[Behind Liberal Lines]

A complete hatchet job. Absolutely no serious mention of the threat the communism (or "progressivism") posed and laudatory comments about anti-Americans like Sarandon and others.

This isn't the first time that Fox's gossip columnist has let his liberal views creep through. It's time to contact the powers that be at Fox and tell them enough is enough.

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[laconic]

The Hollywood admirers of the communists were just as bad as Lord Haw-Haw and the other traitors who supported the Nazis in World War 2. They never gave a damn about the ten million Ukrainians Stalin starved to death, the twenty million killed by the KGB under Lenin's and Trotsky's blueprint or the upwards of 100 million murdered by Mao. Nor did they give a damn about this country where they were sheltered, protected and often became wealthy. I'm glad the people Friedman names lost their jobs; thats the least that they could suffer. And I'm very glad a man of the courage and decency of Elia Kazan emigrated to the USA.

[JennysCool]

Morris Carnovsky and his wife Phoebe Brand. They were blacklisted, and their careers ruined, when Kazan named them in 1951. Carnovsky, who went on to become America's leading Shakespearean actor, died in 1992 at age 95.

Er...Becoming "America's leading Shakespearean actor" is having your career ruined?

[Rome2000]

The blacklist at one time comprised 324 names and destroyed the film community for two decades.

Those were the good old days.

The time is fast approaching when leftist vermin in all areas of the media will get whats coming to them.

The constant attempt by leftist media types to SAP AMERICAS WILL TO WIN IN IRAQ is not going unnoticed by the masses.

There will be a price paid.

[KC_Conspirator]

On local ABC radio some ignorant reporterette repeated the lie/myth that Kazan was a part of McCarty's HUAC" hearings, when in fact McCarthy was a senator and not in the House.

I remember some Hollywood lefties like Nick Nolte and Ed Harris sitting on their hands and sneering years ago when Kazan got his lfetime achievement award.

[WOSG]

A REWRITE FOR BALANCE:


Not everyone is mourning director Elia Kazan, who died yesterday at age 94. Old-time Communists are dancing on the grave of a man who bravely named names and was scorned for it for the rest of his life.

Revered by some as a great artist, Kazan is also remembered for his PATRIOTIC testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee in the early 1950s. Kazan named Communists who were a part of hollywood, and in the process destroyed his own career. He was in effect blacklisted for his patriotic acts.

Two of the Communists he named was Morris Carnovsky and his wife Phoebe Brand. They were blacklisted when Kazan named them in 1951. Carnovsky wasnt unduly harmed by the blacklist as he remained America's leading Shakespearean stage actor.

Kazan also named Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Hammett, Clifford Odets, Pamela Miller, Tony Kraber and J. Edward Brandberg as Communists. In this 'witchhunt', those accused were indeed guilty as charged. They were Communists.

Carnovsky, who had made more than two dozen movies since 1937 and was a member with Brand, Kazan, and Odets of the Group Theatre, knew immediately his career was over. I interviewed Brand, who is now 96, four years ago about what happened when Kazan identified her and her husband in front of Congress as communists in order to save himself.

"What we felt was terror," she recalled.

Kazan, of course, survived the HUAC testimony and went on to direct many brilliant movies such as "On the Waterfront." a defense of naming others. He never apologized for his act of patriotism.

With the exception of Hellman, who went on to write a trilogy of successful memoirs, the others named by Kazan were more or less finished. For the Carnovskys, it wasn't a question of never eating lunch in this town again. They had to leave town. In a hurry.

"That's when we came back to New York from Hollywood," The Communist Brand said. "We didn't know what was going to happen. We were taking no chances."

The blacklist was devastating to Carnovsky's career. He is generally regarded as this country's Olivier, one of the greatest American actors of all time. But because of Kazan, little of his work is captured on film, only in memory.

Carnovsky can still be seen in 1950's "Cyrano de Bergerac" with Jose Ferrer and in "Rhapsody in Blue" as George Gershwin's father, as well as in "Dead Reckoning" and "Cornered."

"We preferred to work on the stage," said Brand, which is likely true.

Carnovsky's troubles did not begin with his testimony in 1951, but in the 1930s when he and Brand engaged in radical leftwing politics.

"We were progressives," Brand observed. "In those days it was a time of great unionization. The Wobblies were a very radical unionizing group who were killed," she said, referring to the International Workers of the World, the famous union that took on Arizona copper-mining companies in 1917.

"We thought you had to have unions. We started Equity and the CIO," Brand the Communist continues. "There were sit-in strikes. Gangsters owned New York City. So you had to do something. You had to see a way out. So many people were radical, especially people in the theater. It was the only way at that time that we could see a future, whether it's the right one or wrong one."

But Kazan seemed to forget what had been his own interest in that world when he'd been a young member of the Group Theatre with the couple. Kazan cast aside self-interest and considered what was best for his country. He realized that the nation was indeed in peril to the influence of Communists and hoped to rectify it.

The blacklist at one time comprised 324 names. Yet it didnt stop many Communists from continuing to work, nor did it harm the film industry. Indeed, it saved it from a pernicious influence.

[pasquale]

"Almost everyone who named names died shortly after it, they were so guilty. But not Kazan. He felt he did the right thing. But what kind of person is that? He was an opportunist."

He didn't feel guilty because he did do the right thing. He was an American, that's the kind of person he was.

To deny that the communists had infiltrated Hollywood is to have your head somewhere dark.

That being said, I saw Carnovsky do King Lear at the Shakespeare Theater in Stratford, CT, in the early sixties. To this day, the most powerful performance I've ever seen.

[WOSG]

You also need to address the letters to: foxlife@foxnews.com

Editor,

What a disgraceful hateful screed you let Roger Friedman write, slandering the great
director Elia Kazan at the moment of his passing. That is truly kicking a man when he
is down and cant answer back.

Elia Kazan bravely and patriotically truthfully answered questions put to him by the HUAC
in 1953. He admitted he was a Communist and named other Communists that were party
members with him in Hollywood. That is all he did! This was no crime, it was honest patriotism.

Recent Venona transcripts released in 1995 make clear that it was an active project of Soviet
intelligence to influence hollywood to create products favorable to communist ideology and the USSR.
This work was carried out through the CPUSA and their influence on Hollywood unions.
The leftists and Communists who treat this as wholly benign and the McCarthy era as wholly evil
are wholly in the wrong.

Kazan, it should be noted, blacklisted no-one; he merely told the truth when called upon under oath by
Congress.

Kazan shouldnt be chastised by leftists, Communists or Roger Friedman at the hour of his death for
his honest patriotism. I am grateful that this man was not just one of our greatest directors but was a
great American as well.

Rgds

[visualops]

I've written to Friedman/Fox411/Fox Online a few times regarding his slant and distortion of facts. This is perhaps the most one-sided, with the possible exception of the number he did on Mel Gibson & The Passion. In that case it was so obvious he was livid because he hadn't been invited to see the preview.

[Conservative til I die]

Where's the "Scumbag Commie Bastard Barf Alert?"

[jazzo]

So long to a great American artist and patriot. Hollywood could use more men like Kazan. How about "A Face in the Crowd" also written by Budd Schulberg, definitly Andy Griffith finest moment on the "Silver Screen".

[wardaddy]

he told the truth.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Two of those lives belonged to Morris Carnovsky and his wife Phoebe Brand. They were blacklisted, and their careers ruined, when Kazan named them in 1951. Carnovsky, who went on to become America's leading Shakespearean actor, died in 1992 at age 95.

How can your career be ruined in 1951 when you're a "leading Shakespearean actor" in 1992?

Another journalist from publik skool.

[wolficatZ]

HOW MANY DID
COMMUNIST REGIMES MURDER?^*

By R.J. Rummel

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Note that I completed this study in November 1993 while still engaged in collecting democide data. Not all the democide totals I mention here may be complete, therefore. For final figures on communist megamurderers, see my summary Table 1.2 in my Death by Government. For all final estimates, see the summary table in Statistics of Democide

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With the passing of communism into history as an ideological alternative to democracy it is time to do some accounting of its human costs.

Few would deny any longer that communism--Marxism-Leninism and its variants--meant in practice bloody terrorism, deadly purges, lethal gulags and forced labor, fatal deportations, man-made famines, extrajudicial executions and show trials, and genocide. It is also widely known that as a result millions of innocent people have been murdered in cold blood. Yet there has been virtually no concentrated statistical work on what this total might be.

For about eight years I have been sifting through thousands of sources trying to determine the extent of democide (genocide and mass murder) in this century. As a result of that effort^** I am able to give some conservative figures on what is an unrivaled communist hecatomb, and to compare this to overall world totals.

First, however, I should clarify the term democide. It means for governments what murder means for an individual under municipal law. It is the premeditated killing of a person in cold blood, or causing the death of a person through reckless and wanton disregard for their life. Thus, a government incarcerating people in a prison under such deadly conditions that they die in a few years is murder by the state--democide--as would parents letting a child die from malnutrition and exposure be murder. So would government forced labor that kills a person within months or a couple of years be murder. So would government created famines that then are ignored or knowingly aggravated by government action be murder of those who starve to death. And obviously, extrajudicial executions, death by torture, government massacres, and all genocidal killing be murder. However, judicial executions for crimes that internationally would be considered capital offenses, such as for murder or treason (as long as it is clear that these are not fabricated for the purpose of executing the accused, as in communist show trials), are not democide. Nor is democide the killing of enemy soldiers in combat or of armed rebels, nor of noncombatants as a result of military action against military targets.

With this understanding of democide, Table 1 lists all communist governments that have committed any form of democide and gives their estimated total domestic and foreign democide and its annual rate (the percent of a government's domestic population murdered per year). It also shows the total for communist guerrillas (including quasi-governments, as of the Mao soviets in China prior to the communist victory in 1949) and the world total for all governments and guerillas (including such quasi-governments as of the White Armies during the Russian civil war in 1917-1922). Figure 1 graphs the communist megamurderers and compares this to the communist and world totals.

Of course, eventhough systematically determined and calculated, all these figures and their graph are only rough approximations. Even were we to have total access to all communist archives we still would not be able to calculate precisely how many the communists murdered. Consider that even in spite of the archival statistics and detailed reports of survivors, the best experts still disagree by over 40 percent on the total number of Jews killed by the Nazis. We cannot expect near this accuracy for the victims of communism. We can, however, get a probable order of magnitude and a relative approximation of these deaths within a most likely range. And that is what the figures in Table 1 are meant to be. Their apparent precision is only due to the total for most communist governments being the summation of dozens of subtotals (as of forced labor deaths each year) and calculations (as in extrapolating scholarly estimates of executions or massacres).

With this understood, the Soviet Union appears the greatest megamurderer of all, apparently killing near 61,000,000 people. Stalin himself is responsible for almost 43,000,000 of these. Most of the deaths, perhaps around 39,000,000 are due to lethal forced labor in gulag and transit thereto. Communist China up to 1987, but mainly from 1949 through the cultural revolution, which alone may have seen over 1,000,000 murdered, is the second worst megamurderer. Then there are the lesser megamurderers, such as North Korea and Tito's Yugoslavia.

Obviously the population that is available to kill will make a big difference in the total democide, and thus the annual percentage rate of democide is revealing. By far, the most deadly of all communist countries and, indeed, in this century by far, has been Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. Pol Pot and his crew likely killed some 2,000,000 Cambodians from April 1975 through December 1978 out of a population of around 7,000,000. This is an annual rate of over 8 percent of the population murdered, or odds of an average Cambodian surviving Pol Pot's rule of slightly over just over 2 to 1.

In sum the communists probably have murdered something like 110,000,000, or near two-thirds of all those killed by all governments, quasi-governments, and guerrillas from 1900 to 1987. Of course, the world total itself it shocking. It is several times the 38,000,000 battle-dead that have been killed in all this century's international and domestic wars. Yet the probable number of murders by the Soviet Union alone--one communist country-- well surpasses this cost of war. And those murders of communist China almost equal it.

(excerpted)  http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM

An advertisement from a Tianjin candy company reads in part "Hail to the Victory of Maoism; Hail to the Great Leap Forward."

XINYANG: A Great Leap Nowhere, 1958
Sowing the Seeds of Famine
By JASPER BECKER

It was one of the blackest moments in Chinese history. In villages across the country, millions were dying of hunger even as the granaries stood full. Communist Party officials driving through the countryside of provinces like Henan and Shandong saw corpses littering the roadside. In some cases starving survivors stoned the cadres' cars, but even then few in the party dared speak out. Even now China officially keeps silent about the 30 million or more who died. Today's youth scarcely know of it. ......

..People ate the flesh of corpses and, in insane rages, sometimes killed and boiled their offspring.
The famine continued through 1960; so many died that party officials banned daytime funerals. Children left to fend for themselves were put in orphanages. They were usually boys; the girls were often sacrificed first. By 1961, the dead were being left unburied. In Xinyang alone, the death toll totaled around 1 million.... " 

 

(excerpted)

 

http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/99/0927/xinyang.html