On 07/09/2010 08:47 PM, Ross Sauer -> Jeff Binkley wrote:
 RS> "Jeff Binkley -> Ross Sauer"  wrote
in news:8877$ALL-
 RS> POLITICS{at}JamNNTPd:

 TR>>>>> Behavior can be faked up. Robert Byrd wasn't above faking
 TR>>>>> behavior. After all....he was a democrat.

 bk>>>> Uh... no. How do you fake up 60 years of behavior? Awful
 RS> hard
 bk>>>> to get away with.

 RS>>> The absolute funniest take on Byrd comes from our old buddy Glenn
 RS>>> Beck.

 RS>>> He and his crack staffers couldn't find, and Beck whined about it
 RS> at
 RS>>> length on his TV show, film or videotape of Byrd's 1964 filibuster
 RS> of
 RS>>> the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

 RS>>> Other commentators found in only a few seconds using Google, the
 RS> fact
 RS>>> that the Senate did not allow TV cameras in their chambers until
 RS>>> 1974.

 RS>>> Committee rooms had TV cameras in them at times, most notably the
 RS>>> Army- McCarthy hearings of 1954 that destroyed Beck's hero, Joe
 RS>>> McCarthy.

 JB>> Let us be reminded what state Joe was from.

 RS> And this has what to do with the price of tea in China?

 RS> The country as a whole, and Wisconsin, have mostly rejected McCarthyism.
 RS> And McCarthy.

 RS> However, Glenn Beck and Ann Coulter still consider McCarthy to be their
 RS> hero.

 RS> Where were Ohio's Senators, when McCarthy was running around with his
 RS> tar bucket and brush?

Please read the Venona Papers. Here's a list of Americans on the list...
http://goo.gl/WHLe

"Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Chairman of the bipartisan
Commission on Government Secrecy, responsible for securing the release of
Venona project materials, in the Introduction to his book Secrecy states,
"The Venona intercepts contained overwhelming proof of the activities
of Soviet spy networks in America, complete with names, dates, places, and
deeds." The release involved careful consideration of privacy
interests of individuals mentioned, referenced, or identified in the
translations. Some names have not been released when to do so would
constitute an invasion of privacy. Over 200 named or covernamed persons
found in the VENONA translations, persons then present in the U.S., are
claimed by the KGB and the GRU in their messages as their clandestine
assets or contacts."

The Venona Papers back up McCarthy's actions. He eventually went overboard,
but before then, he was on the right track.

Interestingly, the Russians are still spying on the US. The Obama
administration doesn't want anyone to pay attention to that fact seeing how
fast they made the swap deal with Russia even before the 10 spies were
convicted.

Ed

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