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Originally posted by MBFlyerfan:
McCarthy was a patriot skewed by a media controlled by the hollywood elite left. A large number of people that McCarthy supposedly subjected to a "witch hunt" were later positively identified as agents for the Soviet Union.
Actually, most, if not all, of his accusations were either proven completely false, or never proven at all.

He never provided any documentation for his accusations.

That first piece of paper he held up with a "list" of some 250 communists within the State department...was a laundry list.

While he may have been a patriot, and his intentions *might* have been good, McCarthy wasn't a "patriot skewed by the media." Nobody would take him on until Murrow. And even then, after Murrow did the show, it got cancelled by CBS. He was a first term Senator blinded by being in the spotlight. So much so that he even went so far as to attack Eisenhower. He got to the point that if anyone attacked him, they must be a Red.
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