User talk:KatyK

Joe McC
KatyK, I'm really interested in understanding your perspective better. What was the useful methodology McCarthy proposed for "establish[ing] some way to identify them [i.e., Soviet spies] within the government," as you suggest? As far as I know, he never established some such way of identification. Rather, he flat-out lied about there being scores of such spies within the federal government. I mean, maybe you'd prefer to get all artful and Clintonian about this--"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is"--but to most objective observers, McCarthy was simply a liar. He said he had names that he didn't have. He said he had evidence that he didn't have. You say his motivations were "GOOD," but he slandered real human beings, your fellow Americans, with his lies. Does that not matter to you?—DCGeist 00:32, 2 December 2006 (UTC)