"The classic figure here is Coulter’s idol, Joe McCarthy. Bellowing about Communists you couldn’t produce (and it cannot be repeated often enough that McCarthy bagged nobody..."
Unless you count Owen Lattimore, Edward Posniak, Mary Jane Keeney, Gustavo Duran, and John Carter Vincent.
What an uninformed article.
And Harry Dexter White, who was exposed by the Senator, too. When it came to John Fairbanks, it turned out after McCarthy was dead that Mr. Fairbanks tried to bring Communism to Japan or Communists into the emerging government of Japan (Fairbanks wrote a book claiming he was a victim of McCarthy's persecution).