"The Left Looks For Heretics; The Right Looks For Converts"

Andrew Breitbart’s latest Washington Times column on the new Hollywood Blacklist features several quotes from his father-in-law, the great Orson Bean: "When the blacklist hit, I saw actors walk across the street to avoid me. The doorman at 485 Madison Avenue (former CBS headquarters) turned his back as I walked by. But I never felt hated by the ring-wing blacklisters. They just felt we were terribly wrong," he said. "These days, the left doesn’t just disagree with right-wingers--they hate them."Maybe that’s why there’s been historically much more of a outflow amongst intellectuals from port to starboard since the mid-1950s. As Jonah Goldberg noted in early 2001, many ex-communists followed Bean’s path to the right--or at the least back to the center:If you count normal, non-pointy headed people, millions. Generation after generation of the Left’s best minds have decided they like things over here more. Many if not most of National R...