The Red Scare Index: 306 (Last Week)
April 20, 2009 12:21 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, Socialists, Socialistic, Communism, Communist, Communists, Communistic, Marxism, Marxist, Marxists, Fascism, Fascist, Fascists and Fascistic.
Here are the numbers for last week, April 13-17, 2009:
TOTAL: 306
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 139
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 104
Marxism/Marxist: 1
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 62
By Network:
CNN: 43
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 6
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 27
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 6CNN Headline News: 22
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 1
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 19
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 2
Fox News Channel: 103
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 50
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 35
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 18
Fox Business Network: 69
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 33
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 3
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 33
MSNBC: 58
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 42
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 13
Marxism, Marxist/s: 11
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 2
CNBC: 15
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 7
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 7
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 1
The above numbers are the result of a TVeyes.com power search for these terms on these networks.
Well, I do no track this anymore since Fox News jumped the shark.
Believe it or not, just a few weeks prior to the Tea Party mess, their daily Red Scare #s were quite reasonable and not nearly this out of bounds.
Great job, as always, Fox!
WOW I saw the number 306 and thought we must be at War!
There's been an invasion, and the danged Reds are on our beaches and are parachuting into our schoolyards (you know, like in "Red Dawn")...
WHY didn't the Emergency Broadcast System interrupt the ball game I'm watching, I thought... why didn't I hear the air-raid sirens?
WAIT that's 306 Red Menace mentions over a whole week! Not in a single day, a week!
WHEW I can put the lock back on the gun locker, and stow that gas mask back under the kitchen sink (I don't know if the danged thing will even work anyway, and I'm none too eager to find out for sure).
Stand Down Soldier...
"This has only been a test, of the Emergency Broadcast System: in the event of an actual emergency, you would have been instructed to..."
Get back to the ballgame, on this Patriot's Day Holiday.
...and I'm amazed and aghast, that there would be 104 mentions of Communism, Communist, and Communistic, but only a single mention of Marxism or Marxist (or Marx himself I guess).
This is incredible.
This is like talking about the War On Christmas, without mentioning Ebenezer Scrooge... or it's like talking about Ebenezer Scrooge without mentioning Charles Dickens...
Authorship has it's right... and what's right is right... and this is wrong!
What the heck did Herr Marx do with his life, if not devote it to writing out his Theory of Government known as communism?
We need to have big protest about this, we need to flood the streets and squares of the cities, with as many of us as possible, on some single day in the near future... I suggest May 1st.
As always, people scared of words they dont know the meaning of.
There is a storm coming...and I am afraid...