colleagues voted to condemn him. and ted cruz is not willing to say whether joe mccarthy is someone he admires, and he won't say that, because ted cruz want to live in a world where he can use joe mccarthy's tactics and get away with it, joe mccarthy's lying provoked the most famous challenge to a senator in a senate hearing in the history of the senate, and luckily for us it occurred at the dawn of the television age in a hearing in which mccarthy was asked a question and like ted cruz, he could not answer it. it is the question that effectively ended joe mccarthy's career. have you no sense of decency? >> have you no sense of decency, sir? at long last, have you left no sense of decency?