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Dear Capitol Hill: We Confess, Muslims Want to Serve America

Salam Al Marayati | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Conyers, Conservatives, Cair, American Muslims, Neoconservatives, Muslims, Gop, Mccarthyism, Right Wing, Political Satire, Loretta Sanchez, Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus, Interns, Politics News
Salam Al Marayati

What's next? Muslims trying to infiltrate the Congress by scheduling lobby days, or by simply meeting with their members of Congress?

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Online Gossip: Push It Back

Jim Selman | Posted 10.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Erumors, So Help Me God, Relationships, American Dream, Gossip, Red Menace, Rapprochement, Rumors, Mccarthyism, Roosevelt, Culture, Living News
Jim Selman

In the past, if people dissented or trafficked in conspiracy theories, gossip and propaganda not too much damage was done.

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The Return Of McCarthyism: Hysteria In Action On The Right (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Van Jones, Rush Limbaugh, Liberals, President Barack Obama, Marxist, Mccarthyism, Sen. Joe McCarthy, Chris Matthews, Alan Keyes, Edward R. Murrow, Michelle Bachmann, Communism, Video, Fidel Castro, Sean Hannity, Job, Bill Ayers, Mash, Racism, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Czars, Politics News

***UPDATE 9/22/09*** I haven't found another embeddable version yet, but sharp-eyed reader Mark points out that you can watch the video here. ***UPDA...

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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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Rage Against Science and Reason: Fear Continues as a Tool of Distraction

J. Carl Ganter | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Peter-Gleick, John Holdren, Water, Science, Democracy, Media, Health Care, Mccarthyism, Politics News
J. Carl Ganter

Dr. Peter Gleick rolls up his sleeves in his latest post about science, fact and rationality.

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I Stand with Van Jones

Josh Nelson | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Political News, Green Jobs, Van Jones, President Obama, Breaking Political News, Politics, Mccarthyism, Fox News, Clean Energy, Glenn Beck, Obama Administration, Green, Energy, Green Collar Economy, Green News
Josh Nelson

Sadly, the Obama administration appears to be wavering in its support of Jones. This is not acceptable.

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Legendary Lawyer Doris Brin Walker Dies; Represented Angela Davis, Smith Act Defendants

Marjorie Cohn | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Smith-Act, Civil Rights Movement, National Lawyers Guild, Communist Party, House Un-American Activities Committee, Mccarthyism, Angela Davis, J.K.Rowling, Politics News
Marjorie Cohn

The only woman in her University of California Berkeley law school class, Doris defied the odds throughout her life, achieving significant victories for labor, and political activists.

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Interview With Aviva Kempner, Director of Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg

Melissa Silverstein | Posted 08.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Goldbergs, Bronx, Jewish, Aviva Kempner, Mccarthyism, Gertrude Berg, Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg, Entertainment News
Melissa Silverstein

Gertrude Berg created the radio series The Goldbergs, which morphed into the first family sitcom on TV, about a Jewish family living in the Bronx.

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Revenge of Gen-X: What Movies About the 80s Mean

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Counterculture, Civil Rights Movement, The 70s, The 60s, Vietnam, The 80s, Mccarthyism, The 50s, Eisenhower Era, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

In case you needed proof that Hollywood is dominated by and aimed at people in their 30s and early 40s, look at all the movies about the 1980s currently on screens.

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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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Communists in Charleston, WV!

Carl Pope | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Environment, Energy, Global Warming, Massey Coal, Mccarthyism, Charleston Gazette, Don Blankenship, Politics News
Carl Pope

It might surprise you to learn that Charleston, West Virginia, is a hotbed of communist activity and that the leader of the Marxist cell here is the editor of the Charleston Gazette, James A. Haught.

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A Few More Words For Studs

Jamie Kalven | Posted 12.26.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Studs Terkel, Rosthstein Studs Terkel, Studs Terkel Interviews, Red Baiting, Studs Terkel Working, Studs Terkel Marxism, Npr, Edward Rothstein, Mccarthyism, Studs Terkel Joe McCarthy, Studs Terkel Ideology, Oral History, Studs Marxism, Chicago News
Jamie Kalven

Three days after Studs Terkel's death, the New York Times published a column by critic Edward Rothstein titled "An Appraisal: He Gave Voice to Many, Among Them Himself." The piece is a striking instance of the low art of red-baiting disguised as high-minded criticism.

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Republicans Embrace the Cootie Effect

Stephen Zunes | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, McCain Smear Campaign, Obama Nation, The New York Times, Mccarthyism, Barack Obama William Ayers, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election, Eden Martin, Mccain Domestic Terrorists, Sean Hannity, Jerome Corsi, Sarah Palin, Obama Chicago, Republican Smear Machine, Walter Annenberg, Fox News, William Ayers, Commerical Club of Chicago, Guilt-by-Association, Politics News
Stephen Zunes

Though it is easy to dismiss the Republican reliance on the cootie effect and guilt-by-association as a sign of desperation, it would be a mistake to underestimate its potential impact.

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Observations From an Ersatz American

Terrance Heath | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Americanism, Jingoism, Anti-Intelectuals, Social Conservatives, Patriotism, John McCain, Anti-Americanism, Joe the Plumber, Racism, Mccarthyism, Race, Politics News
Terrance Heath

As black gay male, a member of the upper middle class, a college-educated white collar worker, and a non-Christian and non-theist, I am one of the most irrelevant, least important voters in this 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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Seth Colter Walls

Uproar Over Bachmann's Comments "No Longer Partisan," Says Challenger

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: El Tinklenberg, Michelle Bachmann, Mccarthyism, Minnesota House Race, Tinklenberg, Politics News

Responding to the huge number of small donations pouring into her opponent's coffers, Republican Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann told the Politico on ...

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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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I Agree With Michele Bachmann

Dan Sweeney | Posted 11.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Americanism, Chris Matthews, Michelle Bachmann, Congress, Mccarthyism, Election 2008, Republicans, Michele Bachmann, House Races, Politics News
Dan Sweeney

It's high time somebody investigated congresspeople -- nay, government officials in all three branches of government -- and rooted out the anti-Americans among them.

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McCarthyism with Lipstick

James Love | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sarah Palin, Draft, Military Draft, Vietnam War, Mccarthyism, Politics News
James Love

Sarah Palin is discovering now her abilities to engage in the type of character assaults that one associates with Joe McCarthy -- guilt by association.

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Conservative Night at the Movies

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 09.14.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Mccarthyism, Movies, Hollywood, Entertainment News
Robert J. Elisberg

Suggesting a "new McCarthy era" is an ignorant misunderstanding and deception of what McCarthyism truly was. It's a fake persecution complex.

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