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The Impeachment of President Obama

Bob Cesca | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Racism, Pat Buchanan, Republican Attacks, Wingnuts, Impeachment, Joe Biden, Rush Limbaugh, Jack Kingston, John Ensign, Nazis, Joseph McCarthy, Racism, Adolf Hitler, Cable News, Lee Atwater, Alex Jones, Glenn Beck, Southern Strategy, Republican Party, Czars, Republicans, Politics News
Bob Cesca

I've been following the Republican descent into the realms of the bizarre for some time now, and I'm convinced that if they retook Congress the Republicans might try to impeach the president.

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Time Magazine Gives Glenn Beck a Rave Review

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.18.2009 | Media

Read More: David Von Drehle, Time, Corporate Media, Time Magazine, President Barack Obama, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, Time Inc., Beck Inc., Media News, Michelle Malkin, Van Jones, Beck, Fox News, Msnbc, Nate Silver, 9/12 Rally, Journalism, Joseph McCarthy, Hate Speech, Glenn Beck, Media Criticism, Colorofchange, Rush Limbaugh, Al Franken, Michael Moore, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

David Von Drehle's article is a clinic for journalism students who wish to learn about faux balance, false equivalencies, straw men, and omissions of important facts.

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Glenn Beck's Witch Hunt: Who's Next?

Josh Silver | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Lou Dobbs, Mark Lloyd, Glenn Beck, Van Jones, Joseph McCarthy, Media News
Josh Silver

Emboldened by his success, Mr. Beck, along with Lou Dobbs, Rush Limbaugh and their extremist cohorts are moving on to their next progressive targets.

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Glenn Beck: Stop the Insanity

Josh Silver | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Media, Van Jones, Joseph McCarthy, Media News
Josh Silver

How did it happen that just a few media pundits can disseminate vitriol and misinformation into millions of homes, and cast it as real news?

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The New McCarthyism, Just Like the Old McCarthyism

Terry Curtis Fox | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Van Jones, Health Reform, Joseph McCarthy, Mccarthism, Politics News
Terry Curtis Fox

The McCarthyist goal was to purge government of progressive people and ideas. It was highly effective in the fifties and early sixties, and it is proving frighteningly effective today.

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Glenn Beck vs. Van Jones: McCarthyism Enters the 21st Century

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Michelle Bachmann, President Barack Obama, The New Republic, Roger Ailes, Glenn Beck Show, Van Jones, Fox News, Green Jobs, James Leon Holmes, Arkansas Right to Life, Joseph McCarthy, Mccarthyism, Glenn Beck, Council of Conservative Citizens, President George W. Bush, John Mcwhorter, Republican Echo Chamber, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

If you serve a right-wing Republican president you can write or say anything you want. But if you serve a liberal Democratic president, like the "pinks" who fell to McCarthyism, you can be taken down.

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The New McCarthyists: Fear and Smear

Michael Likosky | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Carolyn McLarty, Ann Coulter, City of Norwalk Parking Authority, Ron Kaufman, Metro Goldline, Peggy Lambert, Kim Lehman, Cathie Adams, De Carlson, Blacklisting, LAZ Parking, Lilly Nunez, Marxism, Betti Hill, Demetra Demonte, Alfred Cunningham Bridge, Solomon Yue, Republican National Committee, Alameda Corridor, Chicago Parking Meters, Rush Limbaugh, Dorchester Tunnel, Balfour Beatty, Jeff Kent, WIllies Lee, Lou Dobbs, Donna Cain, Dulles Airport Expansion, Jim Bopp, Jon Voight, Peter Ricketts, Edward R. Murrow, Randy Pullen, Communism, New McCarthyists, Gio Cicione, Cindy Costa, Brian Sullivan, Sean Hannity, Joseph McCarthy, Linda Herren, Steve Scheffler, Fox News, Glenn Beck, North-Antelope-Rochelle-Mine, Vinci, Socialism, Helen Van Etten, Highway 130, David Norcross, Politics News
Michael Likosky

New McCarthyists conjure "socialism," "communism," "marxism," and other "shocking labels" to drum up hate-mongering.

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American Masters Toasts Dalton Trumbo

James Sims | Posted 10.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Pbs, Dalton Trumbo, American Masters, Joseph McCarthy, Blacklisting, Hollywood, Entertainment News
James Sims

Trumbo is a reminder that logic does not always factor into the public consciousness.

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Newt Gingrich: Born in Kenya?

Keith Thomson | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Newt Gingrich, Kenyan Birth Certificate, Kenya, Obama Kenyan Birth Certificate, Birthers, Joseph McCarthy, Politics News
Keith Thomson

There are three reasons to believe this Kenyan birth certificate for Newt Gingrich is real, or, at the very least, smoke indicative of fire.

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"No Sense of Decency" Welch v. McCarthy: A Smear Undone

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Communism, Joseph Welch, George Clooney, Dwight Eisenhower, Joseph McCarthy, Edward R. Murrow, Politics News
Kenneth C. Davis

The dramatic moment marked a turning point in the so-called McCarthy Era. It came during one of the first nationally televised Senate hearings, known as the Army-McCarthy hearings.

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Twittering Through American History

Ben Fractenberg | Posted 07.10.2009 | Comedy

Read More: George Soros, The Alamo, Titanic, George W. Bush, Twitter, Facebook, OJ Simpson, Cold War, Lsd, Tweet, Barack Obama, Andy Warhol, Disco, George Washington, Martin Luther King, Richard Nixon, Joseph McCarthy, American History, General Custer, Abraham Lincoln, Truman Capote, Neil Simon, Jfk, Fatty Arbuckle, Prohabition, Comedy News
Ben Fractenberg

"The British are coming! OMG! Wake up the militia! Sound the church bells! Update your Facebook status!"

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Democrites: Nancy Pelosi and Torture

Sam Sedaei | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Patrick Leahy, Joseph McCarthy, Nancy Pelosi, Financial Crisis, Waterboarding, Valerie Plame, Leon Panetta, Barack Obama, Torture, Politics News
Sam Sedaei

There is not a day that you wake up, turn on the news and don't hear about the Democrats backtracking, engaging in hypocrisy and appeasing the Republicans, Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh.

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The "Teabag" Protests Smack of Neo-McCarthyism

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Joseph Welch, Karl Rove, John McCain, Ronald Reagan, Neo-Mccarthyism, President Obama, Have You No Decency, Poll, Bernie Sanders, Mccarthyism, Keith Olbermann, Obama Socialism, Dick Cheney, Teabag, Bush Administration, Michele Bachmann, Joseph McCarthy, CBS News, Fox News, New York Times, Spencer Bachus, Spencer-Bachus-List, Socialism, Republican Party, Republicans, Tea Protests, Tea Party, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

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.

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"Socialized" Medicine: Next Front in the Right's -isms Arms Race

Karl Frisch | Posted 05.03.2009 | Media

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Msnbc, Ronald Reagan, Cnbc, Harry Truman, Mccarthyism, Fox Business Network, Socialized Medicine, Communism, Maoism, CNN Headline News, Sean Hannity, Joseph McCarthy, Marxism, Cnn, Fox News, Michael Savage, Fdr, Lyndon Johnson, Socialism, Health Care, Bill O'Reilly, Stalinism, Leninism, Media News
Karl Frisch

For more than 75 years, conservatives have smeared progressive attempts to reform our faltering health-care system as "socialized medicine."

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The New American Witch Hunt

Lisa Solod Warren | Posted 04.19.2009 | Business

Read More: A.I.G., Money, Joseph McCarthy, Aig Bonuses, Edward Liddy, Barney Frank, Bailout Outrage, Business News
Lisa Solod Warren

Senator McCarthy almost brought our country down searching for a Red Menace that didn't exist. Let's not divert ourselves looking for little bad guys in the suburbs when we know where the real villians reside.

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The Dumbing Down of American Politics

Ira Forman | Posted 04.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Republican Jewish Coalition, Israel, National Jewish Democratic Council, Hamas, Joseph McCarthy, Stephen Walt, Barack Obama, Media News
Ira Forman

The American Thinker is one of those hard-edged, right-wing web sites that specializes in flinging filth. It is a publication that has turned the concepts of lying and distortion into art forms.

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Questioning the Patriotism of Freeman's Critics

Ira Forman | Posted 04.10.2009 | World

Read More: Jeffrey Goldberg, Mudslinging, Patriotism, Samuel Johnson, Joseph McCarthy, Stephen Walt, Israel, Chas Freeman, Barack Obama, M.J. Rosenberg, World News
Ira Forman

No side comes out smelling clean when it engages in this mudslinging. However, we progressives should make a particular effort to avoid calling our opponents unpatriotic.

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Sarah's Social Action Snapshot: The Rod Blagojevich Awards

Sarah Newman | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: House Races, Crew, Joseph McCarthy, Rod Blagojevich, Michele Bachman, Citizens for Responsibilty and Ethics in Washington, Don Young, Charlie Rangel, Blagojevich Awards, Politics News
Sarah Newman

While it's amusing to read about politicians who thought they could surreptitiously pass below the radar, it's important for citizens like you and me to make sure they're held accountable

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"This whole country's just like my flock of sheep!"

Heather Frank | Posted 12.05.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Television, Joseph McCarthy, Pundits, Political Satire, Election, Movies, 2008 Presidential Election, Celebrities, Entertainment News
Heather Frank

In a delightfully subversive programming decision, Turner Classic Movies is showing A Face in the Crowd tonight at 8pm, just days before the election.

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McCarthyism Redux: The McCain Campaign's Calumny Express

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Michele Bachmann, Joseph McCarthy, Margaret Chase Smith, Sarah Palin, Mccarthyism, McCain Campaign, Attack Ads, Republican Party, Barack Obama, House Races, Politics News
Menachem Rosensaft

Viewed in isolation, any one of several recent incidents might be dismissed as an aberration. Together, they form a disquieting, unmistakable pattern.

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Studs for Obama

Edward Lifson | Posted 11.23.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Civil Rights, Barack Obama, Studs Terkel, Obama Racism, Obama Saul Alinsky, Sara Palin, Ayers Obama, Studs Terkel Books, Obama Community Organizer, Obama Ayers, Sarah Palin Drag, Palin Mccarthy, Studs Terkel Obama, Joseph McCarthy, Bill Ayers, Sarah Palin, Studs Terkel Ayers, Racism, Huac, Community Organizing, Saul Alinsky, Alan Greenspan, Chicago News
Edward Lifson

I asked Studs Terkel, if he were to interview Obama, what would he ask him? That got him going.

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Crazy Congresswoman Claims America Anti-American

Steve Young | Posted 01.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Michelle Bachman, Michelle Bachmann, Bachmann Mccarthyist, Michele Bachmann Hardball, Michele Bachmann, Obama Anti-American, Joseph McCarthy, Michelle Bachman Hardball, Michele Bachman, Michele Bachman Hardball, Obama Anti-Americanism, House Races, Media News
Steve Young

Bachmann also named every college all-American player in every sport as anti-American, "especially soccer" which she said, "isn't an American sport to begin with."

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Witches and Hunters

Steven Weber | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mccarthyism, John McCain Attack Ads, Michele Bachmann, 2008 Election, Joseph McCarthy, John McCain Attacks, Politics News
Steven Weber

The latest in the litany of right wing contrivances calculated to raise doubt among the undecideds only causes further embarrassment to McCain, to Republicans and to their shrinking base.

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Bill Ayers or Bel Air?

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Joe the Plumber, John McCain, Joseph McCarthy, Economy, Bill Ayers, Politics News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

Whether he's channeling Joe the Plumber or Joe McCarthy, John McCain is not the right man for the job.

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Sam Stein

Michele Bachmann Channels McCarthy: Obama "Very Anti-American," Congressional Witch Hunt Needed

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Michelle Bachmann, Barack Obama, Joseph McCarthy, Obama Anti-American, Obama McCarthy, Michelle Bachman, Bachmann Mccarthyist, Obama Anti-Americanism, House Races, Politics News

Update: A campaign to censure Rep. Michele Bachmann over her remarks has been launched. * * * In a television appearance that outraged Democrats a...

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