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The Red Scare Index: 54

March 27, 2009 10:53 am ET by Karl Frisch

Here is today's daily Red Scare Index -- our search of CNN, CNN Headline News, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, MSNBC and CNBC for uses of the following terms: Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic, Communism, Communist, Communistic, Marxism and Marxist.

Here are the numbers for yesterday, Thursday, March 26, 2009:

TOTAL: 54
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 30
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 22
Marxism/Marxist: 2

By Network:

CNN: 1
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 0
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 1
Marxism/Marxist: 0

CNN Headline News: 6
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 0
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 6
Marxism/Marxist: 0

Fox News Channel: 20
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 13
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 6
Marxism/Marxist: 1

Fox Business Network: 7
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 5
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 1
Marxism/Marxist: 1

MSNBC: 17
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 12
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 5
Marxism/Marxist: 0

CNBC: 3
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 0
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 3
Marxism/Marxist: 0

The above numbers are the result of a TVeyes.com power search for these terms on these networks.

Tags: Fox News Channel, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, CNN Headline News, Fox Business, Attacks on Barack Obama, Propaganda/Noise Machine

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- by ericfree (March 27, 2009 11:46 am ET)
  
  Talk about escalation. I thought this was pretty silly when you started it a few weeks ago and the numbers were in the low teens. They've climbed steadily since then. The sky, apparently, by summer. Damn those Marxist, socialist commies! How dare they try to buy into our good thing!
  
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