Mann Handled---Red Channeled?

If you haven't read anything about the Mann Report, you should. (Here's a good place to start.) Terrorist bombing in London dominated news last week, but this story is not unrelated, even though it is about a sloppy right wing partisan "report" on a few PBS news and talk shows---principally Bill Moyers' Now--which identifies every opinion not in strict and full support of Bushcorp and the Rabid Right agenda.

Why bother with something so innately silly, even though it was commissioned by the right wing head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and paid for with tax money?

It was just this sort of "report" that got a lot of people fired from their jobs in TV, movies, radio and schools during the Blacklist and McCarthy 1950s---sloppy with inaccuracies, crazed in its rigidity and idiotic in interpretation. That's also why it is related to the terrorist attack, because then as now, the sense of America endangered by shadowy enemies was misused for political and ideological purposes. It did happen here, and it can happen again.

It is also further evidence of the rabid right's agenda: to make Liberal equal what Communist meant in the 50s, if not totally in content, then in effect: UnAmerican, subversive, fellow-travelers of the Evildoers.