Posted on 01/09/2015 5:09:05 AM PST by Kaslin
Ask anyone under 40 to identify Paul McCartney or "I Want to Hold Your Hand," and the odds are you'll get a blank look in return. Ask someone under 30 to describe the Soviet menace and you may well get the same response. The first one is harmless ignorance, and some might argue the second one is as well. After all, it's over and we won, right?
What's not harmless is a never-ending effort to glorify communist conspirators in Hollywood, like the forthcoming movie "Trumbo," starring "Breaking Bad" star Bryan Cranston as blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.
Entertainment Weekly magazine spewed the usual leftist apologist narrative: "Trumbo -- who had been a member of the Communist party during World War II when the Soviets were a major American ally -- was punished for his principled stand for free speech and the Constitution."
These deluded people never stop shamelessly declaring that communists were the true libertarians and constitutionalists, no matter how ludicrous it sounds. That 100 million people died at the hands of the communists doesn't register.
Luckily, there's a new antidote to this film's message, a book called "Hollywood Traitors" by longtime Human Events editor Allan Ryskind. His father, screenwriter Morrie Ryskind, was ruined professionally by the post-blacklist backlash against industry conservatives. Trumbo, like many Stalin-era Communist Party members, was an agent of Stalin's dictatorship, and for several years a mouthpiece for Hitler during the Hitler-Stalin pact.
Trumbo has been glorified as a member of the "Hollywood Ten" who refused to tell the truth to the House Un-American Activities Committee about their Communist Party membership. But here's what Trumbo admitted later (and you can bet it won't be in the movie). He told author Bruce Cook in the 1970s that he joined the party in 1943, that some of his "very best friends" were Communists and that "I might as well have been a Communist 10 years earlier." He also says about joining the party: "I've never regretted it. As a matter of fact, it's possible to say I would have regretted not having done it."
Bruce Cook is a screenwriter on this new movie. Now how can Cook regurgitate the lame old concept of a Washington "witch hunt" when he's published Trumbo's own words triumphantly proclaiming he was very happily a communist?
Ryskind reports Trumbo not only supported Stalin (and Hitler when he was a Stalin ally), but he also supported North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung after the Korean War. In an unpublished movie script, he had the heroine proclaim that North Korea's invasion of the South was perfectly justifiable, for this is "Korea's fight for independence, just as we had to fight for our own independence in 1776."
Ryskind adds Trumbo even wrote a poem called "Korean Christmas" which made Christian Americans the murderers of Korean children: "Hear then, little corpse...it had to be/ Poor consolation, yet it had to be/ The Christian ethic was at stake/ And western culture and the American Way/ And so, in the midst of pure and holy strife/ We had to take your little eastern life."
Does this sound like a man who was punished for his love of our constitutional rights? It sounds like a man who exploited our freedom and mocked the "American way" as murdering little children for Jesus and "Western culture." But some Hollywood die-hards dearly love that communist lie, and never stop lying.
Film director Steven Spielberg visited Cuba and met with Castro in November of 2002 and dined with the dictator until the early morning hours. Afterward, Spielberg announced that his dinner with Castro “was the eight most important hours of my life.”
More here:
http://www.therealcuba.com/The%20Useful%20Idiots.htm
Dalton Trumbo was an evil, evil man who endorsed every twist and turn of the Communist line throughout his entire career. He defended the Hitler-Stalin Pact and wrote an anti-interventionist book and then, when Hitler turned on his buddy, immediately reversed himself and actually began to turn into the feds anyone who continued to write and request copies of the book!
If the Norks ever do lob a nuke our way (G-d forbid!) I hope they get Hollywood first . . . or maybe San Francisco.
Dalton Trumbo would have hated them.
And yet all “news” reports about this new duo of Kanye West and Paul McCartney centered on how nobody would know Sir Paul and how this duet would bring this old white guy into the music world’s spotlight.
you hit that one out of the park. and it can be applied to just about everything that is wrong in our Country today.
Why can (insert any evil, racist, hateful govt protected group) do this?
As you said Sarge....Because they can!
And it will continue until men decide to stop it; physically.
Don’t know if that will happen though. Hoping and wishing won’t solve it.
You’re right about that: hoping and wishing is nothing.
It’s only a case of when, and who.
“And there it was for all the world to see. And my dad put it there.” —Michael Douglas speaking of father Kirk’s decision to credit Trumbo as screenwriter for “Spartacus”.
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Douglas’ 1960 production of Spartacus was based on the 1951 Howard Fast novel which Fast wrote as an allegory of his own refusal to testify to Congress about his political involvement. Fast wrote for the Communist newspaper The Daily Worker in the 50s. Spartacus was Marx’s favorite historical figure.
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