The Red Scare Index: 35
May 11, 2009 2:19 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, Marxistic, Fascism, Fascist, Fascists and
Fascistic.
Here are the numbers for last Friday, May 8, 2009:
TOTAL: 35
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 16
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 10
Marxism/Marxist: 3
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 6
By Network:
CNN: 1
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 0
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 1
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 0CNN Headline News: 1
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 0
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 1
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 0
Fox News Channel: 7
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 5
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 0
Marxism, Marxist/s: 1
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 1
Fox Business Network: 12
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 2
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 4
Marxism, Marxist/s: 2
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 4
MSNBC: 12
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 7
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 4
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 1
CNBC: 2
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 2
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 0
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.
It's an inverse relationship: as the DJIA goes up, talk of communism on cable, and of fascism and even totalitarianism (not included in the RSI) and of Marxism and Karl Marx (who by name seems also not included), all that talk goes down... and as the DJIA goes down, all that commie talk on cable goes up!
The Code has been cracked!
Now, how can I make some money off of this?
I mean, if I can just anticipate this commie talk on the cable television stations, then I'll have anticipated the movements of the Dow, right?
Or is it simply a case of this commie talk following the DJIA, and therefore the one doesn't really lead the other... in which case I can do nothing more than predict the commie talk on cable, and not predict the movements of the Dow at all... in which case I can't make any money here...
And so screw cracking this Code, so what.
Crap, it's back to my day job I guess, working on the Human Genome Project.