Originally Posted by LiLRexen
McCarthyism : The practice of publicizing accusations of political disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence.
Nobody called this kid a communist. They merely investigated a complaint by the school system of a possible threat to the president. If anything, the kid's family and "family friend" are doing more to publicize this than anyone else.
Exactly... that's why White_n_Slow noted that the watch word had been changes to "terrorist". Not once in the article was he accused of being a terrorist, but look how many people jumped up saying, for example, that he could have been trained by some white al quaida forces, and thus a terrorist waiting to bloom?
It still amuses and angers me that the current administration had the call to call the NEA a terrorist organization as well... I agree WnS, this is gonna get hairy...