{"id":4553,"date":"2010-03-12T20:17:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T01:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=4553"},"modified":"2010-03-13T10:48:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T15:48:04","slug":"wheres-mccarthy-when-you-need-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wheres-mccarthy-when-you-need-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s McCarthy When You Need Him?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Nearly 40 years after the death of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, twice-elected United States Senator from Wisconsin, the term &#8220;McCarthyism&#8221; is still widely used as a convenient epithet for all that is evil and despicable in the world of politics. Hardly a month passes without some reference to &#8220;McCarthyism&#8221; in the print or electronic media. Despite the frequency with which the term is invoked, however, it is quite clear that not one critic of McCarthy in a hundred has the slightest idea of what he said and did during that controversial period from 1950 to 1954. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realnews247.com\/the_real_mccarthy_record.htm\"><strong>&#8212; James J. Drummey<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/McCarthy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4554\" title=\"McCarthy\" src=\"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/McCarthy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/McCarthy.jpg 301w, http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/McCarthy-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/McCarthy-300x299.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBecome a fan of McCarthy on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Joe-McCarthy\/#!\/pages\/Joe-McCarthy\/387498319281\"><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 40 years after the death of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, twice-elected United States Senator from Wisconsin, the term &#8220;McCarthyism&#8221; is still widely used as a convenient epithet for all that is evil and despicable in the world of politics. Hardly a month passes without some reference to &#8220;McCarthyism&#8221; in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Where's McCarthy When You Need Him? - Politickles","description":"Nearly 40 years after the death of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, twice-elected United States Senator from Wisconsin, the term \"McCarthyism\" is still widely used a"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[211,2360,2358,2359,12,2361,2140,24,1199,2362],"class_list":["post-4553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-communism","tag-joe-mccarthy","tag-mccarthy","tag-mccarthyism","tag-obama","tag-red-scare","tag-sabotage","tag-socialism","tag-subversion","tag-unamerican-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}