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I just saw Clooney's latest movie. After his first film (as director), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, I was expecting something quirkier, but was pleasantly surprised to have my expectations denied. The movie's about McCarthy, commy witch-hunts, media censorship, and having the [cajones] to speak the truth in the face of lies, slander, and empty (but powerful) threats. I thought it was a great film, and David Strathairn as Edward R. Murrow was equally so. It's hard to imagine a time when someone as eloquent as Murrow was allowed on the air, looking at the crap we have to endure today. Check it out, if you've got the time.
 
hkoehli said:
and having the kahunas to speak the truth
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I think you meant "cajones", not "kahunas" -- or maybe not.

Anyway, I'd like to see the movie. Looking forward to it actually.

I heard an anecdote about it. There is some scene (that might have been cut -- I don't know since I haven't seen the film) where Sen. McCarthy is on a TV screen in the background, if I remember right. When a preview audience screened the movie to give their feedback some of them said they thought "the actor" on the TV screen was over-acting. Turns out it wasn't an actor -- it was actual footage of McCarthy!

Mark
 
Yeah, McCarthy was an odd looking guy - he had an obvious deformation in his forehead, low, between the eyebrows, that made me wonder if whatever had caused this deformation was also responsible for his psychopathic behavior, as described in Lobaczewski's Ponerology.

I must admit to longing for Murrow's eloquence and backbone in the world of psuedojournalism today. The impact that one voice could have on the state of affairs in the world today can't really be measured. He was just so good at being articulate and eloquent off the cuff - at being real and effective with his words. How far we have fallen in so short a time.
 
From all the surfer movies I've seen, I'm pretty sure that all the big Kahunas have cajones, so, maybe you weren't so far off. =D
 
anart said:
He was just so good at being articulate and eloquent off the cuff - at being real and effective with his words. How far we have fallen in so short a time.
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Quite far indeed. Now we get news tailored for the barely literate - short statements and few big words or complex ideas. /Sigh
 
Finally watched the movie tonight. Excellent. Murrow socked it to 'em -- in other words, truth hurts some people. The whole staff there showed some serious backbone.

Anyway, seems as though history repeats itself -- witch hunts -- minus the straight reporters this time around. Bummer.
 
anart said:
Yeah, McCarthy was an odd looking guy - he had an obvious deformation in his forehead, low, between the eyebrows, that made me wonder if whatever had caused this deformation was also responsible for his psychopathic behavior, as described in Lobaczewski's Ponerology.
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I think it's the scar from when they removed his brain and inserted a rock. . . :P
 
Perhaps McCarthy wasn't the best person to conduct the hearings, but in retrospect, and after reading The Protocols, Controversy of Zion and other related material, and witnessing the unfolding of events after WWII, I think that he might not have been that far off the mark.

Good Night and Good Luck is a good movie but it is the Hollywood perspective of that era, and all that that entails. Had the Communist conspiracy been investigated by someone not so fanatically pathological as McCarthy things might have turned out very differently. As it stands, the real hidden agendas have been implemented and we are today living with the end results. Perhaps Joe McCarthy was allowed to go forward with his investigation for the very reason that he would be an easy straw man to discredit, thus marginalizing the entire conspiracy revelations, much as is being done today with the 911 truth seekers.
 
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