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Jon Ralston hosts the news discussion program Face to Face with Jon Ralston on Las Vegas ONE and also publishes the daily e-mail newsletter RalstonFlash.com. His column for the Las Vegas Sun appears Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. Ralston can be reached at 870-7997 or through e-mail at ralston@vegas.com.

Sen. Harry Reid has been called a lot of things. Soft-spoken and vicious. Bland but tough. Sphinx-like on the outside, dynamic on the inside. But similar in style to Joe McCarthy? That was the comparison and the leitmotif of a Washington Times piece this week from columnist Paul Greenberg. The angry, fire-breathing, Communist-baiting senator from Wisconsin and the bland, soft-spoken, Bush-baiting senator from Nevada? Yes, says Greenberg. Reid is playing into the suspicious nature of the public the same way that McCarthy did in the 1950s. Reid is just a fulminating conspiracy theorist, the argument goes. I wonder if this latest attack will slow him down.

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