- Fighting in the blue corner, it's Joseph Nye Welch... in the red corner, it's "Tail Gunner" Joseph R. McCarthy.
- McCarthy finally loses his temper at the exchange between Cohn and Welch.
- He tells Welch that since he's so concerned about outing all the Communists ASAP, how about his young law colleague Fred Fisher?
- McCarthy says that Fisher at one point was a member of a legal organization, which everyone knows is a tool of the Communist Party. And P.S., Welch even recommended this guy for a position as legal counsel to McCarthy's committee, so he could sabotage the proceedings.
- McCarthy can't think of any organization that has done more to defend Communist spies than the one Fisher belonged to.
- Of course, he doesn't think Welch was deliberately trying to protect Communists. He was, however, unknowingly aiding and abetting them by recommending young Mr. Fisher to be counsel to the committee.
- The committee chair, Senator Mundt, interrupts to say that, btw, he has no knowledge that Welch ever recommended Fisher as counsel.
- This is the last straw for Welch, who tells McCarthy to listen up with both ears. (Those are his exact words.)
- He can't believe McCarthy's cruelty and recklessness in bringing this matter up.
- First of all, Fisher told Welch soon after he hired him about his membership in the organization under discussion—The Lawyers Guild—and that for that reason Welch didn't recommend him as counsel for the hearings. He knew that all this accusation was exactly what would happen.
- Welch can't believe how low McCarthy has sunk that he would smear the reputation of a brilliant and promising young attorney, whose reputation is now scarred for life.
- McCarthy changes the subject and criticizes Welch for baiting Cohn.
- Welch thinks that Cohn seems to have taken no offense and apologizes to him if any was given.
- Welch then lays into McCarthy with the famous "Have you no sense of decency, sir?"
- McCarthy complains that Welch is trolling with his questioning of Cohn, which he totally was.
- McCarthy then doubles down on the oblique smear of Welch, so much so that Mundt has to step in and repeat that no one suspects Welch of anything, and that Welch never recommended Fisher to the committee.
- Welch washes his hands of the whole thing, requesting the next witness.
- McCarthy goes on to bluster about the immense threat to the nation of Communism, and how dismaying it is to see the threat not taken seriously.
- If Communists are not diligently ferreted out of our government, everyone will wake up one day to a red, red world.