Ann Coulter is the smartest woman in America.

"Left Wing Smear"
by nueadan (movies profile) Oct 18, 2005
8 of 36 people found this review helpful

I strive to be "independent" in my political opinions and read/see/hear both sides of the argument. While this film does a fantastic job in its acting, directing and visuals, one can't help but notice that it is hugely biased against McCarthy. According to Ann Coulter, a very pro-Republic social commentator, McCarthy was a pretty great guy for these reasons: 1) there were actually Communist spies in the US gov't at the time and thus he helped us win the cold war 2) he practiced tolerance and acceptance in his office (anything other than white male is clearly, and accurately, considered inferior in the atmosphere depicted in the CBS station of this movie) 3) He passionately served America by being in the armed forces and going to war when he didn't have to.

While I understand I am essentially summarizing someone else without doing the research on this myeself, I just think that people should be aware that there is another side to this story and one shouldn't take this as the end all, be all of accurate, contextual historical fact. And while I would agree that the film takes a critical look at even Murrow himself, he is portrayed as the hero who suffered when in fact McCarthy ended up dying of alcoholism because of what Coulter would probably describe as "a left wing smear on the character of a decent man."

Overall, great, but I'd also like to see a counter movie from McCarthy's point-of-view.

http://movies.yahoo.com/mvc/dfrv?mid=1808702700&s=&rvid=255-570544&i=50&spl=&ys=rnXB4qoOmAXdY96G.36vtw--