Written by: Anonymous

The other day I saw a pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies refer to the congressional steroids hearings as "Chemical McCarthyism." This on the heels of Alan Dershowitz's brilliant coining of the phrase "Sexual McCarthyism" during the Lewinsky scandal. Both the pitcher and Dershowitz should have their feeding tubes removed.

But aside from the asinine overuse of the "McCarthyism" cliche by uneducated imbeciles, there's something deeper here we should not lose sight of. On the whole, when you look at the substance of his important allegations, Joe McCarthy was right.

McCarthy's main point, first articulated in Wheeling, West Virginia in 1950, was that the Roosevelt and Truman administrations had been significantly penetrated (tee-hee!) by Soviet spies. Now, after the fall of the Soviet Union and the release of Soviet records confirming the conclusions of the Venona decoding project of the 1940s, we know that McCarthy hit the nail on the head. Alger Hiss was a proven Soviet spy. Harry Dexter White, architect of the Bretton Woods system, was a proven Soviet spy. Owen Lattimore at the China desk. The list goes on and on. Although McCarthy got a little big for his britches in taking on the Army later in his career, the fact remains that several higher-ups in the Roosevelt and Truman State and Treasury Departments were working for the enemy.

Of course, you don't hear a peep about this from the Left. Never an acknowledgement that they were wrong, carping for all these years about how, for example, poor Alger Hiss had been mistreated. Being a liberal means never having to admit when you're wrong. (In fairness, if liberals had to admit they were wrong every time they were wrong, it would be a full-time job for them.)

And this is not just an interesting historical confirmation of the fact that liberals are unprincipled, evil vermin. It's also an troubling sign when we think about what's going on right now. Just as the Left has historically hated America so much as to look the other way when the enemy is literally in our midst, so they likely continue to do so today. I wonder how many radical Islamist nutballs are working for the various diversity groups popping up in government and civil society?