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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-09-04 06:09 PM
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50 years ago, Joe McCarthy was discredited
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The unforeseen war of words the afternoon of June 9, 1954, marked the live-on-TV downfall of an era-defining demagogue, Sen. Joseph McCarthy. And it sealed a symbiotic bond between government and television that has grown only stronger in the half-century since.
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But Welch had been interrupted during his cross-examination of Roy Cohn, a key McCarthy aide. Butting in, McCarthy had accused Welch of trying to "foist on the committee" a young attorney from his own law firm who had communist ties -- or so McCarthy said.
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"Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator," said Welch, about to earn himself entry in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of honor?"
After Welch's dressing-down and a burst of applause from the gallery, the rattled McCarthy turned to Cohn and said, "What happened?
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/06/08/entertainment1258EDT0984.DTL&type=tvradio


It does give me hope to remember that America finally gave the boot to that POS.
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reprehensor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-09-04 06:13 PM
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1. Hear, hear.
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David__77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-09-04 06:15 PM
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2. Out of the darkness comes the dawn.
I hope the sun rises soon! There will be a backlash against the reactionaries of our age as well. McCarthyism was the handmaiden of the '60s movements. Bush is also a handmaiden of coming ferments.
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donhakman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-09-04 06:52 PM
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3. I share this picture with reluctance
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