US Rep. Steve King (R) Hails Joe McCarthy as "a great American hero"

[Rose Siding]

'McCarthy' comment by Steve King stirs debate
Democrats criticize Rep. Steve King when he objects to naming a California post office for an activist.
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King defended Joe McCarthy, the late U.S. senator from Wisconsin who in the 1950s gained fame through pursuing allegations of communism and whose name is often used in a derogatory way to signal stifling of dissent.

"If she studied her history, she'd recognize Joe McCarthy was a great American hero," King said of Lee, in an interview.

Democrats in Iowa objected Wednesday. Mike Milligan, executive director of the state party, said King is "out of touch with reality."

King, however, said he got a big round of applause from members of the Conservative Opportunity Society on Wednesday when he attended a meeting....

http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050929/NEWS09/509290403&SearchID=73221925473690

[derby378]

1. Ladies and gentlemen, load the rotten tomatoes...

We have a target.

[Arkana]

2. Yep. Nailin' all those Commies wuz hard werk!

And it wuz patreeotick, two!

How fucking crazy do you have to be to laud McCarthy (R-Paranoid) as a hero?

[NYCGirl]

3. Well, you have to be at least as crazy as

Ann Coulter and Pat Buchanan, who both think that McCarthy was a good guy.

[tanyev]

4. Well of course he got a big round of applause from the

Conservative Opportunity Society. George Bush got tremendous applause from his pre-screened, loyalty oath signatories at all of his campaign appearances. What the hell does that prove?


:banghead:

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

5. Quick, send him a copy of the movie about Joe McCarthy,

in which he is clearly shown breaking down at the end, having been quite deranged the whole time!

His HUAC, House on UnAmerican Affairs Committee, hearings ruined lives, destroyed careers.

It was such a shameful dreadful time in our history.

Hard to believe anyone can champion that toad.

[gratuitous]

12. McCarthy was a Senator, not on HUAC

Just sayin'.

As unpopular as he was, and as reckless and cynical as his commie-hunting career was, McCarthy didn't finally cross the line until he took on the military. He was quite a useful tool for anyone who wanted to point him at a political adversary or an inconvenient constituent. When he took it into his silly head to "clean up" the Pentagon, that's when the establishment finally decided it had had enough of the Senator from Wisconsin.

[fujiyama]

13. Actually

the HUAC wasn't established by him (it started in 1938 as the Dies Commitee before McCarthy entered office). Also, he was a member of the senate and the HUAC was part of the House. HUAC brought Nixon into prominence and it investigated Alger Hiss.

All that said, you are correct the events of McCarthyism are shameful and that anyone would admire him or his tactics is disgraceful.

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

20. Actually I think it was The Army McCarthy Hearings

His downfall was aided by Edward R. Murrow having the courage to speak out, I believe.

It was all the same witch hunt.

[Zynx]

6. He stopped the international communist conspiracy to impurify our bodily

fluids! Those damn commies with their flouridation. Ice cream, Mandrake. Children's ice cream.

I hope a lot of you are Dr. Strangelove fans.

[Up2Late]

8. Exactly, Have you ever noticed that you never see a Communist drink Water?

Only Vodka or Grain Alcohol.

We can NOT allow them to compromise our Precious bodily Fluids. :crazy:

[noonwitch]

15. Those dirty reds already have put Flouride in the water!

What's next?

[ReadTomPaine]

17. Time to rewatch!

Its been a while. Great film.

[Blue_Tires]

19. i never pass up a chance to post it:

General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream.

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Lord, Jack.

General Jack D. Ripper: You know when fluoridation first began?

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: I... no, no. I don't, Jack.

General Jack D. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. Nineteen forty-six, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Uh, Jack, Jack, listen, tell me, tell me, Jack. When did you first... become... well, develop this theory?

General Jack D. Ripper: Well, I, uh... I... I... first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love.

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Hmm.

General Jack D. Ripper: Yes, a uh, a profound sense of fatigue... a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I... I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence.

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Hmm.

General Jack D. Ripper: I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women uh... women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh... I do not avoid women, Mandrake.

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No.

General Jack D. Ripper: But I... I do deny them my essence.

[Up2Late]

21. Here's another good one

Major T. J. "King" Kong: Well, boys, I reckon this is it - nuclear combat toe to toe with the Roosskies.

Now look, boys, I ain't much of a hand at makin' speeches, but I got a pretty fair idea that something doggone important is goin' on back there. And I got a fair idea the kinda personal emotions that some of you fellas may be thinkin'. Heck, I reckon you wouldn't even be human bein's if you didn't have some pretty strong personal feelin's about nuclear combat.

I want you to remember one thing, the folks back home is a-countin' on you and by golly, we ain't about to let 'em down. I tell you something else, if this thing turns out to be half as important as I figure it just might be, I'd say that you're all in line for some important promotions and personal citations when this thing's over with.

That goes for ever' last one of you regardless of your race, color or your creed. Now let's get this thing on the hump - we got some flyin' to do.

They have a bunch of quotes at:

<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/quotes>

[ISUGRADIA]

7. Iowa now has its own Bob Dornan

He wants to run against Harkin in 2008 also.

[zbdent]

9. Did this guy just "out" himself as a gay lover of

Mannthrax Coulter?

:evilgrin:

[fujiyama]

14. Interestingly enough

it is rumored that McCarthy himself was a closeted homosexual.

[apnu]

10. In other news, King found in bed with Coulter. (nt)

[tinfoilinfor2005]

11. I'm surprised these people didn't lobby to release locked up

Nazi criminals.

[ReadTomPaine]

16. To conservatives he *is* a hero to be emulated. And he *will* be emulated.

Sooner rather than later, I fear.

[Debi]

18. I don't live in western Iowa

but I still apologize to the United States for Iowa's contribution of a bat-shit crazy person in the House of Representatives.

There are good Iowans, I swear. ;)