Ed Driscoll makes an important point:
David Susskind could be a warm jovial host; his 1970 segment titled “My Son the Success!” which featured Mel Brooks, David Steinberg, George Segal, and Dan Greenburg, the author of the then-recent book, How to Be a Jewish Mother, is one of the funniest segments of live television ever made. But Susskind’s cranky 1966 appearance on Firing Line with William F. Buckley is a reminder that Hollywood has hated half the country for many decades before Trump rode down the golden escalator and upended the left’s media-political monopoly.
I’ve been writing out that hate for over 30 years, now, and pointing out that hate was around even longer.The physical evidence of this is huge, both in it’s amounts and implications. Some graphics I’d captured from eleft wing sites of the times:
