Socialism

An Honest Display of Lying

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Joe Wilson, President Obama, Associated Press, Health Care Reform, Cash for Clunkers, Socialism, Abc, 9/12 March on Washington, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Politics News
B. Jeffrey Madoff

What's the point of having a discussion with someone when you already know the outcome? "So, what did you think of your boy Obama's speech the other night?" I was asked on the train.

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Tea Party Protester: "We Think The Muslims Are Moving In And Taking Over" (VIDEO)

Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Islam, Birthers, Dick Armey, Freedomworks, Washington D.C., National Mall, Communism, Video, Independents, 9/12, Spending, Gop, Muslims, Protester, Socialism, Health Care, Tea Party, Tea Party Video, Teaparty, Nbc Tea Party, We Think the Muslims Are Moving in and Taking Over, Muslims Are Moving In, Tea Party Photos, Politics News

UPDATE (8:43 p.m. EST): NBC has replaced this woman's comment about Muslims with a less inflammatory comment: "I'm scared to death for my country. I ...

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9/12 Health Care Protest In Chicago (PICTURES)

Aemilia Scott | Posted 11.12.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Teabagging, Tea Party Patriots, Glenn Beck, 9/12 Tea Party March, Socialism, Health Care, Death-Pac, Chicago Health Care Protests, Health Care Reform, Chicago News
Aemilia Scott

Ah, death panel posters. Signs like this are the "Don't Stop Believing" of political slogans. Poorly written, fantasy-based, and yet somehow still a huge hit in the Midwest.

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#912DC Tag Fires Up Twitter, Protesters

Posted 11.12.2009 | Impact

Read More: Fox News, Socialism, 912 Project, Obamacare, Health Reform, Health Care, Glenn Beck, Impact News

Conservative protesters are marching on Washington D.C. today against President Obama's policies, most notably his proposed reform of America's health...

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Obama Presses Hard to Unite Dems on Healthcare and Slaps Down Republican "Demagoguery"

Ray Hanania | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Demagoguery, Public Option, Insurance, Death Panels, Social Security, US Senate, President Obama, Government Takeover, Denial of Pre-Existing Conditions, Medicaid, Medicare, Reform, Socialism, Health Care, US House, Ted Kennedy, Joint Session of Congress, Politics News
Ray Hanania

The President's speech was so powerful it probably sent many of the nation's health insurance industry robber barons into economic cardiac arrest.

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Thanks Glenn Beck -- This 'Socialism' Sounds Great!

Paul Raushenbush | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Housing Market, Amazing Grace, Rush Limbaugh, Carter, Laissez-Faire, Michael Steele, Glenn Beck, Socialism, Jfk, Capitalism, Health Care, Christian, Forclosure, Arianna Huffington, Fdr, Russia, Marx, Rasmussen-Reports, Norway, Sweden, Politics News
Paul Raushenbush

Capitalism has been given a pass while Americans struggle. When will capitalism be a word as dirty as socialism?

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On Wednesday, the President Has to Move the Health Care Debate from a Marketplace of Lies to a Marketplace of Ideas

Mitchell Bard | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Charles Grassley, Rush Limbaugh, Jim Demint, Death Panels, John Boehner, Democrats in Congress, President Obama, Jeremiah Wright, Insurance Companies, Single Payer, Republican Lies Health Care, Barack Obama, Obama Race Speech, Campaign Donations, Pharmaceutical Companies, Health Care Reform, Obama Address to Students, Socialism, Mandatory Abortions, Jim DeMint Waterloo, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

If outright lies end up killing health care reform, the Republicans will have won, but, more importantly, the American people will have lost.

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The New McCarthyists: Fear and Smear

Michael Likosky | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

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Michael Likosky

New McCarthyists conjure "socialism," "communism," "marxism," and other "shocking labels" to drum up hate-mongering.

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The Many Flavors of Kool-Aid®

Suzanne Langlois | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Socialism, Town Hall Meetings, Obamacare, Politics News
Suzanne Langlois

Last night I went to a town hall meeting in West Hartford hosted by representative John Larsen. I planned to sit in on the health care reform debate inside, but the real story was happening outside.

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Minorities and Health Care: What's the Real Story?

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Low Birth Rate, “Infant Mortality Rate”, African-Americans, Recidivism, Incarceration, Classicism, President Barack Obama, African-American Women, Melting Pot, Healthcare Reform, HIV/AIDS, African-American Infants, Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Senator Ted Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Socialism, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Rehabilitation, Town Hall Meetings, Medical Care, Prenatal Care, Minorities, Stomach Cancer, Politics News
Francesca Biller-Safran

While health care is in need of radical reform for millions of Americans, minorities and especially blacks have historically suffered disproportionately from poor or non-existent health care.

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Obama Supporters Angry But Well Behaved

Dawn Teo | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Red States, Health Care Protests, Tea Baggers, Barack Obama, Death Panels, Protest, Ohio, Socialism, Media, Health Care, Death Panel, Tea Bagging, Politics News
Dawn Teo

Instead of looking for the real story on health care, reporters across America are looking for ways to turn it into a better, more sensational tale. A small, loud minority is getting all of the attention.

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Who Will Be Hurt if the Democrats Pass Health Care Alone

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Social Security, Public Option, Ronald Reagan, Death Panels, Lyndon B. Johnson, David Brooks, Nazi Policies, Great Society, Socialism, Medicare, Bipartisanship, Bipartisan, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

If the Democrats pass the health care bill, and are able to do it with a public option, the Republicans will have once again put themselves on the opposing side of groundbreaking legislation.

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Friday Talking Points [91] -- Win One For Teddy

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Social Security, Ted, May You Be in Heaven, Cloture, Win One for Teddy, Employee Free Choice Act, Public Universities, Irish Wake, Kennedy, Teddy Kennedy, Filibuster, Politicizing, Reform, Politicize, Democratic, Friday Talking Points, Paul Wellstone, Funeral, Video, Edward Kennedy, Mayor Quimby, Simpsons, Senator, Chow-Dah, Midotw, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Public Education, Public University, Health Care, Reid, Diamond Joe Quimby, Irish, Card Check, Massachusetts, Democrat, Medicaid, Majority Leader, The Simpsons, Democrats, Efca, Springfield, The Simpsons Movie, USA Today, Contest, Edward M Kennedy, Mddotw, Eulogy, Chris Weigant, Health, Uncle Ted, Senator Kennedy, Harry Reid, Medicare, Irish Toast, Socialism, Higher Education, Wellstone, Teddy, Up or Down Vote, Quimby, Healthcare, Senate, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Calling for some sort of decorous avoidance of politics during politicians' funerals is downright ridiculous. It'd be like eulogizing Charles Lindbergh and not mentioning airplanes.

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EXCLUSIVE: Rejected Town Hall Rally Posters

Ben Wyskida | Posted 09.25.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Health Care Town Halls, Socialism, Patrick Dempsey, Celebrity Activism, Heidi and Spencer, Barack Obama, Germans, Slideshow, Comedy News
Ben Wyskida

Lobbyist and special interest groups have spent a fortune packing health care town halls with paid stooges and Republican Party operatives. But manufacturing a grassroots movement isn't easy.

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These Days It's Dimes That Are a Dime a Dozen

David Finkle | Posted 09.25.2009 | New York

Read More: The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Manhattan Streets, Coins, Beatrix Potter, Socialism, Capitalism, Lost Money, John D. Rockefeller, Found Money, New York News
David Finkle

As an inveterate stooper-for-pennies, however, I've noticed a recent significant change on the streets of Manhattan. Yes, plenty of pennies are dropped. But just as often nowadays it's dimes that turn up on the pavement.

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New Protest Signs at Town Hall Rallies

Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Rush Limbaugh, George Orwell, Media, Barack Obama, Fascism, Military, Sean Hannity, Health, Protest, Health Care Reform, Racism, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Socialism, Medicare, Tea Party, Town Hall Meetings, Health Care, Bill O'Reilly, Comedy, Politics News
Robbie Gennet

If you haven't seen them, some clever folks started showing up at these town hall protests with faux signs that make light of these Fox-fed people ranting and raving about Nazis and whatnot.

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8th Grader To Bennet: "Do You Think That Obama Is Attempting To Start A Socialist Revolution?"

The Boulder Daily Camera | Michael Davidson | Posted 09.24.2009 | Denver

Read More: Michael Bennet, Colorado 8th Grader, Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Socialism, Denver News

BROOMFIELD, Colo. -- Students at Westlake Middle School showed they were tuned in to this summer's roiling political debate when U.S. Sen. Michael Ben...

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Firing Squads and Death Panels

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 09.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Big Pharma, First Amendment, Birther-Movement, Death Panels, Civil Rights, Health Insurance, Barack Obama, Canada, Chris Matthews, Second Amendment, Pharmaceutical Industry, World Health Organization, Great Britain, Health Care Reform, Socialism, Town Hall Meetings, Health Care, Media News
B. Jeffrey Madoff

My grandmother was one of the first people a pacemaker was used on. A lot of very sincere people believe that if Obama's health care reform bill passes, old people will essentially be facing death panels and denied care.

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Obama as the Joker? Holy Dumbass, Batman!

Aemilia Scott | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Town Hall, Protest, Conservative, Socialism, Libertarian, Obama Joker, Batman, Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News
Aemilia Scott

In the films, Batman is all about doing the dirty work that the public needs, but doesn't necessarily want. Sound familiar?

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No One Wants to Talk About Their Idiots

Bill Shireman | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Town Hall Debate, Americans for Prosperity, Sean Hannity, Barney Frank, Town Halls, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Socialism, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Barack Obama, Idiots, Politics News
Bill Shireman

We need a third political movement in this country -- not today's ideological right or left, who pander to idiots, but a group of radical centrists who step past their initial ignorance, fear, and prejudice, and actually think through solutions to our problems, borrowing ideas from all sides.

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What if the Right was Right? A Reflection on the "Christian States of America."

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Fundamentalism, Social Justice, President Obama, Teabaggers, Islamists, Secularism, Violence, Globalization, Gun Control, International Law, Obama, Christian Nation, Religious Right, Guns, Nation-State, Politics, Gandhi, Us Constitution, Moral Majority, Christ, Taxation, Health Care, Spirituality, Taxes, Christian Right, Jesus, Terrorism, War, Democracy, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Iraq War, Terroists, Nonviolence, Jesus Christ, Far Right, Progressive Christianity, Health Care Reform, Town Halls, Christianity, Socialism, World, Gospels, Politics News
Cynthia Boaz

I am not saying that Jesus was a Stalinist or even a communist, just that it's very clear from his teachings that he believed that people were happier and healthier when they shared with each other.

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Americans Want Universal Access to Graveyards

Julia Gorin | Posted 09.18.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Julia Gorin, Aarp, Socialism, Healthcare Reform, Obamacare, Town Hall Meetings, Obama Health Care, Soviet Union, Comedy News
Julia Gorin

I've often been astounded to hear the following sentence from Americans after they've learned that I escaped from the Soviet Union: "But at least everyone had medical coverage there."

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Abolish the Nazi-Commie Nightmare of Public Firefighting

David Quigg | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Industry, Fascism, Communism, Nazis, Firefighters, Public Option, Satire, Health Care Reform, Socialism, Health Insurance, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, House Guests, Satirists, Politics News
David Quigg

If we seize this moment, if we maintain this momentum, we can give our children an America free from the totalitarian, communist abomination of public firefighting.

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Don't Hate Whole Foods Because of Health Care...

Aemilia Scott | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Aemilia Scott, Public Option, Green, Alice Waters, John Mackey, Sustainable, Farmer's Market, Hipster, Organic Food, Health, Environment, Socialism, Whole Foods, Local Farmers, Whole Foods CEO, Green News
Aemilia Scott

I've got news for you: Whole Foods is lame. It's been lame for a long while now.

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It's Not Over Until You've Tried These Six Things, Mr. President

Rob Warmowski | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Obama Administration, Socialism, Medicare, Health Insurance, Town Hall Meetings, No-Insurance, Town Hall Debate, Death Panels, Underinsurance, Insurance Costs, Health-Fair, Town Hall Debate Reaction, Cigna, Insurance Companies, Obama Health Care, Socialized Medicine, Religion and Politics, Doctors, Obama Health Care Reform, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News
Rob Warmowski

Notice that the insurance industry-funded opposition to reform is well-managed enough to not send shouters and swastika sign-wavers to the town halls you are scheduled to appear at.

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