Because the commies McCarthy warned us about took over not only Hollywood but also media and academia.
I lose a significant amount of respect for people who do this. I despise it, and it is done by people ranging from Dr. Victor Davis Hanson (who I admire greatly) to this author.
The term "Red Scare" is universally used where it is asserted that Communist infiltration was NOT a real problem, but was propagated and enhanced by people (such as Sen. Joseph McCarthy) for rank political gain.
Communism infiltration was a real issue in 1930-1953, and today, need I mention what kind of problem it is in the hands of the Sixties radicals and their ideological descendants who cut their hair and put on business suits, and have had their hands on the levers of power since 2008.
I’m ready for my close-up Mr DeMille...
"Red Scare" in quotes.
Um, Mark, wasn't McCarthy dead-on correct?
When you impugn DeMille and others for cracking on the Commies, you are just being Kim Philby's butt-boy.
You are just smirking and retelling the lie that McCarthy was a nut -- which he certainly was not.
Bad tendency in Brits. They are really chickens when it comes to abandoning groupthink. They are terrified of not being thought of as "brilliant" by their weak-minded quisling peers.
They condemn anyone who believes in the Christian God as a "religious nutter" while watching their young Yorkshire girls being carted off by the busload to service stinking, hairy moose-limbs.
Stuff it Steyn, you are too witty by half.
What a good article. I normally shy away from film critics (I’ll make up my own mind, thank you very much), as I consider critics just “Karen’s” with a complainer’s tongue and a nasty pen.
Also...I had no clue John Ford served as a Rear Admiral.
John (or Jack or Sean) Feeney, who took the name John Ford, was born in Portland, Maine, so the lure of the sea was strong in him, though he did give a pretty good impression of a cowboy.
It was a different movie for Ford, a somber war film that showed the despair of a group of failed seamen who are trapped into a lifestyle on a tramp steamer.
From the rusty ship to the rusty captain to the rusty crewmen to the rusty shore people the crew meets up with, it shows a low life that's unglamorous and unappealing.
I won't give away the ending, but it leaves the viewer feeling the same way as the characters do throughout the film.
-PJ