The Red Scare Index: 58
March 31, 2009 2:16 pm 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, Monday, March 30, 2009:
TOTAL: 58
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 34
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 24
Marxism/Marxist: 0
By Network:
CNN: 6
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 0
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 6
Marxism/Marxist: 0CNN Headline News: 7
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 0
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 7
Marxism/Marxist: 0
Fox News Channel: 29
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 19
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 10
Marxism/Marxist: 0
Fox Business Network: 9
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 8
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 1
Marxism/Marxist: 0
MSNBC: 5
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 5
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 0
Marxism/Marxist: 0
CNBC: 2
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 2
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 0
Marxism/Marxist: 0
The above numbers are the result of a TVeyes.com power search for these terms on these networks.
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Do they consider the social commentary of personalities repeating someone else's quote or laughs or discussion
Do they consider the social commentary of personalities repeating someone else's quote or laughs or discussion
Can you cite specific examples when this occurs?
announcer: Yesterday Mr. Hannity claimed "we are all socialist now" "Can you believe Glen Beck thinks the government is turning to a communist government"
Based on their own standards: for uses of the following terms: Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic, Communism, Communist, Communistic, Marxism and Marxist. But doesn't say in what context these words were used in.
I think it's a trip that the mainstream media is scared red and all...but I was just asking a question.
I'd guess that whatever net is being used to catch all these references in the hack media to communism etc., is catching all references regardless of their context: meaning quotations and hear-say and whatever repetitions, are all as good a citation, as citing the original.
On the surface of it, it seems amusing, to index the number of times those demons are invoked: but after a while, it becomes insightful, as you see just who's invoking those demons, and how often.
The index is insightful, but not the demons themselves, or the talk they appear in: as to call something communistic or whatever, is not to say anything at all specific or detailed about it...
It's worthless if it's supposed to be political commentary, or Policy opinion: those things (political commentary and Policy opinions) are nothing, when they are void of details and specifics.
The demons being evoked (commuinism etc.) are as real and tangible and substantial, as any other demon or ghost is.
But it's great amusement, even insight, in seeing a scorecard of who it is in the hack media that talks of these phantasms, and of how often they do.
And I'm shocked, disappointed even, to see that Karl Marx graded out as a ZERO, in the number of times these various demons have been mentioned by the hack media, on the day or days in question...
24 mentions of Communism, Communist, Communistic... but not one single reference by name, to Marx or Marxism?
Ye gads and little fishes!
That's like talking about Hamlet, without mentioning Shakespeare... it's like talking about The Grapes of Wrath, without talking about John Steinbeck... it's like discussing The Wealth of Nations, but dissing Adam Smith...
Authors should have their authority.
Herr Marx would be mortified, if he weren't already long dead and beyond all insults or embarrassments.