In 1953 and 1954 and on the heels of the executions of the Rosenbergs for espionage, Sen. Joseph McCarthy chaired the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations where he went on the hunt for American citizens who were communists or were communist sympathizers.  Those that spoke out against Sen. McCarthy risked being added to the "blacklist", lost their jobs and/or had their lives threatened.  Suspected communists would be called in front of McCarthy's committee and they would then be asked a series of questions about their communist ties like "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?". 

Today, the media, Democrat politicians, and their liberal allies with little watched shows on MSNBC and CNBC are frothing at the mouth because people are questioning the path the Obama administration is taking the country.  They claim that people like Glenn Beck are today's version of Joseph McCarthy and are helping to spread a new "Red Scare".  One such op-ed can be found by Bill Press in the L.A. TImes where he compares Beck to McCarthy for Beck's scare tactics surrounding Van Jones:

"It was a page ripped right out of the book of Commie witch hunter Joseph McCarthy: personal attacks on little-known government officials based on nothing but lies, smears and innuendo ("Are you now, or have you ever been...?") -- yet ultimately, just as successful. Within two weeks, Jones was forced to resign. And, rather than defend him, the Obama White House accepted his resignation."

But Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Mark Levin are not the McCarthys this time around.  If anything, Beck sounds more like Edward R. Morrow when Morrow on his news program challenged McCarthy. 

"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men -- not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.

This is no time for men who oppose Senator McCarthy's methods to keep silent, or for those who approve. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibilities. As a nation we have come into our full inheritance at a tender age. We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

The actions of the junior Senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad, and given considerable comfort to our enemies. And whose fault is that? Not really his. He didn't create this situation of fear; he merely exploited it -- and rather successfully. Cassius was right. "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."

It's actually the ruling Democratic Party that is the Joseph McCarthy.  The Tea Parties have also come under attack from the media McCarthys as Frank Rich has done in his op-ed in Sunday's NY Times.  Rich's op-ed must be one of the worst pieces of partisan dribble representing a textual example of tofu encrusted, bong resin clogged, historically delusional mental diarrhea of "progressives" posing as "journalists" or "columnists.

Remember when gas prices were going up and Congress dragged the oil company executives in front of a committee to berate them.  Remember when they did the same thing regarding the banking executives?  How about the car company executives?  Now, it's big business's time to appear for their dressing down and to be asked "Are you now, or have you ever been a Capitalist?".

With the passing of health care reform, a thinly veiled socialist move as even Rev. Al Sharpton alluded to, several large corporations have stepped forward to say that health care reform will cost their businesses a great deal of money.  AT&T said it'll cost them about $1 billion where as Illinois business Caterpillar said health care reform will cost it $100 million.  This flies in the face of everything that the Obama administration, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have said regarding health care reform and businesses.  Not to be made to look like a fool, Henry Waxman, Democrat chair of the House Energy and Commerce committee, has decided the heads of those companies - that have challenged the "independent analysis" that showed business would not be hurt - will be dragged in front of his committee on April 21st to explain themselves and in an indirect way to answer if they "have been or ever have been a Capitalist".  If big business is taking big hits on health care, just image what small business will go through, despite what Obama's Chair of Economic Advisers Christina Romer says.

Here's a question for Henry Waxman.  The NY Times is on the verge of bankruptcy and recently had it's union workers take a $10 million cut in pay and benefits, but yet NY Times President Janet Robinson and Chairman Arthur Sulzberger each received a total of $10 million in bonuses last year.  Will Waxman call for Sulzberger and Robinson in front of his committee as well?  This reminds me of a story about the Lavrentii Beria, a bloody tyrant who tried to become the leader of Russia following Stalin's death.  Supposedly, Beria had brought his mother to see his large house and many cars.  His mother then asked her son, "that nice Larventii, but what happens if the Bolsheviks return?".  One thing is to publish stories and op-eds in support of the Socialization of America, but it's quite another to try the "do as I say, not as I do" defense.

Finally, these show trials of business in America has got to end.  Our Congressman John Shimkus (R) also sits on the House Energy and Commerce committee.  I hope and pray that when Waxman and the other Democrats begin their inquisition, he stands up to Waxman as Joseph Welch did to Joseph McCarthy.  Have you no sense of decency Rep. Waxman?