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Warning: Cheap Shot Ahead

Jesse Walker | 3.13.2003 8:52 AM

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Jonah Goldberg on McCarthyism: "McCarthy behaved like a jerk, but he was also right."

Jonah Goldberg on anti-Semitism: "Chris Matthews…talks about Jews in the administration the way Tailgunner Joe talked about Communists in the State Department."

Hmm. What are you trying to tell us, Jonah?

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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