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Cohn got famous for it in the 19 fifties to do this with mccarthy. go back to the movie, do you see -- johnny iceland in the movie. he is quoting mccarthy in real life. he is talking about the exact number of communist that he's ferreted out, that he knows the truth about, and that he demands answers for. even if you can keep the numbers straight, since he had made them up, it sounds good when he site specific numbers. it sounds even better if you can remember what the number was! we [laughs] it's a mix good effect. but giuliani lost his law license today, it's actually the same thing. the cou...

Look senator joe mccarthy got very famous. as i said, he wrote this for about four years until the weight of it all collapsed on him. he tried the same trick that he -- he tried it on the actual u.s. army in 1954, also around that time the senator had been ensnared in mccarthy's web, committed suicide, this senator committed suicide. by the end of 1954, fellow senators and other people in the country decided they have enough. joe mccarthy was censored by the u.s. senate senate. he was censured 16 to 22 for his ethical failures as a u.s. senator, for bringing the senate into disrepute, the cens...

He pulled that stunt and it was a hit! it caused a sensation. he then kept doing it. all his subsequent appearances, suddenly mccarthy could not keep total track of the supposed number of communists he had on the paper. sometimes he would say 205 communists, sometimes he would say it's 81, sometimes it was 57. [laughs] people didn't really care about the specifics, the turned out. but it seemed good that he had a specific number, even if the specific number changed all the time. mccarthy wrote that thing for us long as he could. for about four years. destroying countless lives in the process. ...

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