Herblock!
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“You Mean I’m Supposed to Stand on That?”

“You Mean I’m Supposed to Stand on That?” (29)

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Herblock, in the cartoon that coined the term “McCarthyism,” depicts Republican Senators Kenneth S. Wherry, Robert A. Taft, and Styles Bridges and Republican National Chairman Guy Gabrielson pushing the Republican elephant toward an election platform of a tar and smear campaign. Within six weeks of Joseph McCarthy’s announcement that he had a list of 205 known communists, Herblock decried the smear campaign that would occupy the country for more than four years.
Herblock, in the cartoon that coined the term “McCarthyism,” depicts Republican Senators Kenneth S. Wherry, Robert A. Taft, and Styles Bridges and Republican National Chairman Guy Gabrielson pushing the Republican elephant toward an election platform of a tar and smear campaign. Within six weeks of Joseph McCarthy’s announcement that he had a list of 205 known communists, Herblock decried the smear campaign that would occupy the country for more than four years.