Rachel Maddow, Mistress of Irony

Rachel Maddown has gone to war with Mike Huckabee’s new American History videos and in a quite ironic way:

Irony #1: Maddow Assaults the videos as historical revisionism and then tries to revise history.

She begins with a moving story of how Senator Joe McCarthy went after Communists in Hollywood, searching for anybody who might look like a Communist and ruined their lives sending people to prison and pointed out that Ronald Reagan testified as a friendly witness for Senator McCarthy’s Committee.

There’s a big problem with that. You see the committee Reagan testified before was the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. Was Senator McCarthy on the House UnAmerican Activities Committee? 

Would Miss Maddow explain how Senator McCarthy who never served a day in the U.S. House had anything to do with the House UnAmerican Activities Committee?

Hello Maddow, whatever you think of McCarthy’s investigations, they had nothing to do with Hollywood. Ann Coulter put it best, “He was interested in commies working for the government.”

Irony #2: Ms. Maddow’s New and Improved and Past

She attacks conservatives for reimagining a new and improved past for America. She then re-imagines a history where there were no communists to be found in America and really the whole focus of anti-communism was just harassing a bunch of innocent actors. This is the left’s new and improved past.

There’s a problem It’s called t he Verona Papers that show yes, there were ties between the American Communist Party and the Soviet government.  Yes, there were Americans working as spies for the Soviet Union in the U.S. working for the government.

The truth during the Cold War is that: 1) There were some innocent people who got hurt or falsely accused during anti-communism investigations due to excessive, zeal, sloppiness, or ulterior motives on the part of some anti-communists and 2) there were spies for the Soviet Union who weren’t caught or were blindly defended thanks to those liberals who would rather pretend  they didn’t exist. And yes, there were Communists in Hollywood, but less than were accused.  Actual history is a complicated affair.

Irony #3: Ultimate Edition or Maddow becomes What She Protests

Rachel Maddow complained how Senator McCarthy (mystically transported across Capitol Hill) presided over a House Committee that harassed the entertainment industry,  had friends selling each other out, and ruined careers.

Less than a minute later, she then expressed frustration that the people who produced the history videos in question wouldn’t give her the names of the animators responsible and asked anyone who happened to know who drew them to let her know.

So in other words, she’s saying if your friend drew these cartoons, you need to report them to me. 

The, once she gets that information, she can announce their names the air and they’ll find themselves unable to get a Hollywood job, thus leading to ruined careers.

To complete the irony, she could bring them on the show and ask tough questions such as, “Have you now or ever been a right winger?”

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