{"id":447,"date":"2014-12-03T21:10:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T02:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/?p=447"},"modified":"2014-12-03T21:14:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T02:14:46","slug":"crackpots-gonna-crack-mccarthyism-loses-the-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"Crackpots Gonna Crack: McCarthyism Loses The Plot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Stuck In Lodi \u00c2\u00a0\"hansen\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

From the Lodi News-Sentinel comes disturbing signs that McCarthy-Was-Rightists are having trouble\u00c2\u00a0keeping track of\u00c2\u00a0what they imagine are the facts of the case.<\/p>\n

Local columnist Steve Hansen offers a sad sack version of today’s McCarthyism, with the usual elements of Joe the lonely prophet proven right in the end by the Venona files.<\/p>\n

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Hansen gets everything wrong.<\/p>\n

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After channeling Bill O’Reilly to set up the late General George Patton as a Red Nightmare warning prophet, Hansen mangles the story by describing Stalin’s East European surge as coming along “fortuitously<\/a>.” \u00c2\u00a0I was always taught \u00c2\u00a0Uncle Joe did it on purpose.<\/p>\n

After that, time bends. Hansen confuses Dr. Strangelove, Edward Teller, with the man Teller\u00c2\u00a0denounced as a security risk, Robert Oppenheimer. McCarthy’s hearings are conflated with HUAC, resulting in McCarthy being responsible for blackballing witnesses, “especially those from the Hollywood scene<\/a>”<\/p>\n

He even messes up Venona, the code breaking of wartime Soviet diplomat cables transmitted home using ordinary commercial telegraph. Hansen vamps it up with spy stuff that never happened:<\/p>\n

“This covert operation consisted of intercepted radio transmissions from KGB agents, who were secretly located in our nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s capital, to their Soviet contacts in Moscow.<\/em><\/a>“<\/p>\n

Fortuitously, \u00c2\u00a0Venona\u00c2\u00a0provides whatever Hansen imagines, “convincing evidence that Sen. McCarthy may not be the villain his opponents have claimed<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

If I can do a better paint by numbers version of McCarthy’s martyrdom then this clown we have come to a sad point. \u00c2\u00a0Because as Hansen says:<\/p>\n

“Whatever one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s view of the controversial senator is, the legacy of Joseph McCarthy still deserves to have the timeframe in which he lived understood and all other facts pertinent to his story revealed.<\/em><\/a>“<\/p>\n

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  Stuck In Lodi \u00c2\u00a0 From the Lodi News-Sentinel comes disturbing signs that McCarthy-Was-Rightists are having trouble\u00c2\u00a0keeping track of\u00c2\u00a0what they imagine are the facts of the case. Local columnist Steve Hansen offers a sad sack version of today’s McCarthyism, with the usual elements of Joe the lonely prophet proven right in the end by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,8,9,7,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asian-history","category-china","category-communism","category-joseph-mccarthy","category-mccarthy-was-right","category-mccarthyism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}