beyond suspicion of being un-American. And gut feelings and hunches are enough to persecute any possible suspects because we must get them before they get us. According to Whitfield, this is the paranoid world where the senator resides. Joe McCarthy felt that there was a dark conspiracy of ignominy that existed that was much more vast then anyone realized and that there should be nothing to stop the search of justice, even the truth.This contemptuous cur of a man used anything at his disposal including lies, and slander to get what he wanted. Joe McCarthy created his image as some invincible demagogue according to Whitfield. The senator on his own never truly found a single communist. There was a lot of dissent against him and his practices, but everyone, including even the military, were afraid to speak out against him for fear of losing their credibility for he never had enough information to actually prosecute. Over the course of the early fifties Senator McCarthy along with HUAC and McCarthys personal staff of lawyers, or cronies, including Roy Cohn and G. David Schine destroyed the careers and devastated the lives of many innocent individuals who made any slight mistake that caught McCarthys attention. With the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover helping him along McCarthy became unstoppable during the end of Trumans term and the beginning of Eisonhowers, but there were a lot of people who hated him including powerful foes like the president and the military. This is what eventually abdicated Joe from his throne of power. As the president began to ignore him and the military released news of McCarthys attempt to stop Schine from going to the military people stopped being afraid of him and started to ignore him. Joe McCarthy was then ostracized by the people, became an alcoholic, and died. Whitfield makes a brilliant point about the purpose of this whole episode by saying how McCarthy had nothing to do with defeating communism, but he had much ...
