Yes. I appreciate that Mr. Christopherson is very passionate and has deep feelings, and I respect that. But I get frustrated with some of the analogies he makes. His comparison of this to the McCarthy hearings—“Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?”—is simply inappropriate. This is about trying to determine conflict of interest, not about trying to determine whether someone has passed the kind of obscene purity tests that the McCarthy army hearings were imposing in the 1950s.
On April 8th, 2014. See this statement in context.