[ noun ] unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty (as by saying they were Communists) <noun.act>
McCarthyism \McCarthyism\ prop. n. [from Senator Joseph McCarthy, who repeatedly asserted without evidence that numerous communists were present in the United States government.] Unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty (as by saying they were Communists). [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
Michael O'Brien, a history professor at University of Wisconsin Fox Valley Center in Menasha and author of a book on McCarthyism, dismissed renewed interest in McCarthy and the Birch Society as fleeting.
"Recently, the governor of Massachusetts accused me of McCarthyism," Bush said. "And it was suggested that when I said he is a card-carrying member of the ACLU that that was McCarthyism; when I say he's a liberal, that it's unfair.
"Recently, the governor of Massachusetts accused me of McCarthyism," Bush said. "And it was suggested that when I said he is a card-carrying member of the ACLU that that was McCarthyism; when I say he's a liberal, that it's unfair.
At 8.10 the channel begins a three-part 'Timewatch' special on McCarthyism: The Un-Americans.
"And it was suggested that when I said he is a card-carrying member of the ACLU that that was McCarthyism; when I say he's a liberal, that it's unfair." "No, he's that (Dukakis a member of the ACLU)," Bush said. "He says's he's that.
The government also has opened investigations into the background of everyone associated with those arrested, provoking accusations of McCarthyism from many, including the nation's biggest and most respected daily newspaper, Dong-A Ilbo.
The postwar period brought McCarthyism, when many careers were harmed or ruined through "blacklisting" by association with leftist causes.
He cited Mr Bush's father, Prescott Bush, at the time a senator from Connecticut, as a man who had spoken out against McCarthyism. Mr Bush's frequently repeated theme was one of optimism.
Anti-Semitism and McCarthyism make the accusation of "dual loyalty" as a matter of taste, inflicted on persons by reasons of their ancestry, or the kinds of thoughts in their heads or books on their shelves.
The Truman doctrine in the 1940s and McCarthyism in the 1950s failed to account for the changing state of things in Europe.
Now, with the medical profession identifying 'False Memory Syndrome', the similarities between this scare and others such as McCarthyism and old witch hunts are becoming apparent.
But alone we cannot do anything." Now, suddenly, in lock-step, the media have become enthralled by the notion that a political orthodoxy is entrenched on campus, in which "diversity" is the watchword of a new McCarthyism of the left.
Speaking to a crowd of several thousand people at a shopping center rally, Bush said: "Recently, the governor of Massachusetts accused me of McCarthyism.
And I, like my father, do not believe in McCarthyism and this isn't McCarthyism.'
And I, like my father, do not believe in McCarthyism and this isn't McCarthyism.'
Civil libertarians say these are grandstanding acts that victimize the innocent, discriminate against the poor and reek of McCarthyism.