[Intolerant in NJ]

THANK JOE MCCARTHY, DON'T DEMONIZE HIM...heard some people in a discussion on Fox the other night talking about how Feinstein, Levin, and McCain had sent a letter to "Hollywood" trying to get them to playdown "Zero Dark Thirty" because it supposedly shows "torture" in a positive light - discussants compared this to McCarthy's "witch hunts" in which he supposedly tried to have people in Hollywood blacklisted - truth is McCarthy never tried to get anyone blacklisted, and certainly never sent any letters out using his official position to have anyone barred or removed from any position in Hollywood - it was the people themselves in the entertainment industry who became weak-kneed and did the blacklisting - and by the way, a witch hunt implies a search for something non-existent - like a witch - the communists McCarthy was lookijng for were, as it turns out, very real and they were all over the place, including Hollywood......

[nickcarraway]

in which he supposedly tried to have people in Hollywood blacklisted - truth is McCarthy never tried to get anyone blacklisted, and certainly never sent any letters out using his official position to have anyone barred or removed from any position in Hollywood

You and these people who you refer to are completely uneducated. Senator McCarthy was attempting to remove communists from the Army. I have never seen a single quote in which he referred to communists in Hollywood. The communists in Hollywood issue was tackled by HUAC - the House Un-American Activities Committee. McCarthy was a Senator. Uneducated U.S. citizens don't even know the difference between Senators and Representatives.