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- No, really. He was like that all the time, despite what some Republicans would have you think. Especially since he was a child molester to boot.
Gattsuru: I hate to be on McCarthy's side — he was a hideous drunkard, bombastic, and more than little loose with the facts — but the relevant scenes were of Mc Carthy's more bombastic quotes, and the editing during the Annie Moss portion is dishonest at best and flagrantly misleading at worst. The woman actually was a member of two communist parties (Communist Political Association and a more generic Communist Party), and there really wasn't much question about it. I'm also not certain how helpful a half-page by Curt Gentry citing an office rumor that could be true is. You've already got someone that was about as close to a Card-Carrying Villain as it gets; you don't need to try and elevate him to cartoonish supervillainy or Complete Monster status.
HeartBurn Kid: Speaking of, let's move the Conversation In The Main Page here, where it belongs:
- ...mostly recut to make him look like even more of an idiot than he already was. So Yeah.
- No, really. He was like that all the time, despite what some Republicans would have you think. Especially since he was a child molester to boot
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- No, really. He was like that all the time, despite what some Republicans would have you think. Especially since he was a child molester to boot
- ...mostly recut to make him look like even more of an idiot than he already was. So Yeah.
Kamino Neko: Removed as, though I'm not sure which trope this falls under, it sure ain't this one:
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- The Clan of the Fiery Cross radio serial put Superman against the Klu Klux Klan, with accurate portrayals of their beliefs and rituals. Suffice to say, the public took the Klan much less seriously after that.
- This might fall under Values Dissonance, but I don't know how well-received the Klan was outside the South in the 40s
Johnny E: I guess what they were going for is people heard the radio, then were surprised to find out that the over-the-top crazy white supremacist baddies were based on real people. Still not sure it counts though.
Piearty I'm not sure if this counts...most people thought that the hippogriff was something out of J.K. Rowling's imagination, but it was actually already part of mythology...
Grev: One day we'll be telling our grandkids about our fiber-optic Christmas trees, and they'll be looking at us like we did when our grandparents told us about their aluminum Christmas trees.
Live-Action TV: "It was a little surprising to see Gibbs refer to a suspect as "Master Chief" on NCIS. That's a real Navy rank." Maybe to anyone who's never read any military-based fiction, known anyone in the Navy, or watched a movie with a plot at sea in the Navy. Between Tom Clancy and the real military, I'm guessing this amounts to less than 5% of Americans and a similar number of people elsewhere.
