Posted on 04/18/2005 10:47:45 AM PDT by Liz
Maybe not, but Bill Buckley wrote one, The Committee and Its Critics, that the left has never been able to refute.
Yes, he wasted a great amount of time and his talent, being a quite rabid Stalinist, to the end of his days.
It mirrored the life of the existential detective, concommitant with the downfall of civilized society very well. If people watch it for the chase scene, so be it.
It is an awesome movie. Very well written, a great story. I just saw it this past weekend and was very impressed.
And, imagine this (!)no sex or violence or nudity.
I'm getting tired.
Charade is pure class from beginning to end.
I learn every day.
I'm off to bed. See you tomorrow.
I am considering doing my "America and the World since 1930" research paper on the McCarthy hearings etc. based on hearing a couple years ago new documents provide support for the idea that communists were infiltrating the govt.
If anybody has some good articles on the subject, scholarly in nature, I would appreciate it. But, don't do a Google search or something; I am just wanting anything you already have you think is good, not for you to do the internet search for me.
BTW, I am aware the the HUAC and McCarthy were totally different things, but if anybody has articles on either one, but especially McCarthy and the Senate, I would appreciate a link.
Oh...well, I never much cared for that movie,but perhaps I should give it anoyther look-see.
Oh...well, I never much cared for that movie,but perhaps I should give it anoyther look-see.
Then go to bed...I'm off in a bit as well.
I agree!
If not tomorrow, the when I get back.
Long read, but outstanding. If anything, I'm even more determined to not support Hollywood. They may not be official CPUSA members, but it's pretty darned clear where the money goes and the blatant propaganda in today's film. I'm not even interested in supporting the films that aren't propagandized, because the money winds up in the same place.
You might like this one too.
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0021,harkavy,15052,5.html
Wal-Mart’s First Lady
Hillary’s Past Belies Her Support of Labor
This thread was posted on the communist infiltration of Hollywood, i.e., art and media used to advance an agenda.
Maybe you didn't understand my 'drawing in' reference. If I had an agenda, I would create movies to build a following. Then I would slowly introduce my talking points/messages/lines of thought into them once I have a following. And I wouldn't do it all at once, it would slowly be introduced.
I'm not debating film makers specifically. I don't follow art and media. I'm telling you how marketing and propaganda works.
And no, I won't be nice to you. You have already posted your thoughts on 'fashionable' communism. You will never earn my respect.
Pssst, Fedora...
Party at nopardon's house while she is on vacation!
I'll bring the capucciano!
Thank you for that link!
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0021,harkavy,15052,5.html
Wal-Mart’s First Lady
Hillary’s Past Belies Her Support of Labor
There are a few things in there that supports my thoughts that I had here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1386052/posts?page=110#110
Records from the Soviet Union recently released show that McCarthy was right on about Communist infiltration into our government and into Hollywood.
The Media lied to us when they started to attack McCarthy....because they were communists or supported communist policies here in the US.
McCarthy is an American Hero and should be recognized as so.
The Hollywood Ten aside, it's a free country. See the movies you like, skip the ones you don't.
If there was no Hollywood there would be no Mel Gibson.
Very good post.
Assuming that you've read the book, will you not share one crime committeed by at least one of the blacklisted Hollywood 10? That was the original question, not what the "American commies" did. I'm not really looking for you do my research for me, as what I've read about a few of these folks tends to make me think they were guilty of thought crimes.
Ann Coulter's recent book makes the case so well.
Filmmakers are master manipulators of unsuspecting audiences. They do not use sledgehammers to get their points across It's all done very subtly.
Film is one of the most effective ways to proselytize. The world's most notorious villain--Adolf Hitler--who has no peer in the annals of criminality---was very aware of the value of good propaganda to advance his hidden political agenda. In an official act, he appointed filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl to produce Nazi propaganda films and gave her a free hand to build the technicolor myth of Hitler-as-savior----thus facilitating the heinous, genocidal Nazi juggernaut.
bump!
I just reviewed your posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1386052/posts?page=60#60
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1386052/posts?page=64#64
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1386052/posts?page=65#65
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1386052/posts?page=68#68
No it is not clear at all that you were making a qualitative statement from the way you defend the 'free speech' of people being part of a fashionable communist click.
But I will lend you the benefit of doubt and apologize for assuming you were stating it as fashionable.
But I don't get warm fuzzies from you defending them.
Ciao.
Ann Coulter's description of the hearings really took me by suprise. I took McCarthy to be a red-mongering witch hunter as the liberal history writers would like me to accept. After all, I never heard any OTHER interpretation of those events.
After I read her book, I did some research, downloaded the transcripts of the hearings from the appropriate government web site that makes them available, and then I sat and read through them.
I must say...her version sounds a lot more like what is reflected in the transcripts than anything I had ever heard over the years, and by a long shot, too.
I now believe Joseph McCarthy was a real American hero. As Ann Coulter said in her book, he bought us time, and made being a Communist a stain, as it should have been. Our country owes him a lot. We should honor his service as faithfully as any serviceman who lost his life in combat, which in my opinion, he did, if you know how he died.
Ann Coulter's description of the hearings really took me by suprise. I took McCarthy to be a red-mongering witch hunter as the liberal history writers would like me to accept. After all, I never heard any OTHER interpretation of those events.
After I read her book, I did some research, downloaded the transcripts of the hearings from the appropriate government web site that makes them available, and then I sat and read through them.
I must say...her version sounds a lot more like what is reflected in the transcripts than anything I had ever heard over the years, and by a long shot, too.
I now believe Joseph McCarthy was a real American hero. As Ann Coulter said in her book, he bought us time, and made being a Communist a stain, as it should have been. Our country owes him a lot. We should honor his service as faithfully as any serviceman who lost his life in combat, which in my opinion, he did, if you know how he died.
Please. I used the word "technicolor" as a writing device to emphasize a point, not to suggest Riefenstahl's work was in color. Why don't you try to think bigger thoughts, instead of relying on your ambitious provincialism?
BTW, that Disney was the only one to meet with Riefenstahl is a popular agenda-centric myth.
Most interesting is the number of German emigres who settled in Hollywood through the help of networks. Hollywood mogul Carl Laemmle helped fellow Germans out during the Nazi era. By one researcher’s account, Laemmle provided at least 300 affidavits, documents that guaranteed that an applicant for a US visa would be employed in Hollywood (and not become a public charge).
This concentrated milieu of immigrants had an inordinate and profound influence on films for years to come.
Lillian Hellman was a stupid communist who defended Stalin until Kruschev denounced him. She wasn't just a liberal she was a communist till the end. Whether the blacklist was as perfasive as this article suggests or not, she was still defending a country that was enslaving millions and wanted to the same thing to the US. It's as if a present day actor was defending Bin Laden.
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That is not right. Americans have the right to be quiet. He invoked that right. btw...how is one guilty of communism? When did belonging to any party become a crime in the USA?
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Pleae show me where I even hinted that my thoughts include what you wrote in your second paragraph.
The issue is that people belonged not just to a home grown American radical leftist party but the Soviet Communist Party which was actively working to overthrow the American goverment.
No, the issue in all my posts is that Howard DaSilva was black listed for ten years with not even the accusation that he ever was a member of the communist or any party.
Your not. That's my point. Lefties often think that this is what the Ten were charged with. This is not true. It was contempt of Congress...the fact that they did not cooperate was their crime.
It would help if you would read before ranting. Just a thought.
The list will be way longer this time around most people making movies in Hollywood are very Un-american.
My opimion on this has nothing to do with communism, it is all about the rights of speech and association.
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