| #1 N.B.: Though the lefties in Hollywood periodically whimper about how the blacklist destroyed careers, they always neglect to mention two salient facts. First of all, NONE of the individuals in question were punished by Washington--they were all punished by their peers in the industry. The second, and more important thing is that only ONE of them ever renounced his true belief in hard-corps Stalinist communism. The rest of them WERE communists, and most went to their graves just as dedicated in their hatred of America and democracy as they had been in their youth. |