The Truth about the "Hollywood Ten"

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | April 18, 2005 | Art Eckstein

[MACVSOG68]

Very well said. I agree with you completely!

[rlmorel]

Thanks-I can't really say it was a life-changing revelation for me, but it drove home to me how much of our history is pre-digested for our consumption, and how much we don't know how much is pre-determined (This is the opinion we think people should have, so we will shape events to give them that opinion...)

It was propaganda to Americans, from Americans, the way I see it.

[MACVSOG68]

but it drove home to me how much of our history is pre-digested for our consumption, and how much we don't know how much is pre-determined (This is the opinion we think people should have, so we will shape events to give them that opinion...)

Good point. Simply stated, if we are looking for historical truth, we must never subject ourselves to one side only. That goes for the right also. The most politically and culturally defined people usually write the histories. We should always look at both views and we will be far more likely to find that elusive truth.

[Chuck9]

How many false facts can you pack into one sentence? They went to jail for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer the question if they were or had been Communists. They had no legal grounds for refusing to answer. They went to jail for refusing to answer, not because they were Communists, just as anyone before Congress might for refusing to answer any question that wasn't self-incriminating of a crime. Any private employer that wouldn't hire any of the 10 had every right to not employ them, whether for their criminal conviction, being a member of a political party engaged in treason, or a million other less important reasons. The Hollywood 10 didn't just hold "an unpopular idea", you sarcastically call a "high crime". Knowingly or not, they were engaged in treason as members of the American Communist Party - financed and given its orders from Moscow. Since they weren't prosecuted for a crime of engaging in treason with the criminal, mass murdering Soviet regime, they got no more than a slap on the wrist for contempt of Congress, NOT for the treasonous Communism you call "an unpopular idea".

[Hesperado]

I note the article contains a felicitously amusing typo:

“the cultural shift in Hollywood to domination by a bien peasant Left...”