Hollyweird, Part 1

First, as I dust off this ol' space, something I wrote last Friday...

I had the pleasure of hearing a co-worker pontificate on the merits of Good Night and Good Luck this afternoon. Sure, sure...same ol’ same ol’ from within the walls of liberal-dom known as the entertainment industry, but this time it was especially entertaining. Yeah, I’m certain I’ll hear about it later from my bosses who have asked me not to discuss politics in the office, but since I wasn’t the one who initiated this topic, I had to go for it. Also couldn’t resist the history lesson on the former hippie who still apparently has his mind and mentality in the 60s.

Soooo, upon stating his opinion on Good Night’s issues as still relevant today, I asked him, “Is that because the threat of terrorism is just as real and dangerous to the existence of the US republic as communism comparatively was in McCarthy’s era?” I added that it was known in the years following WWII that Soviet operatives, some US-born, were functioning within our borders, sowing the seeds to supplant capitalism with communism and even attempting to steal US military secrets for the USSR. All of this, of course, easily proven due to the declassification of Soviet-era KGB records following the fall of their doomed communist/socialist experiement. “Sounds eerily familiar to what the US now faces with sleeper terrorist cells scattered all across our usually great country and the members of media, congress and entertainment industry that aid and make excuses for them, doesn’t it?”

Needless to say, he didn’t have much of a retort beyond the additionally industry/liberal-usual twisting and turning of history to suit his needs. Facts are goofy like that, eh?

Oh, well. Another day in the life in an ACLU-infected Los Angeles. Wherefore art thou, Arizona Bay?