On 07/10/2010 02:30 AM, Jeff Binkley -> Ed Hulett wrote:


 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
 RS>>>>> Glenn Beck.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 JB> Sauer forget show many devout communists were in the FDR administration
 JB> at the end of WWII.

Sauer doesn't know much about history. He has repeatedly associated
McCarthy with HUAC and refuses to understand that a Senator isn't part of
the House.

Ed

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