Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Trumbo: Hollywood is Still Lying About Its Communist Past

 

'Tis pity, he was a Communist: Dalton Trumbo was one of the greatest screenwriters that ever lived
 
Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
 

Bozell & Graham Column: Still Lying About Hollywood's Communists
By Brent Bozell and Tim Graham | January 10, 2015 | 7:46 AM EST
News Busters

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 the 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 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's book is listed as the basis for this new movie. Now how can moviemakers regurgitate the lame old concept of a Washington “witch hunt” when Cook published Trumbo’s own words triumphantly proclaiming he was very happily a communist?

Ryskind reports Trumbo not only supported Stalin (and Hitler when he was a Stalin ally), but he also supported North Korean dictator Kim il-Sung after the Korean War. In an unpublished movie script, he 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 Trumbo even wrote a poem called “Korean Christmas” which made Christian Americans the murderers 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.

5 comments:

gkruz said...

So a book about Communist screenwriters has a swastika on the cover instead of a hammer and sickle. My how they have the masses conditioned.

Anonymous said...

In a book collecting his correspondence, Trumbo beams with pride that his teenage daughter is "dating" (euphemism alert!) Blacks and Hispanics- this in the 1950's, no less! I suspect that repressed homoerotic impulses toward "persons of color" were (and are, though obviously not always so repressed anymore!) a large part of the liberals' push for integration and "equality."

Nicholas said...

gkruz,

The rationale for that is surely because during the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact, Trumbo and other Communists supported the Nazis, but it's still a dumb touch, because it requires explanation, and effective images work viscerally.

Anonymous said...

Dalton and the others went to Mexico during the "blacklist" period and wrote screenplays under assumed names and continued to make a million during that period. Lived a literal palatial lifestyle of the rich American gringo in Mexico. Don't ever feel sorry for any of them.

Anonymous said...

We have been eating commie salami for a long time, now wrapped in the form of liberal democommies.