Opinion | Larry Tye: President Trump has found a way to make Joe McCarthy look not so bad. - NBCNewsTHINK
, when McCarthy couldn't charm reporters, he went after them with a wrecking ball. The senator dispatched his investigators to dig up dirt on reporters covering him closely and critically, like Phil Potter of The Baltimore Sun, whom he threatened three or four times to subpoena — but never did. With The Associated Press' Marvin Arrowsmith, it was less about what he had written than what he might.
during a speech to service clubs in La Crosse."When I got up to ask a question, Joe blew up. 'Get him out!' he yelled. 'That's a representative of a Communist newspaper.' Those Rotarians and Kiwanians surrounded me and shoved me out the door." Another time, McCarthy incited a crowd in Shorewood, a plush suburb of Milwaukee, by directing his venom against The Milwaukee Journal.
in 1950,"has thrown real fear into the hearts of some — fear of what a demagogue can do to America while the press helplessly gives its sometimes unwilling co-operation. Perhaps Joseph McCarthy, Senator from Wisconsin, is not that demagogue. But who knows? One greater than McCarthy may come."thanks in part to Roy Marcus Cohn, a lawyer who in the 1950s served as McCarthy's ingenious and imperious protégé. Thirty years later, Cohn became Trump's bare-knuckled preceptor.
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