The Socialist Reporter

[kpete]

The Socialist Reporter
by DarkSyde
Sun Mar 08, 2009 at 07:06:29 PM PDT

There is a story making the rounds of a pool reporter on Air Force One who asked President Obama, "Are you a socialist?" We assume here the reporter was acting in good faith, probably hoping the President would chime in with something newsworthy, or refute a conservative talking point now being broadcast from the exalted head of the Republican Party, AKA, his High Holiness Rush Limbaugh. ......

... we offer some context for that reporter, and any others that might be lurking here on a beautiful Sunday evening.

The special 747, designated as Air Force One when the Commander in Chief is onboard, was built to custom order and paid for by US taxpayers. The general design and that specific airplane were enabled by decades of big government spending on aerospace technology. Every nut and bolt in that plane and any other airliner was checked for flight worthiness by government inspectors making it, in GOP parlance these days, a ‘socialist’ aircraft. As with all domestic flights, it is safely guided from take off to landing by a national network of highly trained government paid air traffic controllers – another "socialist" organization -- utterly dependent on an invention using radio detecting and ranging developed under the administration of a socialist President during World War II. Many of the pilots who fly Air Force One and its Marine counterpart were trained to navigate and fly sophisticated aircraft at considerable taxpayer expense in the military – yet another big government "socialist" enterprise tasked with fighting wars and ensuring the survival of American democracy.

That same reporter in all likelihood attended a public socialist kindergarten, elementary, middle, and high school. They may or may not have gone on to a state socialist university. Throughout their life they depended on the local ‘socialist’ police force, and may even have had occasion to call a socialist hotline alerting the socialist fire department to quickly intervene in all manner of life and death emergencies. The reporter is old enough to remember standing transfixed in horror the day that thousands of those ‘socialist’ heroes rushed headlong into the burning World Trade Towers, and were ground into socialist pulp in the ensuing collapse before the eyes of millions of horrified viewers watching on television networks created and regulated by a socialist behemoth known as the Federal Communications Commission.

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Every week or two, the reporter will probably make sure their paycheck is directly and/or correctly deposited into their online checking account. The internet making this possible is an outgrowth of a Cold War relic, socialism by any other name. And even in the midst of the worst economic meltdown since 1929, the reporter can rest comfortably knowing their hard-earned bank deposits are insured by the full faith and credit of the United States Government. The losses will be socialized, the banks and brokerage houses stabilized, and in the event any of the above fails, the institutions will be nationalized. All modern commerce and the everyday welfare of every citizen in this nation depends on it.

But in closing we should note, in all fairness: the reporter was absolutely well within his or her rights to pose any question, report any answer, or provide any commentary and opinion of their choosing. Because in this country, the press is protected by an enumerated right enshrined in a 'socialist' document written by radical progressives, since defended at enormous cost in the lives and limbs of countless members in the socialist Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines, and beginning with a preamble that would stir the collectivist heart of any Marxist: "We the People ..."

more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/3/8/201129/3443/686/706147

[kestrel91316]

1. I'm in awe. BEST Kos piece EVER.

[napoleon_in_rags]

2. Recommended. Effing Excellent. HEar hear.

I can't believe this 40 year old red flag is being raised about communist scares. That's relevant stuff from the summer of 69. But in the summer of 69, they were talking about that stuff, not the pre WWII politics from 40 years before THAT. Its time we talk about what's happening right now as they did then.

I am sitting here staring at this screen dumbfounded about what to say. Its these little red state towns, with all their flag waving and so forth that buy everything from Wal-Mart, where everything comes from China. The essential goal of the communist revolution is to gain control of the means of production. Factories have shut down all over America, taking the means of production from American hands and placing them in China. China is still controlled by a Communist government. That means the means of production for the products Americans buy are controlled by communists, period. Yet still the very people funding this whole thing, sending their wealth overseas, are listening to Rush hunting around looking for Mao and the hippies to come jumping out of the bushes at them or something? WTF?

Chomsky said it well when he pointed out that deregulation is a way to destroy countries by transferring their wealth to other countries with a stronger sense of nation state, that would (like China) rig the game in their favour. But why explain it? There's no point. Its all sitting right here in front of us for all to see, and to me it always have been: If the people of a nation invest in each other, than they will as a nation become strong. If they give it to another nation with a fierce sense of nationality, then its probably not coming back.

[Blue_Tires]

3. k+r

[Naturyl]

4. K&R

Conservative myopia and denial know no bounds.