"...If Evans and West are to be believed -- and their argument is certainly persuasive -- McCarthy has been unjustly smeared by the press and by antihistorical writing in general.
As Wes Vernon writes in Accuracy in Media, “The media’s role in tilting the scales against the most controversial United States senator in the 20th century began the very moment he burst on the national scene in February of 1950.” It continues in one form or another to this day, often “mediated” through the anti-Trump mania that has consumed the Left and the FNM (Fake News Media).
Trump is now regarded by the anti-anti-communist syndicate as a kind of McCarthy redivivus -- all the more reason to explode the media fable.
But the belief in McCarthy’s treachery has penetrated everywhere..."
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