Well, yeah- except that later events, especially the opening of the KGB archives with the fall of the USSR, revealed that the much maligned McCarthy was correct.

The President is really a Keyan Marist, communist, Socialist Nazi spy sent here as a deep undercover mole at the age of one month. For that reason "Internal Security Committee" is far too restrictive.I think a better name for Citizen King's committee would be the "Committee for Public Safety."

Perhaps we could give Citizen King and his committee the power to summarily guillotine
anyone he and the committee decide are ememies of the state.

tom: To claim that McCarthy was "correct", you must argue that persecuting American citizens for their political and economic beliefs, and/or the beliefs of their associates and friends, is just. Except that it isn't just. In fact, not only is it unjust, it is *illegal*.

Therefore, McCarthy was not correct. He was about as wrong as it is possible to be.

Isn't that what their whole deal is all about. Going back to the 50s and erasing the 60s.

On further review I should clarify. Going back to the 1850s.

There are fewer more sickening moments than to hear the name of McCarthy glorified in this way.

Tom, who claims McCarthy was 'correct', fails to take into account the damages that McCarthy and not the supposed 'commies' and 'pinkos' did to our country, and particularly to our culture: the Hollywood purges the ideological purity tests, the refusal even to know what you were supposed to be opposed to by effectively banning people from reading the stuff.

At the same time the Republican government condoned the mass importation of Nazi scientists and thinkers, embedding them into the government, the universities, space research et al., because Hitler there erstwhile Leader was the most anti-communist of them all.

I always thought the rebellions of the 60s that the McCarthyites were so fearful of was a direct result of the repressions they instituted. The atmosphere of the 50s was indeed stifling because of this alcoholic fanatic.

And just to clarify, McCarthy was a Senator and not a member of HUAC. And the Red Hunting was going on in Congress long before McCarthy.

McCarthy just brought things to a whole new disgusting level starting with his list of however many he was claiming today Commies in the gov't to attacking soldiers and President Eisenhower while drinking himself to death.

So, McCarthyism is not just Red hunting, it is falsely using the accusation of communisim for political purposes and to harm innocent people.

Steve King was accused of McCarthyite tactics years ago, and his famous reply was "McCarthy was a great man." And, for the record and those who only know Fox history, no he wasn't, as his thousands of innocent victims and their descendents can tell you.

I would not be at all surprised to see the Traitor-Republicans try to bring back HUAC. Since their satanic agenda involves grinding the lower classes into the mud, it makes sense that they would bring red-baiting back into fashion preemptively so that they can slander and destroy anyone tries to advocate on behalf of the non-rich.

History doesn't repeat itself (but it does rhyme), so my guess is Mr. King's dream is more akin to the Spanish Inquisition because that would allow him to endulge his penchant for torture. It's also further back in time which would better fit his reactionary policies. But it is the 21st Century, so maybe he would endorse burning at the stake with ethanol.

I don't see just how a McCarthyite sort of investigation would work. The 'unamerican' enemies they seek are, in fact, their fellow citizens, who happen to hold different theologies, I mean, political views than the would be inquisitors. I just don't think they have the intellectual heft to pull off this sort of thing. I tend to think it would reveal the intellectual and moral poverty of King and Bachmann.
Maybe this could happen in a period mob rule or something, but I actually have hope 'hearings' on this sort of conservative political correctness would backfire. Just as I hope the proposed hearings on 'Climategate' backfire. I can see Fox being in on this but I still can't see what they would do? I mean, is it a crime to support a progressive income tax? Or trust scientific data instead of bogus reading of scripture and Oil company propaganda? Get people fired from their jobs (thinking academics here) for having the wrong 'unamerican' ideas?
I could be very wrong.

"persecuting American citizens for their political and economic beliefs"

WRONG!

These "Americans" were acttively supporting an ideology that advocated the violent overthrow of our democracy and the establishment of a totalitarian Marxist (redundant) regime controlled by Moscow.

These "Americans" were, at best, to use Lenin's phrae, "useful idiots" and at worst traitors. Anyone who denies this and continues to malign Senator McCarthy is no better than they.

"Nazis imported by Republicans"

Jim, as with most leftists, is historically ignorant- the Nazis imported for their scientific knowledge all came to this country under a Democrat regime.