In case you haven’t heard, Clooney has a politically motivated movie out. ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ , is his attempt at setting the record straight on Joe McCarthy.
Allan H. Ryskind has this to say on the movie
The movie is really about CBS’s star journalist, Edward R. Murrow (played by David Strathairn), and how he went after McCarthy, who is featured only in film footage from the archives. As Clooney (and most historians) would have it, the senator was a vicious, unscrupulous bully who ruined the lives of scores of innocent people by labeling them Reds. So where are the bloody corpses in Clooney’s movie? They’re totally missing. In fact, Clooney”who directed and helped write the movie”doesn’t show a single person who was done in by the senator’s supposedly reckless charges. Not one!
As Cliff Kincaid, of Accuracy In Media points out, Clooney’s father was labeled Looney Clooney, but it looks like the press got it wrong. Nick is the more sane of the two.
Whatever his point, Kurtz wondered if Clooney wanted to “go back to the days of three broadcast networks:” Clooney replied, “I don’t know, sometimes I have a romantic vision of that, when everyone started with the same basic facts and then sort of took them into their own social and political experience, and then came up with their own opinions, so that everyone started with somewhat of the same fact base, rather than starting with very different fact levels.”
He contines to say thatClooney seems to want to return to the days when Walter Cronkite was considered the most trusted man in America.
Clooney announced his devotion to journalism, saying that “:the most important thing, as Thomas Jefferson taught us, was he would rather have a free press than a free government.”
But the actual quote is
“[W]ere it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”
Keep in mind Jefferson also said
“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.”
CBS the Communist Broadcasting System and its evil eye logo what else should one ever exptect from these left-wing journalist and they use a peice of celulous crap to glorifi the left-wing journalists like morrow and walley cronkite another leftist scoundrel:roll: