Freepers are lovin’ this thread based on M. Stanton Evans’s revisionist McCarthy book, Blacklisted by History.

“Joe McCarthy Was Right All Along”

Many officials and public figures highlighted by Joseph McCarthy (among others), who, we have since learned from US and Soviet archives, were secret agents and fellow-traveling supporters of Stalin.

There is no list of names. They must have left it in McCarthy’s pocket when they buried him.

There is the usual confusion of chronology and failure to distinguish McCarthy from HUAC. The Venona transcripts are credited with vindicating McCarthy, while in fact they do largely the opposite. Comments focus on some genuine (though disputed) cases in which McCarthy had a peripheral involvement and completely ignore the colossal failure and disgusting tactics of his 1953-54 witch hunt. I wonder if these people believe McCarthy’s claim that General Marshall and President Eisenhower were commie conspirators? Evans’s latest project, Stalin’s Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt’s Government, is aimed largely at discrediting US World War II policy. It is of a piece with Patrick Buchanan’s masterpiece, Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War. This is reflected in the long-standing but seldom stated John Birch Society claim that the US fought on the wrong side in WWII or should at least have stayed neutral while the Nazis and the Japanese militarists looted and slaughtered their way through the rest of the world.

Anne Coulter was on this bandwagon way back in 2003. Coulter paying her respects at McCarthy’s grave in 2003.