This week MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews got their McCarthys mixed up during a prepared video on McCarthyism. While the voiceover was talking about McCarthyism, video of GENE McCarthy was shown.



Apparently, a photo of Jenny McCarthy was not readily available.

Even though Matthews corrected the mistaken identity, he didn't correct his mistaken history lesson. As Ann Coulter wrote in Treason, "[T]o appreciate how the myth of 'McCarthyism' was concocted, consider how liberals portray events happening right before our eyes... People who assure us McCarthy presided over a reign of terror also describe Ken Starr's plodding, meticulous investigation as a reign of terror. And they say that when we’re watching. Imagine what they’ll say when the generation that knows the truth is gone."