Just over fifty years ago, Joseph McCarthy attacked Edward R. Murrow with some of the exact same language that John McCain and Sarah Palin are using today to attack Barack Obama.
In these chilling excerpts originally broadcast on Murrow's own show, McCarthy accused the CBS newsman of defending "traitors" and associating with a "terrorist organization":
McCain and Palin want to return to Joe McCarthy's America. It's up to us to stand up and say no.