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...McCarthy appeal to resentment or accusing his opponents of socialism, he lacked McCarthy's blood- lust. McCarthy's real heir was Nixon, who mainstreamed McCarthyism in 1968 by substituting liberals, youth and minorities for communists and intellectuals,...
...is Sen. Joe McCarthy, and the line doesn’t run from Goldwater to Reagan to George W. Bush; it runs from McCarthy to Nixon to Bush and possibly now to Sarah Palin. It centralizes what one might call the McCarthy gene, something deep in the DNA of the...
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Earlier this week
...seems odd to release both original footage and a dramatization at the same time. While the original gives us an inside look at Nixon, the disgraced Commander in Chief, and Frost, who has a commitment to ask the tough questions, the film version focuses...
...Blade Runner: The Final Cut used it beautifully, for example, and it was an eerily appropriate choice, thematically. But Frost/Nixon? Come on. I'd give it a pass if they used one of the quieter pieces, which would be wholly appropriate to the trailer....
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