Freeper Editorialist Wants to Bring back Hollywood blacklist

[dutchdemocrat]

Bring back Hollywood blacklist

posted: September 4, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern


© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com


The United States is a "dumb puppy that has big teeth," according to American actor Johnny Depp.

I say we should make certain this scumbucket never works in America again.

That's right. I mean it's time to bring back the Hollywood blacklist.

In fact, I'd very much like to start compiling the blacklist right now – and I welcome your suggestions for additions. I'm sure I'm missing some real anti-American zealots.

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I think these people are insane? Don't you?

Here is the link to Depp's article... very tame, to be truthful. I thought he didn't say everything he probably really wanted too.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=3378817&src=eDialog/GetContent§ion=news

[bitchkitty]

1. Ha! That's funny -

If all the anti-Bush entertainers were blacklisted, who would be left? Dennis Miller? Britney Spears? God, what a nightmare scenario!

[DarkPhenyx]

5. Nope. Brit would be gone.

Remember, she traded tongues with Madonna.

[Dover]

2. Hollywood already has a blacklist.....and the freepers made the cut.

The tables are turning...

[Not a robought]

3. Depp says,

The United States is a "dumb puppy that has big teeth,"

When the hell did declaring the obvious become newsworthy?

[DarkPhenyx]

4. No they aren't insane.

This dosen't make them any less dangerous however.

On the plus side it isn't bloody likely that the Hollywood Blacklist will make a return. That's one sequel none of us are anxious to see.

[RandomKoolzip]

7. except for McCarthy apologist Ann Coulter and her

army of walking corpses, of course.

[Cha]

6. I say joseph farah needs to review the Constitution and the Bill

of Rights and I say he should read what some very Famous Americans have said in Defense of Dissent!

I think this writer is one Stupidmonger who is nothing about what makes America Great!

[baldguy]

8. Why does the Republican version of patriotism . . .

. . . always include blacklists, division, favoritism, and blind obedience to authority?

[Postman]

9. Maybe he meant "blackshirts" ?

f**kin' nazi

[gratuitous]

10. The blacklist was the perfect vehicle for these bullying pussies

The kind of storefront patriotism practiced by the repressive right was never more in its element than during the days of the blacklist. Everyone could plausibly deny that it existed, but certain actors, directors, writers, heck, all the way down to carpenters and script girls suddenly couldn't find any work. No fingerprints, no one to appeal to, no "orchestrated" campaign, just . . . out of work.

And who waved a finger and said "He's a Red" or "She has certain tendencies and may be a fellow traveler"? In some cases, folks you'd never think could wield such power. In Oswego, New York, a grocer who owned three supermarkets put signs on his products that advertised on shows he didn't approve of: "If you buy this product, you're supporting a Commie." There were unofficial broadsheets that listed people in the entertainment industry. Who put them together? No one could say. But everyone read them, and acted accordingly.

There's a pathetic scene in "The Front" where Zero Mostel meets with a man who claims he can get him off the blacklist. Mostel can't remember what it was he was supposed to have done, he got involved in a political deal because he wanted to screw a girl "with a big ass." He didn't get laid, but he surely got screwed when he couldn't name names of other people he'd seen at a meeting some 20 years before.

The repressives enjoyed the blacklist so much because it held people accountable for their actions in a different time and place, when the country was convulsed by the failure of capitalism during the Great Depression. Anyone who had strayed from the Red, White and Blue as defined 20 or 30 years down the line, or who had used "unacceptable" methods of effecting change found themselves outcast from the society they had constructed out of the ruins.

And there was no shortage of pigeons, rogues and rats ready to establish their good faith to the system, as well as persons caught in the funhouse mirror world of flushing out the Commies. Did the Red Scare accomplish a damn thing? Well, it surely ruined a lot of people's lives. Was the country better off for becoming a nation of snitches and peepers? Were we any safer?