Name: Brandon Ewing
Media/Outlet: The Mark Levin Show
Reason: Supporting Resurrecting HUAC
-First of all, HUAC was started in response to very real threats - we know now that there were significant pro-Nazi and pro-Soviet forces at work throughout the 1930s through the 1940s for the former and well afterwards for the latter in the United States. Similar threats exist now in the form of Confucius Institutes and Chinese United Front-related organizations, as well as useful idiots for anti-American forces lurking about in leftist organizations such as those offering apologetics for Hamas.
-History has at least vindicated the impulses of Sen. McCarthy in pursuing subversive elements in Hollywood and in Washington. Harry Dexter White, a senior official in the Truman administration, was passing intelligence to the USSR and this was ignored when first raised. The vast majority of what HUAC and the related Senate Committee investigated was legitimate subversive activity. Their efforts were absolutely constitutional and absolutely necessary, and Joe McCarthy didn't blacklist anybody - the studios did that because they were afraid, rightfully, that the American people might take exception with them putting pro-Communist material on the screen.
-I firmly believe that any thorough examination of academia will reveal a substantial nest of similar sentiments and efforts. Pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli, and anti-Jewish sentiment on college campuses did not arise out of thin air. Some schools have been hotbeds of this sort of nonsense - for example, with the BDS movement - for years, but now it is spreading and being openly fanned.
-Some fields, such as sociology or various "studies" departments, basically operate on ideological litmus tests, demanding that you take up "anti-colonial" or "anti-imperialist" positions - somehow, always positions that tie themselves in knots to oppose America. And I would point out that, somewhat inevitably, those positions somehow always wind their way back around to making excuses for the "noble savages"* who have no problem lopping off the heads of children in pursuit of their latest jihad.
-Whether it is antisemitism or parroting Red China's latest line on "decolonization" - which somehow always makes the US and our allies the bad guy even when the Chinses push countries into debt bondage - we need to ask tough questions about who is paying for this nonsense. If we're lucky we'll just find a bunch of useful idiots who wanted to feel good about themselves and decided this was how to go about it, but I think we'll find far worse lurking in the shadows in the form of people who have been informally bought, bullied, or blackmailed into supporting this nonsense.
OOC: This would, of course, be said dripping with sarcasm.
