EXHUMING McCARTHY: Joe McCarthy on Obama, Racism and the New Red-bating

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By Allan Uthman

Editor’s note: We were astonished recently to recognize the late Senator Joe McCarthy, shopping for women’s shoes. Initially denying it, McCarthy eventually conceded his identity and agreed to this interview on the condition we score him some heroin.

How are you even here?

Well, periodically I’m granted a leave of absence from Hell to consult with election campaigns that the boss is pulling for. Usually the RNC contacts him, and he’s pretty friendly with them, they have some shared interests. So I get out for a while occasionally, which is always nice.

And you’re consulting for McCain?

Well, I can’t confirm or deny that.

All right. But—hypothetically—what’s your area of expertise?

Oh, you know—personal attacks, guilt by association, fear tactics, that kind of stuff. You’ve heard of me, right?

Yes, of course.

Okay then.

So how does that pan out now? Are you planning to call Obama a communist?

Well yes, there is some of that. I have a small side project, a bit of a vanity project really, involving a picture of Che Guevara, and also this “black liberation theology” thing is a gift to us. But people don’t really see Marx as the kind of existential threat they once did. No, the new communism, in terms of loathing, is terrorism, of course. But it is essentially the same thing, you know. You just throw some rumors around, find some association with a disreputable character—everyone in public life has been in the same room with somebody you can smear them with. With a Negro politician it’s particularly easy, because there are naturally more radicals in an oppressed community.

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