No less at the excellent work this paper did in revealing his all-too-close ties to the main opponents of the SFF/Shanghai Maling JV: namely, the British ex-pat and Vietnam-based merchant banker John Shrimpton, Winston Peters and NZ First, and McCarthy’s failed Dad’s Army-lookalike ginger group MIE. He’s also taken umbrage at yours truly daring to point out that his anti-Chinese comments had been seized upon, re-used and supported by the right-wing nutjob National Front. All his dummy spitting, ranting and threat making has him looking like his 1950s namesake – former US Senator Joseph McCarthy, who ran a similar failed ‘reds under the bed’ campaign.
