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...Wisconsin. Live by the sword and you die by the sword. Destroy people and they in turn must destroy you. The chances are that McCarthy will be laid to rest at the hands of some poor innocent slob whose reputation and life he has destroyed through his well-established smear technique . . ." Nevertheless, Greenspun added that it was time for "the disreputable pervert [to answer] for his crimes...
Last week, on the request of retiring President Lee, the trustees named a special committee to investigate the whole Beaty affair. But John Beaty was carrying on as usual. From his pen came another pamphlet, plaintively crying that the label "antiSemitic" was nothing but a smear aimed at people who are genuine antiCommunists. It certainly was not a tag that could possibly apply to good old John Beaty. "I have no feelings except feelings of friendship," said he, "for pro-American Jews...
...millions of Americans who deplore and despise Senator McCarthy want to understand the millions who admire McCarthy, "despite his methods," they could ponder McCarthy's record of the week. The bully-boy manners, the sneer and the smear are conspicuous in the record. But alongside such trademarks of the McCarthy operation there was also the record of a week packed with investigative achievement. McCarthy scored heavily, and some of his points were of real and current importance. Among them...
...issue refers to State of the Nation and Answers for Americans, network television and radio forums moderated and directed by me, as part of "one of the biggest private political-propaganda machines in the U.S." This must be interpreted ... as a smear-attack...
...Stamp. From the center of the Midwest, often considered a seedbed for isolationists, the Journal speaks in a ringing, uncompromising, internationalist voice. In Senator McCarthy's home state, the Journal attacks him so fiercely that McCarthy calls it "that left-wing smear newspaper, the Milwaukee edition of the Daily Worker" Other readers, damning its doggedly independent, liberal ways, refer to it as "that damn Journal." (One prominent Milwaukeean pays his newsboy 25? a week to tear out the editorial page before delivering the paper.) Isolationist Chicago Tribune Publisher Colonel Robert McCormick, who considers the Journal a radical upstart...