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GenghisTheHun (168)
03/28/2008
Kazan was a Commie who eventually became a liberal Democrat. He is remembered for testifying before a House Committee and naming persons who were Communists during the time that he was a member.

What is really funny is how this is called "McCarthyism" by the various slogan spewing naifs who write on the subject. Kazan testified during the Truman Administration in early 1952 while the Democrats controlled Congress. McCarthy did not become chairman of his committee until January 3, 1953.

Also Kazan testified before the House and not the Senate in which McCarthy was a member. Hilarious.


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JohnSpina (17)
03/23/2006
I respected him.I will now spew my opinions about McCarthy.The senator in my view started off a hero.He went after a lot of antiAmerican folks who wanted to spy for "Uncle Joe".And at first,he was NOT interested in going after small fry.He only wanted the real traitors,spies and assorted other garbage exposed for what it was.If he hadstopped quickly,I'd have considered hima great American patriot.But McCarthy proved the old saw to be correct about the higher a monkey climbs,the more you see of its(sorry for some mild profanity)ass.As he got more powerful,he did unfortunately start going after innocent Americans who were of no threat to this country.He ruined lives.He didnot have to.If he had stayed on the original course,he would have gone down as a fine american.As it is,I still rather like McCarthy.He did a lot of good for exposing the communist slimebags that were prevalent in that era.But he abused his power and that knocks him down in my eyes a bit. As for Kazan,he was a deeply patriotic man who was trying to expose the same things that the senator was trying to.He WAS a communist.He saw how degrading the ideology was and tried to do something about it. To those on the left who do not like Kazan I ask a question:What if he had tried to expose conservatives?Would you still dislike him?

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Drummond (54)
03/23/2006
A great moviemaker, ironically his best movie being On the Waterfront, which presents an argument on behalf of snitching. He named names, and what's more, he did it unapologetically, then made considerable money while much of his competition was out of work due to blacklists or jailtime. This didn't sit well with Hollywood, and in fact even when he received a tribute at a recent academy awards celebration, many Hollywood folk, including Ed Harris and Nick Nolte sat on their hands, the clapping being lukewarm at best. Playwright Arthur Miller, who wrote The Crucible which is about the Salem Witch Trials, but depicting the harsh parallels with the McCarthy era, sent Kazan a play entitled A View from the Bridge (where a man turns in to the INS his illegal alien rival over a lover). Kazan contacted Miller asking, "do you really want me to produce this?" Miller responded, "No, I just wanted you to know what I think of snitches." They had been good friends, but it was about 20 years before they spoke again. Miller visited Kazan when Kazan was ill, and figured he was getting too old to hold grudges.

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oscargamblesfro (76)
03/23/2006
Hell of a filmmaker, though that's beside the point of course. I remember him getting booed when he got his lifetime Oscar award, and James Coburn had a scowl on his face that could curdle milk. Barring a case of national security or someone's life being in peril, or something extraordinary like that, there is nothing, nothing more loathsome than a rat in my view.

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