The Red Scare Index: 117
May 14, 2009 11:35 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 Tuesday, May 12 and Wednesday, May 13, 2009:
TOTAL: 117
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 72
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 21
Marxism/Marxist: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 24
By Network:
CNN: 8
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 0
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 8
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 0CNN Headline News: 5
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 1
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 4
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 0
Fox News Channel: 18
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 11
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 0
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 12
Fox Business Network: 23
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 11
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 0
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 12
MSNBC: 42
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 41
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 1
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 0
CNBC: 16
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 8
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 8
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.
If yesterday's cable campaign against the dread hydra with heads named socialism and communism and Marxism and fascism, if it was a horse race, then yesterday's results were:
Winner and taking first place money, the crowd favorite SOCIALISM, by about 6 lengths...
In second place, for the place money, was the surprising FASCISM, by half a length over the next horse...
And taking third place and the show money, was a disappointing COMMUNISM...
And in an extraordinary embarrassment, the horse name MARXISM never even left the gate and got a ZERO yesterday, as its rider Karl Marx just sat there on the nag, picking crumbs out of his beard and analyzing things until he got a migraine, while the other horses raced by, and while socialists and fascists and communists worldwide cheered them on.