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.
A round or two of water boarding would have gotten some answers. Maybe we wouldn’t have an undocumented commie in the oval office now.
because he can. And you can't stop him.
The current Leftists tell you to your face, "Yeah I support socialism, so what? Whachoo gonna do, racist?"
The homofascists in Hollywood still have a blacklist/pinklist today but the academics, politicians, and journalists don’t give a damn.
Stalinists lie. ALWAYS
“Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of a TEA party organization or supporter of the Constitution?”
The media has a litmus test. Of course they would, they are pinkos.
I stopped watching Hollywood’s cr@p decades ago.
As lefties like to say, “the personal is the political” & the lifestyles of Hollywood’s rich, famous, & influential belong in Sodom & Gomorrah’s trash dump.
Then they presume to preach to us in the name of Marx & Lenin. Double dogged hypocrites! Screw ‘em!
“The current Leftist tell you to your face, ‘Yeah, I support socialism, so what? Whachoo gonna do, racist?’”
What a shame that the country has been overrun by adolescent, psychotic macho-men who treat women like members of a harem and who are worshipped by those very women who rip life from their wombs as tribute to
the revolution.
IMHO
I think Diana West is right to question who really won the Cold War. Here is America a Islamo Communist was elected President twice. Who really won the Cold War?
Agreed.
Not only that, but the voters in America twice elected a bona fide traitor to American principles and ideas to lead them. One that was kicked out of England for demonstrating against America. One Bill Clinton.
My dad was stationed in Germany during the Cuban missile crisis. He’s still got the evacuation maps and instructions for family members.
A very good book I read about life in Eastern Europe during communism was “Behind the Berlin Wall; An Encounter in East Germany” by Steven Kelman. He details big differences between East and West Berlin.
“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.”
It’s not really the point of his piece, but I think Bozell starts off badly. People in their mid-30s and younger are familiar with the Beatles and Paul McCartney, even if just from their parents (or grandparents) or playing Beatles Rock Band on Xbox.
The rest of it is pretty spot on.
Hollywood? What about our student’s textbooks? I always learned McCarthy was evil. Struck fear into my little brain. Should have been taught to fear communism, not feel empathy towards those who are traitors to George Washington (my hero).
They tried to do the same in the movie “The Way We Were”. Tried to make people feel sorry for Streisand and Redford, who were just acting out their real life (Communist) feelings.
Yes; our 20-year-old daughter knows the lyrics to almost every Beatles song, and I probably haven't played one in 30 years. Good music transcends generations. I love to listen to Big Band music from the mid-to-late 40s, which was popular before I was born.
That mealy mouthed arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave wasn’t really elected twice, as he stole the second election. Plus he got less votes than he got in 2008
Exactly. I am familiar with the Big Band sound from my dad playing it (constantly). My teenagers are more familiar with the Beatles than is my 80 year old mother.
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