Treasures of the Walt Disney Archives Coming to Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

 It's sad how little progress we have made.

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Haw-haw, it's real funny.  For your next trick, how about some Holocaust jokes?  What's that phrase?  Oh, yeah ... those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.  You may think it's all clever and I have a stick up my ass and I can't take a joke ... but the sad thing is, I don't think you really understand what my original comment was about.  You chose the ONE thing that is the worst about Disney, about that time in American history -- in world history, really -- and made a little joke about it to make ol' Unca Walt look bad.  There are some things that shouldn't be made into jokes.  That's what maturity is all about -- knowing when not to do what you can.

"They both threw actors they felt to be communist sympathizers under the FBI's red-baiting bus!"

You say that like its a bad thing... I'd throw a pinko under a bus today if I could!

I'm guessing, Justin Shady, that you did not grow up during the Cold War era, and certainly not during the Red Scare.  Sadly, we are getting to the point where we are right back there, this time with liberals (of which I am one) claiming that Republicans are the problem, and going so far as to "name names" of who is the dreaded R-word.  It's sad how little progress we have made.  But I cannot imagine the undue pressure put on pragmatist entrepreneurs like Walt Disney to cooperate with the government in what was CLEARLY one of the worst episodes of American history -- surely, it's right up there with the worst.  But it's a shame you had to snarkily use that as your lead, rather than focus on the positive.  Some things never change.  Now that they're dead, it's easier to lambaste them for having participated in what was a morally complex, emotionally and politically charged period that had the nation worried about the Communist threat -- which was far from purely ideological.  You might be interested in reading the actual testimony, which hints at some of Walt Disney's actual reasons for testifying.  You can find it here -- http://filmtv.eserver.org/disn....  Neither those who testified nor those who opposed the Communist hunt were wrong.  To reduce this incredibly complex period of history to a quick aside is to do an injustice to everything it was about, right or wrong.