"Charlie McCarthy" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "After Charlie McCarthy, the dummy of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen.",
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          "ref": "1999, Department of Arkansas Heritage, Outside the Pale: The Architecture of Fay Jones (page 12)",
          "text": "For the next thirty minutes, I was kind of a prop, his Charlie McCarthy, as he explained some of the things about the building."
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        {
          "ref": "2008, Byron Williams, Strip Mall Patriotism: Moral Reflections on the Iraq War, page 127",
          "text": "The president has perfected his role as politics' answer to ventriloquist Edgar Bergen—using the Democrats as his Charlie McCarthy.",
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        "A person under the control of another; a puppet or mouthpiece."
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        "(dated) A person under the control of another; a puppet or mouthpiece."
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          "ref": "1999, Department of Arkansas Heritage, Outside the Pale: The Architecture of Fay Jones (page 12)",
          "text": "For the next thirty minutes, I was kind of a prop, his Charlie McCarthy, as he explained some of the things about the building."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Byron Williams, Strip Mall Patriotism: Moral Reflections on the Iraq War, page 127",
          "text": "The president has perfected his role as politics' answer to ventriloquist Edgar Bergen—using the Democrats as his Charlie McCarthy.",
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      ],
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        "A person under the control of another; a puppet or mouthpiece."
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        "(dated) A person under the control of another; a puppet or mouthpiece."
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