protestant denomination whom they consider heretics & are going to Hell unless we repent & join their fascist denomination - & atheists & agnostics. It's also like conservatives - many of whom are evangelicals whose actions overlap with the constant preaching of God & the Bible - who're constantly railing against the LGBTQ community, then you find out most, if not all, evangelicals who constantly condemn & speak out against the LGBTQ community are, in fact, themselves closeted gays.

[@tomservo75]

Maybe, but you can substitute patriotism with other terms such as "anti-racism" or "diversity" or my favorite, "tolerance"

[@ebaagant2274]

@@tomservo75 one of the strays hit you didn't it

[@marcusdavenport1590]

❎❎❎PBS spreading more misinformation! 🤣 McCarthy was not wrong, go look at the venona papers, the pumpkin patch papers, etc... These communist were named by other Communist who were involved in the spying like Whitaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley. We have their communist party numbers, we have the checks they used to pay their communist party dues, (it was illegal to be a communist or fascist or any other authoritarian system in the government), these people gave our NUCLEAR SECRETS to Russia and China! North Korea would not be a threat today if not for these people! China would not be Communist and 100 million people wouldn't have died. D day, the holocaust, the Vietnam War and Korea all wouldn't have happened. Not to mention the massive number of people that communist murdered in their own countries via mass execution and starvation in the last 100 years. That's over 250 million people in total! They died because of these spies and here PBS is attempting to act as if McCarthy was wrong because he was tired of democrats lying to help these communist. Keep in mind one of the democrats on this board apologized later when he realized how his lies during these hearing helped Russia control US foreign policy. They were literally having fun lying because they knew that America's justice system couldn't arrest them because the army couldn't make the Venona papers public because we didn't want Russia to know we had broken their code and were reading about the spies they had in our government including the right hand of the president who lived in the WhiteHouse and was taking orders directly from Russia. Alger Hiss, Harry Hopkins, Harry Dexter White, etc... To post this as if we didn't have Intel proving he was guilty is laughable!!! We couldn't release the evidence because we didn't want Russia to know back then... Today we have the evidence... So posting this without context is dishonest!

[@AmateurHistorian999]

​@@tomservo75I see you didn't learn false equivalency in school.

[@hughobrien4964]

Welch was true to his side of the bargain he didn’t raise Cohns draft dodge

[@theMosen]

@Lord Of Vengeance You haven't got the slightest clue what my "cause" is.

[@kavathza4660]

@kittens2 Veternick McCarthy was a nazi bastard and so are you.

[@gaiterat6187]

Curious. Which fact was relevant to the issue of communist infiltration?

[@tl8211]

@@gaiterat6187 If you actually read something about that hearing, you would know one of the main issues was privileged treatment that had been asked by Roy Cohn for a private.

[@jaymorgenthal9479]

Cohn tried like hell to get special treatment for his boyfriend G. David Schine who had just been drafted.

[@edenalcantara8472]

If Mr. Welch brought up the "draft dodger" Roy Cohn, that would have ruin Roy Cohn.

[@dangelo1369]

You mean besides the fact that Cohn was gay?

[@andrewz4537]

That might have saved us a lot of grief from Roger Stone.

[@stloupenbray]

@@dangelo1369 But "draft dodger" would have been a legitimate charge: His sexuality would have been a scandal-mongering injustice!

[@cuitlamcuautencos8306]

In this footage, Roy Cohn resembles Ben Shapiro quite strongly.

[@Uhtred772]

Both are of the same race

[@dehavillandcanadatwinotter9621]

I hate Cohn with a passion

[@Arthur5260]

We need to remember history.

[@g.r.senterprisevenatorclas7314]

Before Progressives erase it.

[@popcorn8153]

@@g.r.senterprisevenatorclas7314 Or Conservatives repeat it

[@bluesteel6310]

@@popcorn8153 That's actually a really good idea, we need this to happen today.

[@popcorn8153]

@@bluesteel6310 lol

[@popcorn8153]

@Sebastian Guevara ooohh ya got me there big guy. Must have been hard to conjure up that one.

[@ronfarbman8124]

What does this teach us? stand up; even if you stand alone. As Ed Murrow stated let us not confuse descent with disloyalty. Very proud to say I am also a Washington state alum.

[@nuqwestr]

you may want to check your spelling, i sometimes get it wrong, too, and don't mind the correction. "descent".

[@tvdv3416]

Are you talking about dissent?

[@rc7625]

@@tvdv3416 I think he just made a typo.

[@tvdv3416]

@@rc7625 cellphone spell check.......one day it's going to start a war.

[@AirForceChmtrails]

A Descent into Dissent is not Disloyalty. I say America sucks! This country is an Oligarchy robbing the Middle Class and the Poor while feeding the Rich Swine! America sucks!

[@drewtuten1562]

Those who fail to remember the past are destined to repeat it. We have multiple versions of this going on today.

[@brahmburgers]

True, when McCarthy's mug first flashed on the screen, I thought it was Ted Cruz.

[@frankpaya690]

@@brahmburgers I thought it was Biden, (who being mentored by Robert Byrd, a former Grand wizard of the ku Klux Klan) has more ties to white supremacy than 99.9% of Americans, yet he's gaslights the country about it, it's like he's standing there pissing on your foot as he's insisting to you it's "raining".

[@frankpaya690]

@nishanth v I'm probably bigger than you and where it really matters, Little woman

[@JR-cg1rq]

Which part of "repeating" are you talking about? Everything McCarthy said was true.. all of it revealed when the Venona transcripts were released in 1995 showing the Soviet agents were throughout the US Govt. And thats exactly whats happening now except the same scum are now in the pay of China

[@juanc5149]

Cancel culture! Me too!

[@anyahathaway9613]

We read this in class once in high school. I got to yell at bullies about their decency.

[@marcusdavenport1590]

These men were lying.... You do realize that right? McCarthy was correct. Go look at the historical record. These spies led to millions of people dying. Not to mention they have our nuclear secrets to Russia even helped them steal our nuclear materials... They took it during the time it was illegal for these materials to leave our country... Communist spies in the WhiteHouse sent them to Russia. Please go look this up. Over 100 million people died because of these spies... They were taking money directly from Russia. If you need help with what books to read or government reports lmk

[@hushpuckena126]

The epitaph for McCarthy was thus written by Joseph Welch, a man of integrity, three years in advance of the end of his miserable life. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[@bkturner713]

The video fails to include the great applause that came from the room after Welch's "call for decency."

[@publicanimal]

A bunch of commies in the gallery applauded. So what?

[@matthew5386]

@@publicanimal have you read marx?

[@tvdv3416]

@@matthew5386 have you?

[@matthew5386]

@@tvdv3416 yes

[@tvdv3416]

@@matthew5386 which books?

[@albertcalleros9489]

During the time of McCarthy's political 'reign of terror,' the sacrosanct concept of 'Freedom of [Political] Association' was nonexistent.

[@nuqwestr]

"reign of terror" is a bit hyperbolic, it was a media frenzy, a circus, but no one was guillotined.

[@marcusdavenport1590]

❎❎❎PBS spreading more misinformation! 🤣 McCarthy was not wrong, go look at the venona papers, the pumpkin patch papers, etc... These communist were named by other Communist who were involved in the spying like Whitaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley. We have their communist party numbers, we have the checks they used to pay their communist party dues, (it was illegal to be a communist or fascist or any other authoritarian system in the government), these people gave our NUCLEAR SECRETS to Russia and China! North Korea would not be a threat today if not for these people! China would not be Communist and 100 million people wouldn't have died. D day, the holocaust, the Vietnam War and Korea all wouldn't have happened. Not to mention the massive number of people that communist murdered in their own countries via mass execution and starvation in the last 100 years. That's over 250 million people in total! They died because of these spies and here PBS is attempting to act as if McCarthy was wrong because he was tired of democrats lying to help these communist. Keep in mind one of the democrats on this board apologized later when he realized how his lies during these hearing helped Russia control US foreign policy. They were literally having fun lying because they knew that America's justice system couldn't arrest them because the army couldn't make the Venona papers public because we didn't want Russia to know we had broken their code and were reading about the spies they had in our government including the right hand of the president who lived in the WhiteHouse and was taking orders directly from Russia. Alger Hiss, Harry Hopkins, Harry Dexter White, etc... To post this as if we didn't have Intel proving he was guilty is laughable!!! We couldn't release the evidence because we didn't want Russia to know back then... Today we have the evidence... So posting this without context is dishonest!

[@ignorecorporatenews]

Roy Cohn: Trump's lawyer and mentor

[@jamesmcinnis208]

He taught him the strategy of deceit.

[@davidbryce6970]

Cohn taught Trump his approach; attack, attack, attack, then, delay, delay, delay.

[@ignorecorporatenews]

@@davidbryce6970 thank you

[@bodhimedia1]

Least not forget Roy Cohn guided Donald Trump in his younger years.

[@frankpaya690]

Forget it? did you just make that up?

[@dennispence9974]

Yes - back when Trump was a Democrat

[@sherirobinson5112]

And the Mob...oh, same thing

[@TuckerPastor]

Least not forget Joe Mccarthy was an American hero.

[@JR-cg1rq]

Just as McCarthy correctly claimed and was later proven to be 100% true the the US Govt was riddled with Communist spies.. so too did Trump claim that the US Govt in 2020 is riddles with Chinese bribe takers, spies, and influencers. Nothing has change especially the moronic Left that can never admit the truth about themselves.

[@blueknight07]

"He will bear a scar which has been inflicted by you" that just sums up how damaging Joseph Mccarthy was.

[@lilajagears8317]

He was an American patriot.

[@blueknight07]

​@@lilajagears8317Sorry. If your trying to play trigger the Liberal, find someone else

[@lilajagears8317]

@@blueknight07 So says the simple minded leftist.

[@blueknight07]

@@lilajagears8317 So says the American traitor.

[@lilajagears8317]

@@blueknight07 The only traitors are Marxists such as yourself.

[@goldgeologist5320]

We as a society have lost decency! We have lost appropriate behavior and moral grounding.

[@carlcarlson1369]

Look at the facial expressions of Roy Cohen when he realized McCartney McCartney broke the agreement. Priceless

[@philobetto5106]

McCarthy True American !

[@theeatherlash69]

​@@philobetto5106 No he wasn't. If Joe McCarthy had been paid to sew division, chaos, and lack of action in the American government against the foreign enemies of our country against our allies and potential allies... he could not have done a better job than he did. Much like Donald Trump. It literally paralyzed our government, and gave tax breaks to the rich, and increased taxes on the majority of the middle class, and even raised taxes on the poorest Americans by not updating the poverty line -- and that is the only thing Trump accomplished in his entire 4 years in office. McCarthy, likewise, produced nothing of consequence for the average American save a spectacle and punchlines. Even Trump's judges didn't do the things he wanted them to do.

[@AirForceChmtrails]

@@philobetto5106 R u on LSD?

[@philobetto5106]

@@AirForceChmtrails not recently, you have some?

[@AirForceChmtrails]

@@philobetto5106 Never touch the stuff. However, I get my highs correcting corrupt People who think McCarthy is a saint.

[@vinzclortho2638]

This was a preview of 45. Including Roy Cohn being involved with both epic failures.

[@dixiecommons2826]

You my friend are very wise.

[@tomservo75]

If you're referring to Trump, he IS Mr. Welch. If you really don't see that then you've learned nothing from McCarthyism. Senators, Congresspeople, news pundits, career bureaucrats at the FBI, DOJ, CIA, constantly and relentlessly bringing up one baseless accusation or another against Trump, his family, friends, and associates, all in an attempt to get him to resign or not run again, is just as shameful as anything McCarthy ever did. There are modern-day McCarthys. Their names are Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, Robert Mueller, Eric Swalwell, Adam Kinsinger, Liz Cheney, among many others. How many good people like Gen. Michael Flynn or Rudy Giuliani have been needlessly tarred and feathered by Trump's enemies. Trump and his supporters ARE Mr. Welch, NOT Sen. McCarthy. If you really can't see that, then we've truly learned nothing from this era.

[@marcusdavenport1590]

❎❎❎PBS spreading more misinformation! 🤣 McCarthy was not wrong, go look at the venona papers, the pumpkin patch papers, etc... These communist were named by other Communist who were involved in the spying like Whitaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley. We have their communist party numbers, we have the checks they used to pay their communist party dues, (it was illegal to be a communist or fascist or any other authoritarian system in the government), these people gave our NUCLEAR SECRETS to Russia and China! North Korea would not be a threat today if not for these people! China would not be Communist and 100 million people wouldn't have died. D day, the holocaust, the Vietnam War and Korea all wouldn't have happened. Not to mention the massive number of people that communist murdered in their own countries via mass execution and starvation in the last 100 years. That's over 250 million people in total! They died because of these spies and here PBS is attempting to act as if McCarthy was wrong because he was tired of democrats lying to help these communist. Keep in mind one of the democrats on this board apologized later when he realized how his lies during these hearing helped Russia control US foreign policy. They were literally having fun lying because they knew that America's justice system couldn't arrest them because the army couldn't make the Venona papers public because we didn't want Russia to know we had broken their code and were reading about the spies they had in our government including the right hand of the president who lived in the WhiteHouse and was taking orders directly from Russia. Alger Hiss, Harry Hopkins, Harry Dexter White, etc... To post this as if we didn't have Intel proving he was guilty is laughable!!! We couldn't release the evidence because we didn't want Russia to know back then... Today we have the evidence... So posting this without context is dishonest!

[@Sandman2007]

And they still got nothing on Trump. 45 ftw!

[@oliveleaf7376]

​@@Sandman2007the documents case alone disqualifies him, if he is found guilty, which is looking increasingly likely. The RICO case is equally bad, and all his allies are folding there, too. If enough flip and testify that Trump was directly involved in spreading elections conspiracies, he's donezo.

[@jackgalmitz]

Couldn't even ask that question anymore. There is no more decency.

[@lairddougal3833]

Then it brought down a bully and political opportunist of the vilest sort. Now it would be shrugged off and the bullying and abuse would continue. Worse, it would continue to public applause. This is what we have we come to.

[@lurx2024]

In 1954, Roy Cohn's ally was Joe McCarthy, and his cruelty and viciousness would be called out once and for all. Years later Roy Cohn would serve another vicious and cruel future politician, Donald Trump. He has yet to have his moment of reckoning.

[@jamesmcinnis208]

Decency is a quaint old notion that no longer hinders the activities of our elected officials.

[@theforcedmeme]

If we really examine history, can we really say that decency was ever apart of the political system?

[@jamesmcinnis208]

@theforcedmemefilthypapist2892 Apart, undoubtedly. A part? Perhaps, when motivating the actions of those who were subject to the scrutiny and censure of their peers.

[@christophergrim3rdchannel610]

R.E.M.'s Song "Exhuming McCarthy" Brought My Here! The "Let Us Not Assassinate This Man Further Senator" Part Is In That Song!

[@roystonmason9125]

I effing love that song one of my favorite not just of REM but anyband !!!!! HONORABLE TO ME

[@marcusdavenport1590]

You do realize that McCarthy was correct right??? ❎❎❎PBS spreading more misinformation! 🤣 McCarthy was not wrong, go look at the venona papers, the pumpkin patch papers, etc... These communist were named by other Communist who were involved in the spying like Whitaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley. We have their communist party numbers, we have the checks they used to pay their communist party dues, (it was illegal to be a communist or fascist or any other authoritarian system in the government), these people gave our NUCLEAR SECRETS to Russia and China! North Korea would not be a threat today if not for these people! China would not be Communist and 100 million people wouldn't have died. D day, the holocaust, the Vietnam War and Korea all wouldn't have happened. Not to mention the massive number of people that communist murdered in their own countries via mass execution and starvation in the last 100 years. That's over 250 million people in total! They died because of these spies and here PBS is attempting to act as if McCarthy was wrong because he was tired of democrats lying to help these communist. Keep in mind one of the democrats on this board apologized later when he realized how his lies during these hearing helped Russia control US foreign policy. They were literally having fun lying because they knew that America's justice system couldn't arrest them because the army couldn't make the Venona papers public because we didn't want Russia to know we had broken their code and were reading about the spies they had in our government including the right hand of the president who lived in the WhiteHouse and was taking orders directly from Russia. Alger Hiss, Harry Hopkins, Harry Dexter White, etc... To post this as if we didn't have Intel proving he was guilty is laughable!!! We couldn't release the evidence because we didn't want Russia to know back then... Today we have the evidence... So posting this without context is dishonest!

[@jacobjones5269]

Roy was pissed.. lol.. You can see the disgust in his face, which is telling, because it’s Roy Cohn’s face!..

[@marcusdavenport1590]

❎❎❎PBS spreading more misinformation! 🤣 McCarthy was not wrong, go look at the venona papers, the pumpkin patch papers, etc... These communist were named by other Communist who were involved in the spying like Whitaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley. We have their communist party numbers, we have the checks they used to pay their communist party dues, (it was illegal to be a communist or fascist or any other authoritarian system in the government), these people gave our NUCLEAR SECRETS to Russia and China! North Korea would not be a threat today if not for these people! China would not be Communist and 100 million people wouldn't have died. D day, the holocaust, the Vietnam War and Korea all wouldn't have happened. Not to mention the massive number of people that communist murdered in their own countries via mass execution and starvation in the last 100 years. That's over 250 million people in total! They died because of these spies and here PBS is attempting to act as if McCarthy was wrong because he was tired of democrats lying to help these communist. Keep in mind one of the democrats on this board apologized later when he realized how his lies during these hearing helped Russia control US foreign policy. They were literally having fun lying because they knew that America's justice system couldn't arrest them because the army couldn't make the Venona papers public because we didn't want Russia to know we had broken their code and were reading about the spies they had in our government including the right hand of the president who lived in the WhiteHouse and was taking orders directly from Russia. Alger Hiss, Harry Hopkins, Harry Dexter White, etc... To post this as if we didn't have Intel proving he was guilty is laughable!!! We couldn't release the evidence because we didn't want Russia to know back then... Today we have the evidence... So posting this without context is dishonest!

[@RusTsea196T]

Back in a day when people and even politicians could still be held be a sense of shame. Nowadays, shame and it's companion, decency, are considered weaknesses and obstacles to amassing power.

[@cb7324]

Today, there is no shame or decency. Power continues to amass.

[@penboyasgod6103]

*"Have You No Decency?"* You know why NO ONE asks that to/about Trump? *Because EVERYONE ALREADY KNOWS he has no decency.*

[@theforcedmeme]

Decency doesn't win in the current political climate. There's always a scape goat or some oppressor vs oppressed narrative to give moral legitimacy to one's side

[@cybercop0083]

Roy Cohn here was his buddy and mentor. I am sure he taught him how to avoid it all.

[@credenza1]

Hundreds of millions disagree with that opinion.

[@penboyasgod6103]

@@credenza1 You're a liar. How do I know that? Trump got *less than 80M votes* in 2020. That's a hell of a lot less than "Hundreds of millions." *_Now, argue that._*

[@buckchile614]

Looks a little like and reminds me of the undistinguished Sen. from Texas, Ted Cruz

[@davidhickey1972]

WOW WE ARE LIVING THRU IT NOW

[@costantn]

I feel like playing the 7 Degrees of Roy Cohn. I'll go first... Orange Facist. Who's next???

[@MandolinRich]

@Zar gel hence the Nixon tattoo?

[@nuqwestr]

If I were on trail Roy Cohn would have been a great choice, damn good lawyer, but terrible human being. Trump is an ass, a clown, a poor executive, but he knows competence, and hires it, always has. When he hires and gets out of the way, he's successful, like with Trump Tower, If Trump had not run his own campaign in 2020, he might have won.

[@duckbizniz663]

The American people can see through the vail of patriotism. Joseph McCarthy has defined McCarthyism with his own name.

[@FelixRigg]

Thank you so much for posting this.

[@marcusdavenport1590]

❎❎❎PBS spreading more misinformation! 🤣 McCarthy was not wrong, go look at the venona papers, the pumpkin patch papers, etc... These communist were named by other Communist who were involved in the spying like Whitaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley. We have their communist party numbers, we have the checks they used to pay their communist party dues, (it was illegal to be a communist or fascist or any other authoritarian system in the government), these people gave our NUCLEAR SECRETS to Russia and China! North Korea would not be a threat today if not for these people! China would not be Communist and 100 million people wouldn't have died. D day, the holocaust, the Vietnam War and Korea all wouldn't have happened. Not to mention the massive number of people that communist murdered in their own countries via mass execution and starvation in the last 100 years. That's over 250 million people in total! They died because of these spies and here PBS is attempting to act as if McCarthy was wrong because he was tired of democrats lying to help these communist. Keep in mind one of the democrats on this board apologized later when he realized how his lies during these hearing helped Russia control US foreign policy. They were literally having fun lying because they knew that America's justice system couldn't arrest them because the army couldn't make the Venona papers public because we didn't want Russia to know we had broken their code and were reading about the spies they had in our government including the right hand of the president who lived in the WhiteHouse and was taking orders directly from Russia. Alger Hiss, Harry Hopkins, Harry Dexter White, etc... To post this as if we didn't have Intel proving he was guilty is laughable!!! We couldn't release the evidence because we didn't want Russia to know back then... Today we have the evidence... So posting this without context is dishonest!

[@samuelnsa1979]

Just heard Lewis Black bring this up in regard to the current President. Nobody said this to him

[@frankpaya690]

He didn't have it coming, he wasn't the slander, it was the people that kept talking about how he was colluding with Russia, when there was no evidence. Trump was the victim of McCarthy tactics by modern day Democrats, even here you people sound like the type that lets loose silent nasty farts and then blames somebody else for the stink you made.

[@tomservo75]

I do think it's a little over-the-top to call Joe Biden a McCarthyist, even though he's probably old enough to have served in the Senate with him. But the cabal of Democrats, government bureaucrats and news media (but I repeat myself) who have constantly HOUNDED Trump for 7 years on one fake scandal after another. Collusion. Racism. Phone calls to Ukraine. Covid, January 6. Files. It just never ever ends, these are people who picked out a suspect and then try to find a crime to attach to not only him, but anyone who dares to even support him. Ask Michael Flynn. Ask Rudolph Giuliani who was a hero in New York until he was tarred and featured by the Democrats. What they did, and are still trying, to do to Donald Trump is 10 times worse than anything McCarthy ever did.

[@roystonmason9125]

@@frankpaya690 never going to win with hate ! PILLBILLY hick o crite KLANSERVATIVE rethuglickin H8TRIOT

[@robertway5756]

​@@frankpaya690 Isn't poor, pool little twumpie ALWAYS the victim?

[@AmateurHistorian999]

​@@frankpaya690So Trump smells like roses? Yet smells of farts wherever he goes?

[@Stew357]

A hard core ideologue will tend to choose to die on the hill of the ideology rather than change course to a more reasonable position. The best example I can think of is the Jacobins during the French Revolution. They were "riding the tiger" of their ideology. Riding on the back of a tiger is obviously extremely dangerous, but you can't get off or tiger will eat you. That is exactly what happened to Maximilien Robespierre (leader in the French Revolution, he was executed by the same guillotine used to execute innocent Frenchman during the Reign of Terror.) This is the position many politicians in western countries are in today.

[@fredrikchristmansson3700]

Rightfully executed. Robespierre was an absolute lunatic and psychopath.

[@Stew357]

@@fredrikchristmansson3700 Agreed, I believe Robespierre's brother was also executed, along with a number of their leftist comrades. I can think of no worse act by a government than killing innocent civilians. It was to be repeated again and again by brutal totalitarian regimes during the 20th century.

[@stloupenbray]

McCarthy was not primarily an "ideologue," although that was part of his motivation; but really he was a scoundrel. And Roy Cohen later became a crony of Koch-Giuliani, and Trump!

[@marcusdavenport1590]

❎❎❎PBS spreading more misinformation! 🤣 McCarthy was not wrong, go look at the venona papers, the pumpkin patch papers, etc... These communist were named by other Communist who were involved in the spying like Whitaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley. We have their communist party numbers, we have the checks they used to pay their communist party dues, (it was illegal to be a communist or fascist or any other authoritarian system in the government), these people gave our NUCLEAR SECRETS to Russia and China! North Korea would not be a threat today if not for these people! China would not be Communist and 100 million people wouldn't have died. D day, the holocaust, the Vietnam War and Korea all wouldn't have happened. Not to mention the massive number of people that communist murdered in their own countries via mass execution and starvation in the last 100 years. That's over 250 million people in total! They died because of these spies and here PBS is attempting to act as if McCarthy was wrong because he was tired of democrats lying to help these communist. Keep in mind one of the democrats on this board apologized later when he realized how his lies during these hearing helped Russia control US foreign policy. They were literally having fun lying because they knew that America's justice system couldn't arrest them because the army couldn't make the Venona papers public because we didn't want Russia to know we had broken their code and were reading about the spies they had in our government including the right hand of the president who lived in the WhiteHouse and was taking orders directly from Russia. Alger Hiss, Harry Hopkins, Harry Dexter White, etc... To post this as if we didn't have Intel proving he was guilty is laughable!!! We couldn't release the evidence because we didn't want Russia to know back then... Today we have the evidence... So posting this without context is dishonest!

[@mikebelnap3079]

Based on current events I think McCarthy was over the target

[@robertway5756]

Based on current events Rump is a traitor.

[@ocean88eagle9]

He was dead on it, and the Commies pushed back on him and used the press to make him look like an idiot

[@Gk2003m]

One look at today’s McCarthy, and indeed the GOP has no decency

[@toreckman8899]

Said the democrat. ROFLMFAO.

[@jerometaperman7102]

And don't forget that Roy Cohn acted as a mentor to Donald Trump. That should explain a lot about Trump's utter lack of scruples.

[@toreckman8899]

@@jerometaperman7102 said the Clinton, Biden, Obama supporter. Three of the most scrupulous people on the planet. ROFLMFAO

[@jerometaperman7102]

@@toreckman8899 - Ooh, sick burn. No rebuttal, just putdowns. Can’t argue with those, I guess. At least Clinton was only impeached once in two terms, unlike Mr. Trump, who was impeached twice in one term and was the object of half of all presidential impeachments in US history and is the only president to be indicted by a grand jury but, not just one grand jury, four grand juries in four jurisdictions. But wait, wait, don’t tell me: Clinton deserved it but Mr. Trump’s legal proceedings are all politically motivated, right?

[@noblejennette2101]

@@toreckman8899ok

[@BerraPettersson]

Remember horrible mcCarthy during the fifties - now, 70 years later, we have a new awful mcCarthy...

[@roystonmason9125]

HISTORY REPEATS

[@AmateurHistorian999]

We have 49 McCarthy's in the senate and a majority in the House.

[@BerraPettersson]

@@AmateurHistorian999 - You are QUITE RIGHT!

[@revoltanhero2610]

Courage.

[@kevinodriscoll3904]

‘Have you no “sense” of decency sir?’

[@theforcedmeme]

Calling for decency in politics is oxymoronic

[@RolfTorsten]

Joseph McCarthy has reincarnated into Ted Cruz.

[@brentgolder2155]

No, that would be adam schift.

[@jandg92]

Absolutely not. Unless you're out of your fucking mind, Ted Cruz is the complete reincarnation of Mccarthy.

[@RichardDoker-op6py]

And Mike lee.

[@slicklandy7819]

Heck Joe was a saint compared to Cruz. Did Joe work for us russians? becauee Cruz does, we own him

[@monte4811]

I'd say he came back as Trump. In fact Roy Cohn was Trump's lawyer and pal.

[@theMosen]

I don't know what that one guy's agenda is, but no, you couldn't see McCarthy thinking "What did I do?" The editing of this video suggests that McCarthy was quiet and reflective after Welch's question, but in reality he responded immediately by making a case that he was just revealing the truth and that it was Welch that lacked decency. The public didn't buy it and the rest is history, but that's how it actually went down. Also, this guy is suggesting Welch had this all planned out, but there was no way he could have known McCarthy would violate the agreement, nor could he have been sure his "performance" would sway the public to his side just after hearing that he had a communist on his team. The idea that this was some kind of planned trap for McCarthy is absurd.

[@theMosen]

​@Lord Of Vengeance Uh. no. Read again and watch that guy I was talking about. If anything, he's the McCartyist, revising the facts to try to make it seem like McCarthy just made an honest mistake in the heat of the moment and was Welsh who was the calculating bad guy.

[@teerexness]

@Lord Of Vengeance Pejorativist.

[@tommym321]

You are absolutely correct.

[@HarrisonJBounel]

@Lord Of Vengeance Communist.

[@justheretowatchvideosandco9424]

@Lord Of Vengeance Communists all burn in hell. Repent to the Lord or you will have the same fate.

[@roberthurley6860]

Many members of our Congress right now would have a difficult time answering the "Have you no decency?" question.

[@JoshSweetvale]

It was entirely dependent on the circumstances of the moment.

[@roberthurley6860]

@@JoshSweetvale That sir was my point.

[@JoshSweetvale]

@@roberthurley6860 No.

[@roberthurley6860]

@@JoshSweetvale ????????

[@jimchari3697]

Someone should say this to Majorly Traitor Green.

[@DDELE7]

I pray that the parents of the Great State of Florida not try to ban this video.

[@khankrum1]

This is what you get when you give the town drunk so much power!

[@johnhummer265]

And one more thing.....the HUAC was un-American!!!

[@imscobol]

goober, it was the HCUA, the House Committee on Un-American Activities. You got that wrong, and you got the American hero Joseph McCarthy wrong while you're at it. He was commended on many occasions by those who co-operated with his committee's investigations for his fairness and courtesy... but the brainwashed subversives today so eager to vilify that tower of a man never bothered to read such things...

[@seanrenken491]

Who does McCarthy remind me of... I wonder...

[@chykim1]

Ted Cruz

[@nberrios777]

...The democratic party leadership and their elected congress people going after Trump with lies for the last 4 years.

[@nberrios777]

@@chykim1 but Ted Cruz has proof of illegal activity. Your lying evil democrats were guilty of this against Trump for four years. And if you disagree you too are a liar.

[@ericksheldon3870]

@@nberrios777 You do realize McCarthy was far right-wing, correct?

[@newsnowbc1934]

Hitler.

[@jrcadet4]

How many people today realize that Roy Cohn was Donald Trump's mentor?

[@nuqwestr]

No one was Trump's "mentor", Narcissists don't have mentors. Oh, I voted for Trump 2020, Red Wave 2022.

[@marcusdavenport1590]

❎❎❎PBS spreading more misinformation! 🤣 McCarthy was not wrong, go look at the venona papers, the pumpkin patch papers, etc... These communist were named by other Communist who were involved in the spying like Whitaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley. We have their communist party numbers, we have the checks they used to pay their communist party dues, (it was illegal to be a communist or fascist or any other authoritarian system in the government), these people gave our NUCLEAR SECRETS to Russia and China! North Korea would not be a threat today if not for these people! China would not be Communist and 100 million people wouldn't have died. D day, the holocaust, the Vietnam War and Korea all wouldn't have happened. Not to mention the massive number of people that communist murdered in their own countries via mass execution and starvation in the last 100 years. That's over 250 million people in total! They died because of these spies and here PBS is attempting to act as if McCarthy was wrong because he was tired of democrats lying to help these communist. Keep in mind one of the democrats on this board apologized later when he realized how his lies during these hearing helped Russia control US foreign policy. They were literally having fun lying because they knew that America's justice system couldn't arrest them because the army couldn't make the Venona papers public because we didn't want Russia to know we had broken their code and were reading about the spies they had in our government including the right hand of the president who lived in the WhiteHouse and was taking orders directly from Russia. Alger Hiss, Harry Hopkins, Harry Dexter White, etc... To post this as if we didn't have Intel proving he was guilty is laughable!!! We couldn't release the evidence because we didn't want Russia to know back then... Today we have the evidence... So posting this without context is dishonest!

[@sarahcameronlerer5014]

Was hoping to find another "Roy Cohn" among all the lawyers he's hired and fired. (And mainly not paid.)

[@marcusdavenport1590]

@@sarahcameronlerer5014 this is false.

[@AmateurHistorian999]

​@@marcusdavenport1590She didn't make an assertion, that was her personal feeling.

[@wondereagle]

McCarthy looks just like Ted Cruz.

[@RusTsea196T]

Physically and spiritually

[@weebgrinder-AIArtistPro]

Were there any other McCarthy hearings other than the Army ones? At least as it relates to communism. You can actually find at least a few hours of the Army/Mccarthy hearings here on KZbin. Surprised only small time channels with the footage have uploaded it and that they aren't uploaded by larger channels.

[@sadscientisthououinkyouma1867]

Yes and no, there is the Tydings Committee in theory sought to evaluate some of the names McCarthy had. I say "in theory" because anyone who has read the historical documentation know the committee more so existed to attack McCarthy than to actually evaluate his claims, with the committee being divided across partisan lines and claiming an objectively false fact (the idea that the McCarthy list was the Lee-list). The reason this is a lie is that as covered by some historians and journalist of the 124 names McCarthy submitted to Tydings in writing 48 were not from the Lee list (meaning 38% of the list was not the Lee-list) and 68 of the names listed were still in the state department which was used to show that even those present in both the Lee list and McCarthy's list were primarily used to show that such charges of communism hadn't been dealt with as Tydings would claim they had. In one particular instance of a person interrogated by the Tydings Committee there was a peculiar case. A "Earl Browder" (this in particular curiously omitted from his wikipedia page) refused to answer some questions for the committee, this resulted in a contempt citation (something the committee never threatened him with). So to his defense as his one and only witness, this previous communist boss calls to the stand senator Joe McCarthy. When asked if Browder had been in contempt McCarthy said this "in all my experience as a judge, and a lawyer, I don't know if I have ever seen more perfect cooperation between a witness and the chairman of the committee. When the witness refused to testify it appeared to be with the wholehearted approval of the chair. The chair, in fact, was not interested in eliciting information from the witness which would indicate the presence of Communist in the government ... The witness came down and took a very active part in what the chair was trying to do, and that was to conduct a cover up." Browder's defense attorney also concurred arguing that Browder had been acting upon what the majority of the committee had wanted. Browder using this defense was AQUITTED. Unfortunately everything I said has not been on tape (to my knowledge) however you are free to search for books or track down the sources for what I said if you want. Typically if you look up a case with Browder this case will not come up as there is another popular case involving him, and to put it bluntly the case I mentioned isn't even on his wikipedia page likely because it would come with the tacit admission that the Tydings Committee (and thus subsequent attacks of McCarthy which followed it) was blatantly political.

[@marcusdavenport1590]

❎❎❎PBS spreading more misinformation! 🤣 McCarthy was not wrong, go look at the venona papers, the pumpkin patch papers, etc... These communist were named by other Communist who were involved in the spying like Whitaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley. We have their communist party numbers, we have the checks they used to pay their communist party dues, (it was illegal to be a communist or fascist or any other authoritarian system in the government), these people gave our NUCLEAR SECRETS to Russia and China! North Korea would not be a threat today if not for these people! China would not be Communist and 100 million people wouldn't have died. D day, the holocaust, the Vietnam War and Korea all wouldn't have happened. Not to mention the massive number of people that communist murdered in their own countries via mass execution and starvation in the last 100 years. That's over 250 million people in total! They died because of these spies and here PBS is attempting to act as if McCarthy was wrong because he was tired of democrats lying to help these communist. Keep in mind one of the democrats on this board apologized later when he realized how his lies during these hearing helped Russia control US foreign policy. They were literally having fun lying because they knew that America's justice system couldn't arrest them because the army couldn't make the Venona papers public because we didn't want Russia to know we had broken their code and were reading about the spies they had in our government including the right hand of the president who lived in the WhiteHouse and was taking orders directly from Russia. Alger Hiss, Harry Hopkins, Harry Dexter White, etc... To post this as if we didn't have Intel proving he was guilty is laughable!!! We couldn't release the evidence because we didn't want Russia to know back then... Today we have the evidence... So posting this without context is dishonest!

[@joliecide]

If Welch had asked that of Trump today, Trump would give a resounding "no" and still manage to survive politically.

[@dreamcanvas5321]

Actually it'd be a word salad answer "What are you talking about? What are you talking about, I'm the most decent person there ever was. I could have, you know I could've said 'your wife is a whore' and 'your kids are ashamed of you' but I'm too nice, so I don't say that, now do I?" He manages to survive politically because his Qultists don't actually care about decency at all. To his core supporters, decency is a kudgel to wield or discard at a moment's notice for even the slightest incidental advantage against their opponents. They simulatenously claim his opponents are rude and crude while also praising that "he's not politically correct" etc. It's if anything, Orwellian. Trump speaks with an impoverished vocabulary to reinforce the idea that loyalty and belonging to the group, that the vicarious thrill of crushing opponents, are more valuable to the human experience then facts, reality, and understanding.

[@BixbyConsequence]

@@dreamcanvas5321 Well put.

[@SlowSpyder]

Trump is the best president we've had in decades. See you in 2024. The irony is how the left has made racism the new McCartyhism.

[@crescent_sun482]

Well we all already know that Trump has no decency.

[@SlowSpyder]

@@crescent_sun482 At least he didn't sell us out to the Chinese, Hunter's laptop is real, they lied to you and you don't care. Sheep.

[@jhuijsdens]

Wonderfully done by PBS!

[@malvolio01]

Except it’s not. McCarthy wasn’t wrong.

[@fredrikchristmansson3700]

Wrong. This is a prime example of socialist history revisionism. Reframing and lying and taken out of context to push a ideological false Narrative.

[@jhuijsdens]

@@fredrikchristmansson3700 You do not know what you are talking about!

[@fredrikchristmansson3700]

@@jhuijsdens I know EXCEPTIONALLY well what I'm talking about contrary to you.

[@roystonmason9125]

@@malvolio01 BS the entire country KNOWS what freaks these two were ! PILLBILLY H8triot

[@skeebo6885]

A friend of McCarthy later said that he got sick to his stomach as he watched Welch dismantle McCarthy.

[@lard_lad_AU]

"Have you no sense of decency, sir?" If these words were said in 2020 in respect of President Trump's cruel slurs, they would have no impact at all.

[@popcorn8153]

@Bub the Zombie let's not forget when trump told black congresswomen to go back to their countries. Here is an article about it www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-twitter-racist-aoc-ilhan-omar-kellyanne-conway-white-house-a9014376.html It must suck being called a Nazi Tho, I feel ya man.

[@Lerian_V]

@@popcorn8153 You mean the congresswomen who were attacking him?

[@popcorn8153]

Lerian V go back to ur country. Totally logical and appropriate statement in political discourse

[@Lerian_V]

@@popcorn8153 Are you referring to the congresswomen who were attacking him?

[@popcorn8153]

Lerian V yea I was

[@Zoe-c9z]

Those who live by the sword, die by the sword, as the saying goes. Judge yourself and you won't be judged. Judge not and you won't be judged

[@fredchester921]

Trump = McCarthy 2.

[@isbestlizard]

Wow. Imagine catching a politician in a lie and it actually causing any shame or detriment to them. Those really were different times.

[@ownificationify]

I can’t think of a single republican today who wouldn’t say McCarthy was right

[@dennispence9974]

Then you can't think - I have never agreed with what McCarthy did.

[@ownificationify]

@@dennispence9974 ah, a man of quality

[@dennispence9974]

@@ownificationify - I doubt you would know a "man of quality" if you were bitten on the ass or hit in the face with it. Most likely you are a California Progressive - and just don't have enough life experience to make sound judgments

[@dylanmau6606]

@@dennispence9974 He just complimented you and then you offensively, deliberately attacked him. This is what’s wrong with America. Shame on you.

[@ownificationify]

@@dennispence9974 what crawled up your ass? would it make you feel better to know I’m from a hick flyover state?

[@ocean88eagle9]

Say what you want about MCCARTHY but history has proved him right about the Red Menace.

[@Matt_Fields_29]

The red scare never ended.

[@57highland]

No, it didn't. In fact, it propelled us into war in Vietnam.

[@marcusdavenport1590]

Because McCarthy was right. You don't read books in guessing? ❎❎❎PBS spreading more misinformation! 🤣 McCarthy was not wrong, go look at the venona papers, the pumpkin patch papers, etc... These communist were named by other Communist who were involved in the spying like Whitaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley. We have their communist party numbers, we have the checks they used to pay their communist party dues, (it was illegal to be a communist or fascist or any other authoritarian system in the government), these people gave our NUCLEAR SECRETS to Russia and China! North Korea would not be a threat today if not for these people! China would not be Communist and 100 million people wouldn't have died. D day, the holocaust, the Vietnam War and Korea all wouldn't have happened. Not to mention the massive number of people that communist murdered in their own countries via mass execution and starvation in the last 100 years. That's over 250 million people in total! They died because of these spies and here PBS is attempting to act as if McCarthy was wrong because he was tired of democrats lying to help these communist. Keep in mind one of the democrats on this board apologized later when he realized how his lies during these hearing helped Russia control US foreign policy. They were literally having fun lying because they knew that America's justice system couldn't arrest them because the army couldn't make the Venona papers public because we didn't want Russia to know we had broken their code and were reading about the spies they had in our government including the right hand of the president who lived in the WhiteHouse and was taking orders directly from Russia. Alger Hiss, Harry Hopkins, Harry Dexter White, etc... To post this as if we didn't have Intel proving he was guilty is laughable!!! We couldn't release the evidence because we didn't want Russia to know back then... Today we have the evidence... So posting this without context is dishonest!

[@AmateurHistorian999]

It's with us today. Tell me McCarthy didn't achieve his goal.

[@evadd2]

Remember when calling out a person's integrity matter. And look at the disgrace of politics and democracy the USA has become.

[@markhammond7452]

Last refuge of a scoundrel.

[@TobyFromHR]

The way this video is framed, without context, McCarthy seems to have done no wrong. His antics and lies are absent and to top it off we're treated to a tidbit that Welch's tears were simply a performance. The talking heads' reactions seem so out of place because of this.

[@johnpolhamus9041]

Turns out McCarthy was correct.

[@AmateurHistorian999]

Way to get the point.

[@willyjoerockhead]

Someone told McCarthy "i'm gonna bring you down!!!!" Joe said "You and what army?"

[@richardabbot8724]

Alas, it seems we have yet another piece of media distortion. Balance this out by reading 'Blacklisted by History' by M Stanton Evans.

[@MarkTaylorCanfield]

Same question could be asked of Donald Trump.

[@caseclosed9342]

*AOC

[@CABRALFAN27]

@@caseclosed9342 Really? What "indecent" things has AOC done? She seems pretty cool.

[@caseclosed9342]

@@CABRALFAN27 Yeah, rights. AOC is a race-baiting riot-promoting extremist. She’s just a leftist Trump

[@nuqwestr]

And Joe Biden, who just maligned an innocent man.

[@marcusdavenport1590]

You do realize that this comment makes you sound ignorant of the actual facts right? ❎❎❎PBS spreading more misinformation! 🤣 McCarthy was not wrong, go look at the venona papers, the pumpkin patch papers, etc... These communist were named by other Communist who were involved in the spying like Whitaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley. We have their communist party numbers, we have the checks they used to pay their communist party dues, (it was illegal to be a communist or fascist or any other authoritarian system in the government), these people gave our NUCLEAR SECRETS to Russia and China! North Korea would not be a threat today if not for these people! China would not be Communist and 100 million people wouldn't have died. D day, the holocaust, the Vietnam War and Korea all wouldn't have happened. Not to mention the massive number of people that communist murdered in their own countries via mass execution and starvation in the last 100 years. That's over 250 million people in total! They died because of these spies and here PBS is attempting to act as if McCarthy was wrong because he was tired of democrats lying to help these communist. Keep in mind one of the democrats on this board apologized later when he realized how his lies during these hearing helped Russia control US foreign policy. They were literally having fun lying because they knew that America's justice system couldn't arrest them because the army couldn't make the Venona papers public because we didn't want Russia to know we had broken their code and were reading about the spies they had in our government including the right hand of the president who lived in the WhiteHouse and was taking orders directly from Russia. Alger Hiss, Harry Hopkins, Harry Dexter White, etc... To post this as if we didn't have Intel proving he was guilty is laughable!!! We couldn't release the evidence because we didn't want Russia to know back then... Today we have the evidence... So posting this without context is dishonest!

[@valmid5069]

Historical Fact: *it was very interesting to find out that House of Representatives, Democratic Representative Samuel Dickstein of New York and the politician who founded the House UnAmerican Activities Committee in the first place, was being paid by the NKVD (WW2 Soviet predecessor of the infamous KGB) for classified information. Ironically, the founder of the very committee wrongly associated with McCarthy was a Soviet agent. Instead, McCarthy was a Senator and Tail Gunner (McCarthy's nickname) was the chairman of the Government Operations Committee and its Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the United States Senate*

[@centralpete6044]

McCarthy was never in combat. His “tailgunner Joe” stuff was all proven to be nonsense. People who lie about military service have absolutely zero integrity.

[@shaystern2453]

what a horrid person he was

[@DavidMoore-bl7gb]

Blacklisted By History is a great book on this.

[@user-sh5iu1lq6x]

I was thinking about this line when Trump was talking about Joe Biden's sons in the first debate (and probably the only one)

[@suzannejohnson3826]

Me too!

[@cracanata]

Which one? I guess the one that dealt in corrupt businesses for his father, and who's only waking up to smoke crack, who was taking naked photos and filming himself having sex, because I don't think you are talking about the one that passed away. You must talk about the blackmailing liability called Hunter Biden.

[@gamingspartan2]

@@cracanata This video is quite literally about people like you

[@frankpaya690]

How "decent" is it to use the memory of your own dead son to manipulate a gullible- public for donations for a fraudulent Cancer research center, when according to Biden's taxes, none of the money went to "cancer" "research", it all went to payroll for people associated along with Biden in the scam of a Cancer research center?

[@nuqwestr]

Biden's people have said worse about Trump Jr., and even had NY state go after him, you are the poster child for double standard Dems.

[@Dennycrane757]

I’m not a big believer in claims of the supernatural, but the resemblance of Ted Cruz to Joe McCarthy begs further investigation into the theory of reincarnation. 😏

[@musicstewart9744]

Has anyone tried this on Trump? I know he would have no idea what was being quoted. Hopefully some around him would.

[@edbarrett5995]

I was reminded of this electric moment by Tony Kushner's incredibly powerful play Angels in America, in which a (fictionalised) Roy Cohn is a prominent character. There's a stunning production of the play on National Theatre At Home. An absolute must-see.

[@edbarrett5995]

It's clear from this clip Roy Cohn knows McCarthy has majorly messed up. I'd love to know if he was also horrified that the agreement between him and Joe Welch was being violated. Cohn was clearly a hugely unsavoury figure (to say the least), but I suspect he couldn't have been such an effective operator if he hadn't been able to keep his promises. Fascinating to think that Welch had planned the whole thing. That's a Grandmaster-level chess-move.

[@RemInDaBK]

Senators Cruz and Hawley will soon have their “McCarthy” moment, at long last.

[@jeansenn2831]

So you are an election fraud denier?

[@RemInDaBK]

@@jeansenn2831 There was no fraud. I'm casting Cruz and Hawley as McCarthy. They will soon be exposed for who they are and left on the ash heap of history.

[@bradleykreider3358]

@@jeansenn2831 There is no need to spend any time to deny fantasies. The side making the outrageous claims need the evidence. It should be easy to swear in the evidence in a court of law. The people making all of the claims only make them out of courts where they cannot be punished for lying. Let's get some lawyers into court making fraud claims. Then there will be something to deny.

[@BODLive08]

@@RemInDaBK spoken like a true leftist sheep and CCP puppet

[@caseclosed9342]

@@RemInDaBK You sound like McCarthy! Democrats today are the new McCarthys, with “communism” replaced with “white supremacy”

[@TGWazoo1]

As bad as the McCarthy trials ended up, HUAC was much worse. For some reason McCarthy detractors often mix up HUAC with McCarthyism. People actually committed suicide over HUAC unlike the McCarthy trials.

[@dbunik44]

This is Theodore "Raphael" Cruz

[@albertcalleros9489]

Ted Cruz's birth named is Rafael Edward (R. E.) Cruz.

[@kykeon]

If it's today, This doesn't work.

[@earnestbunbury2103]

Mr Trump ... have you no sense of decency. Answer: no, no he doesn't.

[@jrk9679]

“But evidence accumulated from a variety of sources-including Soviet archives-since the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s shows that McCarthy’s charges were, in numerous cases, neither false nor hysterical-but correct.“ From The Vindication of Joseph McCarthy by Andrew Bernstein

[@ActionBobby]

You see, what youre doing here is exactly what Russian Spys hoped for. So congrats for being the biggest red hat wearing fool of the day.

[@danskehans]

If I got the chance, I would ask the very same question: "Have you no sense of decency" to many of Trump's inner circle. When will they see that they are following nothin but a phony fool whose willingness to lie and cheat appear to be limitless?

[@BGNOLA]

McCarthy was right; Welch really did have a commie on his staff.

[@danskehans]

@@BGNOLA Well, if you choose to label a good person who exhibits a social conscience a ‘commie’, that speaks loudly about your sense of community.

[@BGNOLA]

@@danskehans The National Lawyers Guild was a Communist front. That's a fact, not opinion.

[@jpkjnn6733]

@@danskehans looks like "sonny" wisely deleted whatever knee jerk response he vomited.

[@johntack1049]

Says the guy who swallows the communist Democrat’s narratives

[@AGMundy]

McCarthy was rightly humiliated.

[@buzman1985]

Holy shit, the interviewed Uncle Phil for this!

[@marcusdavenport1590]

❎❎❎PBS spreading more misinformation! 🤣 McCarthy was not wrong, go look at the venona papers, the pumpkin patch papers, etc... These communist were named by other Communist who were involved in the spying like Whitaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley. We have their communist party numbers, we have the checks they used to pay their communist party dues, (it was illegal to be a communist or fascist or any other authoritarian system in the government), these people gave our NUCLEAR SECRETS to Russia and China! North Korea would not be a threat today if not for these people! China would not be Communist and 100 million people wouldn't have died. D day, the holocaust, the Vietnam War and Korea all wouldn't have happened. Not to mention the massive number of people that communist murdered in their own countries via mass execution and starvation in the last 100 years. That's over 250 million people in total! They died because of these spies and here PBS is attempting to act as if McCarthy was wrong because he was tired of democrats lying to help these communist. Keep in mind one of the democrats on this board apologized later when he realized how his lies during these hearing helped Russia control US foreign policy. They were literally having fun lying because they knew that America's justice system couldn't arrest them because the army couldn't make the Venona papers public because we didn't want Russia to know we had broken their code and were reading about the spies they had in our government including the right hand of the president who lived in the WhiteHouse and was taking orders directly from Russia. Alger Hiss, Harry Hopkins, Harry Dexter White, etc... To post this as if we didn't have Intel proving he was guilty is laughable!!! We couldn't release the evidence because we didn't want Russia to know back then... Today we have the evidence... So posting this without context is dishonest!

[@klep2859]

Now, what does this remind me of that's going on today? Hmmmmmm

[@coletrain6545]

Never has there been a more vindicated man than mccarthy. He was right

[@ubprof1]

International communism was a threat but McCarthy was an even bigger threat . The subversion of public confidence in basic institutions like the military can only end badly for a democracy. Keep talking about the swamp and the deep state long enough and people will believe they really exist and desperate measures are needed to remove them.

[@colinmerritt7645]

McCarthy was a bully, a demagogue and too invested in his ego. He was also wrong about the Communists. Other than that and the Wisconsin people choosing poorly, you don't have a point.

[@chrisfrank4267]

Turned out McCarthy was right

[@realSethMeyers]

Cohn was a mentor to Donnie Trump. Funny.

[@philipdraper7284]

That guy lambasting Roy Cohn for not going to Korea is not entirely fair. For all we know he told the army recruit he was homosexual and in the early 1950s that was beyond being even a blip of anything on the normalcy radar. You were actually considered degenerate.

[@user-gq1fp4pz9o]

Maccarty was a fascist, just he deserved jail

[@marksteele6682]

McCarthy had 10 times the decency of the old Trumpopotamus.

[@AirForceChmtrails]

Trump is the Reincarnation of Joseph McCarthy.

[@sinatra222]

Nope, that is Adam Schiff with his endless Russia Russia Russia crusade.

[@TheDancingRomeo]

It’s Adam schiff not trump.

[@roystonmason9125]

@@sinatra222 is that why h8triots love russia ???

[@roystonmason9125]

@@TheDancingRomeo it is DUMP orange lipps

[@AmateurHistorian999]

​@@sinatra222Funny how you mistake Rep. Shiff for ex-president forever Trump.

[@RusTsea196T]

Roy Cohn- the fistula between McCarthyism and Trumpism.

[@jpsned]

Everybody speaks with such elegance.

[@marcusdavenport1590]

❎❎❎PBS spreading more misinformation! 🤣 McCarthy was not wrong, go look at the venona papers, the pumpkin patch papers, etc... These communist were named by other Communist who were involved in the spying like Whitaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley. We have their communist party numbers, we have the checks they used to pay their communist party dues, (it was illegal to be a communist or fascist or any other authoritarian system in the government), these people gave our NUCLEAR SECRETS to Russia and China! North Korea would not be a threat today if not for these people! China would not be Communist and 100 million people wouldn't have died. D day, the holocaust, the Vietnam War and Korea all wouldn't have happened. Not to mention the massive number of people that communist murdered in their own countries via mass execution and starvation in the last 100 years. That's over 250 million people in total! They died because of these spies and here PBS is attempting to act as if McCarthy was wrong because he was tired of democrats lying to help these communist. Keep in mind one of the democrats on this board apologized later when he realized how his lies during these hearing helped Russia control US foreign policy. They were literally having fun lying because they knew that America's justice system couldn't arrest them because the army couldn't make the Venona papers public because we didn't want Russia to know we had broken their code and were reading about the spies they had in our government including the right hand of the president who lived in the WhiteHouse and was taking orders directly from Russia. Alger Hiss, Harry Hopkins, Harry Dexter White, etc... To post this as if we didn't have Intel proving he was guilty is laughable!!! We couldn't release the evidence because we didn't want Russia to know back then... Today we have the evidence... So posting this without context is dishonest!

[@AmateurHistorian999]

Well, Senator Joe, not so much.

[@jpsned]

@@AmateurHistorian999 True!