Tinseltown Turns Back the Clock with Trumbo Tribute

By K. Lloyd Billingsley /Also published in The Daily Caller

The eponymous protagonist of Trumbo, a new drama starring Bryan Cranston in the title role, comes billed as a blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter and a hero of sorts. Moviegoers may be surprised to learn that Dalton Trumbo was much more than that.......  Trumbo joined the Communist Party USA during the Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939-1941, when many other Soviet sympathizers left the Party in disgust, never to return.......After World War II, Stalin mounted a surge to co-opt the studios through labor strikes and jurisdictional disputes. Trumbo scripted speeches for stars such as Katharine Hepburn who aligned with the Party-backed Conference of Studio Unions. After some initial victories, the Party encountered strong opposition........The reason Trumbo and other Stalinists defied the committee, as John Huston learned some years later, was that they had already testified to a California committee that they were not Communists. To admit that now would have been troublesome.  “When I believed them to have engaged to defend the individual,” Huston wrote to a colleague on August 23, 1952, “they were really looking after their own skins.”........The California dream factories aren’t into that kind of story. With Trumbo the industry turns back the clock to the good old days of pure fantasy.....To Read More....

My Take - It's commonly believed these people were unjustly persecuted by Joe McCarthy, but the House Committee on Un-American Activities was a Democratic institution and they went after the Hollywood crowd with a vengeance. Was that unjustified? The article says,

"Trumbo joined the Communist Party USA during the Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939-1941, when many other Soviet sympathizers left the Party in disgust, never to return"

But those who left saw the Communist Party USA for what it was. Nothing more than a tool of Joe Stalin. And those who remained knew that to be true, and those who stayed were from that point on agents of Stalin against the United States. Those who testified against them knew it and those who refused to testify knew it also the Party was nothing more than a subversive spy organization, including the formation of secret cells, all unknown to the other members. This failure to testify made them knowing enablers of subversive Stalinist agents in the U.S. That's history - everything else about this story is full of lies of commission, lies of omission, logical fallacies and "pure fantasy" to support the left wing activities of communists still active in Hollywood now, including people like Sean Penn.

I recommend those who really want to know the true story of the communist/Stalinist infestation of Hollywood/entertainment, the unions, the newspapers, the universities and most importantly – FDR’s government – please read Diana West’s American Betrayal.

I’ve been following this story for decades and as more and more information becomes available, especially after the fall of the Soviet Union when archives of the era became available – it has to be realized - Joe McCarthy was right. His numbers may have been off, and he clearly had problems, but those are separate issues. He was right. The government, including the State department and even what became the CIA had been infested with traitors. And I’ve come to the unpleasant conclusion FDR was among them, right along with Trumbo.

History points in no other direction.