Dear Readers,
Remember how you learned in school about McCarthyism?
Remember how you learned all about McCarthyism from The Crucible, and Good Night and Good Luck, and Julie and Julia and all those other wonderful plays and books and movies?
Remember how you learned that during the 1950s, the nefarious Senator Joseph McCarthy went on a witch-hunt for Communists in the Government and in Hollywood and in practically everywhere else? Remember how McCarthy and his minions blacklisted and censored and harassed thousands of artists, academics and free-thinkers?
Well, I’ve got news for you. What you learned in school was wrong. The vast majority of books and plays and movies about McCarthyism are dumb.
Joseph McCarthy was a swell guy, and he did a good job. And that’s the truth.
Violent communists and Soviet Spies were a real threat to American national security during the Cold War. There really were Communists trying to destroy the USA from the inside!
And to put things into perspective, recall that Senator McCarthy wasn’t as harsh as Captain Moroni and the Nephites in the Book of Mormon were. Maybe he should have been.
Alma 62: 9 + 10
“9. And the men of Pachus [Pachus = a bad guy, like Joseph Stalin] received their trial, according to the law, and also those king-men [king-men = bad people, like Communists] who had been taken and cast into prison; and they were executed according to the law; yea, those men of Pachus and those king-men, whosoever would not take up arms in the defense of their country, but would fight against it, were put to death.
“10. And thus it became expedient that this law should be strictly observed for the safety of their country; yea, and whosever was found denying their freedom was speedily executed according to the law.”
Thanks for reading. Have a nice night, or day, or afternoon, or whatever.
Sincerely,
Telemoonfa
P.S. This blog post was inspired by Ann Coulter’s excellent book Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism.
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3 comments:
i have been reading the archives of your blog and i thought you should know that you were much more witty and intelligent sounding before you became so political.
it'd be nice to hear something else from you occasionally.
Yeah Ben, I'm tired of you making your blog about stuff that's important to you. Isn't your blog supposed to be about the stuff that matters to us? Geez man, get with it.
I loved the crucible. artists aren't automatically communist. I think of you as an artist telemoonfa (or at least a poet). and you definately aren't communist.
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