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
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