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- verb Present participle of
redbait .
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Examples
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Can this reference and inspiration be challenged without opening oneself up to the accusation of "redbaiting"?
Revisiting American Communism: An Exchange Barrett, James R. 1985
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Rosenzweig's letter suggests that it is easier to charge "redbaiting" than to respond to the challenge.
Revisiting American Communism: An Exchange Barrett, James R. 1985
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Take a look at that avatar, the throwback to the McCarthy era redbaiting and incorporation of the the talking point from the current "spontaneous" email buzzing around among the old crazy people with AOL acocunts ( "he's a socialist or a comma'nist or somethin '"), and ask yourself what party he's really in.
Bill On Obama And The Debate: You Didn't Hear Hillary "Whining" 2009
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From his doom bunker, Glenn Beck plays to his adoring audience with racist redbaiting, lunatic chalkboard diagrams, and boiled plastic frogs; Sean Hannity smears without correction; and Bill O'Reilly uses a propaganda technique every four seconds to convince us there's a war on faith in America.
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Gee, I thought redbaiting fell with the Berlin Wall.
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The epilogue is an analysis of McCarthy's redbaiting which draws two main conclusions.
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In those days McCarthy's redbaiting was parochial, opportunistic and related mainly to his own concerns.
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The epilogue is an analysis of McCarthy's redbaiting which draws two main conclusions.
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For the most part, this is boilerplate "why don't you go live there" crap, part and parcel of the redbaiting-turned-war-on-terror argument leveled at any who disagree.
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In those days McCarthy's redbaiting was parochial, opportunistic and related mainly to his own concerns.
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