Maddow: Surprise! The NEW Republican McCarthyism Looks Exactly Like The OLD Republican McCarthyism

February 22, 2012, clip from the The Rachel Maddow Show where Rachel highlights the new, latest Republican emulation (imitation being the sincerest form of flattery) of their long-time right-wing smear and innuendo hero, Joe McCarthy. Surprise! Who would have guessed that the new Republican McCarthyism would look exactly like the old Republican McCarthyism?!

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[MegRamseyWebseries]

Ahhhhhhh Rachel...Rachel...Rachel. Eviscerating evil doers with her Scalpel of Truth.

Cruz = McCarthy. Just a leeeeetle bit of history repeating, ey? Folks, lets not let this happen again. Why do they keep giving him the floor? J'Accuse. The next time he accuses someone, I wish the "accused" would throw call him on his McCarthyism. Call Cruz on it...right to his face. It's pretty obvious the Right Wing is using Orwell's "1984" as their playbook. Thanx for posting this InciteBytes.

[incitebytes]

You're welcome.

[bigshambala]

McCarthy was right. 100% vindicated to all but the willfully blind.

[incitebytes]

No, McCarthy was wrong and vindicated only in the minds of the willfully stupid (hint: there's one in your mirror).

[Jerry Hanlon]

Senator Texas Ted Cruz has declared himself by default to be a NeoConfederate & probably wants Tejas to declare its independence after he's elected governor...where else can you go with a mentality like that except to replace a unitard like Perry. You can't run for President or VP under Jeb Bush but then again Cruz is actually a step up from Palin which means...I don't wanna know what that means.

[platton123]

If Obama tries to pass a bill for free diapers for all newborn, the republican will block that bill.

[Thumberland Ned]

Every time Ted Cruz speaks, the whole human race is disgraced. He continues to amaze me with his lack of intelligence, as well as his bias and bigotry.

[JHONNY CO]

Senator Ted Cruz is a big moron...North Korea's economy is in the brink of collapse and they had $200,000 to give?

[JHONNY CO]

the proper title for all of this brouhaha is MODERN MCCARTHYISM WITCHHUNTING

[Jerry Hanlon]

"Ah have here in ma right hand...

Roy Cohn and a bottle of Jack

Daniels...both a Mayans best fryend

outside of a good book by ma other man, J Edgar.

[synapse131]

You must also believe that "Friends of Hamas" and the "Muslim Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" are real too.

[Cizfinestbaby92]

Republicans are so fucked up in the head with their cold war mentality most of them see everthing black and white. They still believe the Soviet Union exist and it seems facts and reality don't matter to them because it's all part of a "commie pinko conspiracy". They are so paranoid and the schizophrenia definetely hits the spot everytime they hear the word "Socialism" and "Communism". They don't seem to notice how ignorant & uneducated they look to the rest of the world.

[jerico641]

"I have in my hand, General, something small and warm; can you guess what it is, and  have you any idea where on my body I found it?"

[Jerry Hanlon]

Sen. Joe McCarthy had a "right hand man" named Roy Cohn who later was disbarred as a mobbed up lawyer & died of aids as a closeted homosexual. Sen. Ted Cruz has replaced the disgraced Congressman Rep. Allen West who had the names of 79 *Communiss* sympathizers in the Democratic Congress just before WEST LOST TO A DEMOCRAT. IT WAS HIS FUNCTION AS A BLACK CONGRESSMAN TO BE ABLE TO SAY ALL KINDS OF GARBAGE ABOUT OBAMA AND AVOID BEING CALLED RACIST. A kind of perverse racism insurance.

[xzadeh]

Ted Cruz, another GOP Moron, Keep on friends you will get more votes!!!, Dodos of the past!!!