Monday, January 28, 2013

Joe McCarthy was Right all Along

Most Europeans are unlikely to be familiar with the facts behind the American term “McCarthyism.” They probably know it describes something very bad in American politics – the “Communist witch hunts” of more than half a century ago. They may also know that simply uttering the term, like casting a spell, stops all debate cold by associating someone with the eponymous Joseph McCarthy. As the story goes, he was himself very bad. After all, he conducted those long ago “Communist witch hunts,“ ruining his name in perpetuity. This probably exhausts general knowledge.

Read more: http://www.rightsidenews.com/2013012631847/life-and-science/culture-wars/joe-mccarthy-was-right-all-along.html

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