You (Really) Don't Need a Weatherman

McCarthyism is a term rarely heard since the Cold War ended, but, like "red-baiting," it used to get tossed around on the left entirely too loosely during the nineteen-sixties and seventies. There were those who failed to understand that it's not red-baiting to point out that a person is a Communist--if that person really is a Communist. McCarthyism is a little more complicated. Full Story »

Posted by Alan Horn
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Subjects: U.S., Politics
Topics: Presidential Election 2008, Democrats, Money and Politics, Democratic Nomination
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Posted by: Posted by Alan Horn - Apr 22, 2008 - 8:38 PM PDT
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Edited by: Beth Wellington - Apr 24, 2008 - 7:46 PM PDT

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Dwight Rousu
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by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

Hertzberg pretty well nails the attack tactics of guilt by association that the right wing via the right wing press is using to try to tar Obama. He establishes that George Stephanopoulos' middle name is McCarthy. Have you no shame, George? Herzberg goes a little astray confusing the problems of communism with the problems of totalitarianism of any political persuasion, such as fascism.

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Alan Horn
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by Alan Horn - Oct. 1, 2008

A well-written piece of prose that provokes a moment of thought.

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