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W.W.II reporting made our new medium's heroes, TV. W.W.II was special in a way easily overlooked but screaming out for attention, IMO.

In 1939 Hitler signed a nonaggression pact with Stalin. American "progressives" opposed going to war against Hitler. In August of 1941 Hitler attacked Stalin. American "progressives" demanded we declare war on Hitler. W.W.II was the last time American "progressives" supported the United States in war.

On March 9, 1954 Edward R. Murrow signaled that it was time to kill what the CP/USA had labeled McCarthyism. Five years later Joseph McCarthy was dead. Forty years after that Joseph McCarthy was proved right (on the main issues).

Yet Murrow said: "If none of us ever read a book that was 'dangerous,' nor had a friend who was 'different,' or never joined an organization that advocated 'change,' we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants."

I ask, Is it terror to ask American "progressives" to explain why they support our enemies? Why they join / support organizations that demand the kinds of changes our enemies want?

Murrow said: "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty."

Me: We must not confuse the Constitution with a suicide pact.

Like the North Vietnamese Communists' most trusted man in America, Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow began his career in the 1930s promoting internationalism. He was an Assistant Director of the Institute of International Education.

Here is from their own website describing their 1930s "accomplishments":

"The Institute established the Emergency Committee to Aid Displaced German Scholars, an important activity which eventually aided such distinguished individuals as Martin Buber, Paul Tillich and Jacques Maritain. Edward R. Murrow began his career as IIE's Assistant Director at this time, helping to find lectureships for these refugee scholars. IIE also assisted those fleeing from Spanish and Italian fascism. Expanding its activities outside Europe, IIE opened the first exchanges with the Soviet Union and Latin America."

Notice that IIE opened exchanges in the Soviet Union at a time when the Soviet Union was in its second decade of murdering millions of its own citizens. IIE helped victims of Germany, Spain, and Italy however. Golly.

One of its accomplishments in the 1940s was it began the administration of the graduate student component of the Fulbright Program -- IIE's largest program, still active today. (The Fulbright Scholarship) If I am not mistaken the Fulbright Scholarship is a boondoggle created by federal legislation and funded by taxpayers.

We have all become aware of Fulbright's "greatest" accomplishment of the 1970s. The appearance of John Kerry before his committee and their discussion of how to get Nixon to "disengage" the American "war criminals" from Vietnam.

As I stated above. W.W.II helped defend communism from Hitler and American "progressives" supported the U.S. That was the last time that American "progressives" supported the U.S. in war. (Re: Kerry, Fulbright, Cronkite, et al.) Why? McCarthy wanted to know and millions of us supported him then and now.

Screw Edward R. Murrow.

I agree entirely with your post.

W.W.II was the last time American "progressives" supported the United States in war.

Yes, and that was because the U.S. sided with the U.S.S.R. When Hitler invaded Russia "progressive" (read Communist) American playwright Lillian Hellman, who was celebrated by elitist intellectuals, moaned: "They have invaded the Motherland!"

Ed Murrow was cut from the same "progressive" mold.