Wednesday, May 21, 2003
Jonathan Calt Harris,managing editor of one of my favorite web sites, Campus Watch, defends his site in style from accusations of "McCarthyism." Campus Watch's critics ought to spend more time re-examine their own positions and less time throwing stones.
Jonathan Calt Harris on Campus Watch on National Review Online
[...]The term McCarthyism originated with the actions of Senator Joseph McCarthy (1908-57) of Wisconsin, four years after his first election in 1946. McCarthy was both famous and feared on account of his relentless campaign against Americans he perceived as communists.
His effort began in 1950, at a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, where he announced he had a list of 205 covert communists working in the State Department. [...]
