Hero ? -- or Jackass ? -- you decide

From Newsbusters:

Al Gore, Edward R. Murrow and Senator McCarthy
Posted by Michael M. Bates on May 22, 2007 - 12:32.

ABC News' Web site carries an excerpt from Al Gore's book, "Assault on Reason." The Internet's inventor writes of what's known as McCarthyism and cites broadcaster Edward R. Murrow, "whose courageous journalism was assaulted by Senator Joseph McCarthy. . . "

But how courageous was Murrow? Did he save the Republic from a man whose vicious tactics silenced any criticism?

Not hardly.

There was already massive media opposition to the Wisconsin senator. Edwin Bayley’s 1981 book, “Joe McCarthy and the Press,” catalogs newspaper coverage after Joe launched his anti-Communism crusade in February, 1950.
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What a shocker --- Al Gore thinks Edward R Murrow was a hero. All the modern "objective jourrrrrnalists" think he's their hero --- and yet -- the Klown thinks Edward R Murrow was a COMMUNIST JACKASS. Just goes to show how some folks can disagree.