SUMMARY: Since January, Media Matters has documented numerous examples of conservatives in the media warning of socialism, fascism, communism, Nazism, McCarthyism, and Marxism, or using such language to describe President Obama or other Democrats.
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Since January, Media Matters for America has documented
numerous examples of conservatives in the media warning of socialism, fascism,
communism, Nazism, McCarthyism, and Marxism, or using such language to
describe President Obama or other Democrats.
Beck: "I was wrong. Our government is not marching
down the road towards communism or socialism... they're marching us to a brand
of non-violent fascism... towards
1984"
April 1
Jonah Goldberg on auto bailout: "You can call it
corporatism, you can call it socialism, you can call it fascism, what it is not
is liberal democratic capitalism"
March
31
Beck: "The government is a heroin pusher using
smiley-faced fascism to grow the nanny
state"
March
31
FNC's Napolitano says Wagoner's resignation is "an
absolute power grab and it's the road to fascism", "this is Mussolini on the
Potomac"
March
30
Fox News' Carlson asks, "Are we headed toward
socialism?"
March
25
Discussing Obama "power grab," Gingrich says
Goldberg's "frighteningly prescient" Liberal Fascism describes "how the left is
thinking this year"
March
25
Hannity: Obama administration is pushing "the single
biggest power grab and move towards socialism in the history of the
country"
March
24
MacCallum on Rep. Bachmann's claim that Obama
proposals are a "lurch toward socialism": "I think you're absolutely right about
that"
March
24
Scarborough declares "Socialism is hard...you want to
socialize entire sectors, and you can't even get people to work in the Treasury
Department"
March
20
Limbaugh expands upon his Frank-McCarthy comparison
and the "popular myth that McCarthy falsely accused people of
things"
March
19
Echo chamber: Fox News' Smith joins Limbaugh,
MacCallum in comparing Rep. Frank to
McCarthy
March
18
Hannity declares today "Day number 52 of the socialism
that you've been waiting for"
March
12
Rodgers claims Obama "clearly is more sympathetic with
the long-term goals of world communism, and let's be blunt about it, Muslim
terrorists, than with any legitimate American
goals"
March
11
Fox News' Asman warns "[w]e ignore" Czech President
Klaus' "advice" that "the road to socialism is the road to serfdom" at "our own
peril"
March
10
False advertising: Beck show promo denounced calling
Dems communists, but he often does that on his
show
March 5
Scarborough on America "moving closer toward
European-style socialism:" "That's not a right-wing claim it's the
truth"
March 4
Fox News VP and Washington Managing Editor Sammon:
Obama has an "agenda towards
socialism"
March 3
Buchanan offers mixed metaphors on socialism in
response to Obama proposals, claims, "for conservatives, this is pitchfork
time"
March 2
On Beck, Byrnes smeared CO solar energy company as
"socialist"
February 19
Fox &
Friends asks: "Are we headed towards
Socialism?"
February
18
Special
Report takes a "fair and balanced look" at whether the
recovery plan is "socialism"
February
17
Wash. Times invokes Nazism, publishes Hitler photo while
criticizing health-care provisions in
stimulus
February
13
On CNN, Rollins and Castellanos compare recovery plan
to Soviet and Cuban communism,
socialism
February
9
Beck on O'Reilly Factor: "We are really truly
stepping beyond socialism and starting to look at fascism"; compares proposals
to Nazi Germany
February
6
Numerous media figures equate Pelosi's defense of
family planning provision in recovery package to China's "one-child policy,"
eugenics, Nazism
January
27
KFSO's Sussman compares Pelosi's contraception
comments to Nazism, claims we're on our way to a "one child policy in this
country"
January
27
Days after decrying those who say Democrats are
"trying to turn us into communist Russia," Beck claimed Obama "has Marxist
tendencies"
January
14
Promoting upcoming Fox show, Beck -- who has called
Obama "a Marxist" and criticized "Comrade Clinton" -- decries communist
name-calling
January
8
It's ok MMfA....
The conservative right-wing corporate owned media is only doing so because they know that no one is listening to them anymore!
When children get desperate to be heard... we all know how they act...
Just turn on FoxNoise at any time during the day or listen to any coonservative on the radio... you can hear it every minute of every day...
I sometimes feel like I need to send them to their room for acting like immature pampered babies!
Aw heck, Archie Bunker told me a long time ago you Libs were pinko commies ;-)
Wally: Yeah, I guess you're right Beav.
Welcome back, McCarthy!
Republican Rep. Bachus Makes List Of 'Socialists' In House Of Representatives
That list used to have only one name on it: Bernie Sanders. He's now in the Senate as an Independent, but he was a member of the Socialist Party while he was in the House, and he was re-elected many times.
Excuse me, we have a valid costitution that the previous administration wanted to supercede with the Patriot Act, which we know now was the blurpring for government takeover of our daily lives, made somewhat palatable by ostensibly protecting us from enemies of the state. Conservatives, as it turns out, are the architects of the crumbling of constitutional law.
"blurpring " should read " blueprint "
I actually like "blurpring" better. It's more descriptive of what the GOP was doing.
I'll go even farther than saying that they're the archtects of the crumbling of constitutional law (nice alliteration); I think they want to go even further. think they want the US to become a plutocracy (government by the wealthy) and were doing everything they could to push us there. Look here: http://www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm
I'm really surprised at the idiots who watch, listen and buy into this "_____ism" nonsense. Are there really that many zombies who know so little about our system of government?
kinda makes you wonder what is happening in our high schools and history classes, coesn't it ?
These gopologist fixed news nitwits are always claiming somebody is trying to steal their act.
Ahhh, I see the reichwing has been busy today! And how are my flying screechmonkey reichwing monkeys here doing today? Shall we begin?
considering you're doing exactly the same thing that mmfa is criticizing these people for in this thread, don't you feel a little silly?
incorrect. MMFA is reporting these guys describing our president as a communist leaning person. I think snoopy is describing some posters on this site as right wing fanatics. Big difference, considering for eight years criticising pres Bush 43 was considered not only blasphemy subject to IRS scrutiny but also unamerican.
I find it very funny hearing all the professed outrage over calling bush a nazi (like it was all over the news - right!) only to have them turn around and cavalierly toss those terms around like it's perfectly acceptable to call democrats that. And then to see the same people here who got all haughty as they made claims of us calling them fascists to turn around and defend these hats has gotta be the ultimate hipocracy of the century. It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic to watch.
No, I've always made it clear I'm gonna engage in turn about is fair play. It's my way of sarcastically pointing out their hipocracy on the subject.
"Conservatives warn of social-fasc-commun-Nazi-McCarthy-Marxism".
Translation: No more welfare for the wealthy. It is rather entertaining to watch the conservatives in their tantrums over who gets what. Like the brat on the floor of the supermarket, writhing and blubbering because Mommie won't get him the bag of candies he's already spilled. (It's her fault. She let him get away with that rotten behavior too long.)
The translation really is: "Say lots of scary words in "gotcha" situations, in order to associate group x with Stalin, Hilter, Mussolini, Pol Pot, etc etc." Both sides do it, but we don't talk about "those-who-must-not-be-named" here.
The nameless? Those are usually the straw men you populate these threads with. If you want to stop the problem, use a straw condom before you post.
you sure that wasn't Stalinist-Mugabeist-Cuban-Style Communism
is there any ism that has not been tagged on to President Obama by the right?
Buddhism?
ya, I guess it is pretty hard, even for right-wingers, to create a pejorative with that one.
Ya, as long as the Chinese hate Buddha, the GOP won't use his name derogatorily!
plagerism. Coulter has that one rolled up.
Yuppie scum?
Their hysteria would be hilarious if people weren't shooting people to the sounds of their crazy.
Maybe they should warn us of another round of racism. I'm pretty disgusted that this one comes from the great state of texas:
Asians should simplify their names, GOP lawmaker says John Byrne
Published: Thursday April 9, 2009
And the difficult Chinese-American name of the guy invited to speak? Ramey Ko.
My cousin's last name for several generations? Trczynski.
What a succotash of ideologies Obama is striving for. Next, they'll accuse him of Bro-cialism, a system of governance dominated by afros, basketball and other black stereotypes. Or is Obama still not black enough? I forget.
Randy
I bet these clows don't know that:
1. The Earth is NOT flat
2. Man HAS landed on the moon
3. The South DID lose The Civil War
4. The stork does NOT bring babies to families.
5. Murphy Brown was just a TV SHOW.
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
毛澤東 (Mao Zedong)
Is there a list somewhere of hate talk's corporate sponsors? Sponsors usually respond to a deluge of irate consumers.
Have any of these people ever taken a Political Science class, been in 12th grade "civics" or even looked up a definition in a dictionary? The new neo-conservatives/right-wingers are far closer to fascism than the democrats or far left could ever be;
"Fascism, modern political ideology that seeks to regenerate the social, economic, and cultural life of a country by basing it on a heightened sense of national belonging or ethnic identity. Fascism rejects liberal ideas such as freedom and individual rights, and often presses for the destruction of elections, legislatures, and other elements of democracy. Despite the idealistic goals of fascism, attempts to build fascist societies have led to wars and persecutions that caused millions of deaths. As a result, fascism is strongly associated with right-wing fanaticism, racism, totalitarianism, and violence.
Those who forget history are condemned to relive it.
Those wingnuts have amnesia
I'm somewhat certain that McCarthy wasn't a Democrat. What party was he again...?
A drunken frat party.