Red Baiting

The Insurance Lobby's Strategy: Class Warfare from Above

Leighton Woodhouse | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Industry, Paul Broun, Ben Nelson, Class Warfare, Healthcare Reform, Red-Baiting, Politics News
Leighton Woodhouse

The insurance lobby and their proxies in the GOP are using red-baiting techniques that are as old as Communism itself to brand working Americans who support reform as "un-American."

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Bobby Jindal, Dan Quayle and Socialist Health Care

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ronald McDonald, Joe the Plumber, Ronald Reagan, Bobby Jindal, Social Security, Josef Stalin, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Red Baiting, Dan Quayle, Health Care Reform, Fox News, Jimmy Carter, Socialism, Medicare, Republican Party, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

Fear, not surprisingly, has remained one of the key tenets of the Republican message during Obama's presidency.

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The Shovel or the Sickle

Susie Bright | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Gop, Pelosi, Financial Bailout, George Stephanopoulos, Communist, Financial Crisis, Banks, Obama, Democrats, Red-Baiting, Nationalization, Politics News
Susie Bright

The most unsettling element of Obama's inauguration address wasn't Ricky Warren or Dopey Roberts -- it was the President's soft-pedal of our economic nightmare.

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A Few More Words For Studs

Jamie Kalven | Posted 12.26.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Studs Terkel, Rosthstein Studs Terkel, Studs Terkel Interviews, Red Baiting, Studs Terkel Working, Studs Terkel Marxism, Npr, Edward Rothstein, Mccarthyism, Studs Terkel Joe McCarthy, Studs Terkel Ideology, Oral History, Studs Marxism, Chicago News
Jamie Kalven

Three days after Studs Terkel's death, the New York Times published a column by critic Edward Rothstein titled "An Appraisal: He Gave Voice to Many, Among Them Himself." The piece is a striking instance of the low art of red-baiting disguised as high-minded criticism.

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Paint McCain a Red-Baiter

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Free Markets, Joe Mccarthy, John McCain, Hewlett-Packard, Communist, Commie, Credit Default Swaps, Barack Obama, Ubs, Aig, Red States, Golden Parachute, Wall Street, Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, Ceo, Deregulation, Phil Gramm, Glass-Steagall Act, Joe Mccain, Class Warfare, Carly Fiorina, Red-Baiting, Politics News
Leo W. Gerard

The "small government" Bush and Republican Congress increased spending, thus replacing the budget surplus bequeathed them with deficits.

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