Last week, I was sensing an emerging meme, journalists arguing that opponents of big government should not talk about fascism — or as Jon Stewart put it: “drop the F-bomb.” I saw CNN making a big deal about it in several stories. If this meme were being spread by the White House or by Journolist (and perhaps even if it weren’t), I expected to see a lot more about it in the mainstream press this week.
Thus, on Saturday, I posted three reminders of similar rhetoric used in recent years to criticize George Bush.
As if on cue, the New York Times today published a fairly low-key online column by CNBC’s John Harwood (who has been very sympathetic to the Obama agenda) on the dangers of the right using the term fascist:
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