Unless it's an insufferable snob, I don't like knocking other people's writing, especially when I agree with their point. Ben-Peter Terpstra's piece over at American Thinker is strange, because while making a point about anti-Reds in Old Hollywood, it's particularly bad writing.
What's more, Hollywood's anti-communists were not toothless hicks with tics from the back of Bourke. In this real reality, fiery intellectuals like Ayn Rand, for example, fueled their intellectual arguments. In all truth, the MIA was a great coming together of minds, from libertarian writers to Christian conservative actors (and, okay, fabulous costumes designers). Need more evidence? The libertarian-minded playwright/novelist, Ayn Rand, wrote the following in an official MPA pamphlet entitled Screen Guide for Americans:
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