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My question wasn't addressed to you but since you're speaking for Physicist why don't you answer the second part of my question: "Who else was out there advancing the cause of anti-communism?" Nixon? Look what happened to him. And while you're at it, please explain what the "right way" of opening one's mouth is.

Nixon got things done. McCarthy simply (a) grandstanded and (b) made ALL anti-communists look like grandstanders.

The "right way" is as follows:

1. Don't make allegations unless you're dead certain your right. McCarthy FREQUENTLY violated this rule.

2. Don't make up figures (the ever-shifting number of "card-carrying Communists" in the State Department, for example).

3. Don't wave your laundry list (literally) during a speech and say "I have here a list of Communists in..." Eventually, the fact that you're just waving a list that has two shirts, three pairs of pants, and six boxers will get out.

4. Don't use people of dubious ethics (Roy Cohn, Bobby Kennedy) to do "dirty work." If the work's too dirty for you to do it yourself, it shouldn't be done.

5. Remember that you are supposed to be a good guy. Act like one.

Nixon got things done. McCarthy simply (a) grandstanded and (b) made ALL anti-communists look like grandstanders.

Yes, Nixon nailed Alger Hiss but paid for it with the death of a thousand communist cuts climaxing with Watergate. He also enacted the EPA, OSHA, AMTRAK, did away with the draft and created an "independent" (just never any competition!) Postal Service at the behest of an activist Democrat Congress. I'm reminded that Reagan had a Democrat Congress too. Were it not for that embarrassing Hiss business Nixon would probably be a "progressive" hero.

McCarthy was the victim of the first liberal-communist Borking in my memory. It's had a tremendous impact on me. I wish you'd be specific about some of his FREQUENT incorrect allegations.

Do you think anti-McCarthy luminaries said things the "right" way" How about Drew Pearson and the press in general including "journalist" I.F. Stone (a paid Soviet agent), Senator Scott Lucas, Harold Ickes, Lillian Hellman, Sen. William Benton (whose own lawyer called his anti-McCarthy statement so scurrilous it "was the most libelous document he had ever seen;" to mention a few. If Jesus Christ, Mohammed, Buddha and Zoroaster had dared to stand up to entrenched communists in the U.S. government at that time, they'd have been Borked too.

1. Don't make allegations unless you're dead certain your right. McCarthy FREQUENTLY violated this rule.

Please provide an example.

2. Don't make up figures (the ever-shifting number of "card-carrying Communists" in the State Department, for example).

You are the one making things up. please prove McCarthys lists were false.

Have you read Ann Coulter's book?