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Related: About this forumHow well do you remember Joe McCarthy?
What do you remember?
Do you see anyone today that has his characteristics?
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Although all our politicians are more or less liars, for shamelessness and divisiveness your have to look to Newt and Newt-like narcissists and sociopaths who will say ANYTHING.
I was a kid, but I remember Joe McCarthy fine, he 's the guy on the left with the gun in the first frame:
elleng
(135,772 posts)can't say I really knew what was going on.
Black and white, of course!
newt, cantor, rover, could go on and on. They are SICK!
OMG, cantor reminds me of roy cohn!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn
jwirr
(39,215 posts)a silent prayer but we were too young to understand what was happening. This event has been the basis for my opposition to prayer in school ever since. My parents would have had me give a prayer of thanks for his death - that is not what the teacher was telling us.
Robert Czar
(58 posts)trof
(54,270 posts)I do remember hearing the term Hue-Ack.
That was HUAC, the House Unamerican Activities Committee.
I also remember the "Have you no shame?" take down at the Army-McCarthy hearings.
Gingrich most reminds me of him.