THE BOOK OF DAMN
YANKEES
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF MANIFEST DESTINY
The McCarthy thing happens
Chapter 132
After Alger Hiss got convicted of perjury,
2Somehow,
3The U.S. Congress started a witch-hunt,
4Which woke up a monster named dJoseph McCarthy,
5Who started looking for communists everywhere,
6Including Washington, D.C.,
7And the Army,
8And even Hollywood.
9eEven though there weren’t any communists in Washington or the Army or Hollywood,
10fNo one really wanted to fight with McCarthy,
11gBecause McCarthy had lists of names,
12Which somebody’s name might be on,
13For some reason,
14And so why risk it,
15Especially when hMcCarthy also had a pair of vicious legal attack dogs,
16With names like iRoy Cohn,
17And jRobert Kennedy,
18kWho were dying for any chance to end somebody’s career,
19Forever.
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