On McCarthy, I studied him years later. He began by making a unresearched statement about the presence of communists as a junior senator at a womens political meeting, that was published in the national news. He had to “save face”, so made up even more when asked about his source. It was fearmongering and he got attention and continued …
On McCarthy, I studied him years later. He began by making a unresearched statement about the presence of communists as a junior senator at a womens political meeting, that was published in the national news. He had to “save face”, so made up even more when asked about his source. It was fearmongering and he got attention and continued because he loved the attention. Now mind you, I was from an extremely conservative family who wanted to report my teachers to the UnAmerican Activities Committee because they said “we’re all members of the human race”. So when I dug into McCarthy when I was a senior in school, what I found was shocking. Many people lost their livelihoods because of innuendo. Families were torn apart. The nation was at each other’s throats all based on a man who had no proof for his statements and loved media attention. Put him in with Cohn and you had major trouble. I presented my findings in an English class on Shakespeare and ended with the transcript (on tape) of McCarthy being brought down. He was clearly panicking and would attack anyone to get out of the hole he had dug for himself. The class was stunned. Shakespeare would have been proud.
On McCarthy, I studied him years later. He began by making a unresearched statement about the presence of communists as a junior senator at a womens political meeting, that was published in the national news. He had to “save face”, so made up even more when asked about his source. It was fearmongering and he got attention and continued because he loved the attention. Now mind you, I was from an extremely conservative family who wanted to report my teachers to the UnAmerican Activities Committee because they said “we’re all members of the human race”. So when I dug into McCarthy when I was a senior in school, what I found was shocking. Many people lost their livelihoods because of innuendo. Families were torn apart. The nation was at each other’s throats all based on a man who had no proof for his statements and loved media attention. Put him in with Cohn and you had major trouble. I presented my findings in an English class on Shakespeare and ended with the transcript (on tape) of McCarthy being brought down. He was clearly panicking and would attack anyone to get out of the hole he had dug for himself. The class was stunned. Shakespeare would have been proud.