THE NEW McCARTHYISM – AT 9:42 P.M. ET:  During the misnamed "McCarthy era," (that's another story), people would have their patriotism questioned because of a meeting they went to in college.  Liberals coined the term "McCarthyism," then expanded the definition over the decades until it came to mean almost anything liberals didn't like.  But at its core was the admonition:  You must not ask about years ago.

Unless of course, you're asking about a Republican woman.  Then, hey, who ever heard of McCarthyism?

Ron Futrell, at Andrew Breitbart's "Big Journalism" blog, nails the hypocrisy:

The activist old media is hitting an all time low. Quite a challenge for them.

The same media that didn’t give a damn what Barack Obama did during the first 46 years of his life when he was running for president (except that he was organizing communities) is now in a full scale sprint to find out what Republican candidates did as kids.

Christine O’Donnell is running in Delaware against a guy, Chris Coons, who once wrote an article for his college newspaper about becoming a bearded Marxist (his words, not mine), but the media wants to know what she did in high school.

So, what did you do in high school? Let’s put it out there as you run for major office in America.

And...

I wonder what Barack Obama did during high school or college, anybody know? For the first time in the modern age of information we know very little about what the President of the United States of America did in his younger years. Hundreds of media swarmed tiny Wasilla, Alaska to find out anything and everything they could about VP candidate Sarah Palin during the campaign, but the same media had a difficult time getting to Honolulu, the Columbia University campus, Harvard Yard, or the south side of Chicago to ask a question or two about the Cold Hearted Social Engineer who now thinks he’s King of the Free World.

Very well stated.  We must give liberals credit.  They're much better McCarthyites than the rightists ever were, and you'll see that during this campaign.  I hope no conservative ever missed a magazine subscription payment.  It's going to come out. 

September 20, 2010