<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span></strong></div><div><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></strong></div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/foreign-policy/309249-mccarthys-ghost-smiles-as-dems-point-the-finger-at-russia" target="_blank" style="color: #015382; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">McCarthy’s ghost smiles as Democrats point the finger at Russia</span></a>. John Sakowicz and Sid Cooperrider interview Ellen Schrecker. Listen at 105.1 FM in Ukiah, CA. We also stream live from the web at <a href="http://www.kmecradio.org" target="_blank">www.kmecradio.org</a> </span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">Our show is proudly brought to you by the members of the Mendocino Environmental Center, and underwriters, Frey Vineyards, Orr Hot Springs Resort, and Dr. Richard Phillips.</span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">ELLEN SCHRECKER.</span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">A retired professor of American history at Yeshiva University, Schrecker is a leading authority on McCarthyism whose books include <em>Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America</em> and <em>No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism in the Universities</em>.</span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">She said last week: “In many ways, a new form of McCarthyism could appear. Trump adviser Newt Gingrich has called for a new House Un-American Activities Committee to target ‘Islamic extremists.’ Meanwhile, proposed blacklists — of anti-conservative professors, allegedly Russian-oriented websites, and who knows what else — are sprouting up within the mainstream. And, if we think about personalities, we should recall that McCarthy himself was often out of control.</span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">“But, what is critical and what is poorly understood is how what we call McCarthyism depended on the willing collaboration of liberals and moderates who normalized its anti-communist hysteria. Hubert Humphrey not only backed the Internal Security Act of 1950, originally sponsored by Richard Nixon, but even added provisions for concentration camps for communists.</span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">“Universities are particularly endangered. Reagan became governor of California by running against Berkeley. Today, we see ‘political correctness’ being used as a pretext to target higher education as well as an increasingly successful campaign to silence the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel.</span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">“The net effect of the acquiescence of liberals and moderates is, as in the fifties, the further silencing of the left, the elimination of substantive controversy, and a normalization of right-wing extremism.”</span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">-- end</span></strong></p><div><br></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>