Joe McCarthy lives on
Raleigh right-wing group unearths commie plot at UNC
It’s been interesting (and a little frightening) to watch the responses that next week’s election seems to be provoking on the far right. Though paranoia and a general desire to foment fear of “the other†has always been a prominent part of the right’s playbook, the possibility that voters may actually usher in some real change next week seems to have given rise to a new and powerful wave of fear mongering that would have warmed the heart of old Tail Gunner Joe and his faithful sidekick, Roy “Redbaiter†Cohn. See for instance, Elizabeth Dole’s pathetic attacks on a moderate-to-conservative, one-time Sunday school teacher named Kay Hagan.
