Mr. Potter & the Commies of Bedford Falls - Fox News Take on 'It's A Wonderful Life'

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From the Jimmy Kimmel Show.

[exmodee]

1. This was great!

Enjoyed it very much, thanks.

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3. YW, they did a great job on this Christmas movie classic, luv it. Happy Holidays!

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2. "Rich, educated white guys make the best decisions."

Actual quote heard on FNN.

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4. I believe it, the same old story.

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5. Director Frank Capra was a prime target of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in the 1950s

HUAC believed his movies' themes were part of a communist plot, and questioned many of the blacklisted Hollywood screenwriters with whom he was associated.

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7. Thank you, I didn't know that. What a difficult period, with McCarthy and others.

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9. 'When 'It's a Wonderful Life' Was Accused of Being Communist Propaganda'

(First posted at Bill​Moy​ers​.com in 2014) "When the movie first came out, it fell under suspicion from the FBI and the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)...Among the group who produced the analytical tools that were used by the FBI in its analysis of ​‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ was Ayn Rand.”

"Rand’s group told the FBI:"

“The purpose of the Communists in Hollywood is not the production of political movies openly advocating Communism. Their purpose is to corrupt non-political movies — by introducing small, casual bits of propaganda into innocent stories and to make people absorb the basic principles of Collectivism by indirection and implication. Few people would take Communism straight, but a constant stream of hints, lines, touches and suggestions battering the public from the screen will act like drops of water that split a rock if continued long enough. The rock that they are trying to split is Americanism.”

https://inthesetimes.com/article/its-a-wonderful-life-communist

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11. Tx for the info. Wacked Ayn Rand, really working to push her paranoid, libertarian ideology.

I need to read more about the activities of this period.

[czarjak]

10. Got Paul? Got Cruz? Got...

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6. I thought of this movie when we bailed out Bush Sr's son in the savings and loan scandal

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8. Perfect, the Bushes what a group.Tx for replying.

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12. Excellent! Thanks for sharing.