- Oct 6, 2008
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Really? Who did he "go after?"
Are you aware that Senator McCarthy was a SENATOR?
he WENT AFTER-----even actors------lots of actors-----and FORCED some
to be snitches Reagan snitched, John Garfield did not and died of a
heart attack at a very young age People were being vilified for having
come near the communist party way back in the 1930s. In my little Nazi town ---
calling a person a COMMUNIST -----as a BIG SIN-------my dad quipped---
"if a person was not a little pink in the 1930s, he was stupid" I never repeated
that remark on the playground
And now for the education you are crying out for.....and so sorely require:
1. Hollywood Blacklisting had nothing to do with McCarthy. The ‘Hollywood Ten’ were called before the HUAC in 1947. McCarthy had just been elected to the Senate, and the Alger Hiss exposure, indictment and conviction occurred before McCarthy made his famous 1950 speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, before McCarthy did any investigating of Hollywood.
When anti-communism took its toll in Hollywood, the blacklisting took the “deadly” form of not having ones name in the credits, or living in Paris, or not being able to sell a teleplay for as much as three years. This for folks who had no problem with Ukrainian farmers and their children eating their shoes.
And this is the fate they wished for all Americans.
2. “Ten Hollywood scribblers who subscribed to an ideology responsible for murder by the millions refused to admit their membership in the Communist Party to a House Committee. All they had to do was ‘fess up. But they felt they had the right not to tell the truth, so they were briefly jailed for contempt.” (Ann Coulter, “Treason,” p.77)
BTW, when the ‘Ten’ claimed a First Amendment right not to answer the House’s questions, the Supreme Court refused to even hear the case. (THE SUPREME COURT: The Hollywood Ten
A simple challenge.....name any innocent person...not a communist nor communist supporter, whose life was 'ruined' by the American hero, Senator Joseph McCarthy.
You can't....can you.
John Garfield aka Jacob Garfinkel ----interesting note-----I knew the name as a child because my mom was born in a cold water flat----in the same neighborhood in which Jacob Garfinkel was a little boy------Joseph Mc Carthy harassed him till he died of a heart attack at age 39
False.
Not a bit of truth to your claim.
McCarthy had nothing to do with Hollywood.
Nothing....you know, the same level as your knowledge on the subject.
my knowledge is fine-----Mc Carthy was a PRIME MOVER-----a shake 'n bake instigator of the "RED SCARE"
No, you moron.....the Hollywood Communists were questioned by HUAC....the "House"....
...McCarthy was in the Senate....and never associated with the House committee.
. "Robert Stripling served ten years (1938-1948) as Chief Investigator of the bipartisan House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).
" Congress had created the Committee in the 1930s to publicly gather information on, primarily, American Nazis, Klansmen, and other homegrown fascists. Only later, as Communism's wide scope and insidious nature became apparent, did HUAC set out to expose the vast leftwing conspiracy of its American operations, a conspiracy propagated by both card-carrying members and fellow-traveling sympathizers... the committee itself was predominately made up of democrats.."
http://www.amazon.com/Red-Plot-Agai...d=1428764868&sr=8-1&keywords=robert+stripling
Clearly, your knowledge is less than zero.