I didn't mean the fact that he was eating a big bowl of pasta, I meant his
comments.  I don't think it would be a stretch to think that you *could*
find large donations to his campaign funds (or whatever) by people that
would benefit from anti-Low Carb rhetoric.  I'm not saying that I think that
it is a conspiracy or that I even think that is the case(IMO, I just think
he's comments showed that he's a f-tard).  I just think it is possible.

How?  Besides the semantics of it, they're the same thing and it happens ALL
the time.  Special interests make a 'donation' to someone's campaign,
charity, etc. /wink /wink /nudge /nudge.  Then that someone backs
legislation favoring that special interest, or wears their logo, or is seen
eating/buying it, or makes comments about it(or its competitors).  How is
that any different?

Why is Wisconsin embarrassed? He's one of the Cold War's great heroes.

Ta ta,
K

From the Life and Times of Joe McCarthy by Thomas Reeves -

McCarthy was originally a supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal.
However, after failing to become the Democratic Party candidate for district
attorney, he switched parties and became the Republican Party candidate in an
election to become a circuit court judge. McCarthy shocked local officials by
fighting a dirty campaign. This included publishing campaign literature that
falsely claimed that his opponent, Edgar Werner, was 73 (he was actually 66).
As well as suggesting that Werner was senile, McCarthy implied that he was
guilty of financial corruption.

McCarthy's first years in the Senate were unimpressive. People also started
coming forward claiming that he had lied about his war record. Another problem
for McCarthy was that he was being investigated for tax offences and for taking
bribes from the Pepsi-Cola Company. In May, 1950, afraid that he would be
defeated in the next election, McCarthy held a meeting with some of his closest
advisers and asked for suggestions on how he could retain his seat. Edmund
Walsh, a Roman Catholics priest, came up with the idea that he should begin a
campaign against communist subversives working in the Democratic
administration.

On 20th February McCarthy made a six hour speech on the Senate floor about how
the Democratic administration had been infiltrated by communist subversives.
McCarthy named four of these people, who had held left-wing views in their
youth, but when Democrats accused McCarthy of smear tactics, he suggested they
were part of this communist conspiracy. This claim was used against his critics
who were up for re-election in 1950. Many of them lost and this made other
Democrats reluctant to criticize McCarthy in case they became targets of his
smear campaigns.

This witch-hunt and anti-communist hysteria became known as McCarthyism.

McCarthyism was mainly used against Democrats associated with the New Deal
policies introduced by Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s. Harry S. Truman and
members of his Democratic administration such as George Marshall and Dean
Acheson, were accused of being soft on communism. Truman was portrayed as a
dangerous liberal and McCarthy's campaign helped the Republican candidate,
Dwight Eisenhower, win the presidential election in 1952.

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