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October 2, 2012
Good point, Oot99
I'm a little surprised that tDS weighed in on this given that many details are still so murky. That said my guess is they saw a convenient opening here in the absence of anything concrete on either side to jump in on the side of the right wing talking points. Thus deflecting some of the flack they take from those right-wingers.
NPR's - On the Media - replayed a story a few years ago about how it took nearly 40 years to set the record straight on the Cuban Missile Crisis (the 4th draft of history as they called it)...
On The Media: Missile Crisis Memories (August 27, 2010)
So given Jon is working from the first draft of history every night. I'll cut him some slack on this one.
October 1, 2012
Mother Jones' Operation Hollywood cont...
There was a movie called Air Strike by a guy named Cy Roth. Now, Ed Wood is often credited as being the worst director in Hollywood history, but Cy Roth would really give him a run for his money. Roth decided around 1953 that hed made a Western, hed made a space movie, now he wanted to make a war movie. This movie was set on a World War II aircraft carrier, and the lead characters were a young Jewish flyer and a young black flyer who are constantly being subjected to anti-Semitism and racism on the ship.
The military said, No, we dont want to show any kind of racism or anti-Semitism in this picture, youve got to change that. They also said, We dont want a World War II-era picture, we want a movie set in the modern jet age. And Roth went nuts. He called his congressman, he wrote a letter to President Eisenhower -- and the day after the White House got his letter of complaint, they sicced the FBI on him to see whether he was a Communist or not. Well, he finally caved in; he made the picture the way they wanted. So it was no blacks, no Jews, no propellers. If you look at this film, its so bad, it looks like a home movie shot on an aircraft carrier. So this film was completely changed...
http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2004/09/operation-hollywood
The military said, No, we dont want to show any kind of racism or anti-Semitism in this picture, youve got to change that. They also said, We dont want a World War II-era picture, we want a movie set in the modern jet age. And Roth went nuts. He called his congressman, he wrote a letter to President Eisenhower -- and the day after the White House got his letter of complaint, they sicced the FBI on him to see whether he was a Communist or not. Well, he finally caved in; he made the picture the way they wanted. So it was no blacks, no Jews, no propellers. If you look at this film, its so bad, it looks like a home movie shot on an aircraft carrier. So this film was completely changed...
http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2004/09/operation-hollywood
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