Joseph Mccarthy

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

Heather Frank | Posted 11.04.2008 | Entertainment

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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 10.27.2008 | Politics

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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 10.23.2008 | Chicago

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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 10.23.2008 | Media

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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 10.21.2008 | Politics

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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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Give Bachmann the Boot!

Bruce Kluger | Posted 10.20.2008 | Home

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Bruce Kluger

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Bill Ayers or Bel Air?

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 10.19.2008 | 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 10.17.2008 | Politics

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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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The Power of No

Alex Jones | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics

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Alex Jones

There is something sinister about the press's complicity in allowing campaign coverage to feed hungrily on meaningless charges and counter-charges.

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The Great Populist Divide

Michael Kazin | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics

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Michael Kazin

When conservatives began attacking liberals as an elite that was unpatriotic, condescending, ungodly and licentious, they had no rebuttal to offer. This election will, in part, be a test of whether right-wing populism still works.

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McCain's 1968 Heroism Can't Excuse His 2008 McCarthyism

Mark Green | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics

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Mark Green

McCain said two months ago that he wanted to run a "civil campaign" free of personal attacks. Now he all but accuses Obama of being unpatriotic, nearly treasonous.

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Barack Obama and the Corporate Media

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.29.2008 | Media

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Joseph A. Palermo

The bad news about our nutrient-starved, 24-hour media environment is that there will be more news cycles dedicated to destroying Obama -- or at least slowing the momentum of his campaign.

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A Life Well Lived

Janet Ritz | Posted 04.20.2008 | Living

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Janet Ritz

An artist's work lives beyond them. I know this. I also know another side to the terrific woman who was my mother and who was such a large part of our lives.

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Bill and Hillary's Biggest White House Stresses Were Self-Inflicted, and Obama Should Say So

Carol Felsenthal | Posted 04.19.2008 | Politics

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Carol Felsenthal

The morning after last Wednesday's debate, Don Imus called Obama "almost a bigger pussy than she [Hillary] is." Imus is not alone in seeming to want to give Obama a shot of testosterone.

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Clinton's McCarthyism (and my Brother Bill Ayers)

Rick Ayers | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics

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Rick Ayers

It is clear that Hillary has no limits. Barack Obama, attempting to take the high ground, gave her a pass on her despicable behavior.

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How Would Watergate Be Reported Today?

Art Brodsky | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Art Brodsky

Until people regain trust in what they read, the long, slow decline will continue regardless of the medium through which information is conveyed.

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Candidates' Advisers Fault Obama Camp

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Prominent supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama on Sunday both faulted Obama's campaign for allowing a retired gene...

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Words and Action: The essential difference between Obama and Clinton

Justin Frank | Posted 02.23.2008 | Politics

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Justin Frank

The Democratic Presidential Debate on February 21 finally clarified the essential difference between Senators Clinton and Obama.

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The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act

Philip Giraldi | Posted 11.26.2007 | Politics

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Philip Giraldi

One would have thought that the systematic dismantling of the Constitution would have been enough to satisfy even the most Jacobin neoconservative.

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Karl Rove at Newsweek?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics

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Joseph A. Palermo

Why is Rove rewarded with a prominent mouthpiece for his vitriol by one of the nation's most widely circulated newsweeklies?

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Gawking Ourselves to Death

Steve Almond | Posted 10.17.2007 | Media

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Steve Almond

The only law that guides Gawker is the Law of Stimulation. In this sense, the site is really only an exaggeration of the mainstream media's prevailing modus operandi -- and a more forthright one at that.

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George Bush's Paranoia War

Dr. Martha Stout | Posted 10.05.2007 | Politics

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Dr. Martha Stout

When the president of the United States behaves in ways that redouble the population's fears, his behavior is a psychological issue. When the White H...

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