[Focault's Pendulum]

[Beowulf9]

A French Jew. Explains his communism.

[Fiji Hill]

Sacre bleu!

[DiogenesLamp]

Great story, thanks for pointing it out. My recollection is that Charlie Chaplain never admitted or denied that he was Jewish. In the movie "the Great Dictator" Charlie explicitly played the role of a barber in a Jewish Ghetto. A lot of people regarded it as a sort of tacit admission, and of course the Nazis saw it that way.

Whatever was his true origin story, Charlie was a wonderful entertainer and a great comedian. If he was Jewish, then he is one more among many of the Great Jewish comedians of America. The Marx Brothers, the Three Stooges, Jack Benny, Danny Kaye, Don Rickles, Ed Wynn, George Burns, Milton Berle and others.

Interesting that he felt the need to hide it though. I guess the times were more difficult during that era.

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[dfwgator]

"We're gonna take you back, to the year 1939 when Charlie Chaplin and his Nazi regime enslaved Europe and tried to take over the world..."

"But then an even greater force emerged, the UN"

"....And the UN UN-nazied the world...Forever!"

[drpix]

How much can we rely on the fact that British Intelligence was "unimpressed by Washington's claims of communist links?" They go back to a time when that agency was infiltrated at its highest levels by Stalin's "Cambridge Five." This ring of spies actually running large parts of British Intelligence included Philby, Maclean & Burgess.

Britain's political leaders were so bamboozled that their Foreign Secy personally attested to Philby's loyalty - years after Maclean and Burgess had fled into hiding (to later defect to the USSR) - allowing Philby to survive for years before imminent detection also caused him to also defect to the USSR.

"Victim of McCarthyism?" McCarthy may have been a flawed messenger, but his messenger was vindicated by history.

[drpix]

CORRECTION:

his messenger was vindicated by history =

his message was vindicated by history

[wideminded]

Chaplin’s autobiography makes it extremely believable that he spent his earliest years in London.

[Gay State Conservative]

Neither his nationality nor his religion mean a thing.The fact that he was filthy Communist means a LOT!

[The Sons of Liberty]

Never mind Chaplin, maybe MI5 can fill us in on who the usurper in the whitey hut is.

[Revolting cat!]

No, actually, Israel Thornstein was Elvis Presley’s manager “Colonel” Tom Parker.