It's an adventure to read M. Stanton Evansâ
âBlacklisted by History: the Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight
Against Americaâs Enemies,â the best book on Americaâs great Red-hunting
patriot. Then there are McCarthyâs own two books "America's Retreat from
Victory" and "The Fight for America." Most historians and writers
sadly havenât cared to update their knowledge base.
McCarthy is just too good a boogeyman to
resist. The record shows McCarthyâs 1950s committee was right in its proven
accusations about hundreds of Soviet agents of influence living off the U.S. government
payroll all the way up to the White House. Many of the big fish had even been
promoted despite FBI protests.
The saga of 35 Red moles at the Fort
Monmouth complex in New Jersey brought incredible pressure on Washingtonâs
cover-up artists. These were the âArmy hearings.â President Eisenhower, an
establishment darling, thought more of the Army leadershipâs reputation than
the truth. There was fight going on inside the Army. Plus, Eisenhower couldn't
escape being tied to George Marshall.
On June 14, 1951, McCarthy had already
exposed the sinister Gen. George Marshallâs role in giving Eastern Europe to
Stalin and China to Mao. Back then, the popular portrait of Marshall fed to the
public was that he was perhaps âthe most important man of the century.â
Eisenhower finally did in McCarthy with the
help of a feckless media and vast liberal network. No Fox News, internet, or
Twitter to help old Joe.
Renowned defense attorney Edward Bennett
Williams had all the Senate kangaroo court charges thrown out except one, a
laughable âconduct unbecoming,â for McCarthy defending himself against vicious
liberal Democrats in the Senate.
At first glance, it wasn't a good move by
McCarthy to have brought up at Army-McCarthy hearings the subject of Welch's
associate Fred Fisher having been a past member of the communist-front National
Lawyers Guild. Yet it was Welch himself earlier in the April 15, 1954 New York
Times who first outed Fisher.
The Left always leaves out McCarthyâs
response, âMr. Welch talks about this being cruel and reckless. He was just
baiting; he has been baiting Mr. Cohn here for hours [my emphasis]...â Gay-baiting on national television?
It turns out that Welch welched on a
pre-hearing agreement where he wouldnât bring up the brilliant young prosecutor
Roy Cohnâs homosexuality in return for McCarthyâs silence on Fisher.
Crocodile tears Welch continued his acting
career next in Hollywood until his death in 1960.