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Thank you We sneak Not your textbook history Mccarthyism All

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right let me ask you this Have you have been

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blamed for something i never really done or no proof

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of doing Well there was a real big guy doing

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this in the nineteen fifties and his name was joe

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mccarthy He was a junior republicans in wisconsin I mean

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not even a senator junior centers It was kind of

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trying to you know stir things up And he was

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in west virginia making a speech which is kind of

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a snore but he cut people's attention because well he

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latched onto what was kind of hot topic at the

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time communism And he was like hey i've gotta listen

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two hundred five names of people in this country who

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are running the country and the communists and so people

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would bananas They were like the previous year just factually

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nineteen forty nine the ussr just kind of like the

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big guys called meanness Um they launched their first atom

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bombs People kind of freaking out So this is like

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hey let me let me tell you about these communists

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They're all over the place and they're out to get

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you he made all these claims and she went days

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later to the senate and said hey i've got a

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list of these two hundred fifty names two hundred five

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names actually they're they're eighty one fifty seven really there's

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only ten And i'm not really going to do give

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you any of the names on there there there there

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and we need to get him and that's all you

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need to know so became kind of popular with us

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where they actually named this kind of practice after him

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Mccarthyism Which bad thing to be named after so bad

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for him But it was weird was that he kept

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on doing this and people believe this for a long

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time like crazy right Like people were in it so

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much that like anybody going really good comedy is coming

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it's coming it comes on We're like are they and

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people that there was no basis for anything But if

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you were named it was like ah it was like

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the black plague He basically met his match in nineteen

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fifty four where he blamed the army for being communist

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Well sort of wait hold on Aren't those the guys

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who went to fight The communist it's kind of like

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saying hey captain america europe communist with that red white

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and blue in that store on you and yeah i

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don't have any reasons or any accusations but heck i

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don't like you You're a communist not really a smart

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idea like dude you have any sense of decency with

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the us army everyone's fighting these people yeah he's it

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down with all that communist stuff and they ruin his

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practice that much became discredited That was it for bull 00:02:30.455 --> [endTime] junior sir journal carthy

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