Dixie Chicking: Post 9-11 blacklisting
TruthDig
by Ed Rampell
10/25/07
The HUAC/McCarthy era and Hollywood blacklist may be over, but the not-so-grand inquisitors are still among us. On March 31, 2007, activist/actor Mike Farrell, who co-starred in TV’s M*A*S*H and co-founded Artists United to Win Without War, told Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting’s CounterSpin radio program, ‘There’s a price to be paid for speaking out, and some have paid a fairly serious price.’ Around that same time, at a March 24, 2007, anti-war Oakland town meeting called by Congresswoman Barbara Lee, actor Sean Penn stated: ‘we are encouraged to self-censor any words that might be perceived as inflammatory — if our belief is that this war should stop today. We cower as you point fingers telling us to ’support our troops”...
http://tinyurl.com/yokc97
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Barbara+Lee
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sean+Penn
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=support+our+troops
by Ed Rampell
10/25/07
The HUAC/McCarthy era and Hollywood blacklist may be over, but the not-so-grand inquisitors are still among us. On March 31, 2007, activist/actor Mike Farrell, who co-starred in TV’s M*A*S*H and co-founded Artists United to Win Without War, told Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting’s CounterSpin radio program, ‘There’s a price to be paid for speaking out, and some have paid a fairly serious price.’ Around that same time, at a March 24, 2007, anti-war Oakland town meeting called by Congresswoman Barbara Lee, actor Sean Penn stated: ‘we are encouraged to self-censor any words that might be perceived as inflammatory — if our belief is that this war should stop today. We cower as you point fingers telling us to ’support our troops”...
http://tinyurl.com/yokc97
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Barbara+Lee
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sean+Penn
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=support+our+troops
rudkla - 6. Nov, 11:49
