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   Message 39,054 of 39,879   
   Nil to Kiwi User   
   Re: Blacklist????   
   27 Jan 18 14:03:39   
   
   From: rednoise9@REMOVETHIScomcast.net   
      
   On 27 Jan 2018, Kiwi User  wrote in   
   alt.fan.frank-zappa:   
      
   > Wasn't that when McCarthyites and rabid Puritan God-botherers were   
   > a force in the land whose slightest whim was LAW? In those times I   
   > seem to remember heading that radio station owners wouldn't have   
   > played anything that didn't reek of Holiness, American Values and   
   > not upsetting the DAR so I'd imagine that Zappa was right out   
   > except in godless places like California and NYC.   
   >   
   > Or have I been misled by Goddamn Commies all these years?   
      
   You've been misled by someone or something and are off by at least a   
   decade.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism   
      
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