"We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibilities. As a nation we have come into our full inheritance at a tender age. We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home." -- legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow ( 4/25/1908 - 4/27/1965) from his Report on Sen. Joseph McCarthy, CBS News, March 7, 1954. The nation feared a reckless, cruel alcoholic McCarthy (R-WI) and his willful destruction of people's reputations by casting them as Communists during the "Red Scare" of the early 1950s. Murrow stood up to the bullying coward when few others would. Murrow later was appointed by President Kennedy as the first director of the U.S. Information Agency, the parent agency of the Voice of America, which the Malignant Fascist is attempting to shut down.
The Malignant Fascist's attack on our democracy is far worse than what Murrow could have imagined. Using his power for revenge, extortion and personal wealth, the MF will continue because his party's politicians fear his revenge more than they love this country.
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