Objective Reporting - or entertainment

Rating: Null/10 (8 February 2006)

Would Ed Murrow have approved of this PC film, made 40 years after his death? I think not.
The filmmakers lied by omission - which is an insult to Ed Murrow. Any objective representation of McCarthy (ism) would not have dwelt only on his aide Roy Cohn,but would have shown his other top aide - Robert F. Kennedy - later senator from Massachusetts.
"Not only had McCarthy been a frequent guest at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis, but McCarthy had also dated two Kenendy sisters, first Eunice (the mother of Maria Shriver) and then Pat (who later married actor Peter Lawford)" from 'The Kennedys and McCarthyism'
It's fun to make fun of McCarthy - he's a dead buffoon. Clooney should have had the guts to include RF Kennedy. Murrow would have.