Coulter Explodes Hollywood's Blacklist Myth

NewsMax.com ^ | 6/30/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

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[Big Mack]

The book is a real eyeopener. I was up quite late last night reading it. It makes the events of the last 60 years much clearer and very easy to understand, once you see how the libs have been working their lies.

[MJY1288]

My favorite line in her book is when she quotes Reagan as saying......

"Detante' is what a farmer has with his Turkey until Thanksgiving Day"

[MJY1288]

I agree 100%, plus she has plenty of jabs at the liberals to go along with her facts about their treasonous history. A great book, I couldn't put it down

[Your Nightmare]

Nowadays, nobody bothers to point out that the phrase "McCarthyism" first appeared in the pages of the Communist Party’s organ in the U.S., the Daily Worker, which got it directly from the bowels of the NKVD’s Moscow headquarters at 3 Dzerzinski Square, where it was coined by the Stalinist disinformation experts in the belief that leftist useful idiots in the U.S. would adopt it as their own. Which of course they did, eagerly, and continue to do so even today.

I thought the first use of "McCarthyism" was in a NY Times political cartoon on March 29, 1950:

[Chuckster]

bump for later

[Your Nightmare]

Sorry, that's a Washington Post cartoon.

[Robert A Cook PE]

And when and who did the cartoonist get his "inspiration" from? (Wouldn't you have to establish that Red Square sent its' "public" warning after the cartoon ?)

[Your Nightmare]

And when and who did the cartoonist get his "inspiration" from? (Wouldn't you have to establish that Red Square sent its' "public" warning after the cartoon ?)

What "public warning"?

Herb Block was interviewed by Brian Lamb on 14th November, 1993.

Brian Lamb: Here's a cartoon from the year 1950 -- The headline on it is, "You mean I'm supposed to stand on that?" And right up here is the word "McCarthyism." Did you invent that?

Herb Block: That's the first use of that word that I know of and I remember how it originated because I wanted to put something on that tar barrel and you couldn't call it McCarthy himself, and you wouldn't say McCarthy techniques or so on and I thought, "Well, maybe just use one word, McCarthyism," and, you know, it caught on.

[MEGoody]

"Why should these people have been required to tell Congress whether they were Democrat, Republican, Nazi or Communist?"

I would presume because they were under oath to tell the truth. I could be wrong.

[RobbyS]

Joe McCarthy was right, but he was the wrong man to lead the charge. Bob Taft should have been the leader, but Taft was a man of the upper class, and I don't think he wanted to believe that many of his friends were traitors to the United States. McCarthy was just an ordinary slob who seized the issue and ran with it, but he finally ran into the Army. Eisenhower could not accept that the Army had been penetrated by communist agents, so it was he who broke McCarthy.

[RobbyS]

It was sort of like obstruction of justice. The Communist Party had been outlawed and Congress was investigating illegal activites.

[jackbill]

Witnesses known as the Hollywood 10, acting under orders from their communist bosses, refused to admit under oath that they were members of the Communist Party. For this contempt of Congress they went to jail for a brief of time.

If memory serves, all, or most, of the ten had been part of the Federal Writers' Project, which was part of the WPA (Work Progress Admin.). This program was a federally funded "make work" program for unemployed writers during the Depression.

Thus, the taxpayers had directly paid these communists to write their Soviet propaganda.

[IYAS9YAS]

Let's see, you claim your Uncle was blacklisted...got any documentation on that? The problem with people like you is, when facts are presented, you run to your hole and resort to personal attacks. Back up your b.s. with proof, as Coulter has, or go back to DUmbass.

[Dan(9698)]

Who is your uncle, and how was his life ruined?

[randog]

I really wish the admin moderator wouldn't delete posts like that. I would have liked to see if BUSHED had the cajones to stand behind his statements (name-calling, actually).

[Michael.SF.]

Why should these people have been required to tell Congress whether they were Democrat, Republican, Nazi or Communist?

You ask that question, I assume to point out that their constitutional rights may have been violated. I am just using a bit of common sense here, since I am neither an attorney or an expert on the Constitution, but:

If the announced purpose of a group was to overthrow the US government and any member of that group was sworn to work towards achieving that purpose. Then would that person not have entered into a conspiracy to commit treason and thus would have committed a criminal act?

Does the government not have a right to investigate a group, which proposes to take over the country, by methods which are outside of the legal means to do so?