“How can we account for our present situation unless we believe that men high in this government are concerting to deliver us to disaster? This must be the product of a great conspiracy on a scale so immense as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man. A conspiracy of infamy so black that, [when] it is finally exposed, its principals shall be forever deserving of the maledictions of all honest men. What can be made of this unbroken series of decisions and acts contributing to the strategy of defeat? They cannot be attributed to incompetence.”

Who said it?

1. Sen. Joe McCarthy in June 1951.
2. Gov. Ronald Reagan in August 1968.
3. Glenn Beck in March 2009.
4. Michelle Malkin in April 2009.

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Answer: 1. Sen. Joe McCarthy in June 1951. Nothing much ever changes on the regressive right.