Jake Tapper turns to fiction for 'The Hellfire Club'

The Virginian-Pilot ^ | April 25, 2018 | Hillel Italie

[Bogle]

[Tapper] settled into an era more familiar and one he thought had been overlooked and misunderstood. 'The '50s get romanticized so much and depicted as serene so often when there's so much lurking beneath the surface," he says, "whether it's anti-communism and McCarthy, the Cold War, the atomic race or racism.'

[Bogle]

Here's one more voice creating the appearance that there's a moral equivalency between communism and McCarthyism / anti-communism. I know high school students whose only exposure to communism has been the "evils" of America during the McCarthy trials. I know students whose only exposure to communism has been as a vocabulary word. Look...when it comes to McCarthy, I feel awfully sorry for a couple hundred Hollywooders who couldn't find a job. But I'm much more sorry for the 85 million dead people who were killed by communist countries in times of peace ( https://communiststats.com/ ).

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Joe McCarthy was right, and he was Borked for it.

[Bob]

Tapper’s been doing fiction at CNN for quite some time. Nothing new for him.

[ClearCase_guy]

'The '50s get romanticized so much and depicted as serene so often when there's so much lurking beneath the surface,"

The Left has been shoving this concept down our throats since about 1964. It was a time of rampant segregation and oppression of women and everyone was perfectly miserable. I've been told the story about a thousand times.

[TigersEye]

McCarthy had nothing to do with "Hollywooders" who lost their jobs. He was a Senator who chaired the Senate Committee on Government Operations investigating communist subversion in the U.S. government. Most of his findings were ultimately verified by the Venona Project.

As a Senator he had nothing to do with the House Un-American Activities Committee which investigated private citizens such as Hollywood actors and producers etc.

[Bogle]

Hello, TigersEye. I was making a (misguided) attempt at being dismissive...but your correction was needed and is appreciated.

[Bogle]

Yeh, Tiger’s Eye makes a good point about this.

[TigersEye]

Not a problem. The left has been very persistent and successful with this propaganda.

Millions on the right still haven’t snapped to the fact that senators don’t serve on House committees.

[donna]

“The portrayal of Senator Joe McCarthy as a wild-eyed demagogue destroying innocent lives is sheer liberal hobgoblinism. Liberals weren’t cowering in fear during the McCarthy era. They were systematically undermining the nation’s ability to defend itself while waging a bellicose campaign of lies to blacken McCarthy’s name.

Everything you think you know about McCarthy is a hegemonic lie. Liberals denounced McCarthy because they were afraid of getting caught, so they fought back like animals to hide their own collaboration with a regime as evil as the Nazis.”

— Ann Coulter, P. 10, Treason

[TigersEye]

Yep!

[MNJohnnie]

No Jake Tapper has been writing fiction his whole life. He just pretended it was “Journalism”.

[browniexyz]

Fiction.

You mean like the reporting he does Every. Single. Night.

[SunkenCiv]

Turns?

[KC_Conspirator]

No kidding. Hell, look at all the movies and TV shows in the past decades shoving this concept down our throats while celebrating the degeneracy of today.

[southland]

Senator Joe Mcarthy was Borked. While I was in the U S Airforce in mid 50’s we had communists in our government.

[donna]

Notice my tag line. Teachers in Arizona are on strike and being lead by a Marxist who teaches Marxism in the class room.

[YogicCowboy]

The lurking was done by the communists.

[Bonemaker]

“’The ‘50s get romanticized so much and depicted as serene so often when there’s so much lurking beneath the surface,”
“The Left has been shoving this concept down our throats since about 1964. It was a time of rampant segregation and oppression of women and everyone was perfectly miserable. I’ve been told the story about a thousand times. “

Jake Fapper.

I grew up, did high school in the 50’s.Wonderful, wonderful times. Anybody who bad mouths it is an evil POS and doesn’t know what the hell they are talking about.

[southland]

What has happened to our country?
I went to Air Force flight school 3 years prior to John McCain going to Navy flight school.

[MUDDOG]

The Hellfire Club

Wherein Mrs. Peel gets kinky.

Guest starring the great Peter Wyngarde.

Avengers episode "A Touch of Brimstone."