More accurate question - Is the New Yorker the new, new, mccarthyism by accusing senator cruz of new mccarthyism?

Hagel has not been forthcoming about his speaking fees, consulting fees. So why shouldn´t Cruz question Hagel rigorously? What don´t McCain and Graham understand about the advise and consent obligation of the U.S. Senate?

Ted has dared to criticize our Lord and Master. He must be publicly shamed and slandered in every possible way!

And so the character assassination begins.

Does Mizz Mayer realize that for the most part, McCarthy was right?

It would be great if, when McShame "rebuked" Cruz for his insinuations, Cruz told McShame to go pound salt.

McCathyism: The Journolisters new favorite word.

Is the New Yorker the new Pravda?

Cruz will not let name calling by the minions of the left deter him in the least.

Sadly, unfounded cries of ´´racist´´, ´´sexist´´, ´´homophobe´´, and the like far too often cause good men to falter.

But I don´t see Cruz letting up at all. He is in a very safe Republican seat, in a state where he is saying what probably 75% of us believe.

They are just going to make him mad, and then it should really get fun!!!!

Yes for the most part McCarthy was right so I hope Mr. Cruz continues on his quest for the truth...Something severely lacking in Washington...

How far Miz Mayer has fallen since her halcyon days as the distaff in the "Fun with Dick and Jane" series.

Far as I can tell, we don´t have a lot of newspaper stands down here in Texas with New Yorker mag prominently displayed. As such, other than weird/liberal Austin, Cruz is going to keep getting re-elected Senator from Texas - such an improvement over the gentlewoman Senator from Texas his replaced.

"Is SenatorTed Cruz Our New McCarthy?"

I don´t know, is President Barak Hussain Obama our new Marx?

I don´t know, Jane. Is Barack Obama our new Joseph Stalin?

#12- I was going to ask that! Drat!

The curious persistence of the "McCarthyism" meme is testimony to the frailty of the human mind. For Joe McCarthy was right, and his critics at the time and later were wrong. The U.S. government really WAS crawling with Soviet agents, Communists, fellow travelers and other national security risks. The true victim of "McCarthyism" -a typical demonizing ad hominem of the Communists, a tactic made familiar by Saul Alinsky- was McCarthy himself. He was not a perfect human being - but the evidence is now indisputable that he was much more right than wrong about the extent of Soviet Communist infiltration of the U.S. government. Yet by a weird time warp and alternative reality, the myth has been perpetuated by the Left that McCarthy himself, and not the enemy agents, spies and sympathizers he was investigating, and who subsequent data from the Soviet archives and secret cables prove really did exist, was the villain! This is quite amazing. "Blacklisted by History" by M. Stanton Evans, PhD documents the truth, which continues to be ignored by just about everyone.

Democrat lofo voters don´t even know who Mccarthy was I´m sure. If you´re going to try to Palin the GOP up and comers you better be more current. Is their a bad guy on Honey Boo Boo or that Kardashian show?

Because he´s frightening the commies?

So, Ms. Mayer is unhappy that Texans sent Ted Cruz to do the job he is doing. Any idea, Ms. Mayer, how many Texans are unhappy about the job you sent Chuck Schumer to do? Oh, and #5, the entire electorate already told Sen. McCain to pound salt in 2008 but I agree completely with your sentiments.

Poor Jane.

See Jane lie.

See Jane cry.

See racist Jane.

Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson wrote a really ugly and misleading book about Clarence Thomas, lauding Anita Hill´s version of events. Keep it in mind when you read her stuff. Her husband is an editor at Politico.

More New Yorker Balderdash. ...It´s hat they do. sigh

What a load of garbage. If Fried is still a Republican, which I doubt, he´s a Souter Republican. Cruz went fishing a couple of times, nothing unusual in the senate.

If you want disgraceful, go back and watch John Edwards questioning of Charles Pickering. Edwards should have been thrown out of the Senate. That was as low as you can get.

Pravda has more truth in every issue than most of the liberal nonsense the New Yorker publishes. Irresponsible writers like Jane really make a case for reviewing the 1st amendment. If we are going to put law abiding citizens through the wringer because they want to exercise their rights under the 2nd amendment, why isn´t there a similar process for propagandists and haters like the dopey Mayer?

McCarthy didn´t have an alternative media to back him up when he was attacked by the alphabet networks of the time. Cruz didn´t get where he is by shouting names. He got there by defending the State of Texas in case after case from attempts to take its citizens freedoms.

Have you no decency left, ma´am?

Might be time to send ol´ Jane a copy of the Venona Papers.

Cruz is a good man and doesn´t deserve to be demonized. McCarthy was right for the most part. Still, it doesn´t help our cause when we keep falling for the left´s set-ups, like the "friends of Hamas".