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From: lazarus@brahms.UUCP
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: making things up
Message-ID: <15757@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Mon, 22-Sep-86 16:16:55 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 22 16:16:55 1986
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Reply-To: lazarus@brahms.UUCP (Andrew J Lazarus)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Keywords: McCarthy liar
Summary: Hudson moves from mistaken to calumnious

In article <1047@frog.UUCP> tdh@frog.UUCP (T. Dave Hudson) writes:
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>Not that McCarthy deserves defending, but no one he accused of being a
>Communist wasn't.
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>				David Hudson

FALSE FALSE FALSE A COMPLETE LIE!!!

Actually, no one Joe McCarthy accused ever *was* a Communist!
He had nothing to do with the Hiss case (even allowing Hiss
was guilty), nothing to do with the Rosenberg case, nothing
to do with the Conlon case; he had nothing to do with any of
the espionage convictions which were ever secured.

People whom McCarthy did accuse - let's see.  Owen Lattimore
(never shown to be a communist), J. Robert Oppenheimer (ditto),
China experts JS Sargent et al (not a one ever shown to be
a Communist, at least one reinstated in the 60s), Dean
Acheson (res ipsa loquitur), etc.  Of the 89 Communists in the
State Dept. which McCarthy claimed to know about (famous
Wheeling W.VA. speech), he never named one outside the Congress,
where (by law) he was immune from Libel and Slander actions.

I can't believe you would make such a posting.  I challenge you
to supply a list of Communists fingered by McCarthy.  For
every one you dig up (no, don't bother with Khrushchev), I
will find three non-communists he slandered.

Have you no decency, sir.  No human decency?

andy lazarus