{"text":"Whenever the communists are under fire, it [the term 'red-baiter'] has served to divert attention from the subject matter to futile discussion of personal motives, the critic’s private life and other deliberate tricks of befuddlement.","author":"Eugene Lyons","tags":["communism","leftism","mccarthyism","soviet-union"],"id":1195,"author_id":"Eugene+Lyons"}