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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by out routing communism It's tough

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to do but with a good cheer routine anything is

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possible Rooting out communism well man all that your practice

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for nothing Well okay take a look at this image

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right there There you go mccarthy pal All right he

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was questioned The previous image best serves as an example

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of which of the following and here a potential answers

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There Okay but let's first take a moment to appreciate

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how great a mean this image would be We'd call

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it annoying lecturing guy Just look how miserable and fed

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up dude on the left looks okay Okay So maybe

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mccarthy wasn't boring the pants off Everyone in the room

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What was he actually going on and on about Was

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this the beginnings of the development of the hydrogen bomb

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Well no way This photo was taken in nineteen Fifty

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for well after initial developments of the h bomb began

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it was our pal joey attempting to grow the debate

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about america's national energy policy No no dice This was

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brought on by the emergence of the oil crisis in

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the middle east Not some paranoid senator in washington Besides

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mccarthy was way too busy worrying about communism to even

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think about that whole energy for the entire country bit

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So was it a rbi Well one more look at

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the image and the answer becomes clear Does this image

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really look like it's depicting someone presenting a fair and

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balanced discussion on the two sides of an issue Or

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does it look like someone holding an interrogation meeting came

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To instill fear in the masses by suggesting there were

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communists everywhere that needed to be exposed Okay well maybe

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our phrasing was a bit of the spoiler there While

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the entire country seemed in favor of containing communism To

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some degree americans were still divided as to whether it

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was necessary to take extreme measures to root out communists

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in hiding Mccarthy here was at the helm of the

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extreme faction Holding interrogation is like the one seen here

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though judging by the grossed out look on the face

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of the woman in the back there Well maybe mccarthy 00:02:03.492 --> [endTime] was dropping some bombs of his own Yeah

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