[wagglebee]

We now know, of course, that McCarthy was mostly right – the United States government and many left-leaning organizations in the United States were indeed infiltrated by Communist spies and pro-Communist stooges sponsored and/or supported in one way or another by the Soviet Union. For example, at least one person that Murrow and American liberals defended, Laurence Duggan, was indeed a Communist spy and later worked openly in leftist, Neo-Marxist circles. We also know that a black woman, Annie Lee Moss, working in the Code Room of the Pentagon, whose famous testimony is featured in George Clooney's movie, was indeed a Communist Party member in the mid 1940s. Also, Annie Lee Moss really did receive a Daily Worker at her actual address in Washington, D.C., despite her demure, intentionally humorous protestations.

We also know that George Clooney and his ilk are communists who hate America and think nothing of making a movie which distorts history.

[al baby]

facts what the heck are those

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

But Clooney is high on something (coke or communism; it's hard to tell, both make people extremely irrational).

[Siena Dreaming]

This movie will be fun. I hope it's discussed a lot. Would be great to get a good McCarthy debate out there in the public domain.

I haven't read much Ann Coulter, and I probably won't in the future unless she gets off her "Impeach Bush" kick, but I did learn a lot about McCarthy from her book "Treason".

I do have questions, though about McCarthy's taking on the military and Eisenhower shutting him down.

[Boundless]

Apparently some leftist loons have complained that the
McCarthy scenes are too sympathetic to the Senator ...

... not realizing that the movie used actual footage
of the real hearings for those scenes.

[calrighty]

I think Clooney is just dumb. I don't think he can even define a communist. He is just a flake like Streisand or Martin Sheen, albeit dumber than even them : )

[Stellar Dendrite]

All anyone has to do to learn about McCarthy is read the Venona Intercepts and the FOIA FBI file on Owen Lattimore.

As to the charge that Clooney's film is revisionist history, who is surprised by that?

Perhaps it can start another dialogue about McCarthy, and we can once again bitchslap Hollywood.

[dakine]

It's a MOVIE...selling whatever brings in the bucks....

[RedRover]

I heard a review of the movie on TV this morning that began, "What's black-and-white and boring all over?" Hopefully, audiences will stay away in droves.

[brivette]

George: STFU.

[jude24]

WorldNetDaily wouldn't know a fact if it bit them in the ... hey, hey!

[Scarchin]

The last page of the latest Weekly Standard has a photo from the film where there's a freakin' water bottle on the guy's desk!

[EGPWS]

Clooney film not high on facts

Now THATS a revelation!

nyuk, nyuk!

[Scarchin]

I've got the picture, but I don't know how to post it. I'll gladly e-mail it to someone who can - galamaga@verizon.net

[dmw]

"Clooney film not high on facts"

Since when did liberals ever believe in facts?

[abigailsmybaby]

The world according to Hollywood. There are never any facts involved.

[highlander_UW]

As such, it offers mainly emotional, bombastic arguments and lots of style, but not much substance.

In other words, it's more of the same quintessential drivel from the Left. Why bother with facts when one can present flashy fiction and pass it off as facts?

[lilylangtree]

That's H'weird--someone's fantasy. Anyway, don't plan on seeing Clooney the Tooney in anything anymore.

[Texas_Jarhead]

"I've always been puzzled by the national news media's fascination with these McCarthy programs by Murrow and his team. They show a tendency to editorialize rather than use hard facts and rational arguments, and an inclination to avoid honest debate. Ironically, the same journalists who extol Murrow seem to look down their noses at Bill O'Reilly of Fox News, whose news commentaries and editorials are far more journalistically and factually sound, though perhaps just as bombastic (in their own way) as Murrow's."

[hershey]

George Clooney's career...uh, what career?

[nonliberal]

Just finished re-reading the newest book on McCarthy. He was a great American and none of the previous books on him had been written after the declassification of Venona.

The central question of the McCarthy investigation was never answered: Who promoted Irving Peress?