FOXnews begins "Comrade Update" for apparently communist President Obama. Lame.

**Grimmlok** · February 5th, 2009, 12:22 PM

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuwgHNtyD54[/YOUTUBE]

I mean, seriously? How infantile.

**kingcap72** · February 5th, 2009, 12:27 PM

FOX is just trying to rip off the bits that MSNBC used to do with Dubya like 'Bushed' and 'Lameduck Watch.'

**Grimmlok** · February 5th, 2009, 12:30 PM

I like how they have to retreat to the concept of a boogeyman that's 60 years old in order to try.

God, republicans are fucking lame.

**sputnik** · February 5th, 2009, 12:36 PM

seriously. the cold war is over, dudes.

**kingcap72** · February 5th, 2009, 12:38 PM

Grim, Obama is the boogeyman as far as FOX is concerned.

One of the conservatives I work with was ripping Obama yesterday saying 'I don't know why you like Hussein Obama?' I told him 'that's President Hussein Obama. But you know two words you'll never hear. President Palin.'

That ended that conservation.

**Grimmlok** · February 5th, 2009, 12:39 PM

Well of course. He's a successful black man.

**greysfang** · February 5th, 2009, 12:40 PM

Oh, so that's where they exiled Glenn Beck to. I was thinking maybe they sent him back to rehab.

**Quazar** · February 5th, 2009, 12:51 PM

So desperate.

*DIVA! · February 5th, 2009, 01:08 PM

Ignorance.. love FOX

**RevellingInSane** · February 5th, 2009, 01:18 PM

There was a guy ranting on the radio yesterday that Obama was turning this into a socialist country. He sounded paranoid and ignorant.

**kingcap72** · February 5th, 2009, 01:25 PM

Originally Posted by RevellingInSane

There was a guy ranting on the radio yesterday that Obama was turning this into a socialist country. He sounded paranoid and ignorant.

Why were you listening to Rush Limbaugh?

**RevellingInSane** · February 5th, 2009, 01:39 PM

Originally Posted by kingcap72

Why were you listening to Rush Limbaugh?

Wait! It wasn't Limbaugh. Dare I say this guy was even more right wing. This is the good part! It was a station for pop and r&b! It has a daily news hour. The last week and half began with replaying Blagojevich...erm..speeches, which were hilarious. I guess his novelty wore off, so this guy was broadcast.

**Fluffy** · February 5th, 2009, 01:39 PM

Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009 11:35 EST
Does Glenn Beck even know what socialism is?

Over at How the World Works, Salon's Andrew Leonard has a post about Sean Hannity calling the stimulus package "the European socialist act of 2009." Which, even for Hannity, is pretty ridiculous. But now I understand why he did it -- clearly, he was just trying to keep up with his newest colleague, Glenn Beck.

On his show last night, Beck went even more overboard than he usually does, dubbing a segment about the stimulus and President Obama's signing of new S-CHIP legislation "Comrade Update." (The r was backwards for some reason, but I'm not even going to try figuring out the HTML for that one.) The segment also featured a prominently placed hammer and sickle, and the crawl at the bottom of the page was in Russian.

Video is below. One word of warning -- this may be the dumbest television I've ever seen. And I used to watch "The Real World."

Does Glenn Beck even know what socialism is? - War Room - Salon.com

Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009 06:45 PST
As labor woes mount, Sean Hannity cackles about "socialism"

While rallying support for his stimulus plan on Wednesday, President Obama warned that "A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe and guarantee a longer recession, a less robust recovery, and a more uncertain future."

Later that day, in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, the rock-ribbed conservative House Republican Mike Pence declared the plan was a "catastrophe." Tax cuts, both men agreed, were the only appropriate answer for a contracting economy. Hannity, who was all but chanting "Amen" after each Pence utterance, closed the interview by calling the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan "the European socialist act of 2009."

You can decide for yourself who is right while mulling over the latest statistics from the labor front.

New unemployment claims jumped by 35,000 to 626,000 last week -- a 26 year high.
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits for more than one week rose 20,000 to 4,788,000 -- "the highest level since the government started keeping track in 1967."
The four-week average of new claims rose 39,000 to 582,250 -- the highest since December 1982.
Government unemployment numbers for all of January, set to be released Friday morning, will likely indicate that January was the fifth straight month in which the U.S. economy shed an average of half a million jobs. The unemployment rate is predicted to rise another .3 percentage points, to 7.5.

Bearing in mind the caveat that the U.S. population was smaller in 1967 and 1982 than it is now, so in percentage terms the new figures are not quite as calamitous as their record-breaking numerical totals might indicate, it's still hard for me to look at this trend and not see a catastrophe in the making.

― Andrew Leonard

As labor woes mount, Sean Hannity cackles about "socialism" - How the World Works - Salon.com

**Sweetie** · February 5th, 2009, 01:44 PM

Retard!

**kingcap72** · February 5th, 2009, 03:06 PM

Originally Posted by RevellingInSane

Wait! It wasn't Limbaugh. Dare I say this guy was even more right wing. This is the good part! It was a station for pop and r&b! It has a daily news hour. The last week and half began with replaying Blagojevich...erm..speeches, which were hilarious. I guess his novelty wore off, so this guy was broadcast.

Speaking of Blago, did you see him on Letterman? Dave made him look even dumber than he already looks.