On the Fact that (According to the M. Stanton Evans Book, "Blacklisted by History") Senator Benton and His Colleagues Were so Desperate to Bounce Joe McCarthy from the Senate, Not Only Did They Start Looking at the Dude's Finances, They Also Started Examining the Finances of His Family, His Staffers, and Even Some of His Supporters and AND They Took this Fishing Expedition All the Way Back to the Mid-1930s - More than a Decade Prior to McCarthy's Election to the Senate

Yeah, there was a witch-hunt alright, with Senator McCarthy being much more the victim of it than the perpetrator (the real villains of course being the liberal Democrats on the hill and the shameless, leftist mediaites).