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Between 1950 and 1954, Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy led one of the most notorious political witch-hunts in U.S. history. Aided by the parallel activities of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), McCarthy鈥檚 anti-communist crusade divided politicians, captivated the media, and fanned the flames of anti-Soviet zeal in early Cold War America.

By 1954, when the Senate censured him for his 鈥渋nexcusable鈥� and 鈥渞eprehensible鈥� behavior, McCarthy鈥檚 name had become synonymous with demagoguery. HUAC鈥檚 star waned soon after, and the committee was dissolved in 1975. Paranoid anti-communist organizations like the John Birch Society maintained their vigilance against the (increasingly imaginary) communist threat, but most everyone else moved on.

Until now.

鈥淭his WikiLeaks disaster is proof that we are deeply infiltrated by communists just like Senator McCarthy warned us about. 鈥� It would not shock me if [Wikileaks founder] Julian Assange SECRETLY seeks asylum in Moscow to avoid an Interpol arrest,鈥� wrote Steve Cooper, who on Dec. 1 became one of the first of many on the far right to fulminate about the alleged Wikileaks-Communist connection. 鈥淢cCarthyism is the only thing that will save us.鈥� Assange was arrested in England Dec. 7 on a Swedish warrant in connection with a sex crimes investigation. He was denied bail and remains in custody.

Cooper, a prolific blogger and Internet radio personality who writes and broadcasts at TheConservativeMonster.com, has been working towards a full-blown exhumation of McCarthy鈥檚 legacy for some time. During a June 2009 Internet broadcast on the topic, 鈥淒id the Soviet Union stage their collapse to lower our guard?鈥� he declared that 鈥済lobal tentacles of Marxism are slowly strangling this world, and people are clueless.鈥�

The day after WikiLeaks announced its most recent document dump, Cooper bought a new domain name to link to The Conservative Monster. Its name: McCarthyismNow.com.

Cooper used a Nov. 29 essay headlined 鈥淪enator McCarthy鈥檚 Ghost is Watching: Communist Infiltration Behind the WikiLeaks Dump?鈥� to take a swipe at President Obama, his wife and former Weather Underground member William Ayers, whom right-wing extremists have tried to tie to Obama despite their only cursory association.

鈥淪enator McCarthy tried to warn us, but America spit in his face. Senator McCarthy was a U.S. Marine Officer and a patriot, unlike Barry, Michelle and William Ayers,鈥� he wrote. 鈥淭hese leaks are right up Ayers [sic] alley. ... The communists need to be flushed out of this government like the roaches they are before they bring the entire country down, because this is their ultimate goal.鈥�

(Ironically, McCarthy was charged with encouraging government employees to steal classified documents and turn them over to him, as well as misusing FBI documents containing top-secret national security information.)

Cooper isn鈥檛 the only far-right mouthpiece calling for a McCarthy revival.

鈥淲e are faced with the problem of U.S.-based Marxists supporting our foreign enemies. These are dangerous times for America. The Congress must re-establish a House Internal Security Committee,鈥� on Wednesday. (The House Committee on Un-American Activities was renamed the House Internal Security Committee in 1969 in hopes that its gravitas could be salvaged after 鈥淵ippies鈥� Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin made a mockery of HUAC hearings in 1967 and 1968.)

Right-wing attack dog and author Ann Coulter, when she's not busy , has been spreading the love for 鈥淭ail-gunner Joe鈥� for years. 鈥淭he myth of 鈥楳cCarthyism鈥� is the greatest Orwellian fraud of our times. 鈥� Everything you think you know about McCarthy is a hegemonic lie,鈥� she wrote in 2003鈥檚 Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terror. She even suggests that McCarthy is the only reason there are virtually no American communists. 鈥淪neering at McCarthy today because the only people who call themselves Communists are harmless cranks is like sneering at the Sabin vaccine because, really, almost no one gets polio anymore.鈥�

Then there鈥檚 Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), better known to the far right for his that undocumented immigrants murder enormous numbers of Americans every day and . In an with RightSideNews last Monday, King said he agreed with Kincaid鈥檚 call for a resurrected HUAC-type committee. 鈥淚 am often quoted as saying McCarthy was a hero for America. He was. He was right far more times than he was wrong. It is a historical fact.鈥�

America鈥檚 favorite self-proclaimed historian of the hour has also weighed in 鈥� repeatedly. 鈥淚t was Republican Senator Joe McCarthy who shined the spotlight on the Communist Party again,鈥� Glenn Beck, the Fox News host and , told his viewers in March. 鈥淢cCarthy was absolutely right. He may have used bad tactics or whatever, but he was absolutely right,鈥� he added in June.

Three weeks later, Beck invited M. Stanton Evans, author of 2007鈥檚 Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America鈥檚 Enemies, to join him on his radio show, 鈥淭he Glenn Beck Program.鈥�

鈥淸McCarthy] was right in general. There was a massive penetration of the government and 鈥� it was covered up and 鈥� he threatened that cover-up. And that is why he was isolated, demonized and destroyed,鈥� Evans told a wide-eyed Beck. 鈥淚 have something I call 鈥楨vans Law of Inadequate Paranoia,鈥� which says no matter how bad you think something is, when you look into it, it鈥檚 always worse.鈥�

Beck ate it up. 鈥淧lease, please get this book,鈥� Beck implored his viewers. 鈥淜now the truth. The truth shall set you free.鈥�

Turning back to Evans, he gibbered, 鈥淚t is 鈥� it鈥檚 frightening. It鈥檚 frightening. But it鈥檚 the truth and here is why you need to know history, because it鈥檚 repeating itself.鈥�

Beck was still bowled over by Evans the morning after he interviewed the author. 鈥�Blacklisted by History. Read it,鈥� he begged his radio audience. 鈥淚 know how I鈥檓 going to end up in history. I know I鈥檓 going to be a Joseph McCarthy or somebody like that, if I even make it in history. If I do, I will be smeared and discarded.鈥�

History should be so lucky.