Hollywood Leftist Actor/Director (and top tier elite Council on Foreign Relations member) George Clooney Still Crying Wolf Today Concerning “McCarthyism” During the New Donald Trump Administration
“George Clooney says today’s fear is more pervasive than McCarthy era.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper interviews actor George Clooney on the set of his Broadway play, “Good Night, and Good Luck” which is focused on Edward R. Murrow’s famous battle with Senator Joseph McCarthy. Watch CNN’s special presentation of George Clooney’s “Good Night, and Good Luck” on Saturday, June 7 at 7pm ET streaming live on CNN.com.”
Rather than viewing the actions of CBS News against Senator Joseph McCarthy (as portrayed in the 2005 film Good Night and Good Luck, which received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Director (Clooney), and Actor (Strathairn) as a heroic case of the mainstream news media working against state power, I believe it was precisely the opposite.
The destruction of McCarthy and his populist crusade against the elites governing America was a triumph of the most powerful forces of the deep state.
(This speech was written by Murray N. Rothbard, and delivered by his colleague George Reisman in the 1950s at a Roy Cohn event at which Joe McCarthy was present.)
George Clooney’s celebrated film does not delve into Joe McCarthy’s preliminary investigation of CIA covert activities and how CBS chairman William Paley, CBS News president Fred Friendly, and CBS Evening News anchor Edward R. Murrow were part of the Agency’s Operation Mockingbird to provide deflection and cover for the Agency’s ‘family jewels’ of the day. CBS News president Sig Mickelson (1954-61) was later liaison to the CIA. Because of his frequent communications, Mickelson even had a direct private phone line installed to the Agency.
I would suggest reading chapter ten, ‘Things Fall Apart: Journalists,’ in Hugh Wilford’s book, The Mighty Wurlitzer: How The CIA Played America, for background on these crucial events. It outlines how the Columbia Broadcasting Service was closely connected to the Cen
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