If you honestly make money and create jobs, Hollywood will make movies painted you as a creep, a goon and the sleaziest of all people. If you use government to create bigoted policies, harm the education of our children and work to import criminals from foreign nations, the media will make you a hero and humanitarian.
Now Hollywood is making a movie about an honest to gosh, proud, Communist, Dalton Trumbo—who used the movies to denounce our freedoms and promote the Soviet Union—and he is made to be a hero, while those that defend free speech, freedom of religion an free enterprise are painted as criminals. Shame on Hollywood—guess I will watch re-runs of Seinfeld instead. I rather be bored than lied to by Hollywood, again.
“Entertainment Weekly magazine spewed the usual leftist apologist narrative: “Trumbo — who had been a member of the Communist Party during World War II when the Soviets were a major American ally — was punished for his principled stand for free speech and the Constitution.”
These deluded people never stop shamelessly declaring that communists were the true libertarians and constitutionalists, no matter how ludicrous it sounds. That 100 million people died at the hands of the communists doesn’t register.”
The Glorifying Of Hollywood’s Communists Doesn’t Stop
By L. BRENT BOZELL AND TIM GRAHAM, Investors.com, 1/10/15
Ask anyone under 40 to identify Paul McCartney or “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” and the odds are you’ll get a blank look in return. Ask someone under 30 to describe the Soviet menace, and you may well get the same response.
The first one is harmless ignorance, and some might argue the second one is as well. After all, it’s over and we won, right?
What’s not harmless is a never-ending effort to glorify communist conspirators in Hollywood, like the forthcoming movie “Trumbo,” starring “Breaking Bad” star Bryan Cranston as blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.
Entertainment Weekly magazine spewed the usual leftist apologist narrative: “Trumbo — who had been a member of the Communist Party during World War II when the Soviets were a major American ally — was punished for his principled stand for free speech and the Constitution.”
These deluded people never stop shamelessly declaring that communists were the true libertarians and constitutionalists, no matter how ludicrous it sounds. That 100 million people died at the hands of the communists doesn’t register.
Luckily, there’s a new antidote to this film’s message, a book called “Hollywood Traitors” by longtime Human Events editor Allan Ryskind. His father, screenwriter Morrie Ryskind, was ruined professionally by the post-blacklist backlash against industry conservatives.
Trumbo, like many Stalin-era Communist Party members, was an agent of Stalin’s dictatorship, and for several years he was a mouthpiece for Hitler during the Hitler-Stalin pact.
Trumbo has been glorified as a member of the “Hollywood Ten” who refused to tell the truth to the House Un-American Activities Committee about their Communist Party membership. But here’s what Trumbo admitted later (and you can bet it won’t be in the movie):
He told author Bruce Cook in the 1970s that he joined the party in 1943, that some of his “very best friends” were communists and that “I might as well have been a communist 10 years earlier.” He also says about joining the party: “I’ve never regretted it. As a matter of fact, it’s possible to say I would have regretted not having done it.”
Bruce Cook is a screenwriter on this new movie. Now how can Cook regurgitate the lame old concept of a Washington “witch hunt” when he’s published Trumbo’s own words triumphantly proclaiming he was very happily a communist?
Ryskind reports that Trumbo not only supported Stalin (and Hitler when he was a Stalin ally) but also supported North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung after the Korean War. In an unpublished film script, Trumbo had the heroine proclaim that North Korea’s invasion of the South was perfectly justifiable, for this is “Korea’s fight for independence, just as we had to fight for our own independence in 1776.”
Ryskind adds that Trumbo even wrote a poem called “Korean Christmas” which made Christian Americans the killers of Korean children:
“Hear then, little corpse … it had to be
Poor consolation, yet it had to be
The Christian ethic was at stake
And western culture and the American Way
And so, in the midst of pure and holy strife
We had to take your little eastern life.”
Does this sound like a man who was punished for his love of our constitutional rights? It sounds like a man who exploited our freedom and mocked the “American way” as murdering little children for Jesus and “Western culture.” But some Hollywood die-hards dearly love that communist lie and never stop lying.
• Bozell is president of the Media Research Center.
• Graham is director of media analysis at the center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org.
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