You wrote:

You think that there should be an equal number of nice things said about Joe McCarthy and the people who resisted his tyranny?

Funny thing is, I think recent reports have vindicated much of what Joe McCarthy claimed, i.e. that there were numerous commies in the State Department and elsewhere within the U.S. gov't.

...veteran journalist and author M. Stanton Evans reveals in this groundbreaking book. The long-awaited Blacklisted by History, based on six years of intensive research, dismantles the myths surrounding Joe McCarthy and his campaign to unmask Communists, Soviet agents, and flagrant loyalty risks working within the U.S. government. Evans’s revelations completely overturn our understanding of McCarthy, McCarthyism, and the Cold War.

Drawing on primary sources including never-before-published government records and FBI files, as well as recent research gleaned from Soviet archives and intercepted transmissions between Moscow spymasters and their agents in the United States—Evans presents irrefutable evidence of a relentless Communist drive to penetrate our government, influence its policies, and steal its secrets. Most shocking of all, he shows that U.S. officials supposedly guarding against this danger not only let it happen but actively covered up the penetration. All of this was precisely as Joe McCarthy contended

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Blacklisted-History-Senator-McCarthy-Americas/dp/140008105X?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201210467&sr=1-1>"Blacklisted by History

Sadly, tragically, it doesn't matter so much what is true, at all; no, what matters is what the media tells us, because that's what most people believe, as we have seen.

I bring this up at least partly because, as you note, BO has been given an extraordinarily favorable portrayal by our MSM.

S