which makes it seem like they must be coming from some factual basis, when in fact you are just making it up. after making the allegation publicly in a big showboaty way, you demand that the person who you have made this allegation clear his name. in ted cruz's home state of texas a couple of years ago, the texas state board of education made an attempt to rewrite the state's textbooks to be more idealogically thinking with the way they think. one of the things they tried to revise was the legacy of one senator joe mccarthy. a board member named don mcelroy, who was leading the charge to have texas textbooks declare evolution to be hooey, he also cheerfully told the texan monthly in 2010 that joe mccarthy should be portray in order positively in american history. he wrote a memo on the texas textbook project saying, quote, read the latest on mccarthy.