The quotation in the middle comes from an actual 1950s US government hearing that McCarthy was involved in. I can't think of the name of the person who said it, but he was saying it to McCarthy.
To me, this song is about the Reagan/Bush I years when the extreme right-wing anti-Commie mentality of Joe McCarthy was brought back again. The Reaganites symbolically "exhumed McCarthy," or brought him back from the dead.
The quotation in the middle comes from an actual 1950s US government hearing that McCarthy was involved in. I can't think of the name of the person who said it, but he was saying it to McCarthy.
To me, this song is about the Reagan/Bush I years when the extreme right-wing anti-Commie mentality of Joe McCarthy was brought back again. The Reaganites symbolically "exhumed McCarthy," or brought him back from the dead.