Scarcely better is Kessler’s repetition, as supposed fact, of the discredited notion that McCarthy claimed a list of “205 Communists” in the State Department, then crawfished and changed the number to 57. (McCarthy’s version was that he never claimed 205, but had said 57 all along.)... Oh, puh-leeze. The fact that a politician issues a denial when caught in an embarassment does not "discredit" it. By this logic, every single charge ever made against Clinton (either one) has been "discredited".