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At the Oscars, there was only Hollywood liberal still too oblivious to realize that Americans don't want to listen to halfwit college dropouts abusing their fame for political crusades-George Clooney.
Like all good liberals, Clooney got his pat on the forehead and called brave for regurgitating age-old liberal fictions against Joseph McCarthy in the making of his new movie, "Good Night and Good Luck."
The film predictably contained a lot of parallels to and innuendos about the Patriot Act and all the other evil things conservatives are currently doing to prevent the left's beloved "religion of peace" from committing anymore mass murder against Americans. But despite all the subtle propagandistic tactics, the one-sided portrayals, and the exaggerated portrayals of entertainers and anti-American journalists as "victims," the issue I really want to look at is the perpetuation of the McCarthy lies.
We are programmed by liberal textbooks and the liberal media to look at "McCarthyism" with disdain. 9 times out of 10, the things we associate with McCarthy had nothing to do with him. His sole focus had nothing to do with Hollywood "blacklists," or un-American activities investigations, or much of the hysteria that got attributed to him (consider, for example, that the HOUSE Un-American Activities Committee was responsible for much more of what went on than SENATOR McCarthy was in his mere 3 years). His sole focus was on people in high positions of power who posed security risks by being aligned with the Soviet Union. He brought important things to light, and long after his death, he was proved right about many of them.
When FBI records were released that proved it, the media buried it 6 pages back in tiny side stories. When the Soviet Union collapsed and many of their historical classified documents were released to the public, and many of the names McCarthy had cited turned up on Soviet payroll lists and on Soviet contacts lists, a couple of major papers carried barely noticeable blips about it, again, several pages back, and nothing else was ever said about it.
McCarthy was not what they have made him out to be. He wasn't always right, and there certainly was political hardball going on. But he brought up entirely legitimate concerns about people having ties to Communists who were working in our military and in our government, and he has been vilified for it by the people who lost face-Democrats. When Communist agents were discovered working at the highest levels of the Roosevelt and Truman administrations and not subsequently removed/deported, but PROMOTED, it wasn't Truman who was torn apart by the media, it was anyone who dared to object to it. The most ridiculed public figures in America in the 20th century-ridiculed by Hollywood, academia and the media-were always the ones who posed the biggest threat to Communism: McCarthy, J.Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon, Whittaker Chambers, and Ronald Reagan.
This film is no exception. In three years, with nearly every word that came out of McCarthy's mouth being broadcast across the country on a daily basis, there were few actual misstatements. So naturally, Clooney focused on them neurotically.
Example: On three separate occasions, the film highlights a trivial misstatement of McCarthy's about the ACLU and acts like it is some smoking gun proving that McCarthy is Satan. In three years of daily speeches, this is all they could find to discredit him with? Now I know where Al Franken got his devastating ability to make a case from.
The misstatement was about the ACLU being on the Attorney General's list of subversive groups operating within the U.S. It was an understandable mistake considering what a Soviet comrade the ACLU has historically been. There was only one member of Roosevelt's cabinet who opposed the internment of the Japanese during WWII-J.Edgar Hoover. The ACLU gave him an award for wartime vigilance. As soon as he began using his wartime vigilance on the Soviets, the ACLU, like the media, academia, and Hollywood-decided he was a monster.
The film also spends quite some time on the Annie Lee Moss incident which liberals somehow view as McCarthy's greatest, most laughable blunder. What this case actually proved was how hysterically unreasonable the resistance was by the media against McCarthy's anti-Communist hearings.
An FBI informant had attended Communist gatherings and reported that this woman (who worked in the code room at the Pentagon) had been listed as one of their members. She played the fool at the hearings, and Democrats were perfectly willing to help portray yet another black person as a drooling Neanderthal, so they talked down to her like she was retarded and she acted like she was too dumb to be a traitor.
The Communist party's newspaper, The Worker, was delivered to her doorstep at every address she had lived at. She lied at the hearings about attending the meetings and receiving the paper. She pointed out that the D.C. phone book had three Annie Lee Moss listings to suggest that they had the wrong Annie Lee Moss and everyone sighed in relief and considered it case closed. But what none of the hard-nosed reporters (like Edward Murrow) who used this case to broadside McCarthy ferociously never bothered to do was look in the phone book. There is one Annie Moss and one Annie LEE Moss. They had the right Communist. But you would never know it to listen to the media or to watch this movie.
This film perpetuates the same old uneducated lies about McCarthy that you would get anywhere in Hollywood, academia, or the press, but I still advise watching it. It is a great example of how to put an anti-American slant on history and anyone who actually cares about the truth needs to be aware of how and how often the left revises things like this.
Like all good liberals, Clooney got his pat on the forehead and called brave for regurgitating age-old liberal fictions against Joseph McCarthy in the making of his new movie, "Good Night and Good Luck."
The film predictably contained a lot of parallels to and innuendos about the Patriot Act and all the other evil things conservatives are currently doing to prevent the left's beloved "religion of peace" from committing anymore mass murder against Americans. But despite all the subtle propagandistic tactics, the one-sided portrayals, and the exaggerated portrayals of entertainers and anti-American journalists as "victims," the issue I really want to look at is the perpetuation of the McCarthy lies.
We are programmed by liberal textbooks and the liberal media to look at "McCarthyism" with disdain. 9 times out of 10, the things we associate with McCarthy had nothing to do with him. His sole focus had nothing to do with Hollywood "blacklists," or un-American activities investigations, or much of the hysteria that got attributed to him (consider, for example, that the HOUSE Un-American Activities Committee was responsible for much more of what went on than SENATOR McCarthy was in his mere 3 years). His sole focus was on people in high positions of power who posed security risks by being aligned with the Soviet Union. He brought important things to light, and long after his death, he was proved right about many of them.
When FBI records were released that proved it, the media buried it 6 pages back in tiny side stories. When the Soviet Union collapsed and many of their historical classified documents were released to the public, and many of the names McCarthy had cited turned up on Soviet payroll lists and on Soviet contacts lists, a couple of major papers carried barely noticeable blips about it, again, several pages back, and nothing else was ever said about it.
McCarthy was not what they have made him out to be. He wasn't always right, and there certainly was political hardball going on. But he brought up entirely legitimate concerns about people having ties to Communists who were working in our military and in our government, and he has been vilified for it by the people who lost face-Democrats. When Communist agents were discovered working at the highest levels of the Roosevelt and Truman administrations and not subsequently removed/deported, but PROMOTED, it wasn't Truman who was torn apart by the media, it was anyone who dared to object to it. The most ridiculed public figures in America in the 20th century-ridiculed by Hollywood, academia and the media-were always the ones who posed the biggest threat to Communism: McCarthy, J.Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon, Whittaker Chambers, and Ronald Reagan.
This film is no exception. In three years, with nearly every word that came out of McCarthy's mouth being broadcast across the country on a daily basis, there were few actual misstatements. So naturally, Clooney focused on them neurotically.
Example: On three separate occasions, the film highlights a trivial misstatement of McCarthy's about the ACLU and acts like it is some smoking gun proving that McCarthy is Satan. In three years of daily speeches, this is all they could find to discredit him with? Now I know where Al Franken got his devastating ability to make a case from.
The misstatement was about the ACLU being on the Attorney General's list of subversive groups operating within the U.S. It was an understandable mistake considering what a Soviet comrade the ACLU has historically been. There was only one member of Roosevelt's cabinet who opposed the internment of the Japanese during WWII-J.Edgar Hoover. The ACLU gave him an award for wartime vigilance. As soon as he began using his wartime vigilance on the Soviets, the ACLU, like the media, academia, and Hollywood-decided he was a monster.
The film also spends quite some time on the Annie Lee Moss incident which liberals somehow view as McCarthy's greatest, most laughable blunder. What this case actually proved was how hysterically unreasonable the resistance was by the media against McCarthy's anti-Communist hearings.
An FBI informant had attended Communist gatherings and reported that this woman (who worked in the code room at the Pentagon) had been listed as one of their members. She played the fool at the hearings, and Democrats were perfectly willing to help portray yet another black person as a drooling Neanderthal, so they talked down to her like she was retarded and she acted like she was too dumb to be a traitor.
The Communist party's newspaper, The Worker, was delivered to her doorstep at every address she had lived at. She lied at the hearings about attending the meetings and receiving the paper. She pointed out that the D.C. phone book had three Annie Lee Moss listings to suggest that they had the wrong Annie Lee Moss and everyone sighed in relief and considered it case closed. But what none of the hard-nosed reporters (like Edward Murrow) who used this case to broadside McCarthy ferociously never bothered to do was look in the phone book. There is one Annie Moss and one Annie LEE Moss. They had the right Communist. But you would never know it to listen to the media or to watch this movie.
This film perpetuates the same old uneducated lies about McCarthy that you would get anywhere in Hollywood, academia, or the press, but I still advise watching it. It is a great example of how to put an anti-American slant on history and anyone who actually cares about the truth needs to be aware of how and how often the left revises things like this.
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