The TV was on Fox Movie Channel last night. After some film about the Salem witch trials, the CEO of Fox (the movie company) did a 20 minute rant on how this film was meant to be an analogy of the "witch hunt" lead by that evil monster Sen. Joe McCarthy.
It was disgusting. On and on and on about how it's a known FACT that the Senate hearings were LIES and NO COMMUNISTS WERE EVER IN HOLLYWOOD and CAREERS WERE RUINED etc etc etc.
I got news for him. Hollywood was positively STIFF with commies (and that is a FACT, since I have family connections to high-level insiders WHO WERE THERE) and almost all of the "careers that were ruined" were because the traitorous scumbags were, in fact, leftist/communist operators. They made a HUGE effort and covered up the truth, while besmirching Joe McCarthy. Why do you think they take EVERY opportunity to still trash that man?
I WILL NOT PATRONIZE ANY HOLLYWOOD CRAP. I say NO to movies and almost all of the rest of the entertainment industry. They have an agenda, folks...and a Constitutional Republic with liberty and justice for all ain't part of it!
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Yeah, liberty and justice for all, unless you're a stinking commie!
And the fact of the matter is that McCarthy's witch hunts were just witch hunts. Even if they actually found communists in Hollywood, so what? There's nothing in the U.S. Constitution which prohibits people having communist beliefs. In fact, the First Amendment protects it, so all McCarthy did was ruin a few lives for no other reason than fear mongering.
I see the Red Scare as not much different from the "get the evil Muslims" sentiment we see today.
Commies, even Hollywood Commies, are people, too.
I bet you went to watch Mel Gibson's porn flick. Hollywood crap at its finest.
There were probably a few communists in Hollywood. Far more then that however, there were tons upon tons of capitalist liberals who took most of the baseless accusations of being communists.
Today, Hollywood is one of the most profound symbols of capitalism and the most notable after wall street. If you still think they have anything to due with communism you are fucking high.
Hollywood? Communists?
The place which gave you such classic communist movies like:
- Titanic
- Saving Private Ryan
- Kingdom
- Die Hard
- Independence Day
- The Bourne trilogy
etc etc etc
In a Hollywood movie, the US is always the good guys and the US military always wins - sounds utterly communistic to me!
Good heavens Americans, you are retarded!
Yes, there were communists in America and in the government, only Joe McCarthy didn't have any names on his "list" and didn't find a single one in any of his hearings. Oh and Wyatt, Roy Cohn was gay.
Headache, the Bourne trilogy is about a guy fighting off assassins from the US government. How is that the US as a good guy? How is that the US military winning? If you're going to call an entire country retarded, you could at least do us the courtesy of getting your facts straight.
"After some film about the Salem witch trials, the CEO of Fox (the movie company) did a 20 minute rant on how this film was meant to be an analogy of the "witch hunt" lead by that evil monster Sen. Joe McCarthy. "
I'd be willing to bet it was actually meant to be an analogy of the Salem witch trials.
"I WILL NOT PATRONIZE ANY HOLLYWOOD CRAP. I say NO to movies and almost all of the rest of the entertainment industry. "
Which is why you have a TV and watch Fox Movie Channel, right?
Yeah, there were commies in Hollywood in the 30s-50s. Remember, Stalin was our good buddy for a while. What exactly did the Hollywood commies achieve? Nothing. The spies that actually did damage to US intelligence had nothing to do with the entertainment industry.
There were plenty of communist infiltrators and spies in the 1950s US. Whether someone was actually a communist, however, had no relation whatsoever to whether one was accused of being one by Joe McCarthy. He was making shit up to ruin lives and didn't have a shred of evidence.
@ Dr. Razark
Exactly what I ask my grandmother when she rails in defense of McCarthyism. There was never a law in the books against being a Communist (in fact I'd imagine it'd violate the First Amendment.)
The fact is McCarthy was a screwball who exploited the Second Red Scare.
EDIT:
After some casual digging I see that there is a law on the books, The Communist Control Act of 1954, but it has never been enforced nor challenged. In fact there is still a Communist Party of America. And I imagine if someone tried to enforce it the Supreme Court would throw the law out as it likely is a violation of the First Amendment.
@SleepNeed
Thank you very much. I've never even heard of it. Surprised to find that it is still on the books.
However, the Hollywood blacklist and McCarthy's witch hunt well preceded that law.
Hollywood was positively STIFF with commies (and that is a FACT, since I have family connections to high-level insiders WHO WERE THERE)
So are you admitting that you and your family have strong ties to communists?
I have no doubt that he is referring to The Crucible , and since everything about the rest of his rant has been covered... shut up, sir. Just because you are so stupid that you can't understand culture, politics, or history, doesn't mean that you are qualified to lecture us on them.
I got news for him. Hollywood was positively STIFF with commies (and that is a FACT, since I have family connections to high-level insiders WHO WERE THERE) and almost all of the "careers that were ruined" were because the traitorous scumbags were, in fact, leftist/communist operators. They made a HUGE effort and covered up the truth, while besmirching Joe McCarthy. Why do you think they take EVERY opportunity to still trash that man?
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So you had connections to communists?
@SleepNeed
Your digging is fascinating. I went to Wiki, where it says, "The Act made membership to the Communist Party a criminal act and stipulated that all Party members would be sanctioned with up to a $10,000 fine or imprisonment for five years or both."
If the Act has never been repealed (and Wiki agrees with you that it has not), then you can still be fined $10,000 for being a member of an organisation which still exists.
One of those Commie Traitors in Hollywood should try joining it in an attempt to get prosecuted - the results might be interesting. Presumably liberty and justice would prevail.
My favourite bit is the "I WILL NOT PATRONIZE ANY HOLLYWOOD CRAP. I say NO to movies and almost all of the rest of the entertainment industry" rant.
If this bloke has any connections to reality at all, he must be able to point out which bits of the "entertainment industry" he doesn't patronise. In kinder moments I guess that what he means is that he's just lost his job and can't afford to take his family to the movies any more - or perhaps lost his cable subscription. Sometimes, however, I think he just means he's boycotting whatever is on the other channels whilst he watches Fox movies.
What really had me "foxed" (if you'll forgive the pun) is the bit about a 20-minute rant by the CEO of Fox. I had no idea that American movie channels were so dedicated to film criticism as part of the diet.
I suspect that what the poster meant was that the voice over introducing the movie said, "and now a film of The Crucible, a famous attack on the Communist witch-hunts of the McCarthy era." Ranting about a 2-second introduction by an invisible voice-over just doesn't seem important enough, so it had to be inflated a little to make the point. Maybe he believes it himself now.
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