Morrow did untold damage to the cause of anticommunism with his hit piece on McCarthy. This bunch would fit right in with him.
McCarthy did untold damage to the cause of anticommunism. Murrow's "hit piece" consisted mainly of McCarthy's own words; but it was McCarthy's own unedited (and incoherent) rebuttal that sealed his fate.
I don't see why so many conservatives (most notably Ann Coulter) are so dedicated to rehabilitating Joe McCarthy. He was right, as the opening of the Soviet archives would prove much later, about the degree of communist infiltration; but his ham-handed tactics drove people away from a cause a competent champion might have led them to embrace.
McCarthy was to anticommunism what Pat Robertson is to evangelism. Someone with a pervasive wild-eyed loopiness that is easy to mock and discredit, and serves as a bludgeon to discredit his cause.