Well, they were communists and sympathizers. And Hollywood still has an anti-American bias.

A very long piece. When I came to this "The Blacklist era is perhaps Hollywood´s darkest chapter," and a quote from Kirk Douglas, "In retrospect, the Blacklist era was the most sinful period in Hollywood history." I stopped reading.

Hollywood is still digging to reach its "darkest" and "most sinful" condition.

What a bunch of arrogant, sanctimonious, fops.

Gee, no agenda in that article.
I, too stopped reading about 50 pages down. I may have missed it, but did they ever say anyone identified as such was NOT a communist?
Now we have them in the WH. I guess Hollywood can feel better about itself now.

This is quite a conundrum.

On the one hand - - you have Stalin murdering 25-30 million innocent people and terrorizing billions of people for decades.

On the other hand - - you have some Hollywood writers working under pseudonyms.

My brain hurts from trying to figure out which side to take. Can anyone figure out this puzzle?

You only have to look at the degradation of Hollyweird, the anti-religious theme, the bashing of big business, the promoting of their enviro agenda, etc. to realize what a bunch of commits they are. Although when it comes to salaries, I don´t see the big stars, directors, studio heads, etc. taking the same pay as everyone else. If they are so big on communism you´d think they would want equality for all!

McCarthy was right. Hollywood is infested with commies red diaper doper babies.

Communist infiltration of the labor movement, the entertainment industry and the Federal government in the 30´s, 40´s and in to the 50´s reached such intensity as to become, and remain for the time, a perilous danger to America. Identification of such agents and operators was a patriotic duty. Blacklist, hell! Those evil persons should have been deported to their Workers´ Paradise foever!
If historical truth is not preserved and taught, as it is not, expect many more examples of the shameless drivel as presented here.

The article did suggest that some of the accused and blacklisted were not communists or sympathisers, but was short on details.

One detail they were short on was understanding control of mass media in Communist propaganda campaigns.

One need only research that subject to understand that Communist membership or sympathy was more than just a matter of opinion.

#4 - - The beloved Sen. McCarthy had nothing to do with Hollywood or the entertainment industry. He was chairman of a subcommittee which investigated government workers.

The Roosevelt and Truman administrations were crawling with communists traitors. We now know most of their names and even how much they were paid by Stalin to betray this country.

The communist traitors played a big role in helping Stalin acquire the atom bomb and in helping the world´s biggest mass murderer - - Mao - - take over China.

The commies and the total idiots who gave (and give) them support are directly responsible for the mass murder of tens of millions of innocent people.

Yet today´s Hollywood dopes think that the commies were the "victims." There´s no way to be dumber than that - - none.

Many years later, the proof of hollywood´s communist and anti-american attitudes is overwhelming. Too bad the blacklisting was not successful. My generation and the following ones have been contaminated by the filth, depravity and hatred of the USA that has been produced, repeatedly, by that cesspool.