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4. And nowadays?

Fri Feb 1, 2013, 01:18 AM

Feb 2013

Nowadays, the Freepers, Ann Coulter and the Teabaggers consider McCarthy to be a "hero" and Murrow to have been a "communist."

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Edward R Murrow vs Joe McCarthy [View all] zeemike Jan 2013 OP

Murrow was the best newsman ever. No one even close plethoro Feb 2013 #1

He had integrity. zeemike Feb 2013 #3

"Who has served their country better?" MrMickeysMom Feb 2013 #2

And nowadays? Archae Feb 2013 #4

Yep...stupid did not die out. zeemike Feb 2013 #6

But instead of "communist" they'd substitute "Islamist." Archae Feb 2013 #7

It is hard to have that kind of integrity in today's world. zeemike Feb 2013 #5

I remember... GTurck Feb 2013 #8

A normal form of the conspiracy against "the different"... MrMickeysMom Feb 2013 #9

Yep, I remember the red scare too zeemike Feb 2013 #10

Amazing. I was not alive for that stuff... Demo_Chris Feb 2013 #11

I think you would have to go way back to Eisenhower administration zeemike Feb 2013 #12

I was just a kid. ChazInAz Feb 2013 #13

Well my family had a very anglo Saxon name and so we had no problem. zeemike Feb 2013 #14