I haven't heard a word about this movie other than a few commercials just before it opened. Can I optimisticaly hope it is bombing at the box office?
ann almost sounds calm in this writing (for a change)
Hollywood really needs to get their history straight. It's been quite a few years now since the Russians released those old USSR spy documents that confirm how correct McCarthy was. But with all things Hollywood, we wouldn't want the people in the blue states to know the truth now would we....
In Ike's position in 52, I'd have handed Joe McCarthy and the guys on HUAC a copy of the Hollywood California telephone directory and told them to use THAT for their blacklist and save the taxpayers the money.
Annie's right on again, as usual.
During the height of the Soviet purges in the mid-'30s, as millions of innocents were being tortured, exiled and killed on Stalin's orders, Murrow's good pal Duggan was using his position at the State Department to pass important documents to the Soviets. The documents were so sensitive, Duggan had to return the originals to the State Department before the end of the day. Some were so important, they were sent directly to Stalin and Molotov.
The House Committee On Un-American Activities (bastardized by the left as "HUAAC") began, with just cause, in the 1930s. Stalin's useful idiots served a master as vile as Hitler.
The Zogbyism of the left today to smear and criminalize conservatism is far worse. Communists served a foreign power. While the left may be ideologically opposed to Republicans, there is no "enemy" aided and abetted. Conservative policy has been hounded as thought crime. Welcome to political correctness. There has been an agenda afoot to systematically take down conservative hosts (O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Savage, Bennett...) as well as Republicans in leadership roles (Frist, DeLay) and those in the administration (including Rove) as well as phony documents broadcast as fact to throw an election (and Zogby's own bogus poll numbers on election day designed to depress Republicans).
Who would ever let the left have opportunity to indoctrinate their children about history? There WERE witches in The Crucible (the girls "playing" in the woods) just as there WERE communists serving the Soviet Union. Then again, the left likes the "balance of power" provided the Soviets with the espionage of the atomic bomb.
Another insult is all of the leftist critics who applauded this film as an indictment of the Bush Administration's "chill wind" silencing critics.
As I posted above, there IS a modern parallel to the fairy tale they spin but they are too partisan to see it.
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Defenestration was a favorite way for the Commies to get rid of inconvenient people.
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Stalin was a monster, McCarthy was a drunken opportunist. There, argument's settled.
An interesting aside on this film: Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, was an executive producer. Guess I know what NBA team I'm rooting against this year!
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This is Ann at her best, without some of the less than admirable attitude she displayed during the Miers nomination.
OK philosophical question - has their ever been a bad Ann Coulter column - it seems that such a thing would be like going faster than the speed of light or violating the second law of thermodynamics i.e. IMPOSSIBLE.
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