It is hardly surprising that in a period when the greatest weapon of the right wing is fear of "A conspiracy so immense " Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy would again become its hero. It seems that a right-wing "journalist" has published a book (Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies) that is according to David Oshinsky, "a full-throated defense of the senator." Oshinsky himself has a dog in this fight as the author of the best critique of the senator, A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy. What's at stake in this rather esoteric attempted rehabilitation of the hated senator, is that maybe even Cheney, Bush and Rove and their groupies can be similarly rehabilitated. But in this case this is a long-winded intro to the quote of the day from Oshinsky's piece in the New York Times Book Review:
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To be labeled a McCarthyite is akin to being called a liar or a fraud. His loudest current admirer is Ann Coulter, a fact I suspect, that even the senator would have found unsettling.
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