For thirty years the far right has dominated American political life. Conservative media institutions like Fox News have been key to their domination.
While the big corporations and the mega-rich back the right-wing media, the Communist Party depends on working people like you to support its work.
Now after the Bush administration has screwed up the country and the world with its economic policies and disastrous wars, the right wing wants to blame everybody but themselves for the mess we’re in.
For weeks now, right-wing bloggers and talk shows have been trying to paint President Barack Obama as a socialist in order to scare people away from his policies. And they have been telling lies about the Communist Party USA as well.
On March 4th, Communist Party National Chairman Sam Webb accepted an invitation onto conservative television host Glenn Beck’s Fox News show in order to give our side of the story.
Sam held his own against Beck despite being cut off repeatedly and other gimmicks. Beck’s claim that Hitler was a socialist doesn’t hold up to common sense and neither is the idea that “big government” is the source of our problems. Obviously Beck and Fox aren’t all that interested in a real discussion about the country’s problems.
As Webb said on the show, “This country has been brought to its economic knees because the policies of the Bush administration and Wall Street.” You don’t have to be a communist to agree with that.
