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October 17, 2005
Will Loony Clooney's Movie Help Rehabilitate McCarthy?
Though it is a limited release movie that hasn't put so much as a nick in the box office, many critics seem to like George Clooney's new Good Night, and Good Luck — probably for the same reasons the Nobel people like granting prizes to hebephrenic lowlife like Harold Pinter. When it comes to culture's self-appointed guardians, left-wing ideology comes first, content sometime afterward. How can you go wrong bashing Joseph McCarthy, the liberal elite's favorite boogeyman?
As for the movie itself, I won't pay to see anything with Clooney in it, but according to Allan Ryskind at Human Events, the picture does not make much of a case. Clooney's awkward assault on the Wisconsin senator may actually assist in the rehabilitation his reputation has been undergoing recently (in part thanks to Ann Coulter's recommended book Treason). After all, if George Clooney — the personification of empty-headed, self-worshipping Hollyweird moonbattery — dislikes McCarthy enough to direct and help write a movie devoted to attacking him and glorifying his nemesis Edward R. Murrow, how bad could McCarthy have been?
In any case, the notion that McCarthy ever accused anyone of anything serious without justification remains unproven. Any attention directed toward the McCarthy era is welcome, because rational analysis is likely to lead to the conclusion that, for all his faults, McCarthy was defending liberty from communism — just as for all his smirking handsomeness, Clooney is a clueless fool.
Hat tip: Wiggins
Posted by Van Helsing at October 17, 2005 7:42 PM
Comments
Hey- how'd you get Pinter to pose for that hilarious photograph?
Posted by: LC TripleNeckSteel at October 17, 2005 8:45 PM
Dear George Clooney, your village called and they miss their idiot.
Posted by: Anna at October 17, 2005 9:49 PM
Poor Joe,
Many radical-oriented publications link him (SENATOR) to the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
Very strange
Posted by: Felis at October 17, 2005 11:48 PM
Clooney's a whack job. Allow me to quote him here, when interviewed about his new movie:
"I didn't want to preach," he insists. "I've always believed that polarising people doesn't do us any good; that just means I appeal to 48 per cent of this country and nobody else opens their eyes and their ears." [emphasis mine]
I can't believe this even came out of his mouth. The comment itself was polarising.
Posted by: Oyster at October 18, 2005 12:55 PM
The movie's great -- already seen by more people than have read "Treason." (That's an autobiography for Clueless Coulter isn't it?)
McCarthy was a useful idiot of the Communists. By spreading fear in America, he turned America against the ideals of freedom.
Anyone who disagreed with him -- and his lover Roy Cohn -- were immediately labeled "commies" or "pinkos." Evidence wasn't needed. Innocent people were destroyed while real communists got away.
The movie demonstrates -- using footage of the real McCarthy -- how he self destructed, attacking people blindly (including the Army) and making himself out to be a liar.
Thank God the US Army shut that idiot down.
Posted by: Denny Hix at October 18, 2005 2:02 PM
Defending Joe McCarthy. You're fucking pathetic.
Posted by: Local Man at October 19, 2005 5:23 PM
