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The Red Scare Index: 22

June 23, 2009 11:46 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, Monday, June 22, 2009:

TOTAL: 22
Socialism, Socialist, Socialistic: 8
Communism, Communist, Communistic: 11
Marxism/Marxist: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 3

By Network:

CNN: 1
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 0
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 1
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 0

CNN 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: 12
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 4
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 5
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 3

Fox Business Network: 5
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 2
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 3
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 0

MSNBC: 2
 Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 1
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 1
Marxism, Marxist/s: 0
Fascism, Fascist/s, Fascistic: 0

CNBC: 2
Socialism, Socialist/s, Socialistic: 1
Communism, Communist/s, Communistic: 1
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.

Tags: Fox News Channel, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, CNN Headline News, Fox Business

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    • Author by political_left-religious_right (June 23, 2009 11:55 am ET)
         
      It's nice to see the numbers coming down. I see that Fox, with 17/22, is still trying to beat the dead horses. Furthermore, it's only Fox that's divorced enough from reality to use the "fascism" smear, when thinking people know that's a quality of the far right, not of the near left.
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    • Author by caveman (June 23, 2009 12:34 pm ET)
         
      Fascism isn't red and doesn't belong in this otherwise useful count.
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