The Red Scare Index: 93
April 21, 2009 11:45 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, Socialists, Socialistic, Communism, Communist, Communists,
Communistic, Marxism, Marxist, Marxists, Marxistic, Fascism, Fascist, Fascists and
Fascistic.
Here are the numbers for Monday, April 20, 2009:
TOTAL: 93
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 33
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 27
Marxism/Marxist: 4
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 29
By Network:
CNN: 7
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 3
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 1
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 3CNN Headline News: 2
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 0
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 2
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 0
Fox News Channel: 25
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 16
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 4
Marxism, Marxist/s: 4
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 1
Fox Business Network: 8
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 2
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 2
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 4
MSNBC: 44
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 9
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 14
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 21
CNBC: 7
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 3
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 4
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 0
The above numbers are the result of a TVeyes.com power search for these terms on these networks.
Four mentions in a single day, of Marxism or Marxist (or Marx too I guess), that seems a lot... and all of them on FBN... hmmm...
Oh I know! There was a movie on TCM last night, "A Night at the Opera", one of great Marx Brothers movies ("A Day at the Races" is my favorite)...
That's got to be it... I bet the net caught Groucho Harpo Chico and Zeppo too (that's four right there), I bet at FBN they were talking about that movie and those brothers... otherwise, they seem to avoid Herr Marx quite a bit... he wrote a book, and they don't want to inadvertantly cause anybody to read that book, by way of saying Herr Marx's name...
It's like how they always say "evolution" when talking about Charles Darwin, and avoid at all costs saying "The Descent of Man": because that's the real point of controversy, and that's the name of the book that actually bothers them, and so they never say "The Descent of Man" for fear that's where the talk will go...
Don't talk about Herr Marx either... don't go there... Groucho Harpo Chico and Zeppo too, talk about them, but not Karl... no, he wrote a book, and you know how these people feel about books.