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Thread ID: 20616 | Posts: 10 | Started: 2005-10-12
2005-10-12 02:37 | User Profile
I guess heart throb Clooney has been too busy with extra-curricula activities in his villa on Lake Como to worry about facts getting in the way of this tired, old liberal shibboleth. Good Night and Good Luck, marks Clooney's directorial debut and he's chosen a topic that the left loves to trot out and relive as often as necessary. Next to Richard Nixon, no one is more despised by the lefties than Sen. McCarthy. This is no doubt due to the fact that the senator was hot on the trail of American Jews who were agents or sympathizers of the USSR and in fact were Soviet spies that had infiltrated the govt and the US Army. Drew Pierson, himself a Jew, would do and say anything to discredit Sen. McCarthy and he lead the print drumbeat. So did many gentiles, Pres. Eisenhower among them.
But the Venona files have once and for all discredited the left's obsession with this man because the Soviets had in fact set up a vast, tight and effective network of communist spies in this country, including Alger Hiss, the darling of the left and the catalyst for the eventual downfall of Richard Nixon. So why the hatred for this one senator who was merely trying to protect the country against a communist threat that was only too real during that decade? I have no doubt that it was because he uncovered the fact that almost all the Soviet spies were American Jews and that fact couldn't be allowed to gain a foothold.
Edward R. Murrow, an icon whose name invokes genuflection among the media elites, was not all too distressed about Stalin and his henchmen, preferring to keep the spotlight on Hitler. I don't know much about Murrow, but I'd be willing to bet he's not as sacrosanct as the left makes him out to be. I have done considerable reading on Sen. McCarthy however, and from what I've read, this movie is one big hatchet job that snips and cuts and cobbles together snippets of McCarthy out of context and at his worst in his dealings with Murrow.
Boycott this movie, tell your friends, and send a strong message to the playboy cum activist, that this country is on to him and his sick liberal obsession.
2005-10-12 10:44 | User Profile
Good Night, and Good Luck and bad history.
The film covers the five-month period from late 1953 to early 1954 during which Murrow combated the McCarthy-inspired hysteria over communist subversives with a quartet of programs on his weekly CBS series See It Now. The [url="http://www.cia.gov/csi/books/venona/venona.htm"][color=#0000ff]Venona transcripts[/color][/url] have shown definitively that American communists and Soviet sympathizers, such as Alger Hiss and Julius Rosenberg, did gather information for Moscow in the 1930s and 1940s. Yet for all his thuggery and congressional hearing grandstanding, hounding a suspected red dentist who got an Army promotion or a Pentagon clerk suspected of Communist Party membership, McCarthy bagged not a single commie spy.
Good Night, and Good Luck never comes out and credits Murrow with single-handedly slaying McCarthy on March 9, 1954, with his famous See It Now program, "A Report on Joseph R. McCarthy." But if you want to form that impression, the moviemakers won't mind. David Strathairn plays Murrow as if he's Gary Cooper in High Noon, an unblinking stoic facing down and defeating evil with solitary courage.<< [url="http://slate.msn.com/id/2127595/?nav=ais"][color=#800080]http://slate.msn.com/id/2127595/?nav=ais[/color][/url]
[img]http://img.slate.msn.com/media/1/123125/123019/2111919/2127379/051003_GoodNightGoodLuck_tn.jpg[/img] David Strathairn does his best Gary Cooper as Edward R. Murrow
2005-10-12 20:40 | User Profile
Considering the forces the senator was up against, it's not surprising he didn't "bag" a single spy. But he was absolutely on the right trail. The Jewish owned press crucified him, the politico gentiles treated him like a leper, Hollywood was on a crusade to hound him out of the country...but the ordinary people of the US were his biggest supporters, that is, until the monopolized, zionized news and entertainment media combined all their forces to forever make him the single most hated, pariah ever to be vomited up by this country.
For those who don't like to research a subject, Clooney's version will do. But for the rest of us, there was only one Gary Cooper and Murrow ain't him.
2005-10-13 13:23 | User Profile
Well, I think Sen. McCarthy was an American hero who did his very best for the country but ultimately lost the battle. It's only after several decades of hindsight that we see what destruction has been sown on the American people by the evil forces that McCarthy singlehandedly fought against.
However, I saw an interview with Clooney about his new film and he says it's more aimed towards the current BushCo totalitarian regime by showing what "fanaticism" can do to a country and it's people when the government crushes dissent at all points. It's kinda of a leap if I've ever heard one! Communist spys and Jewish infiltrators in the '50's and 60's were NOT dissidents. Murrow was no friggin' hero. They were all collaborating destroyers of America.
I hope to God that Clooney's movie flops big time.
2005-10-15 06:06 | User Profile
Funny - I don't seem to recall the Hollywitz kikes making any "Anti-Nazi Hysteria/Witch Hunt" tear-jerkers about Commie jew spy Samuel Dickstein's use of HUAC to hound and ultimately dungeon German-Americans.
2005-10-15 12:07 | User Profile
Back in the nineties, Sixty Minutes showed a clip of Murrow admitting he twisted the truth and saying he was not proud of it. He was a sell out.
2005-10-31 18:56 | User Profile
great points. the fact that this film is promoted as a clear version of the truth isnt right. people need to get their facts straight. sadly, our public is too ignorant/dazed to care.
2005-11-07 16:41 | User Profile
I caught a panel discussion last night on the 50's blacklist. It was part of the Liberty Film Festival, (do I have the name right?) which has been established to counter the liberal festivals that pervade that industry, especially the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals. Three panelists were lefties and 3 were to the right of center. The topic of McCarthy came up and Newsmax's James Hirsen trumped the panelists with his astute observations about the left during this time and the fact that the Venona encryptions completely exonerated McCarthy, a fact the lefties refuse to accept to this day. For the first time since I can remember, this debate was intelligent and the right was armed to the teeth with facts. It made the leftists on the panel sound like dufus, blowhards, especially Richard Schickel who just couldn't get over himself.
Hirsen got the last word and drew enthusiastic applause when one of the leftist panelists said he hated all blacklists no matter who they targeted. Phony bastard. To which Hirsen responded that he didn't hear him lamenting the fact in his newspaper that Mel Gibson's movie was blacklisted by every major and minor studio which meant he couldn't get it made nor distributed. So much for Patrick Goldstein's dishonest appraisal of his own agenda. And that was literally the last word from this panel. A perfect response to the left's hypocrisy.
My guess is Clooney's movie will have limited exposure in just the artsy-fartsy movie houses mostly on both coasts, and won't draw the crowds but that won't stop Hollywood from ballyhooing his directorial debut and trying to shove it down our throats one way or the other.
2005-11-07 16:49 | User Profile
I wonder what Hirshen's thoughts would be on the FBI files that Livingstone assembled in the White House during the Clinton Administration? To me, that is also a form of blacklist.
2005-11-07 20:32 | User Profile
It should be remembered that McCarthy had nothing to do with the Hiss prosecution. That was a tricky dicky deal.
I see that the Verona transcripts have been sanatized---when they first went up they were complete on-line.
If you read the entire transcripts it becomes quite evident that Nixon had nothing on Hiss and was really gunning for Cordell Hull. :eek: Hull's name is even penciled in the Verona transcripts as a suspected Russian informant/spy.
Now if you are gulible enough to believe that Cordell Hull was a Russian spy, I've got numerous public buildings I am willing to sell you.
You know Hiss had an out. Hiss could have said he was acting on orders from the President in any of the matters brought up. But, he didn't. To me that's honesty.