HOF w/ Good Ol Dan the Man...

[heydaralon]

I just got to the part about favorite presidents and Dan goes into his old anti war screed, and domestic spying, liberty, etc. He seems to have forgotten there are people in a Gulag that remember when he went mute as Obama started a min of 2 new wars and abused the fuck out of Domestic spying. Dan didn't say shit about that, and frankly it pisses me off.

While I've lampooned Dan a lot in the past, I've never been pissed at him. I'm a little pissed now at his disingenuousness in this show.

I just can't take him seriously man. If he's gonna be a "liberty nut," as he has claimed he is, then there is really no possible way that Socialism or Communism can be obfuscated or ignored as it was the largest threat to liberty in human history with no close second. Either he is ignorant, which is unlikely, or he is being dishonest. Also, offering boilerplate apologies and rationalizations for communism is not very martian. That was pretty much the standard position of every western academic during the Cold War.

The Old MSM wolf, Mussolini on the Gas Station, Qaddafi in the drainage ditch heeee's Dan Carlin!

[TheReal_ND]

Lynn Carlin (born Mary Lynn Reynolds on January 31, 1938, in Los Angeles) is an American actress.[1]

She was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1968 for her role in Faces. Carlin made her stage debut in Clare Boothe Luce's The Women at the Laguna Beach Playhouse.

Patronymic from Reynold
English: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements ragin ‘counsel’ + wald ‘rule’, which was first introduced to England by Scandinavian settlers in the Old Norse form Rognvaldr (see Ronald), and greatly reinforced after the Conquest by the Norman forms Reinald, Reynaud. The surname is occasionally also borne by Jews, in which case it presumably represents an Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.

She was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of socialite Muriel Elizabeth (née Ansley 1909-1993) and Laurence 'Larry' Reynolds.[2] Her father was a Hollywood business manager in the 1930s.

Muriel Ansley Reynolds, a founding member of the Friends of the UCI Library and the Children's Theater at the Laguna Community Theater, died this week. She was 86.

Reynolds, a resident of Newport Beach, served in leadership positions on the Disneyland Community Service Awards Committee, Orange County Performing Arts Center Board, Laguna Beach Coordinating Council, UCI Foundation Advisory Committee and the Orange County Protocol Foundation.

Among the honors bestowed on Reynolds throughout the years was the Orange County Press Club's Headliner Award, UCLA Outstanding Achievement Award, B'nai B'rith Humanitarian Award, the Blind Children's Center Humanitarian Award, and the UCI Lauds and Laurels Award.

I think it's fairly clear his grandfather the Hollywood business manager was Jewish but the trail goes cold looking into him

[C-Mag]

I've long suspected Dan has some Jewish family background.

Family in the media industry - check
Reporter for a newspaper in LA - check
Lauded by the "Intellectual Dark Web" - check
Irish - check

All the tell tale evidence is there to suggest a Jew somewhere in his not too distant family past

No idea about that. You can look it up, his mom was a Hollywood actress


EDIT: You did

[TheReal_ND]

I did. His grandfather was Hollywood business manager named Reynolds and his grandmother was a big time socialite in LA

[heydaralon]

Do you think his mom had to audition on one of Weinstein's backroom casting couches to get movie parts?

[TheReal_ND]

Do you think his mom had to audition on one of Weinstein's backroom casting couches to get movie parts?

Well she started as a secretary so maybe. Her father being a "Hollywood business manager" would suggest that she had hereditary rights to be fast tracked which would explain why Dan was ever a news anchor in LA to begin with.

[C-Mag]

I only brought up the blacklisting thing because Dan has brought up the Red Scare a lot. The entire entertainment and news media has been very kind to Communism over the years. It's not just the movies and reports they make, it's also the negative space of the picture they paint.

The horrors of Communism are easily equal, and numerically far, far worse than Fascism. Yet we only get a film here or there about these Communist atrocities. I can't name one film on the Russian Holodomar, or one on Mao's great leap forward, or one on Castro and Che's mass murders in Cuba. On the other hand, No one could list all the films about the horrors of Fascism.

Maybe it's just the echo chamber belief of the coastal elites that make people think that way.

[heydaralon]

I only brought up the blacklisting thing because Dan has brought up the Red Scare a lot. The entire entertainment and news media has been very kind to Communism over the years. It's not just the movies and reports they make, it's also the negative space of the picture they paint.

The horrors of Communism are easily equal, and numerically far, far worse than Fascism. Yet we only get a film here or there about these Communist atrocities. I can't name one film on the Russian Holodomar, or one on Mao's great leap forward, or one on Castro and Che's mass murders in Cuba. On the other hand, No one could list all the films about the horrors of Fascism.

Maybe it's just the echo chamber belief of the coastal elites that make people think that way.

You should check out a book called the Black Book of Communism. It is right up your alley dude. Its long, but it covers all the horrors globally.

[TheReal_ND]

I only brought up the blacklisting thing because Dan has brought up the Red Scare a lot. The entire entertainment and news media has been very kind to Communism over the years. It's not just the movies and reports they make, it's also the negative space of the picture they paint.

The horrors of Communism are easily equal, and numerically far, far worse than Fascism. Yet we only get a film here or there about these Communist atrocities. I can't name one film on the Russian Holodomar, or one on Mao's great leap forward, or one on Castro and Che's mass murders in Cuba. On the other hand, No one could list all the films about the horrors of Fascism.

Maybe it's just the echo chamber belief of the coastal elites that make people think that way.

There's an ethnic component many will willfully ignore no matter how much you point it out.

People act like the horrors of communism were all the result of failed policy and willfully overlook the ethnic component.

Hollywood is a liberal propaganda arm and people willfully overlook the ethnic component.

People willfully overlook the ethnic component of Hollywood blacklisting and communist counter measures.

[C-Mag]

Communism has been tried and failed by a lot of ethnic groups. Asians, Africans, South Americans, East Indies, you name it.