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Barry Kibrick: ‘Love Your Mistakes’
“Mistakes are your best assets. They hone your skills and develop your creativity. Don’t be afraid to make them, the more the merrier.” From Barry Kibrick Eric Metaxas the right-wing author and radio talk show host, once said when he was talking about one of his books and I’m paraphrasing: “We’re all a bunch a screw […]
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Slate: Karina Longworth- ‘The Hollywood Ten Paid The Price For Refusing to Answer The $64 Question’
Source:The Daily Review “The hearings on what the House Un-American Activities Committee called “the communist infiltration of the motion-picture industry” began on Oct. 20, 1947. At the insistence of lawyers representing the 19 “unfriendly” witnesses brought before the committee, the … Continue reading
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Tagged 70th Congress, Censorship, Communism, Communists, Communists in Hollywood, Far-Left, Far-Right, Fascism, Fascists, Herbert Biberman, Hollywood, Hollywood Ten, House Un-American Activities Committee, Karina Longworth, Neoconservatism, Neoconservatives, Political Correctness, Samuel Ornitz, State Fascism, The 1940s, The 1950s, U.S. Congress, U.S. House of Representatives
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The Hollywood Reporter: Video: Victims of Hollywood’s Blacklist
. This post was originally posted at The New Democrat on WordPress I don’t think there’s anything more Un-American and Un-liberal democratic as punishing people simply because of what they believe and their politics. But that is what the U.S. … Continue reading
Matthew Hormann: Video: The Hollywood Ten, 1950
. This post was originally posted at The New Democrat on WordPress I don’t want to sound overly partisan here, but this was one of the ugliest anti-American, anti-liberal democratic, illiberal periods in American history. Where Americans were judged by … Continue reading
Jnuss Bau: Video: The Hollywood Blacklist: 1947-1960
. This post was originally posted at The New Democrat on WordPress The late 1940s and all the way up to at least the mid-1950s or so was one of the most fascist illiberal and anti-liberal democratic periods of our … Continue reading
Radical Films: Video: U.S. House Un-American Activities: Looking For Communists in Hollywood
. This post was originally posted at The New Democrat on Blogger The House Un-American Activities Committee and then later the Joe McCarthy Government Oversight Committee in the Senate were classic cases of guilt by association. Because they assumed some … Continue reading
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Tagged 80th Congress, Communism, Communist Party USA, Communists, Communists in Hollywood, Fascism, Fascists, Hollywood, House Un-American Activities Committee, Organized Labor, Progressives, Progressivism, The New Deal, U.S. Congress, U.S. House of Representatives
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