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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHonestly, Ted Cruz is a Joe McCarthy clone.
I'm watching "Good Night and Good Luck", the Ed Murrow docudrama about the McCarthy era.
Cruz and McCarthy even look alike.
They both speak in the same way.
They both make up 'enemies'.
McCarthy's was commies.
They were all over the place, according to him.
In the highest levels of government and the military, and maybe even under your bed.
The addition of "under God" in the pledge of allegiance (I almost wrote 'religion') was because of the 'godless commie' scare caused for the most part by 'the junior senator from Wisconsin'.
Cruz is also 'the junior senator' from Texas.
His made up enemy is the anti-Christ and anti-Christians and immigrants.
Maybe you didn't get the word, but according to Cruz there's a war on Christianity.
Yessir, yessir, right here in River City.
Sharia law is on the way.
Terraists are teeming to our shores and borders.
I remember the McCarthy hearings.
I watched them on TV.
I was 13 then, but TV was new to us and we watched everything.
It is just uncanny to me how like McCarthy Cruz is.
Maybe every generation has one.
But where is our Edward R. Murrow to take them down?
annabanana
(52,791 posts)Eugene was a good guy.
trof
(54,256 posts)THANK YOU!
could happen to anyone...
And you are 100% correct..Joe McCarthy was the inspiration for :
trof
(54,256 posts)I'm 74 and I know I've lost a step or two.
Maybe three.
Color me red faced.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)Yeah, I'm that old.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)Archae
(46,363 posts)He claimed there were "communists" as college professors.
He changed the number a couple times too, like Joe McCarthy's "list" of communists in the State Department.
And like McCarthy, Cruz never has shown any evidence to back up his original accusation.
mountain grammy
(26,663 posts)to watch Joe McCarthy in action and to see him taken down. I was 6 years old and remember mom glued to the new black and white tv watching.
moonscape
(4,674 posts)not that many people around here watch him, but I confess to the sin
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)wax figure from Tussaud's. Especially his disgusting face. There's a melted-wax/partially deflated Michelin Man thing going on there and it is exceedingly creepy. Not sure just that kind of a homunculus or golem he is, but he's not all human.