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salon.com - 1/13/2009
Conservatives up in arms over Browner's socialist ties
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The front page of Monday's Washington Times features rather explosive lead story: "Obama climate czar has socialist ties," the headline reads. Unsurprisingly, this is the kind of story that gets quite a bit of attention on the right. The D.C. Examiner had it last week, actually, and the ...

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Political Animal:  The right's new red scare

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS:  BROWNER, SOCIALISM AND THE RED SCARE

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The right's new red scare
Political Animal — ... Colbert or Monty Python, the radical right wing is claiming these are signs that Barack Obama is going to transform the United States into a leftist dictatorship. [...] That's right, according to conservatives, Carol Browner's meeting with the prime minister of Great Britain to discuss global warming is equivalent to the genocides of Stalin and Hitler. When environmental organizations are led in part by former heads of state and convene meetings at 10 Downing Street, it sounds pretty mainstream . The right's apoplexy is badly misplaced. Again.— ...

BROWNER, SOCIALISM AND THE RED SCARE
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — ... When environmental organizations are led in part by former heads of state and convene meetings at 10 Downing Street, it sounds pretty mainstream. The right's apoplexy is badly misplaced. Again. ...

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