I'm a pepper, you're a pepper, we're a pepper, they're a pepper... a red one

........seems to be the motto in Hollywood, going way back in time:

http://socialistworker.org/2011/08/11/when-lucy-was-a-red
When Lucy was a Red 
One of the best-known figures of television comedy had little-known leftist roots.

What's this story doing here? Well, I was just doing a little muckraking for that discussion forum I'm deeply engaged in, and came across the story for the first time since it surfaced about 20 years ago in the write wing. In this here blog, it's always the right time to chronicle insidious leftism in society.

Ball's Wikipedia page doesn't mention "dancer" among her five different careers, but oh, the moves she pulls trying to explain this weird aspect of her Hollywood life! Sure she did it to please her grandfather. My life was wrapped around my grandparents' whims till they died -- yours too -- right? Everybody's is. I'm sure if I had been a topmost Hollywood star during the so-called red scare era and my grampa had wanted me to defy every tradition of Americanism and TV stardom by opening my home to Communist Party meetings, I would have done so too, huh!

I'm being facetious. My grandparents were, thank God, from the First Families of Virginia, and not even a single "liberal" among them or their generation of kin. (Wish I could say the same of mine.) But I'd love to know how Lucy's grandpa Frederick Hunt could have gone commie since her family, also aristocratic-looking, apparently came down from the Balls that produced George Washington's mother. Just doesn't compute -- if you know what I mean!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N2vNpHR0a0
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