not impressed -------he did not go after only persons in "key" positions and----
the POST comment is so limp wristed that it is meaningless-----uhm ON PURPOSE
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.