lonely, making the case against them. one of the things that many members of congress and members of the senate are going to have to ask themselves down the years is, why weren t they margaret chase smith, the republican senator from maine, who stood up in 1950 and said that this, as president bush would say in a different context, this will not stand. giving a speech called the declaration of conscience. she got only got six senators to join her in that, in 1950, by 1954, the senate would censure mccarthy. but it took four years. and mccarthy understood the media of the age. he understood how to manipulate wire service reporters to get headlines. he would announce things right before deadlines so they couldn t check them. there were huge debates in the newsrooms of america about, do you simply report something that a united states senator says, even if it is self-evidently not true? so, yeah, as mark twain is reputed to have said, history
anti-communism the way other people might buy a car. trump rode the birther conspiracy to prominence, mccarthy rode anti-communism to prominence. there were early voices, far too lonely, making the case against them. one of the things that many members of congress and members of the senate are going to have to ask themselves down the years is, why weren t they margaret chase smith, the republican senator from maine, who stood up in 1950 and said that this, as president bush would say in a different context, this will not stand. giving a speech called the declaration of conscience. she got only got six senators to join her in that, in 1950, by 1954, the senate would central mccarthy. but it took four years. and mccarthy understood the media of the age. he understood how to manipulate
jim messina s comment about joseph mccarthy. do you see parallels? oh, i think it s the most it s the clearest analogy we have. mccarthy was never president, but it took four years, mccarthy, roy cone, who is also trump s lawyer, actually said that mccarthy bought anti-communism the way other people might buy a car. trump rode the birther conspiracy to prominence, mccarthy rode anti-communism to prominence. there were early voices, far too lonely, making the case against them. one of the things that many members of congress and members of the senate are going to have to ask themselves down the years is, why weren t they margaret chase smith, the republican senator from maine, who stood up in 1950 and said that this, as president bush would say in a different context, this will not stand. giving a speech called the declaration of conscience. she got only got six senators