MetaFilter posts tagged with McCarthy

your favorite literary writer sucks

philip-random — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:33:47 -0800

This is what the cultural elite wants us to believe: if our writers don't make sense, or bore us to tears, that can only mean that we aren't worthy of them. Annie Proulx relies on “ ... sentences, which often call to mind a bad photographer hurrying through a slide show.” Cormac McCarthy’s prose “ ... can make you look up, wherever you may be, and wonder if you are being subjected to a diabolically thorough Candid Camera prank.” Don DeLillo’s "... characters talk and act like the aliens in 3rd Rock From the Sun, which would be fine if we weren't supposed to accept them as dead-on satires of the way we live now.” Paul Auster “ ... is commercially successful precisely because he offers so much cachet in return for so little concentration.” David Guterson “ ... sinks below mediocrity as rarely as he rises above it.” B.R. Myers’ A READER'S MANIFESTO was published in 2001 and has been touched on previously at Metafilter.

McCarthy to Wilson...is history doomed to repeat itself?

Kickstart70 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:06:03 -0800

"The Obama Haters" is a horribly inaccurate title. The article itself is a 25-years-later review of Richard Hofstadter's 1964 essay The Paranoid Style in American Politics. Reading this essay (and the Slate article today) gives rise to thought on what led to the McCarthyism that Hofstadter wrote in reaction to, and what might lie in our very near future....regarding the Obama haters.

America the Godly

digaman — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:32:10 -0800

One nation under God. The "bold conservative" GOP Congressman Paul Broun from Georgia is intent upon removing a vexing comma from that phrase in the Pledge of Allegiance, which was amended in 1954 when President Eisenhower was moved by a sermon by one Reverend George M. Docherty on the need to defend America from the "militantly atheistic communism that has already enslaved 800 million of the peoples of the earth, and now menaces the rest of the free world."

`Love the fucking baby, yourself.`

sushiwiththejury — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 07:42:33 -0800

THE ROBOT AND THE BABY

a true American hero

amberglow — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:44:39 -0800

Milo Radulovich, RIP --thrown out of the Air Force during the Red Scares, he fought back--Radulovich's case (and the new medium of TV) showed millions the impact McCarthy was having and the absurd lengths he was going to. He himself wasn't ever accused of being a Communist himself tho: ... His sister had picketed outside the Book Cadillac Hotel when it refused a room to black entertainer Paul Robeson. His father subscribed to newspapers from his native Yugoslavia and had participated in a sit-down strike at Hudson Motor Car Co. ... 1998: Michigan Legal Milestone--"Milo Radulovich and the Fall of McCarthyism" NYT Obit: Milo Radulovich, 81, Dies; Symbol of ’50s Red Scare--...“the first time any of us appreciated the power of television.” ... The Red Scare revisited: inside McCarthy files HUAC Army-McCarthy hearing transcript

American Apocalypses

felix betachat — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:11:02 -0800

I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

Smokey the Pro-Life Bear

digaman — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:18:02 -0800

You know that ranger job in the National Park Service that you're gonna apply for as soon as you get through school or quit waiting tables? Fuhgeddaboutit, unless you've pledged your loyalty to the ~~Ba'ath party~~ President's Management Agenda and its roster of "faith-based and community initiatives," "competitive sourcing," etcetera, and Interior Secretary Gale Norton's "4C's," which seem to have to do with communication, consultation, cooperation, conservation, and Clinton-bashing. (Oh, sorry, that's 5 C's. It's just that Norton can't seem to stop denigrating "the previous administration" -- while advocating drilling in ANWR -- for such absurd ideas as banning snowmobiles from Yellowstone.)

McCarthy Hearings

MrMoonPie — Mon, 05 May 2003 08:38:49 -0800

McCarthy Hearings Published. "The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has published all of the transcripts of executive sessions held while Senator Joseph R. McCarthy chaired the subcommittee from 1953 to 1954. Publication of the transcripts, which marks the 50th anniversary of the hearings, constitutes the opening of the largest collection of documents related to McCarthy’s anti-Communist investigations."