Thread by @JewhadiTM

The Return of the Hollywood Blacklist

“Will & Grace” star Eric McCormack’s most recent flop.

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Pygmies walk the streets of Hollywood where giants once trod. Take @EricMcCormack, the bland Canadian actor who in 1998 lucked into the popular sitcom Will & Grace.

Rather than appreciate the hard work of the hundreds who enabled his lucrative career, McCormack last week threatened their livelihood, triggered by the news of a Donald Trump fundraiser inside his leftist Beverly Hills bubble.

The irony escaped McCormack and his ilk that after the endless parade of films about the horror of McCarthyism (the most recent of which was Trumbo in 2015), Hollywood is now relaunching it — against conservatives.

In Will & Grace, McCormack plays a gay lawyer sharing a Manhattan flat with a female interior designer played by @DebraMessing, and both leads were regularly outshone by the zany supporting pair, Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally.

Yet none of the quartet has managed to do anything noteworthy since the show’s 2006 demise. McCormack kept busy as the star of 2 failed series and a guest star in several others. NBC recently resurrected Will & Grace but canceled it after 3 short seasons.

Henry Fonda and James Stewart were lifelong best friends and political opposites — Fonda an FDR Democrat, Stewart a conservative Republican — who became movie stars at around the same time. By 1941, both were at a career high point, with several instant classics under their belt.

They had fame, wealth, and security far beyond most Americans, but when Pearl Harbor happened, neither man hesitated to forsake his fortune and risk death for his country — Fonda as a Navy officer in the Pacific, Stewart as a bomber pilot over Europe.

They weren’t unique for the time. Almost every major male star went into actual combat, even the “King of Hollywood,” Clark Gable.

Others included Tyrone Power (Marine, at Iwo Jima), Glenn Ford (Navy Reserve), David Niven (Royal Army, at Normandy), William Holden (Air Force), and Robert Montgomery (Navy, at Normandy).

So when we watch them playing real men in post-World War II films, we buy it, because they were. They had fame, wealth, and security far beyond most Americans, but when Pearl Harbor happened, neither man hesitated to forsake his fortune and risk death for his country —

Fonda as a Navy officer in the Pming, comforting a dying soldier. We buy Power in The Razor’s Edge, seeking wisdom in a decadent world.

None of those men would have considered censoring his fellow artists and industry workers for supporting a party or president they opposed. Fonda and Stewart’s friendship outlasted the original Hollywood witch hunts, which staunch anti-communist Stewart did not condemn.

Neither did he years later condemn Fonda’s daughter, Jane, when she was pictured on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun, even though his own stepson had been killed in action in the Vietnam War.

Such stoicism is beyond today’s woke Hollywood “heroes” such as McCormack, Messing, (Hellboy) @Perlmutations, and (Captain half-America) @ChrisEvans

“You don’t want to alienate half your audience,” Evans said. “But I’d be disappointed in myself if I didn’t speak up. Especially for fear of some monetary repercussion or career damage.”

Their words are as empty as their bravado. These Hollywood snowflakes backpedal at the slightest career jeopardy, as McCormack just did when challenged by the likes of Whoopi Goldberg.

He wrote on Instagram, “I want to be clear about my social media post from last week, which has been misinterpreted in a very upsetting way. I absolutely do not support blacklists or discrimination of any kind, as anyone who knows me would attest.”

But then, instead of quitting while behind, he idiotically couldn’t help sinking further: “I’d simply like to know where Trump’s major donations are coming from, which is a matter of public record.”

Give McCormack a couple of lean years, like those he threatened others with, and he’ll be begging for a guest spot on Blue Bloods, starring conservative Trump supporter Tom Selleck. It would be easy to tell which of them is the smaller man.