 Other reactions were not so favorable . People who wrote the Rutland Herald “ hinted at retribution for McCarthy ’ s foes ” and called McCarthy “ a demigod above the law of the U.S.A. ... If you disagree , you are RED . ” William Loeb , owner of the Burlington Daily News , wrote , “ It would take somebody as stupid as Senator Flanders to finally swallow the Democratic bait on the subject of Senator McCarthy . ” In a speech that Flanders did not mention in his autobiography , the Times @-@ Argus article reported that on June 1 , 1954 Flanders 
