Posted on 01/06/2015 6:44:51 AM PST by Kaslin
Because Hollywood is riddled with hard-core Stalinists.
I don’t know about the Stalin movie but I loved Breaking Bad.
As I type this and look up just above my computer display and about a foot behind it is my 2015 calendar with "the Duke" on every page.
When it comes to communism, you can never be to anti-communist!
It cannot be said you are manipulating someone when you encourage them to do what they fervently want to do anyways.
Dalton Trumbo wasn’t a hero. He hated his country and wanted to see a totalitarian ideology imposed upon it. He worked for the enemy.
In today’s Hollywood, none of that matters. If you were a Communist, all is forgotten and apparently forgiven. This is the man Hollywood regards as some sort of freedom-crusading activist. In real life he was the exact opposite of one.
In making a movie whitewashing Trumbo’s life and his ardent belief in one of the most murderous ideologies of the 20th Century, that says far more about Hollywood and its values than it does about the Communist Trumbo it wants to clutch now to its bosom.
I’ve never quite understood Hollywood’s genuflection with communists, since if they take over, the arts and intellectual crowd will be the first to go to the prison camps or executed.....................
Defending membership in the Communist Party (then or now) is akin to defending membership in a neonazi organization.
The media refuses to concede this. Sees nothing wrong with the ideology and in fact attacks the critics of Communism as “witchhunters” persecuting non-Communists with the false charge of Communism. Except they are Communists in allegiance to a foreign power and the squawking hens knew it and know it and cannot rationally defend it.
They don't think so. They all believe that in the New Order, they will become Commissars, telling the rest of us what to do.
Our enemies were not executed or carted off to concentration camps. All that happened to them is they were forbidden from working in Hollywood for a few short years.
Theirs was a unjustly deserved rehabilitation. America is a far more decent country than the people who hated it to its core would ever be and only in America is being a persecuted Communist considered to be a badge of honor.
Let’s keep it in mind before we turn Trumbo and his Soviet fellow travelers into saints.
I was required to read ‘Johnny Got His Gun’ in Freshman English my first year in college. Trumbo was a hero to all the Leftist professors in the 60’s. I was completely unaware of politics at 18. I suspect most colleges have become exponentially worse in Leftist indoctrination since then.
The boycott established by Red Channels and other independent publications was circumvented by friendly allies in the studio system who permitted the blacklisted names to work under pseudonyms, lest the public get wise to the scam.
Today these same fools defend Islam.
The face of the enemy may change but the Left’s love affair with totalitarianism remains as strong as ever.
So its more than of passing historical interest.
Battling Hitler wasn’t cool with Hollywood, until Hitler attacked Saint Stalin.
There exists a blacklist in Hollywood today (and elsewhere in the corporate world) against conservatives and the hysterics we hear from the Left about the TEA Party show their claims of a Communist witchhunt to be partisan at best and deception at worst.
That’s what Trumbo did in fact. Being blacklisted was a trifling inconvenience.
Hollywood studios didn’t want to lose Germany as a foreign market for films (until we entered the war).
I have yet to encounter accounts of actors who were unfairly accused of having Communist sympathies.
The defenders of Lucille Ball admit that she was a card carrying member of the Communist Party but that she’d joined merely to please her Communist grandfather.
How would that fly if someone joined the KKK (as an adult, not merely dressed up by parents) for the same reasons?
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