The "Teabag" Protests Smack of Neo-McCarthyism

Today's "teabag" protests would be funny, if they didn't make me think of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, and what he might have accomplished if Fox News existed during his time. Full Story »

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by alan segal - Apr. 22, 2009

It is quality journalism because it is factual, and just like Joseph Welch standing up to McCarthy's lies and asking him if he has any sense of decency, not one single Republican has stood up to the right wing propaganda machine of Fox News, and the hate talkers, Hannity, Limbaugh, Beck, and the RNC and their lies and harmful and undemocratic attacks on the President and the will of the people. Never in the history of this country has a political party so totally disregarded facts and reality for their own partisan talking points, propaganda and re-writing of factual history. Never have they had the media reach for these lies and distortions as they have today with right wing cable news and am hate talk radio. This is dangerous stuff, especially since there are so many uninformed viewers and listeners to these GOP lies and talking points and attacks, who get their whole political education from GOP propaganda. If McCarthy had the propaganda machine the GOP has now and a wimpy main stream media, minus any Edgar R Murrow journalistic integrity and bravery, he could have been President. If you think this is far fetched, just look at the past 8 years under Bush and Cheney and Rove who came to power and stayed in power via a tsunami of lies, incompetence and corruption.

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