The Red Scare Index: 43
May 15, 2009 10:50 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 yesterday, Thursday, May 14, 2009:
TOTAL: 43
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 30
Communism, Communist, Commnistic: 5
Marxism/Marxist: 2
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 6
By Network:
CNN: 2
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 1
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 1
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 0CNN Headline News: 0
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 0
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 0
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: 7
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 2
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 0
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 5
MSNBC: 24
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 19
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 4
Marxism, Marxist/s: 1
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 0
CNBC: 3
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 3
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.
Did Sen. Bernie Sanders appear on an MSNBC show yesterday?
If they replayed this rant, or had a discussion about it then the count for the number of times the word was used would skyrocket. The rant by itself would have at least a half dozen or more instances in which the word "socialist" was used and would exlain why the numbers would be so skewed.