Artie Shaw was the main witness before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) on 4 May 1953 and was grilled by the committee on his membership in a number of organizations, including the Peace Congress.
“I see nothing wrong with having a bunch of people from different countries coming together and talking about peace,” Shaw, who had served 18 months in the US Navy during World War II, responded.
“Don’t you know that was a Communist fronted party?” the committee member asked.
“If you tell me about a Republican fronted one, I’ll join that,” Shaw replied.
Shaw believed he was brought before the committee due to his outspokenness, especially regarding capitalism. “Capitalism deserves to be debunked,” Shaw said. “You go to war with a country for a few dollars, but you won’t go to war to protect a citizen’s life. We’re out there to protect capital. That’s why I was hauled before HUAC, because I made the major mistake of thinking. Don’t ever do that, at least not in a public way.”
Shaw exiled himself to Spain shortly after his HUAC hearing. “Spain was one of the few countries in the world where nobody knew where you were or who you were,” Shaw said. “I did a lot of fishing, a lot of thinking, and some writing.” But after a few years, Shaw returned to America. “I’m not cut out to be an expatriate. I don’t like wine that much.”
Harry Moran wasn't blacklisted
Harry Morgan, and only Harry
Moran, said he was “briefly” blacklisted after his name appeared in Red
Channels. According to Morgan he was never a communist and was listed because
his ex-wife Isobel Gibb was a leftist.
Morgan wrote “All her information
came from friends whose conversation leaned sharply away from their relatively
high incomes, which, apparently, they found to be embarrassing in a world that
harbored poor people. Their chosen method of being helpful was to attend
meetings at one another's homes and discuss the problems of the hungry hordes
after dinner. I am not trying to be amusing; it's what they really did. A Party
member was usually invited to lead the discussions. I was apolitical. To some,
that meant that I was either stupid or "inner-directed"—which meant
according to them that I didn't care about my fellow man. What I really didn't
care about was the four or five of her friends who later became known as the
Hollywood Ten.”
Morgan and Gibb were married in 1946
and separated in 1948.
Morgan then spoke at the 1947
Radio Correspondents' Association Dinner in front of an audience that included
J. Edgar Hoover and President Truman. He made the two uncomfortable several
times over the course of his speech. The biggest blow came with his remark,
"Whenever it is quiet in Washington, you can count on the Un-American
committee to issue a report. Maybe sometime later, when it has a chance, it
will start gathering the facts."
The fact was Morgan wasn’t
popular with the public and others in the business didn’t much like him either.
The fact that he once punch his wife in the face didn’t help or his comments on
women (Women should be very attractive and never taught to read. The trouble
with the average woman is that she's a little below average. Since 90% of the
women one meets seem to be constantly auditioning to become morons, and since
half these people are women, it figures that 90% of them aren't too bright
either.)
A different sort of black list
Have you ever heard a news story that was so phenomenally stupid, so tilted to the ridiculous left, so politically correct that you shake your head and think, “Who are these morons that come up with this stuff?”
Well, here you go.
Mood Media provides the music selection heard in thousands of retail stores nationwide. As large as they are, Mood Media doesn’t understand the concept of undue censorship nor does it understand the principle of business staying the hell out of the political fray. I say that because some nitwit at the politically correct Mood Media decided to pull the song “It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" from their playlists.
Mood Media refused to say which part of that classic offended them. They are apparently that arrogant. It was either the word “Pistol” in the song's third verse ("A pair of hop-a-long boots and a pistol that shoots/Is the wish of Barney and Ben.") or possibly that they feel the song enforces gender-specific gifts because Janice and Jen are getting boots while Barney and Ben, those bastards, are getting cap pistols.
Mood Media assumes, I guess, that a song, any song, which is offensive…. to THEM….will hurt YOU. They aren’t just intolerant anti-gun censors who can’t see a difference between boys and girls…..they’re CONCERNED intolerant censors who can’t see a difference between boys and girls. In other words, the intolerant dumb people at politically correct Mood Media are protecting you from thinking the wrong thoughts taken from a Christmas song. Yep, politically correct Mood Media actually thinks your that stupid.
Mood Media is such an enormous company that they can pretty much change the popular culture at will.
Trust me, people, this is just the tip of the PC iceberg. The number of songs that will be censored in the next few years will be staggering. Watch and see.
Mood Media's clients include
Target
Claire's
Pandora
Hilton
Marriott
Hyatt
Kendra Scott Jewelry
Aloft Hotels
Aria Sky and Terrace Lounge
Atlanta South Gastroenterology
Ben Sherman
Berripop Frozen Yogurt
Bikas Drive in
Clear Choice
Club Fitness
Crimson Cup Coffee and tea
Dominic’s Casual Italian
Ellwood Thompson’s
Enterprise Fitness and Personal Training Center
Foundry Park Inn and Spa
Franciscan Health Alliance
Fresh Dental
Great Lakes Ace Hardware
Growler USA
IKEA
J’s Red Hots
Jersey Mike’s Subs
Karl Lagerfeld
LA Famous Fried Chicken
Mama Fu's Asian House
Marshall’s Jewelers
Ninth Street Coffeehouse & Juice Bar
Pandora
Piscataqua Savings Bank
Primark
Qdoba Mexican Grill
Renewal by Andersen
Seaboard ACE Hardware
Stash’s Pizza
T-BONES Great American Eatery
The Body Shop
The North Face
The UPS Store
The Verve Hotel
The Y in Central Maryland
Vault Brewing Company
Enterprise Fitness and Personal Training Center
Foundry Park Inn and Spa
Franciscan Health Alliance
Fresh Dental
Great Lakes Ace Hardware
Growler USA
IKEA
J’s Red Hots
Jersey Mike’s Subs
Karl Lagerfeld
LA Famous Fried Chicken
Mama Fu's Asian House
Marshall’s Jewelers
McDonald’s of Yarmouth
Ninth Street Coffeehouse & Juice Bar
Pandora
Piscataqua Savings Bank
Primark
Qdoba Mexican Grill
Renewal by Andersen
Seaboard ACE Hardware
Stash’s Pizza
T-BONES Great American Eatery
The Body Shop
The North Face
The UPS Store
The Verve Hotel
The Y in Central Maryland
Vault Brewing Company
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