History may not repeat itself but it does rhyme. Dan Rather is 89 years young and so he remembers a lot of things and people that even those of us who are not spring chickens don’t have a conscious recollection of because we simply weren’t here yet. Rather was. Therefore, when Rather makes a comparison between today’s events and events in the 1950’s, he’s not just going with an analysis gleaned from reading history and talking to our elders. He was there. Bear that in mind when you read this short succinct take on Kevin McCarthy.

Interesting that they’re both connected to Donald Trump, isn’t it? Joseph McCarthy knew Roy Cohn extremely well, he was McCarthy’s “killer” lawyer and so does Trump, same relationship. Kevin McCarthy knows Trump personally, he’s one of his lap dogs and makes frequent pilgrimages to Mar-a-Lago.

And they’re all connected to Satan, that’s pretty much a no brainer.

Did I mention my own six degrees of separation connection to Joseph McCarthy? I have one. I was dear friends with McCarthy’s roommate in the Marines. True story. My friend’s name was Duane Leroy Faw and he was a Brigadier General when I met him.  He and his wife knew Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson personally, because they were all Texans and Duane worked to help get Johnson elected — which upset a lot of people he knew, because he was a Republican. But being a Texan and a personal friend was a higher calling, apparently.

Duane told me that he got together with McCarthy in the Marines because McCarthy didn’t drink — then. He later became an alcoholic. Duane also told me that McCarthy loved to cheat at cards.

The last time Duane saw Joseph McCarthy was in 1957. McCarthy was on the lam. He couldn’t live in an apartment or house “because so many people wanted to kill him,” Duane told me. So he holed up in an office building in Washington, D.C. He asked Duane to come and see him, because Duane was one of the few people he felt he could still trust because they went back all the way to their early beginnings in the Marines.

So he gave Duane elaborate directions to get to this office building and insisted that Duane take them, because he was paranoid Duane would be followed. When Duane got to the building and up to the floor, he found McCarthy, disheveled and hung over, with “a case of scotch, a blonde, and a gun.” I guess this is where selling out your country leads you.

They two men spoke for a bit and McCarthy asked Duane if he thought that he, McCarthy, could maybe do something to redeem himself or if it was hopeless. Duane said he had no idea, but such a thing was always worth a try. As it turned out, they didn’t have another conversation on the matter, because McCarthy became terminally ill and died.

Maybe Kevin McCarthy will have a similar conversation with an old friend at some point? Selling out his country with the Big Lie and stabbing Liz Cheney in the back are not things that are going to come out in the wash. This is going to be with Kevin McCarthy for a long time.

 

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2 COMMENTS

  1. The difference is Trump isn’t sitting down in Florida in same shape, although he & the rest of these traitors should be. No. He became a t.v. star. He became President & leader of the free world, & now has turned one of our two major parties into fascist traitors & a personality cult. And it’s far far from over. Interesting story.

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