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Article: Good Luck finding the truth here: George Clooney's new movie Good Night and Good Luck continues the smear campaign against Senator Joseph McCarthy and lionizes leftist reporter Edward R. Murrow.(CULTURE WAR)(Good Night and Good Luck)
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- The New American
- Article date:
- October 31, 2005
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Give George Clooney credit; he knows the core market for his new movie Good Night and Good Luck. The former television actor from the popular show ER opened his movie on the struggle between anti-Communist Senator Joseph McCarthy and television reporter Edward R. Murrow on October 7 to limited release in only five cities (Boston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.). Clooney picked the heart of American liberalism to premier his renewed attack on the late Senator Joseph McCarthy.
I viewed the movie in Boston--more specifically, Harvard Square in Cambridge. This was indeed the right place for a movie catering to liberalism and perpetuating ...