"Brunette Does Her McCarthy Impression"

(Written 8/20/10 by ChristopherK2 for the Uglier Marylanders Blog)

A few days ago, Brunette entered the room and pasted this load of hooey:

"BrunetteLady12: Christopher, it has come to my attention that you and others have made some horribly cruel comments about me and some folks I care about - moreso [sic] than I had realized. Because of this I have decided you are not worth even being civil BrunetteLady12: As far as i am concerned, you no longer exist"

I immediately focused on what she thought *I* had said about *her*, and left for another day what I supposedly said about her friends as well as what the unnamed "others" said about anyone. Despite my repeated requests, Brunette has thus far refused to reveal WTF I ever *allegedly* said about her, except to add that it was "uncalled for" and "vicious."

Well, la te da... me, vicious or cruel to anyone, much less Brunette? Ridiculous, unless you redefine those words to mean "dry, sophisticated, witty insults." So, I initially figured that one of the lying sacks of dooty she has as buddies here told her a bunch of bullcrap, and she swallowed it whole without even the common courtesy of first checking with me.

Later, her phrase "it has come to my attention" began to bug me, until I realized it sounded like a Joseph McCarthy one. For those of you not familiar with him, McCarthy was a U.S. Senator who became famous at the height of the Cold War for accusing people of being commies. One of his fav tactics was to wave around a piece of paper, saying that it contained a list of, say, commies in the State Department. He never, of course, produced the actual lists.

He was eventually censored by the Senate, and the term "McCarthyism" was coined, meaning a combination of demagoguery, baseless defamation, and mudslinging.

His downfall came when serious people began to bash him seriously. The great Edward R. Murrow said, for example, "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." And his Senate career came to a virtual halt at the famous Army-McCarthy hearings when the Army's lawyer, Joseph Nye Welch, challenged McCarthy to provide his list of "130 commies in defense plants." When McCarthy tried to deflect him by naming one of Welch's staff as a commie, Welch responded: "Until this moment, Senator, I think I never gauged your cruelty or your recklessness." McCarthy tried again to attack the poor staffer, and Welch interrupted with: "Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" The gallery erupted in applause and McCarthy's career and reign of terror were over...

So, Brunette, entering a chat room and 'waving a piece of paper' that is *allegedly* filled with "uncalled for," "cruel" and "vicious" things I've *supposedly* said about you--and then refusing to back up your allegations--only shows: (1) the piece of paper was either blank or filled with crap from your friends who lie compulsively, often, badly, and with no remorse; (2) you are nothing more than a Zombie for them; and (3) you, ma'am, lost the sense of decency that you once had...

Christopher