Let's bring back the House UnAmerican Activities fascists

Larry Wilkerson, former chief of staff to US Secretary of State Colin Powell [...] was among the 2,300 experts stigmatized in a report last week by the ‘European Values Think-Tank’ for sharing their views on RT.

The Czech institute, funded from the US and other Western governments, called RT’s guests “useful idiots” – a term Russian Communist leader Vladimir Lenin is credited with coining.

“Such actions as this illustrate a new McCarthyism in America,” Wilkerson said in an email to RT.

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Those who ordered and compiled the report also employed “the Karl Rove strategic technique,” he added. “Very simply stated, that technique is to accuse your opponents of doing what you are doing in order to get the spotlight removed from what you are doing. You do it loudly, constantly, and repeatedly, until you have overwhelmed your opponents, dulled the minds of the ignorant and apathetic, and generally made your points – the points people accept and believe,” Wilkerson explained.

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The GOP handbook.

“However, in McCarthy’s time there were Eisenhowers and Achesons and others of high character and ability. Today, there are very few such men and women. So, it is very much more dangerous today,” he warned.

And, more importantly, Edward R Murrows. ...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.