Glenn Beck is not original, nor was Joe McCarthy. The "red scare" of McCarthyism was merely the recycled red scare of the 1920's, when Attorney General Mitchell Palmer and his right-hand assistant, J. Edgar Hoover, conducted warrantless raids on union halls and labor organizations deemed socialists or communists for their suspected anti-American, anti-corporate beliefs. Full Story »
Posted by Patricia Blochowiak
This worthwhile piece compares the fearmongering that characterizes politics today to that of the 1950s, when Joe McCarthy and Co. were oozing their way through history. Those folks are all gone now, but, as the article points out, Glen Beck, talk radio and even the GOP have taken over where McCarthy left off and are marching "us backward with banners flying and Hosannas shouted..." into another morass of hatred, bigotry and racism all rooted in fear. The piece concludes by urging folks to turn their backs on the fearmongering throwbacks because there's really nothing there to fear.
Send this piece to Beck and to Congress. All of them could stand a history lesson.