Posted on 07/14/2003 5:14:57 PM PDT by Cinnamon Girl
Apparently, some people have taken issue with what Coulter has written about McCarthy and the "blacklisting" in Hollywood. Ann is on Larry Elder's show now with a conservative director explaining her work in "Treason."
Some of my college teachers were blacklisted in Hollywood...As I understand it, Senaotr McCarthy was NOT involved with ANY of "Hollywood blacklisting."
His primary mission was to get security risks out of sensitive positions in the U.S. government.I look forward to learning MORE about this important period in our history, and thank Ann for challenging me to reconsider the "common knowledge" (aggressively promoted by the leftist media) about Joe McCarthy and his efforts to fight the communists - at a time when it was by no means certain that we could ever beat them.
You hit the nail right on the head. It is a religion to them, not a political ideology.
I'm an admirere of Horowitz but I disagree with his review of Ann Coulter's book.
Didn't know till recently that theatre actors weren't affected, and blacklisted movie actors could still get work in theaters. And somehow, I had missed the info that Sean Penn's daddy was one of those blacklisted.
From some place in my memory bank I have the image of of Ricky Ricardo (or was that Desi Arnaz), telling reporters, "The only thing red about Lucy, is her hair.". No doubt the Washington dragnet for communist sympathizers in Hollywood was scary as hell for the Hollywood crowd, threatening indeed. But look at the benefit....Hollywood celebrities can still claim victimhood, and milk it for all it's worth.
Most on the left try to rewrite history by beginning at the point in time where the screws begin to turn against them, deliberately leaving out the events that led up to it. Prior to the, now famous, blacklisting of communists there was a general blacklisting of non-communists or anyone opposed to their viewpoint (at least publicly) by Hollywood. The writers, unions, etc. were mostly hard line communists and it had a pronounced effect on what was coming out of Hollywood.
Once Stalin enslaved Eastern Europe and the Korean War began, many began to become concerned about the slant of films coming out of Hollywood and felt, that because of Hollywood's influence, it should be addressed.
The left, in its typical hypocrytical fashion, only speaks of the blacklist against them but refuse to discuss the blacklist that existed prior that favored them. I have little sympathy for them.
Yeah, but no floppy discs in that picture.
I don't get the connection between teachers and Hollywood. Is this person saying that his or her teachers used to be Hollywood stars/directors/producers/writers before they became teachers? McCarthy was after the Communist take over of the media. I never heard of him going after teachers.
For a good history of the Hollywood blacklist, and the communist infestation in Hollywood that led to it, try Hollywood Party by Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley. You will learn that a de-facto blacklist was already in effect by the commies against the non-commies before HUAC. You will learn the the commies entrenched themselves by taking over the Hollywood unions (big surprise!). You will learn that all the Hollywood types who failed to answer questions about whether they were members of the Communist Party were card-carrying members (a fact glossed over in documentaries that portray them as innocent witch-hunt victims). You will learn that, far from being a villain, Elia Kazan was in fact, a courageous hero, who did what all right-thinking Americans ought to have done. Indeed, Kazan could be seen as the Whittaker Chambers of Hollywood for ratting out the commies.
A shame he ever got any job in America job again. No moral difference between him and Nazi Bund members or NeoNazis.
Many full text articles by Muggeridge, Lyons, Duranty on the Gareth Jones site above.
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