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Shades of McCarthy
Ray Roberts says, “more than 80 members of Congress … are… socialists, communists or socialist sympathizers.”
In the first place, communism is a failed economic system. The Russians and Chinese don’t even admit to being communist any more. Do you really think a congressman would?
Get real.
Second, we have heard this garbage before, from Joe McCarthy on Feb. 9, 1950, at Wheeling, W.Va.
McCarthy told his audience that he had a list of 205 members of the State Department who were “card-carrying members of the Communist Party.”
When reporters rushed up to him after the speech and asked to see the list, McCarthy said no.
They asked, “How many did you say?”
McCarthy answered, “One hundred and ten.”
Every time a reporter asked the number, McCarthy cut the amount back.
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