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- noun US A person who practices
red-baiting
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Examples
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But it was also home to psychotic red-baiter Eugene McCarthy.
David Bourgeois: GOP Senate Candidate Ron Johnson: Pure Plastic David Bourgeois 2010
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A racial demagogue and red-baiter, King is known almost exclusively - on and off the Hill - for his alienating, ugly and very often ignorant public statements.
Walid Zafar: Steve King And The White Man's Burden Walid Zafar 2010
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Another security control the Soviets successfully built in the west is that anybody point out the “Active Measures” would often be dismissed as a (pick your favorite): Right-Winger, John Bircher, McCarthyite, Conspiracy-monger, red-baiter, etc.
“5GW Deception Operations And The Soviet Precedent” « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy 2008
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A racial demagogue and red-baiter, King is known almost exclusively - on and off the Hill - for his alienating, ugly and very often ignorant public statements.
Walid Zafar: Steve King And The White Man's Burden Walid Zafar 2010
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What I'm saying is that his relentless attention to all things * She-Who-Is-Inevitable*, as Mr. Sullivan likes to call her, makes me wonder just exactly how he would have spoken of President Eisenhower's handling of the Communist Question in America -- particularly red-baiter supreme, Senator Joe McCarthy.
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What I'm saying is that his relentless attention to all things * She-Who-Is-Inevitable*, as Mr. Sullivan likes to call her, makes me wonder just exactly how he would have spoken of President Eisenhower's handling of the Communist Question in America -- particularly red-baiter supreme, Senator Joe McCarthy.
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And then, yesterday, I was emailed Bob Cesca's post that compared me to infamous red-baiter Joseph McCarthy, a man described by Time magazine as one of the most evil of the 20th Century.
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He was a horrible red-baiter in the days leading up to his Senate challenge to Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. as well, accusing the State Department of having "lost China."
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Only a McCarthyite red-baiter jerk calls ordinary liberals “leftists”.
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Now the old McCarthyite red-baiter has been exhumed by the totally scurrilous right wing hit machine.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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