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::*''Thomas C. Reeves painstakingly well-documented 1982 biography of McCarthy..."''
::*''Thomas C. Reeves painstakingly well-documented 1982 biography of McCarthy..."''
Same as above; obsolete and deprecated material. 1982 is pre-Venona. Any material as a source that pre-dates 1995 is suspect, and to characterized it as "painstakingly well-documented" only applies to the state of knowledge at that time, i.e. 1982. [[User:RobS|RobS]] 14:16, 24 March 2007 (EDT)
Same as above; obsolete and deprecated material. 1982 is pre-Venona. Any material as a source that pre-dates 1995 is suspect, and to characterized it as "painstakingly well-documented" only applies to the state of knowledge at that time, i.e. 1982. [[User:RobS|RobS]] 14:16, 24 March 2007 (EDT)
== Overall evaluation ==
My take is that McCarthy has been demonized. His name has been made synonymous with overzealous rooting out of evil - or mean-spirited and partisan intimidation of innocent dissent.
All of this is a smokescreen. Communists murdered tens of millions of people. Support of communism is support of murder.
The way they slam Joe McCarthy makes him (in Liberal eyes) as bad as Hitler. Yet it is the Communists who are as bad as Hitler, or worse. Pol Pot, Joseph Stalin, [[Mao Tse-Tung]], etc. If anyone needs demonization, these men do. Not McCarthy.
And guess who else used to round people up and intimidate them into ratting out their friends and coworkers? The Communists themselves. And these betrayals cost people their lives. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 14:39, 27 March 2007 (EDT)