Right wing defends Joe McCarthy

The right wing is coming to the defense of our own Tailgunner Joe McCarthy, whom they say has been unfairly attacked in the movie about Edward R. Murrow, "Good Night and Good Luck." The Media Citizen blog has details. They're after George Clooney, too, who directed and acts in the film and has dared to criticize Fox News, among other things.

Expect Sykes and McBride to join the chorus soon, since both are practitioners of the tailgunner's tactics -- as in their smears of Cindy Sheehan, for example.

Does it seem at all ironic that a movie about McCarthy is generating this kind of response?

UPDATE: The AP reports: "The truth of Murrow and McCarthy is beyond black and white."