[re_nortex]

Why is McCarthyism used as pejorative, even by some on the Right? Senator Joseph McCarty was proved to be 100% correct in his valiant crusade against the enemy within. In fact, the HUAC was started by a Conservative patriot who just happened to be a Democrat (back when such things still existed), Morris Dees of Texas.

Being branded a McCarthyite should be a badge of honor.

[Phillyred]

Problem is, McCarthy was right. Will he ever get the credit he deserves?

[areukiddingme1]

John Kerry — Who cares in two more years he will be tossed onto the pile of retired jackasses responsible for F’ing up our country. In the meantime he will simply be tolerated. No one who matters listens to him anyway.

[BRL]

All completely logical....but.....you can never shame a liberal

[TigersEye]

Warming since The Little Ice Age but before that? ...

... not so much.

[Organic Panic]

99% of all North Koreans vote for the dear leader.

[DakotaRed]

But, Kerry served in Vietnam!! ;-)

[arthurus]

All those shoddy scientists are a disgrace to Science! Now that fellow Lysenko was the model for what a scientist should be.

[neverdem]

Piers Morgan’s Revealing Rancor

Supreme Court declines challenges to gun laws

San Diego Sheriff will not seek 9th Circuit en banc in Peruta right to carry case.

ARMY CUTS WILL TAKE IT BACK TO PRE-WORLD WAR II LEVELS

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[GOPJ]

Fortunately for science, and unfortunately for Kerry, the Scientific Method encourages rather than blackballs critical inquiry and scientific debate.

Traditional science... yes.

But liberal 'science' -no. In liberal science facts are dependent on being popular. If an idea sounds cool - and everyone who's an A-lister luvs it - then it's 'settled'... and no one can debate it.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

You have gotten a full ration of blowback over the use of the term "McCarthyism" in the article. The fundamental problem is that "McCarthyism" is Newspeak - but then, so is "liberal" and "moderate" and "progressive" and "centrist" - and also "conservative."

Before the 1920s, the word "liberal" applied to anyone who is now called "conservative." Its meaning was inverted in the 1920s (according to Safire's New Political Dictionary). American "conservatism" conserves freedom and the ability to do different things - a strange form of "conservatism." "Liberals" and "progressives" and "centrists" and "moderates" - all names for the same political sentiments - want to leave the coal, petroleum, natural gas, etc. in the ground right where it is. Just like Prince Philip does. And that is a strange form of "progressivism."

There is one unifying theme to all this Newspeak: none of it could have happened if it were opposed by journalism. In fact, it's pretty obvious that journalism had to onboard and pushing for these Newspeak word meanings. Why is journalism unified?        

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations

According to that saying, the Associated Press newswire - constituting as it does a continual virtual meeting of all major American news organizations for over a century and a half - must have resulted in a conspiracy against the public long ago.

Why would journalism specifically conspire against Republicans, and against people who get things done? I put it to you that, if not constrained by competition, journalism naturally embraces the the idea, not that "It is not the critic who counts . . . the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena," but the opposite proposition that nothing actually matters except PR.