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June 16, 2006
Prof. Irwin Corey: Moonbat
I remember seeing Professor Irwin Corey in a number of guest appearances on TV shows during my childhood, as well as a few roles in films during my teen years -- most notably, "Car Wash," a wild-haired, double-talking clown in tails and tennis shoes. Hadn't really given him much thought in years, just another oddball bit player on the entertainment scene.
Then I stumbled across this profile, providing a whole 'nother dimension to the guy. Corey claims credit for a number of well-known sayings: "Wherever you go, there you are;" "You can get further with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word;" and "If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re going."
But he's also an unapologetic moonbat.
According to Corey, he did his best to avoid serving in the military during World War II. "Three times I was called in, then rejected as 4-F," he said. "When they called me back a fourth time, I went in with a letter from the producer, saying I was indispensable to the show. The guy at the draft board told me, ‘This is wartime–there’s no entertainment!’ and shoved me straight through, without even giving me a physical."
He was discharged within six months after convincing the Army that he was a homosexual, quickly returning to the clubs and stage while his former comrades fought, bled and died on the battlefield.
But it's his politics that prove most unsettling, making him the intellectual forefather of the current generation of Hollywood moonbats.
One thing Corey was never very shy about, however, was politics. From his earliest union days to the blacklist to the present (presidential bid aside), he’s been mighty outspoken.
"It was never a conscious decision," he said of his admittedly strong beliefs. "It was never something I set out to do." Nowadays his walls are adorned with pictures of Corey posing with Castro (he gave $50,000 to send medicine to Cuba). He’s also made large contributions to the Mumia Abu-Jamal defense fund, as well as the Communist Party.
In some ways, being blacklisted continues to haunt him ("Though it’s more of a gray list now," he told me). He says he was never asked back to Letterman after his first appearance there in 1982, because the blacklist was still in effect at NBC. Being blacklisted also earned him a hefty FBI file.
Because Letterman, that notorious Right Winger, Johnny Carson and Jay Leno were all afraid to have any members of the Moonbat Left on their shows -- which is why all the late-night shows were cancelled after Corey's 1982 appearance.
What? They ignored the Blacklist? Whattaya mean, "What Blacklist?"
Back to the profile of Comrade Corey.
Much of his political outrage these days is aimed at Israel, so much so that he’s made hefty contributions to Palestinian relief efforts.
"You know, in 1492," he began, "when the settlers came to this continent, they killed the Indians and took their land. Then they brought black people to this land and made slaves out of them. And then George Washington, who was the first president of the United States, had 250 slaves–which is a felony.
"At that time–and I use that expression ‘at that time,’ for the simple reason that you cannot say, it was okay to kill the Jews at that time. You know? A felony does not lose its dimension by the passing of time... And I always say, if God wanted the Jews to have Palestine, why’d he give the Chinese a whole continent? Understand that?
"The fact is, East Prussia was part of Germany. By 1914, there was a thing called the Polish Corridor, which allowed Poland access to the Baltic–it was a land-locked country. After World War II, they gave them East Prussia. They gave the Poles East Prussia–they could’ve given the Jews the Rhineland, and the world couldn’t’ve said anything. After all, they took the lives and the property of 600,000 German Jews. What happened to that property? Who has it now?
"Israel says that God gave them the land that now belongs to Palestine. That little piece of land. We are part of a solar system. Nine planets revolving around the sun. There are billions and billions of planets throughout the universe, in billions and billions of galaxies. How did God even find this planet, let alone that little tiny piece of land to give them?"
Riiiiight.
What a louse.
Posted by Mike Lief at June 16, 2006 12:39 PM
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