McCarthy had a confrontation with Boston attorney Joseph Welch in televised hearings. Welch demanded that McCarthy name someone who had belonged to a [[Glossary of espionage terms#Fronts and cutouts|Communist front]] organization, and then complained that it was cruel, reckless, and indecent to do so. McCarthy named Welch's associate Fred Fisher as a member of the [[National Lawyers Guild]], who Welch himself had previously outed to the NY Times six weeks earlier.[http://www.aim.org/aim_report/A4297_0_4_0_C/]
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McCarthy had a confrontation with Boston attorney Joseph Welch in televised hearings. Welch demanded that McCarthy name someone who had belonged to a [[Glossary of espionage terms#Fronts and cutouts|Communist front]] organization, and then complained that it was cruel, reckless, and indecent to do so. McCarthy named Welch's associate Fred Fisher as a member of the [[National Lawyers Guild]], who Welch himself had previously outed to the ‘’New York Times’’ six weeks earlier.[http://www.aim.org/aim_report/A4297_0_4_0_C/]
Welch dishonestly pretended to be shocked, and famously said, "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"
Welch dishonestly pretended to be shocked, and famously said, "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"