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Murrow feels betrayed by Fred's sudden fear and calls him on being "yellow" (another word for fearful). Fred responds that it's better to be yellow than another colour, red, which is the colour ascribed to Communist sympathy and ideology. In Fred's mind, it's better to be safe than sorry, and if one gets mistaken for a Communist during the age of McCarthyism, one usually ends up sorry.
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