The New York Times News Service story on the death of former U.S. Sen. Eugene McCarthy contained this sentence:
As a senator, Mr. McCarthy was an unabashed liberal unafraid to take on Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) and his alarmist warnings about the communist menace.
But, as Newsbusters blogger Michael Bates points out, Eugene McCarthy wasn’t elected to the Senate until 1958, a year after Joseph McCarthy had died.
