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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Ilaine who wrote (69893)1/1/2000 10:43:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
I like to watch these millenium documentaries they have on the History channel and the like. Theres a really interesting one on now (I think its "the century" with Peter Jennings) about the hollywood black-list topic and McCarthyism.

You know, most people that weren't around then just can't understand how McCarthyism could ever flourish... what caused it - what motivated him, etc. Well, this documentary had David Habersham (the fifties) and they laid it all right out... after all those years of FDR, the republicans felt sure they would win the presidency with Dewey... when Truman won, they were devastated - and desperate. McCarthy and a few others capitalized on the anti-communist hysteria of the time caused by the fall of China and the Rosenberg trial, etc. The point being, McCarthyism was created/enabled thanks to a desperate political party that wasn't winning. Well, imo that just sucks. But this nastyness emerges when one group's ideals are being squelched... and there you go. I'm not trying to compare Chelsea Clinton or Janet Reno jokes to McCarthyism mind you... but its the same demon that causes this (imo rude and unnecessary) behavior it seems to me.

Too bad for those hollywood people, during the way when Stalin was an ally a few movies were made that were sympathetic to russians... "Gentle Comrade" I think and some others... and that was the spark that got all this stuff going. They even objected to "Its a wonderful life" with the depiction of Jimmy Stewart as the little man who was a good guy vs. the evil banker/capitalist Potter.
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