"why does the left hate Joe McCarthy?"

FreeperFan came round to suggest this thread, which really epitomizes Freepers' alternate history of McCarthyism.

A Freeper simply asks - "why does the left hate Joe McCarthy?" The answer never seems to mention the fascistic, statist paranoia that he championed...

As kosciusko51 explains, everyone Freepers disagree with are Commies, so McCarthy was a genius! 

Simple. The left was and is a bunch of commies, and they did not like McCarthy pointing out their treason.

Pharmboy knows the left hates the truth as defined by Pharmboy. 

There is NOTHING the left hates more than truth (please see tagline). And this man brought the unvarnished, pure truth to America and every single media outlet in the '50s (and up through today) worked in an unrelenting manner to smear his good name. Their hero, Edward R. Murrow, became famous by trashing McCarthy.

If he was full of it, they never would have closed ranks and gone nuclear on the guy as they did...my first clue.

JLS thinks Palin is the McCarthy of today... 

The bigger the threat you are to the left as in a union family, female, attractive, well spoken, married to a minority VP candidate like Sarah Palin the more they see it necessary to destroy you. So naturally Joe McCarthy was hated as Palin is hated by the left.

BobL knows what liberals wanted in the 1950s:

Because he OUTED them. They had their nice little plan to ‘transform’ American and they got nailed. They had to go back to drawing board and it took decades to recover.

ClearCase_guy has another hero:

They hated Nixon for exactly the same reason -- he understood that communists were a real threat inside this country. The Left didn't hate Nixon because of Watergate. The Left had been tryign to take Nixon down for about 25 years -- it just wasn't until Watergate that they were able to get it done.

Nixon and McCarthy: two American heroes.

Nixon?  The Chi-Com loving, EPA creating RINO?

dfwgator provides Freepers' usual rationalization to be assholes:

“When you’re catching flak that means you are over the target.”

'curse by this definition, Obama is totally correct about everything!

Freee-dame pulls the whole 'this detail is wrong, so nothing is right!' thing.  

Ask most Americans what McCarthy did and they will tell you that he blacklisted Hollywood movie stars. Of course McCarthy was a Senator and the hearings concerning Hollywood took place in the House, but the media has been complicit in allowing this false correlation to be common, even encouraging it. The word McCarthy is used as a verb, adjective and noun to describe someone really evil and unfair.

We FReepers are far more informed than most. Young Americans have been led to believe that communism wasn't all that bad. They have no idea about the spread of communism and the Soviets determination to dominate the world.

Special bonus "Freepers are far more informed than most" followed by complete claptrap.

There was also a hilarious argument over how much of a RINO Eisenhower was.  hosepipe is not a fan: 

Eisenhower was not a RINO

Ike appointed the bastard William Brennan to the Supreme Court...
Was be Stupid or a RINO?...
Some say it depends on the day of the week..

 Next, we can argue about whether Polk woulda made a good Freeper!