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...party line. Defense Lawyer Tracy H. Ferguson brought this out by questioning McCarthy. Why had McCarthy picked the Post-Standard to sue when other papers have in words or substance said the same things about him? McCarthy: "I decided that sooner or later one of these left-wing smear articles would go so far that we'd have to teach them a lesson. Your paper went even further than the [Communist] Daily Worker or [Manhattan's] Compass...
...which has repeatedly hammered at his record in his home state and criticized his methods. Had McCarthy read the Journal articles? "Let me say," he answered, that "I won't read the Journal editorials either unless ordered by the court. It's a left-wing smear newspaper [that] follows the Daily Worker's line." How had he happened to read the editorial in the Post-Standard? asked Ferguson. Replied McCarthy: "Several of your readers sent it down...
...series of anti-McCarthy articles from the Fair Dealing, and-Communist New York Post, he said he had not read the Post series either, "though I glanced at the first one." He did, however, read the cover story about him in TIME (Oct. 22). "I read the whole smear article and all the untruths," said McCarthy. Since TIME was guilty of "degenerate lying," he had written to "practically all" of TIME'S advertisers, urging them to withdraw their...
...dangers to free men everywhere, he says, is the overstraining of the U.S. economy. He begs for a reassessment of present U.S. policy in Europe. He raises instead the concept of a Gibraltar of freedom in the Western Hemisphere. He denies that this is "isolation"; the word is a "smear" used to squelch debate, he says. He deplores such clichés, "which freeze thought...
...state: "The inkwells of bigotry are far removed from any responsible political headquarters." I have in my possession [some of the "smear" propaganda which was] sent to me directly from the office of a U.S. Congressman in Washington, who is one of Senator Taft's Southern campaign managers...