We agree. Many of his targets, indicated as unsubstantiated and unwarranted attacks were against “Hollywood”. How right he was. I watched the McCarthy hearings as a kid. Hollywood destroyed our morals, families, patriotism and continues its political subversion. I would like to ask them, “Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party”...or Democrat Party.
Bang on.
“Give me Hollywood for six months and I will convert the world to communism.”
- Stalin
They had completely infiltrated Hollywood and still do today. Just look at Sean Penn. From the parasitic larvae the Soviet Union planted, blossomed a huge writhing maggot that we see today.
None of his targets had anything to do with Hollywood. That's as silly as the prevailing disinformation that "Senator" McCarthy headed the "House" Committee on Unamerican Activities. McCarthy was after Communists in the Administration and State Department.
The so-called Hollywood "Black List" was the result of hearings before the aforementioned House committee and was instituted by the studio heads themselves. The embedded Communists Joe was after have muddied the waters to the point that even McCarthy defenders have bought into their lies.
The so-called Hollywood blacklist wasn't even from a list circulated by McCarthy. It was a private interest group that compiled the list where it was read by programmers like Ed Sullivan. And some of those who were on the list were outraged at being boycotted from bookings on his show. Yet the evidence was there.
It's one thing to claim that you were erroneously on the list. It is quite another to claim that Communists didn't have a radical agenda in play, sometimes in concert with manipulations by the Soviet Union (knowingly or unknowingly).
Hollywood has a blacklist today of conservatives and there are no peeps of outrage from filmmakers, academics, or playwrights.