Yeah, he's an asshole.

Tweety, that is. Here he is on local talk radio with Michael "Profile 'Em All--Let DHS Sort 'Em Out" Smerconish attempting to rehabilitate Joe McCarthy while providing his critique of Good Night, and Good Luck:

Attytood: Good night and get lost! Chris Matthews exhumes McCarthy

"You know, one-sided, to some extent liberal propaganda. Because you know there Communists – I’m sorry…there were Communists in the government…I could go through the whole list – Elizabeth Bentley, Harry Dexter White, and of course Alger Hiss – there’s a whole gaggle of them.

And the biggest nonsense of this sort of revisionist history is that there wasn’t a Communist threat and that McCarthy was just a drunken fool. Well, he may have been a drunk – he certainly was – and he may have been unable to shoot straight, but there were lots of targets there. He just didn’t hit any.

No, Tweety, he hit a lot of them. Almost all innocent bystanders.

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