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What is McCarthyism?

  • 15-02-2011 02:16AM
    #1
    greenmachine88
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    What is this I don't understand!


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  • #2
    pablomakaveli
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    It's people who supported Mick McCarthy in the Saipan fallout in 2002.


  • #3
    hinault
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    Before Saipan, there was a US Senator called Joe McCarthy.

    In the 1950's, this guy managed to convince the US Senate to hold an investigation in to UnAmerican activities.
    He claimed that Communism was about to overtake the USA and that Communism permeated every aspect of US life.

    So he conducted a series of hearings where he asked the witnesses "Are you or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party"

    Reds under the bed....

    http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=joe+mccarthy&aq=f


  • #4
    pragmatic1
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    It relates to a dead US senator called Joseph McCarthy. He was a coont.


  • #5
    greenmachine88
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    Sounds very Irish


  • #6
    Sharpshooter
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    greenmachine88 wrote: »
    What is this I don't understand!

    I'm sure the Politics forum can fill you in, OP.:)


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