 Other reactions were not so favorable. People who wrote the Rutland Herald “ hinted at retribution for McCarthy ’ s foes ” and called McCarthy “ a demigod above the law of the U.S.A. ... If you disagree, you are RED. ” William Loeb, owner of the Burlington Daily News, wrote, “ It would take somebody as stupid as Senator Flanders to finally swallow the Democratic bait on the subject of Senator McCarthy. ” In a speech that Flanders did not mention in his autobiography, the Times-Argus article reported that on June 1, 1954 Flanders
