The Red Scare Index: 47
May 20, 2009 4:46 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 yesterday, Tuesday, May 20, 2009:
TOTAL: 47
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 34
Communism, Communist, Commnistic: 5
Marxism/Marxist: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 8
By Network:
CNN: 2
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 2
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 0
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: 17
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 15
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 2
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 0
Fox Business Network: 8
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 2
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 0
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 6
MSNBC: 17
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 15
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 0
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 2
CNBC: 3
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 0
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 3
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.
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It's hard to terrify people with it when all your allies are "socialists" to one degree or another and you live in a mixed economy. Hey, but we'll keep on trying because we are the "news".
Wonderful.