McCarthyism

Bro History

Politics, History, News, Society & Culture

4.1 • 939 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Bro History McCarthyism On today’s episode, we talk a period in US history where there was a widespread effort to root out Soviet spies in the Government. We dive into Joe McCarthy’s history, how his particular brand of inquisition became synonymous with political “witch hunts”, and debate on the effectiveness and legitimacy of those efforts on US policy. Also, we talk a bit about how McCarthyism is potentially being applied today. Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brohistory #247 McCarthyism szamotah Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	As a long time foreign correspondent, I've worked in lots of places, but nowhere is important
0:07.0	to the world as China.
0:09.2	I'm Jane Perlaz, former Beijing Bureau Chief for the New York Times.
0:13.0	Join me on my new podcast, Face Off, US versus China,
0:18.0	where I'll take you behind the scenes in the tumultuous US-China relationship.
0:23.0	Find face-off wherever you get your podcasts. Ha ha ha ha ha ha! It is me Joseph Stalin and my power gets stronger every day when someone doesn't rate in review a bro history podcast. Soon I will be able to
0:44.5	resurrect myself in the heart of America and have a new communist revolution.
0:49.3	Soon all Americans will have to take unconscious bias testing and once who fail will go to my gulags in Canada. The What's up everyone? What's up,
1:13.0	what? What's up everyone? Welcome to another episode of Bro history at Henry Zamoda and Danny
1:26.6	Abdelgebar.
1:27.6	What's up my friend?
1:28.6	How are you?
1:29.6	Chillin man, as per usual.
1:31.0	How about yourself? I'm doing pretty well. I guess to kick this off we
1:36.6	should probably address the trip tomorrow. We should have recorded this episode a day
1:41.0	later because today is Thursday, July 14th, it's about 10 p.m. and tomorrow
1:49.5	Joe Biden will be arriving in Saudi Arabia if he hasn't arrived already it's probably it's about
1:53.9	four in a morning there five in a morning in Saudi so the anticipated trip is going
2:00.5	to start and we've been talking about that.
2:03.0	Danny, on a scale of, you know, Trump's visit to Riyadh
2:08.0	right after he won his election to George Bush having a sandal thrown on his face. What do you think his
2:14.8	reception is going to be? Oh that's a good one. I'm going to lean
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