Joe McCarthy: The Original Conspiracy Theorist

[@Biographics]

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[@Tremont24]

Please do Booker T. Washington next

[@PanStolasFan]

Could you do Leona Helmsley and Thomas Sankara next and Elena Ceausescu?

[@victoriaeads6126]

The fact that "censure" and removal from committee assignments is still the only consequence Congress has for bad behavior is ridiculous. We are seeing the results of such 'slap on the wrist' BS every single day right now.

[@kylemcrorey1173]

McCarthy did give a speech is a 1952 Republican national convention McCarthy did give a speech is a 1952 Republican national convention, but it was not the keynote speech that one was given by Douglas MacArthur general of the army but it was not the keynote speech that one was given by Douglas MacArthur general of the army

[@btetschner]

If they are bad enough, someone will take away their birthday.

[@leolusanez5378]

It's not so much the punishments themselves that are the problem; although relatively underwhelming, censures and removals tend to work as a way of sidelining a member of Congress and minimizing their influence. Parliamentary privilege is necessary in order to avoid politicizing the judiciary and overwhelming them with all kinds of frivolous and politically-motivated lawsuits. The problem is that politicians are way too focused on preserving their own power that they tend to side with dominant figures at the expense of their moral values.

[@kyemerchant5455]

​@@btetschnernah just the cake

[@btetschner]

@@kyemerchant5455 Hahaha!

[@Sarah_D.]

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. And, these days, it sadly seems a large chunk of the population slept through their history classes.

[@seanbatiz6620]

Yee Ol’ term, “Path of Least Resistance” comes to mind, as for when one becomes infected with the seemingly MOST contagious over all parasites, viruses or, bacterium, simply known as Stupid, Ignorant or, Dumba$$…. To whom affected, seem to gradually loose any & all cognitive mental health immunity ‘resistance’ (brain’s security firewall), inevitably consciously or subconsciously allowing in any & all conspiracy “theory’, story, article, tweet, comment, gossip, miss/diss-info, utter nonsensical BS, hate speech, intolerance related subject matter &, racism/antisemitism, to take root as ‘their’ “new found ABSOLUTE blind-faith FACT, with potentially devastating real conviction… might as well be describing Rabies or Zombies

[@nubianprincess2771]

AMEN🙏🏿

[@Willy_Tepes]

You are more correct than you can imagine. Most people don't see that we are at "Weimar" in this timeline. WWIII is right around the corner.

[@markgarrett3647]

Democrats

[@markgarrett3647]

@@Willy_Tepes Trump will start WWIII they said.

[@annehersey9895]

As someone born in 1949, my entire life until 1990 in America was geared towards the dangers and necessity of fighting Communism all over the globe. Imagine my generations feeling of wonderment in 1990 of really the first time the US was totally without enemies in my lifetime. Unfortunately that sense of peace didn't last long.

[@420bengalfan]

the soviet lost the cold war but communism was able to flourish in the shadows for twenty years and is now rearing its ugly head again the us avatually lost the cold war because we didnt put two in the head of communism when it was down on the ground

[@AntiCommunistMarine]

And we were better off

[@mountaintruth1deeds533]

And the rot was inside the gates all along..🤔

[@MrWatchowtnow]

MCCARTHY was right. They castrate children.

[@Mark-uh3un]

Unfortunately peaceful times don’t make as much money for the elites

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:40 - Chapter 1 - Mccarthy vs wisoncsin 3:45 - Chapter 2 - Mccarthy vs communism 6:55 - Mid roll ads 8:25 - Chapter 3 - Mccarthy vs the truth 10:45 - Chapter 4 - Mccarthy vs the senate 13:35 - Chapter 5 - Mccarthy vs the army 16:50 - Chapter 6 - Mccarthy vs himself 20:15 - Chapter 7 - Mccarthy vs his legacy

[@CaminoAir]

I remember seeing footage of McCarthy being interviewed soon after Eisenhower subjected him to a full scale verbal dismantling. McCarthy still looked and sounded in genuine shock. One of Eisenhower's aids, who was standing outside the meeting room (on a train while Ike was campaigning) had to move away to where he could no longer hear, because the language and onslaught he used against McCarthy was the strongest possible.

[@ronjon7942]

I believe you. But can u cite this from a book or documentary? Because I’d sure like to read/listen more about this dressing down.

[@raphaelnemetsky]

@@ronjon7942 Read the book, "Blacklisted by History, " where you will see that almost everything in this episode of Biographics is incorrect. In 1991, the Venona documents of the USSR revealed that McCarthy was accurate in stating that the State Department was infested with Communists. Eisenhower detested McCarthy because he criticised General Omar Bradley, a general on Eisenhower's staff during WWII and a personal friend.

[@donbrynelsen2157]

McCarthy was a guest at a Washington DC cocktail party where one other guest was the by then elderly daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, Alice Roosevelt Longworth. McCarthy sat next to her and said "You must be my date, I think I will call you Alice" The acid tounged Mrs Longworth replied "Mr McCarthy, the garbage men call me Alice, The cop on the corner calls me Alice, but you Sir, may not!"

[@kathyastrom1315]

Alice was amazing! If she had been born 75 years later, she would have been a formidable political force. She had the correct instincts to warn her father not to challenge Taft in 1912, even though she hated the Tafts as well (she had buried a voodoo doll of Mrs. Taft in the White House garden before they left in 1909).

[@JenniferSteil28]

@@kathyastrom1315I love hearing of other casual voodoo/hudu practice 🤣

[@markbarnes1881]

To her discredit, she was an American Firster and protge of Nixon

[@dildojizzbaggins6969]

*acid-tongued Go back to school for a while, please......

[@jasonallen3678]

O.k conservative Boomer

[@haydesj]

Just to clear something up with regards to Hepatitis - you can actually develop Alcoholic Hepatitis through chronic alcohol use. It's more than likely this is what the hospital meant when they listed the cause of death as Hepatitis, not the infectious Hepatitis you associated with drug use etc.

[@brycmtthw]

He had Hep B because he was into raw dogging with dudes. McCarthy was a closet princess.

[@vperkv6554]

NOPE, HE was caught multiple times with young men working the streetz. He said it was because of the high stress from all the investigating he did.

[@Nefville]

McCarthyism isn't gone, we've just democratized it on social media. We've replaced Joseph McCarthy with the like and retweet buttons where anyone can have a hand in "justice". Justice not always based in fact or context but based on _feelings, emotions,_ often uneducated and free from repercussions and without a second thought. And it's not just people who are the targets now. I expect we won't look back kindly on these times either.

[@maddogbasil]

You sir need a medal of honor 🎖

[@drewlovely2668]

We will look back on some aspects of social media as barbaric. The fake news, bigotry, and social pressure have come to a boiling point. We might figure it out one day....

[@seekittycat]

Yeah look at all the people twitter trolls sent to jail or kicked out of the country for being communist spies 🙄. Kids not knowing how to block people or stay off twitter 💀.

[@ChickenPermissionOG]

@Johnny Rep McCarthy only did one thing wrong.

[@RankinMsP]

'Democratized' is generous. Nothing to do with democracy but racism, sexism, fascism, xenophobia, homophobia and populism.

[@abirbnamedBasil]

Ah, Biographics. My gateway channel. Thanks for the update, still love these ones!

[@iAintSayDat]

Accusing the army of communism might've been the dumbest move in the history of American politics. We might never see a politician be exposed for going on a demagogic bullying spree so thoroughly as what happened to McCarthy. Its a trip how american discourse had degenerated though. It's impossible to imagine a politician in 2023 getting their career ruined for casually accusing their political opponents of lacking decency, good intent, patriotism and morality without proof. That actually seems like a prerequisite nowadays.

[@2guys1cliplol]

Red Cruz did that last year but he used woke instead lol

[@GraniteStateofMind]

I mean, we do now have mandatory equity courses in the armed services. Woke and communist aren’t the same but our military is absolutely undergoing woke propagandizing right now.

[@johndelagarza361]

By its nature, the military is a socialist organization. It is good to make sure actual communists dont rise to positions of authority.

[@MexBaker]

@@2guys1cliplol Is it me or Does Ted Cruz look like Joe McCarthy

[@stephenbaker9645]

It's sad that history repeats itself. Even if someone strives to learn from history he or she will be forced to live with the burden of watching others repeat it.😢

[@sylviahoffman9440]

I grew up in early post-McCarthy Era cultural fear. I remember my elders being soo careful what they said, every now and then jokes of McCarthy, but I never understood it. I never took the time to research this time period, and I thank you for doing this bio. It's kind of scary seeing these same tactics being employed in today's Congress and Media, especially since sensibility and decorum are sorely lacking. Lying, deceit, and grifting are the tools employed today.

[@cmichelle9986]

No one back then was reported on. 1950s "influencers" aka actors, musicians, their producers, and politicians, were legit communists. Subversive techniques are best used when trying to overthrow an actual democratic government. Question, are you Jewish, Sylvia?

[@pads-zr9ln]

I have no idea what that's life, make a joke about a man in a dress and see what happens

[@ronjon7942]

@@pads-zr9lnBrilliant! :)

[@AlexBrown230]

Joe McCarthy was right though, he tried to warn us. Look at all the woke leftist BS nowadays. All the pronouns and forcing this garbage on kids. McCarthy tried to stop it when he saw it way back in the late 40s and early 50s. The only way out now is if we get a Pinochet.

[@raphaelnemetsky]

Read the book, "Blacklisted By History," and you will see how accurate McCarthy was in his accusations.

[@Sdcreech04]

Boy that opening reminds me of someone... can't think of who..

[@xaenon]

I can. In fact, one prominent former politician seems to have copied McCarthy's game plan word for word. And with very similar motives.

[@tombriggs7765]

You know it's worrying when McCarthy seems to have similarities to a lot of modern day politicians across the world

[@nolongerblocked6210]

I was thinking that exactly as I was watching. McCarthy was probably the 1st "viral" congressman, if they'd have had meme's he'd have been a meme machine

[@L4r5man]

Just change every "McCarthy" with "Trump" and every "communism" with socialism and you'd think it was today

[@markross2124]

Yes I agree that is how Trump got elected by degrading and insulting others.

[@dollylove3430]

@@markross2124calling out bs is a beautiful thing.

[@sebastienholmes548]

You mean being right?

[@danielallen3454]

If you haven't done one yet, Roy Cohn would make a good biographics subject. He was, in the words of one American playwright, "the polestar of human evil".

[@kathyastrom1315]

One of Cohn’s last protégés is still infecting our politics today.

[@jessgunn6639]

mccarthy➡cohen➡trump. says it all

[@patriciadean1649]

And Trump learned T Roy,s knee

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

He really was.

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

​@jess gunn Trump was friends of a lot of scoundrels in NYC. Mostly Democrats.because they have been in power for so long.

[@julianlarratt8638]

Hey Simon, love your videos, have you considered doing any biographics on more british political figures. Loved your thatcher bio, so I would like to see more.

[@capriciouszephyr]

Yes, I like the earlier ones on living people. I get the need for allegedly a lot in those, but it's fun to see a take on people we grew up with, like Tony Blair. He was PM when I lived in the UK, read his book in uni. Would love a dive in the last successful labour PM.

[@SpectacularDisaster]

​@capriciouszephyr I get why he stopped doing biographics on living people though.

[@madgavin7568]

Enoch Powell would be a good video.

[@PM-bv2nx]

Hi once again, thank u for making such great videos. As I said before it is helping pass the time while I recover from my medical issues. I was wondering if you all have considered doing a behind the scenes video on what goes into making your great videos. The research, the writing, etc. Once again, thank u!!!

[@raphaelnemetsky]

Read the book, "Blacklisted By History," and you will see how accurate McCarthy was in his accusations.

[@ddirtdid]

Terrific. I've always felt so compelled to pursue the greatest interests of mankind, to wit. A way to be influential, powerful and protected. Population control and the need for a singular world order and universal government. the inner me is gasping to find out knowledge about the human race and about the things that not everyone is destined to know. I wish to blossom into the enlightenment that our forebears wanted so desperately for us to gain.

[@Margart526]

That feeling is understandable, it's just you been an advanced human. If you really seek enlightenment you can achieve that and so much more by joining the Illuminatus Brotherhood. I know it sounds mythos, but there are ways to get in.

[@ddirtdid]

@@Margart526 hi, i thought the brotherhood is a myth, i mean i have heard it exists but never really been close to any elite of that nature.

[@ddirtdid]

@@Margart526 Fascinating. Thanks so much for the reference, I just looked him up and left him a message already.

[@Zetact_]

Is this a Poe?

[@JohnSmith-us4pj]

Fascinating, moved on from peddling crypto scams to Illuminati scams? Credit for creativity at least, didn't see this one coming.

[@TWDenizen7240]

I'm not sure if anyone thought about it, but now an Ed Murrow episode on Biographics is absolutely necessary.

[@jeffmartin540]

Why are the videos/podcasts on your channels always the only ones where I have to turn the volume up extremely high (max. on some devices) in order to somewhat hear the video/podcast? Can your editors maybe fix that somehow?

[@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*

[@pamelamays4186]

Suggestions: Desi Arnaz. Alfred Hitchcock. Sammy Davis, Jr. Lena Horne. Redd Foxx. John Belushi. Dick Clark. Rod Serling. Jim Henson. Don Cornelius. Elizabeth Taylor.

[@billolsen4360]

Gilda Radner, Gene Tierney, Fiorello Laguardia, James Stewart, Steven Truscott too!

[@roodbennett]

Excellent quality. Thanks to Simon and his team

[@fixinggrace]

Arthur Miller wrote the Crucible in response to his being on the receiving end of McCarthyism.

[@Shiranu17]

Funny thing is, not all conspiracies are just theories. McCarthyism didn't go far enough.

[@WitchyWhale]

I have zero sympathy for Joseph McCarthy.

[@LJ-ht4zs]

I have great antipathy for him - the despicable person ruined lives -and the well being of many people, not only in government but in the arts.

[@harrypothead42024]

Absolutely 0

[@veronicado1016]

Same here. No sympathy at all.

[@cliffordodle2157]

I have less.

[@thesuccessfulone]

McCarthy Era 2.0 has engaged already

[@christopherchilders1049]

I saw where biographical had sponsored another KZbinr! Good to see you pay it forward! Nothing but respect to you

[@kathyastrom1315]

When I was in high school, I was digging through my grandma’s attic and found a high school paper that my mom had written about McCarthy less than a year after he was exposed, and it was very critical of the man. I was very proud of her for going after him, because that was still controversial in a conservative Catholic all-girls school in 1955.

[@ThatGUY666666]

You should be proud and I hoped you got that framed

[@The_SCPFoundation]

Paul Robeson or Roy "just deny and attack" Cohn next. Especially Roy. He mastered the defensive strategy of double down and counter attack your accuser while never admitting you lost.

[@LJ-ht4zs]

Yes and Cohen too was a despicable person - look who he mentored TFG. Birds of a feather...

[@rh9477]

At long last, Simon has finally made a Biographics video on McCarthy

[@raphaelnemetsky]

Read the book, "Blacklisted By History," and you will see how accurate McCarthy was in his accusations.

[@footballocks4063]

Did my dissertation on Red Scares and McCarthyism 20ish years ago. Would love to see a Biographics on Paul Robeson

[@bernooski5128]

Let me guess... you denied the full throttled infiltration of communists and marxists into the US institutions and also say the USSR and Mao's China "Weren't real comunism"

[@footballocks4063]

@@bernooski5128 don't guess, you don't know me and I don't know you.

[@bernooski5128]

@@footballocks4063 Has real communism ever been tried? lol

[@ChickenPermissionOG]

There was no red scare.

[@ChickenPermissionOG]

@@bernooski5128 Yes and it always leads to genocide.

[@cassandraralph5906]

I first heard about John McCarthy as a fifteen year old teenager in my high school. My history teacher, Mr Lloyd Halliday, who was a very good teacher, taught about how his political influence caused many problems within the US Senate and how his increasingly outlandish claims lead to his downfall. I did not know that he most likely died of alcoholism. I feel sorry for his wife.

[@beauty.of.the.struggle]

Like what? Care to share any?

[@MackeyDeeez]

John?

[@juliangrant9718]

Teacher sounds like a commie.

[@ChickenPermissionOG]

But was he wrong

[@JamesSmith-rh4is]

Yes, McCarthy was absolutely wrong.

[@balozhende5727]

See the movie "Tailgunner Joe" and see how he lied about so much, including being a real tail gunner.

[@bluegold1026]

Surprised you never mentioned Welch’s famous rebuke of “Have you no sense of decency?”

[@billolsen4360]

Fun Fact, Joseph N. Welch was a lawyer and actor. He played Judge Weaver in Otto Preminger's "Anatomy of a Murder." You'll recognize his voice right off from the McCarthy hearing recording.

[@SandfordSmythe]

This was related to one of Welch's legal staff having an isolated legal record of homosexuality in his youth. There was an agreement not to bring it up, and McCarthy violated it.

[@Luke-id8ql]

@@SandfordSmythe no it was because one of his staff was lawyer for group that was legal bulwark for the soviet union. They agreed to not bring it up but Welch kept insinuating that Roy Cohn was gay ... which was true but McCarthy was annoyed by it.

[@lolilollolilol7773]

John Robert Oppenheimer, the "father of the atomic bomb", was one of his targets and victims. Oppie is a very interesting figure and deserves a bio.

[@jonnyd9351]

Also was a treasonous communist

[@prasoonjha1816]

Julius Robert Oppenheimer*

[@TheBINIBALL]

He's been had a bio on this channel.

[@sivvinod3187]

Well

[@Luke-id8ql]

and he was communist who also was duped by spies who gave Joseph STALIN the secrets of the Manhattan Project.

[@serephita]

I remember my mom telling me about McCarthyism as a kid. It's something that's always stuck with me, and seeing it more and more and be amplified by the expanded media - not just newspapers but also tv, social media and other digital platforms that are more far-reaching. (note: my mom is a baby boomer - she grew up during the McCarthyism era, so I somewhat trust her take on it)

[@beauty.of.the.struggle]

Those institutions are now run by the types of people he was calling out

[@yahweh2787]

@@beauty.of.the.struggle not at all. You’ve got it all wrong, buddy. Capitalist billionaires are not advocating for communism or socialism. Silly Zachary.

[@beauty.of.the.struggle]

@@yahweh2787 lmao. You've been asleep at the wheel, then. I guess Bernie Sanders, Beto O'Rourke, and Pete Bootyblast got all their fund raising just from bake sales, huh? I guess Rachel Maddow gets all her airtime from her long and colored history of deep, probing investigative journalism. I guess the last 3 Democratic white house press secretaries were just picked for their oration skills. This isn't anything new, homie. David Rockefeller was funding the reds all the way back in Maoist China

[@beauty.of.the.struggle]

Anyways, all one needs to look up to show that McCarthy was vindicated is the verona papers. And that's not even considering the individual private lives & political persuasions of each of the people McCarthy was calling out, especially in Hollywood. Y'all got an internet connection, figure it out yourselves... I got no time for exchanges with people this willfully ignorant.

[@serephita]

@@yahweh2787 exactly this.

[@adrianbartley8173]

I vote you do an episode of biographics on king Kamehameha

[@DJL78]

One could make a strong argument that J. Edgar Hoover was the original conspiracy theorist.

[@curtisthomas2670]

Q1

[@curtisthomas2670]

The original Q

[@lolilollolilol7773]

No, he wasn't a conspiracy theorist at all. In the contrary, he would gather data on everybody so he was absolutely based on reality. But he was instead a conspirationist, that is, he conspired against his perceived enemies.

[@ronaldilvalentinoonguda2102]

I suggest a biographics on Roy Cohn, the McCarthy Aide and Trump mentor..

[@RubensBarrichello.]

McCarthy would be walking around today laughing so hard telling us "I TOLD YOU SO"

[@koko2bware]

Well said , agreed!!

[@bezllama3325]

Suggestions: Pontius Pilate Flavius Josephus Titus Also how haven't you made one on Abraham Lincoln yet?? And for that matter Thomas Jefferson!

[@MountainFisher]

Jefferson said some poignant things like the merchant class has no loyalty to the ground they stand on. Sounds like many US based Corporations huh?

[@brookeyb9233]

Videos are great would love to see one for Ceaucescu

[@zamarickz]

The original conspiracy theorist? Cicero and the Catilinarian conspiracy would like to have a word.

[@seandawson5899]

Seems like we have some modern McCarthys in Congress now.

[@curtisthomas2670]

McCarthy is the new McCarthy

[@raphaelnemetsky]

Read the book, "Blacklisted By History," and you will see how accurate McCarthy was in his accusations.

[@JoshSweetvale]

The opposite of socialism is antisocial. Government abandonment certainly isn't socialism.

[@jeffwhit4987]

I don't want to sound like a 'suck-up', but . . . You guys do Really, Really Great ! work on these videos that you create. (Way back) when I was in middle and high school, it would have been good to see these videos during History or Social Studies classes because your stories make historical people and times much more interesting and relatable. Thank you All for the educational videos that you make, Jeff

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

"Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of Stalin's purges, an unnoticed similarity." -- Martha Gellhorn

[@markgarrett3647]

Yet she and her man Hemingway fought for the evil Stalinists in the Spanish Civil War.

[@beauty.of.the.struggle]

Comparing him to STALIN? Really?? 😂😂😂😂😂

[@billolsen4360]

@@beauty.of.the.struggle Yeah, Stalin murdered people day in and day out

[@beauty.of.the.struggle]

@@billolsen4360 exactly. That's exactly my point. I wasn't aware that McCarthy KILLED a single person or sent anyone to a forced labor camp, much less upwards of 15 million

[@beauty.of.the.struggle]

Please direct me to the orchestrated mass-famine of an entire region that McCarthy engineered; I'm all ears

[@garnetnard4284]

McCarthy could see the writing on the wall.

[@razorbackguy6149]

If there were no communist spies in the U.S. at that time, how did the Soviets obtain the information to build an atomic bomb...?

[@jonnyd9351]

Verona project proved McCarthy right

[@samrevlej9331]

As a French person, McCarthyism is often cited here (as in the US) as a synonym for fearmongering and witch-hunts, while the details of his story aren't well-known (I wasn't sure whether this lasted the whole of the 1950s for example). It just struck me how different postwar America and Europe were and are, even western Europe. In France, the Communist Party was one of the largest parties in Parliament and the biggest one on the left for decades postwar, up until the 1970s. There were communist ministers in government in 1945-47 (which helped create our Social Security system of health and pension insurance). Incriminating people for just being communist sounds weird because millions of people were communist or sympathizers back then.

[@bjornodin]

In the US the red scare started way before WW2, maybe even before WW1 ended?🤔 In any case, even being a "sympathiser" was enough to effectively banish you from society, not unlike being excommunicated was 400-500 years before.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

Ah, you see, the issue is your French. Now go riot somewhere and talk about kids.

[@raphaelnemetsky]

Read the book, "Blacklisted By History," and you will see how accurate McCarthy was in his accusations.

[@Luke-id8ql]

well were they trading government secrets with the soviets? because over 300 american government officals were.

[@callumjoyce1712]

Please do Roy Cohn!

[@justinbowes5390]

Maybe don't start the video with an advertisement right off the bat, it's disorienting and it felt like being hit by a truck. Otherwise, great video, helped a lot with my school project, thanks!

[@Nick-rs5if]

I was just finished with the Kidd video, and now this dropped? I think I've just been blessed. 😊

[@DarkLink18819]

If you're talking about Billy the Kid, that was a f'ing masterpiece.

[@Nick-rs5if]

@@DarkLink18819 I was talking about Captain William Kidd, but Billy the Kid is likewise a great video! 😃

[@DarkLink18819]

@@Nick-rs5if Didn't even know they made that one, thanks for the heads up.

[@Nick-rs5if]

@@DarkLink18819 You're welcome!

[@ryancoulter4797]

57? So that’s where that scene from The Manchurian Candidate came from. Lol

[@lucasjleandro]

After listen Bezmenov it's Hard to say McCarthy hasn't had a point or two. Even a Broken Clock Hit the time twice in a day

[@ChickenPermissionOG]

He wasn't wrong

[@curtisthomas2670]

He had a point though since he, Hoover and Cohn were working for the Russians

[@JamesSmith-rh4is]

There is no evidence that communists are infiltrating the United States government.

[@ChickenPermissionOG]

@@JamesSmith-rh4is That's a good laugh. I needed that. You should get into stand up.

[@garretth8224]

​@@ChickenPermissionOG Yes, he was wrong. Communism taking over the US was never threat, it was anathema to the American way. He called anyone that protested the government a commie, even if it was a valid thing to protest. They used it against the nascent Civil rights movement. Its sad that fellow Americans are still falling for McCarthy's propaganda.

[@pmurraymusic]

If it hasn't been said before, an interesting point to note is that McCarthy, a self-professed Catholic, had the support of many US bishops during his time in office. The American episcopacy felt that McCarthy was an accurate representation of Catholic values.

[@Kwatcher100]

That says a great deal about Catholicism.

[@jonnyd9351]

@@Kwatcher100 Ya, catholics wanted communist/ soviet spies out of the US government too.

[@ronjon7942]

@@Kwatcher100Yes, that it rightfully fought against the evil of communism. Maybe inform yourself of history in the context of its day before writing yet another glib zinger on the Church Christ instituted. This makes you seem nothing but another chump.

[@Jimfargo1997]

I grew up in Appleton Wisconsin where Joe was born. My nextdoor neighbor my whole life was his nephew. Unfortunately, he just passed away but was a great man. We only ever knew his family history because he brought it up one time, but it was not something he brought up often

[@btetschner]

"...retail campaigning that is selling himself as a brand sort of like a company would sell a product." - Very interesting!

[@eldridgedavis]

If he could only see today...

[@hurricanefury439]

he'd be saying "i told you so"

[@KevinThomas-ok2ev]

Without evidence? You’ve managed to totally destroy your credibility in a single stroke. Given the mess we’re dealing with today, he was absolutely correct. We should have listened to him.

[@emilymoore378]

Hi simon! Just wanted to ask for a biographic on charles francis coughlan, a 19th century actor

[@comedytutorials7146]

Can u plz do a bio on Abe Lincoln? Cause that is long overdue!

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[@nonebeliever5321]

Honestly love these biographics videos

[@do-ol2540]

Please do Philippe Pétain!!

[@generalhyde007]

Next you should do Fighting Bob La Follette.

[@kevinmcqueenie7420]

Kind of feels like a certain ex-President might have taken some notes from ol’ Joe… ETA: not surprising I guess, forgot about the Cohn connection!

[@lawsonj39]

I remember the elder generations of my family getting caught up by McCarthy's paranoid obsession with Communism during my childhood. The media of the time went to great links to stir up the hysteria and keep it going. It sickens me to remember both my family's inability to apply critical thought to McCarthyism and the members of my own generation who were forced to suffer and die in Vietnam to repel the so-called "Red Menace." McCarthy went down in disgrace, but the paranoia he engendered--with a lot of help from the establishment--lives on.

[@ronjon7942]

It certainly does - in radical left progressivism.

[@Luke-id8ql]

well there were over 300 soviet spies in the US government. The Soviet Union that had been the cause of so much death in eastern europe was now funding the north Vietnamese who wanted to destroy the South Vietnamese.

[@johnstevenson9956]

It's discouraging, how easily led people can be.

[@beauty.of.the.struggle]

Right? The number of people who still think McCarthy was the bad guy is astounding

[@JamesSmith-rh4is]

There is a good reason why history remembers McCarthy as a villain rather than a hero.

[@beauty.of.the.struggle]

@@JamesSmith-rh4is nah, I disagree

[@JamesSmith-rh4is]

There is absolutely nothing that McCarthy said that was actually proven correct at all.

[@beauty.of.the.struggle]

@@JamesSmith-rh4is this claim does not stack up against the Verona papers, but ok

[@TransRoofKorean]

For so long I was impressed by Biographics' consistency in staying unbiased. Was this the first one when that started to change?

[@davidfrederick1971]

Im only 52 but Im a history buff. The one thing learning & listening about McCarthyism was "your with me or your against me aka if your against me your a communist"

[@Ckom-Tunes]

Well done analysis! It’s too bad we haven’t learned from past experiences.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

Interesting, from this video, viewers would think that none of his accusations were correct.

[@glenbateman5960]

If you accuse enough people of being an a**hole, you're eventually going to accidentally be right a few times. Hardly a recommendation of the guy's mental acuity, let alone his character.

[@hurricanefury439]

because they were

[@JohnDoe-dg7vo]

They should do one on Luis Garavito

[@brandonorgeron143]

Roy Cohn would be a great video

[@GOODYGOODGOOD789]

One of my most memorable history classes in high school was when the topic was first brought and we played a little game with it. All of the students were separated into groups and all students were given cards but at least one student in each group was given a card with a dot on it if we guessed correctly who had the dot and if we had the dot and no one guessed us we would get a piece of candy. We were all suspicious of each other and we all tried to find out what the other was hiding we all guessed that someone was hiding someone because someone else told us that at least one person in this group was hiding something.

[@d3ricc]

McCarthy was right

[@JamesSmith-rh4is]

No he wasn’t.

[@hurricanefury439]

@@JamesSmith-rh4is there are literally dozens of U.S. politicians openly calling for communism and praising the USSR. and soviet defectors later admitted that they had been infiltrating and subverting American institutions. he was 100% right

[@trentbolte8311]

I have no doubt Jim Jordan THINKS he is playing a similar role. But it's already been done! And the final and historical view on this period is that it was BAD! But, Jim, LB and MTG will embarrass themselves and the GOP until 2024. 🙄

[@jamescarter5883]

Great video. Could you do a video on Strom Thurmond? I think he would make an interesting video.

[@The_Republic_of_Ireland]

Been waiting for this one

[@dcwabdi]

Now commie are everywhere.

[@mavssami41]

Yep he was right

[@dcwabdi]

Agreed

[@mavssami41]

@dcwabdi n it's funny how most of the comments bring up Trump lol

[@karlwikman3874]

he would have 100% been a dictator in another life

[@Hubris21]

Another brilliant video, thank you. Please consider doing one on Gibran Kahlil Gibran, a Lebanese-American writer who turned his pain and loss into sanguine and inspiring poetry. There are biographies about him, of course, but I feel like we're missing a comprehensive yet bite-sized account of his life as Biographics so often delivers. Please keep up the good work.

[@jeffduncan9140]

Haven't seen that name in quite a while. I'd read The Prophet and liked it. He would be an interesting topic for a video.

[@DetectiveStablerSVU]

Grizzley Adams did have a beard. John McCarthy was right (and they lied about the extent of the claims he made).

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Next one you could do Constantine the Great!

[@mattiemathis9549]

Dang!!! I am a 70’s child and fairly well educated. I knew of McCarthy and understood what McCarthyism was. I didn’t know about him being censured…. Cool stuff Simon, as always.

[@brialapoint2608]

Im an 80s child. I didnt learn about Mcarthyism in school, but im teaching myself about it. Many famous actors and actresses sided with him. My parents were and still are Catholics and i broke away from that years ago.

[@The1stDukeDroklar]

And he was right.

[@Primetiime32]

Thanks for the video

[@jennyl7275]

Suggestion: Eadweard Muybride, the true first inventor of the motion picture.

[@racerothery2716]

😂…. That’s awesome how you just did an advertisement for a company that collects your DNA to “find your family history” on an episode about conspiracies. I know you need sponsors but good god man! The freaking clone makers?

[@ethanramos4441]

“Our job as Americans and as Republicans is to dislodge the traitors from every place where they’re been sent to do their traitorous work” Joseph McCarthy

[@davidbennettracing538]

Sounds like Trump, or the rest of the Republican Party…

[@TetsuShima]

*Fun fact:* Joe McCarthy has a considerably bad reputation in the world of comics, as he is usually blamed for causing the creation of the Comics Code Authority and restricting the creative freedom of writers. Thus, he is usually panned everytime he is depicted in a comic book. For example, the members of the Justice Society of America blame said senator for the dissolution of the group after WW2, since McArthy threatened to declare them a threat to America, despite their support against Nazism, if they did not make public their secret identity. Obviously, the group prefered to retire before putting in risk the lives of their beloved ones

[@macdietz]

Right because artists generally have next to no understanding of politics but definitely have the ego to think they do.

[@WouldntULikeToKnow.]

​@@macdietz no, they definitely do. Art and politics has gone hand-in-hand for centuries.

[@mikefloyd3152]

That's why Manga is better cause it's not infiltrated by Commies

[@ryllo2886]

​@@macdietz like Jack Kirby, the creator of Captain America, who personally killed Nazis in WWII.

[@foam3132]

​@Mac Dietz Clearly, you don't understand how well art and politics go hand in hand. Tell me, are you sure it's not your ego or plain ignorance who needs checking?

[@Bobothedodo]

Joesph McCarthy was right.

[@AndrewMitchell123]

Alex Jones of his day :D

[@kjell1979]

The volume for this video was not balanced well compared to the ads (even the in-video ad reads).

[@user-zd5it4yr9b]

based McCarthy

[@richardhoff1626]

Also a good friend and house guest of the Kennedy's. I disagree with the ending comment about the Fifties. I think we hear term "McCarthyism" referenced more often these than any reference to Dovetail haircuts or poodle skirts. Furthermore, the term is often misused when people claim they are the victims of a McCarthy Witch Hunt when they are actually guilty. Remember, the problem with the witch hunt was that there were, in fact, no witches. It was a sad chapter in American history and one that I wish we would not repeat in any form.

[@jamesvanderwire4667]

"Conspiracy theorist" Suuuure Jan.

[@chris-the-gent6676]

I've got three new people suggestions for the next Biographics... Menachem Mendel Schneerson (April 5th, 1902 - June 12th, 1994) Stan Laurel (June 16th, 1890 - February 23rd, 1965) Micheal Jackson (August 29th, 1958 - June 25th, 2009)