Bill Moyers/Michael Winship: Joe McCarthy’s Ghost Slithers Again
from Consortium News:
Joe McCarthys Ghost Slithers Again
April 27, 2012
Right-wing paranoia knows no bounds, as propagandists stoke dark fantasies about President Obama that revive memories of black helicopters from the 1990s. But Tea Party favorite, Rep. Allen West reaches back even further to the days of Joe McCarthy, as Bill Moyers and Michael Winship explain.
By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
Weve talked at times about George Orwells classic novel 1984, and the amnesia that sets in when we flush events down the memory hole, leaving us at the mercy of only what we know today. Sometimes, though, the past comes back to haunt, like a ghost. It happened recently when we saw Congressman Allen West of Florida on the news.
A Republican and Tea Party favorite, he was asked at a local gathering how many of his fellow members of Congress are card-carrying Marxists or International Socialists.
He replied, I believe theres about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party. Its called the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
By now, little of what Allen West says ever surprises. He has called President Obama a low-level Socialist agitator, said anyone with an Obama bumper sticker on their car is a threat to the gene pool and told liberals like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to get the hell out of the United States of America. Apparently, he gets his talking points from Fox News, Rush Limbaugh or the discredited right-wing rocker Ted Nugent. ...............(more)
The complete piece is at:
http://consortiumnews.com/2012/04/27/joe-mccarthys-ghost-slithers-again/