have never seen one on the subject..
2006-08-30 18:08:19 · 11 answers · asked by charly 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
I cannot believe anyone would think McCartney was a hero. If anything, he was a neoconservative. The most extreme kind of phenatic. It's even more apparent today, than it was in the 50's.
The video you want to see is "GOOD NIGHT & GOOD LUCK". A movie about Robert R Murro (sp?) and directed by George Clooney. Excellent.
synopsis--McCarthy was an extremist Conservative Republican (probably neoconservative) who accused the media, as well as the acting community, of being communists. Freedom of speech as well as freedom of the press, is an American's right (according to our Constitution). What McCarthy was doing is, anyone who disagreed with his views was ostricized publically by McCarthy. It ruined many reporters reputation, (as well as their credability as journalists). As far as the acting community, in those days, an actor who was blackballed would never work again. And it happened over & over & over again until Murro & his media crew had the guts to stand up & fight for their Constitutional right of free speech & freedom of the press. Without them, who knows if we would still have those rights today.
Even today, the neoconservatives control what is (and isn't) put in the news. If you want the "whole story", you have to go to a world news network (found on the internet), like worldnetdaily.com, to find out what the US media doesn't report. As an example--how much reporting was done on the Downing Street Memo? One or two days maybe. And yet it was the most viewed site in the UK internet community for months. Blair almost lost his position in the UK govt. That's a great example of media manipulation here in the US. how about the leaks from the media re NSA spying & secret prisons for torture. What did Bush say? Certainly not that Americans had a right to know what their tax money was being used for, but that anyone who would leak a story like that was putting our military at risk (or that they were unpatriotic). BULL! Just another attempt to manipulate our Constitution a little more. Murro was a hero. McCarthy was a neoconservarive & a threat to our freedom & liberties. Period. Before you see the movie, view a few sites re neoconservative. You'll be glad you did.
2006-08-30 20:42:15 · answer #1 · answered by Nancy L 4 · 1⤊ 4⤋
royalrunner and speakeasy have restored my faith in this forum. The campaign to discredit McCarthy was overwhelming because those he was exposing had already gotten into positions of influence in the news media, motion picture, and education industry....the very groups that could tell the story. We are paying for that now. The enemies of our society are no longer infiltrators from the outside...they are now on the inside and among us...to some extent they are us, after a lifetime of indoctrination in socialist thinking. You can bet if there were a documentary made about the hearings it would not be positive.
2006-08-31 01:34:50 · answer #2 · answered by RunningOnMT 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Royalrunner got it right. Leftists dominate the movie and documentary industry. No way in heck they'd make an honest documentary about how Lefitists in the 50s ganged up to defeat McCarthy and protect their Communist agent buddies working in our government.
Folks, the Communists defeated America in the 50s. They founded the ACLU and other organizations to expand their operations and to this day we cannot stand up to them.
McCarthy was right. History has proven it. The Venona Project proved it. So the Leftists bury him as deep as they can beneath a pile of slander.
2006-08-31 01:16:00 · answer #3 · answered by speakeasy 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Probably because McCarthy was largely correct, but he has been demonized by everyone ever since. Almost everyone on McMarthy's commie lists were communists, and a documentary would have to concede that fact. Beyond that, I really don't know. Maybe there is, I would be interested in watching it.
2006-08-31 01:12:16 · answer #4 · answered by royalrunner400 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Why should we expose our dirty laundry before the world.
It's much easier to burn the record or film.
We had some real doozies performing for the other side, some were real and some were simple fools who had no real appreciation of what they were doing or of who they were helping.
Film rots after a while. It's a good excuse and it's also true.
Good luck on your search
2006-09-03 00:19:18 · answer #5 · answered by Mr.Been there 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Get in touch with your Public Service Network on your television.
Try the library that has past microfilm of newspaper articles.
Barnes and Noble/Borders may have something in its vast collection of past t.v. programs for sale.
2006-08-31 01:16:41 · answer #6 · answered by marnefirstinfantry 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am reading the book "Treason", by Ann Coulter. Until I read her book, I believed the fables and myths created by the media around this man. She gives an overwheliming amount of info that would answer your question
2006-08-31 01:20:41 · answer #7 · answered by khcs89120 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Looking for a conspiracy theory; here's one. J Edgar Hoover , the FBI and an assorted group of fascists wanted him to succeed, and buried the evidence that they were involved.
2006-09-04 07:35:45 · answer #8 · answered by ElOsoBravo 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ahem, we try to not talk about that. Shows too much of the american character.
2006-08-31 01:15:12 · answer #9 · answered by Tony T 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
See the movie "Good Night and Good Luck."
2006-08-31 01:42:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋