# McCarthy and His Friends (Reason)

McCarthy and His Friends (Reason), 2008-02-14

- Address: http://reason.com/archives/2008/02/14/mccarthy-and-his-friends
- Kind: reporting
- Last checked: 2026-09-26
- Archived copy: none yet

## Cited by

- [United States: Senator Joseph McCarthy's subcommittee questions New York Post editor James Wechsler, 1953](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/1953-us-wechsler-mccarthy-subpoena)
- [Claim 856: Senator McCarthy said a way to spread material favoring Communism would be to misleadingly claim to have deserted the party and then use control of a newspaper to "attack and smear anybody who actually was fighting Communism," according to Reason magazine.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/856)

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