59 years ago today .. McCarthyism launched.

McCarthy sets the wheels of hysteria in motion. Dark days follow.

 

McCarthyism was good at first.

 

A lot like Walmart, Gary Coleman and the San Diego Chicken.

 

Well, he did provide subject matter for an absolutely fantastic REM song, "Exhuming McCarthy".

'At long last, have you left no sense of decency?'

 

Want to watch Ann Coulter's head explode? Mention McCarthyism.

 

At last . . . something Nixon and the Kennedy family could agree on.

 

The San Diego Chicken is still good.

 

So are mooslems or teh gheys the modern day commies?

 

No, liberals are.

 

Very well-played, Breaker of Leopold & Loeb. And a great example of why Bobby Kennedy was one of the most overrated politicians of his -- or any other -- day.

With slavery, the Trail of Tears/Indian campaigns and the Japanese internment camps among the most notable, McCarthyism continues to hold its own as one of the great American historical abominations.

 

Somewhere, Roy Cohn laughs.

 

I'd say RFK pretty much atoned for his involvement with the Tailgunner.
JFK, not so much, and the loathesome Joe Senior not at all.