Right-Wing Claims Obama’s New Campaign Slogan Reveals His Secret Communist And/Or Fascist Allegiance

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Source: Think Progress

One word; seven letters; so much nefarious hidden meaning. The Obama campaign’s new slogan, “Forward,” may seem like a typically oblique and anodyne piece of political branding — but thankfully, right-wing bloggers are here to reveal its true meaning, and predictably, it involves socialism and Hitler.

The president’s reelection campaign unveiled the slogan yesterday in lengthy new web video, and while the obvious subtext is that presumed GOP nominee Mitt Romney would take things backwards, there is so much more.

Breitbart.com’s Joel Pollak explained that the ‘Forward’ “borrows…from decades of communist iconography.” Pollak checks off a litany of scary historixcal world leaders whose lineage Obama is supposedly following, from Marx, Stalin, and Mao, to Benito Mussolini, to Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa. “Communist leaders frequently used — and still use — the word ‘forward,’” he notes.

The Washington Times also sees a “rich association with European Marxism,” quoting at length from Wikipedia to prove the point.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/special/2012/05/01/474507/right-wing-claims-obamas-new-campaign-slogan-reveals-his-secret-communist-andor-fascist-allegiances/

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These paranoid wingnuts could find Karl Marx anywhere, and probably go to sleep every night fearing the communists under their beds will get them.

[snacker]

1. "Forward" is Wisconsin's state motto. n/t

[marble falls]

12. Oh NO! Not both communist AND fascist!

[Jackpine Radical]

22. Yup. That's us.

[freshwest]

52. Ah! Awesome!

[wordpix]

24. to RW dummies, what's the diff? It's all the boogeyman to them

and they can't bother reading history to know Hitler from Stalin.

[shawn703]

2. Never mind that fascism and communism are on opposite ends of the political spectrum

The words sound scary so that's the important thing.

[Jamaal510]

15. GOP Rule #3: Always call the opponent any word ending with -ist.

E.G. Socialist, marxist, communist, homosexualist, racist, fascist.

[truthisfreedom]

17. Capitalist?

[DhhD]

21. History tells us that the Italian Communist Party assinanated the Facist Mussolini.

[Lawlbringer]

3. To see Marx and Mussolini used to compare the same person

is like trying to equate The Beatles' influence on history to that of the Backstreet Boys.


WHAT THE HELL?!

Do they even understand the Eco-political spectrum? Communism, Socialism, Fascism in general?! Or are they just using negative figures to associate with Obama and make him look like Dr Doom?

[ut oh]

10. They don't care...

what the actual meaning of any of these philosophies are, just as long as the audience has a negative emotional reaction to them and to make sure that reaction is then carried over to Obama.

[blm]

4. Even worse.....It has evil links to Otto Graham and the much-feared forward pass.

Every Washington Times reader (GOP moonie) knows that the T in Otto Graham: T Quarterback, stands for treason.

Otto Graham associated with that early known forward passer Sammy Baugh, too.

[Archae]

5. It's all they've got.

The economy is improving.

Gas prices are going down.

Illegal immigration is way down.

Osama Bin Laden is dead, and GM is alive and well.

So all the teabaggers can do now is simply make stupid shit up about Obama being "communist" and/or "fascist."

[Deep13]

6. Well, that didn't take long. nt

[Skinner]

7. Awesome.

These people just keep getting nuttier.

[Old and In the Way]

8. Going forward is tough for backward thinking people.

When you spend your whole life wishing you lived back in a time that never existed in the nice way you think it did, you face the future with contempt.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

9. Not to be outdone, the repubs come up with a slogan to counter it,

"Backwards."

[nobodyspecial]

20. Yeah, to the days of robber barons

zero regulations, company towns, and the elderly, poor and handicapped dying in the streets.

[SkatmanRoth]

34. I thought the right winger's slogan was "Stagnate" n/t

[Purveyor]

11. oh christ I heard that egghead right wing oaf spouting this line today. I laughed. eom

[The Second Stone]

13. Ronald Reagan used the word "forward" a lot

and so do his supporters. Google it. This must be a confession on the part of the Goppers. I didn't get the memo that it was a "commie" word. I thought it was English.

[DCKit]

16. Then that's what we need: a video mashup of Reagan saying "Foreward".

Shut 'em down hard and fast.

[Bruce Wayne]

14. He's right. Commies often use the word "forward." Also "the" and "of"

To wit: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

From now on, I shall avoid using these radical, subversive words. One can't be too careful.

[AlbertCat]

43. From now on, I shall avoid using these radical, subversive words.

Don't forget all that Commie/Fascist punctuation! Evil nefarious punctuation.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

46. It's well known that the semi-colon favors the abolishment of all private property.

That and the quasi-religious promotion of a nation state.

[freshwest]

53. First, they came for the conjunctions, then the pronouns, then the vowels.

Then we all had to speak German or some other consonant-heavy language. Thus were we screwn.

[EC]

18. Wow, I guess all of us Badgers are commies...

We've had "Forward" as our motto forever. I even have a red and white flag from somewhere around 1965 or so that says Forward Wisconsin/Forward Kenosha...so I'm guessing it was something local...don't remember exactly though..


When will these idiots just get on with their lives, do something worthwhile?

[Suji to Seoul]

19. Understand right wing speak: word, then translation

COMMUNIST - "I disagree with you."
FASCIST - "You are making me look bad."
UnAmerican - "My owners do not support this."
The American people want/believe/think - "My owners want. . ."
Rule of Law - "Courts need to be used as political weapons."
Liberal Media - "News needs to be used as political weapons."

[unkachuck]

23. “borrows…from decades of communist iconography.”

....while this may or may not be true, it is a well known and scientific fact, that 87% of all right-wing conservatives are wrong 98.4% of the time....

....I believe this was confirmed in government laboratory tests using an experimental breed of rat generically altered and programmed to represent the typical conservative wing-nut intellect....

....although at first, the test results were inconclusive, other studies using similar rats have confirmed what most normal people and many Democrats suspect, 'Wing-nuts are a dangerous breed of liar capable of raping their own mother on Mothers Day.'

[eyewall]

27. Why would you

have to alter a rat to make it act like a republican?

[Nihil]

41. You'd have to take its brains out ...

... or it might eventually come to its senses and change allegiance ...

[rppper]

25. Look! Behind that tree! A commie!!!

To all of the Allan west's of the world...cold wars over guys...I was there when it ended, the holdouts are even embracing a capitalist system.....move on!

[AlbertCat]

44. cold wars over guys

Yeah... didn't Reagan end it.... by waving his dick around or something?


Which is it guys? Make up your mi.... oh, that's right. Nothing to make up.

[Nine]

26. This from the people who came up with "homeland security" (nt)

[demosincebirth]

28. I never knew that Marxism and Facism could co-exist.

[DallasNE]

29. What, I Was Sure Bush's Name Would Be On That List

After all Bush touted his "forward strategy" to bring democracy to the Middle-East. That forward strategy came to be know as the Bush Doctrine. http://www.iviews.com/Articles/articles.asp?ref=IV0311-2153

[Crunchy Frog]

30. Not only that, but 'tis one of the words the Knights of Ni cannot hear.

[PatrynXX]

31. Nevermind that thanks to the socialists, they brought down hitler

zzzzzzzzzz

so nobody finished high school? oh well.

This is usually where one goes... I know you are but what am I...

[ashling]

32. Together Forward

was a slogan used by the Kirk Fordice administration (former extremely right wing governor of gov. of Missississippi)

[rks306]

33. I thought he was a socialist

But wait, isn't the actual military a socialist society.

[SkatmanRoth]

35. For a time NATO had an operational strategy of "Forward Defense" to counter the Soviet Union

I guess NATO thought it was a good idea to use the 'Commies slogan against them.

[mwb970]

36. Right. When I hear the word "forward", my first thought is "Hitler".

What could be more natural?

[Javaman]

37. The right wing rolls out it's list of banned words for it's launch of Newspeak. nt

[The Wizard]

38. Seriously disturbed

Thought disorders and loose associations compounded by schizophrenic paranoia.
The scary part: These nuts were issued state approved drivers licenses and are driving on our roadways at high speeds. Many have firearms permits and some even have carry permits.
Now when do the FEMA camps open?

[thucythucy]

39. And the Washington Times has a rich association

with self-described messiah and all-around GOP stalwart Rev. Moon and his Unification Church.

Think what a 22 year-old Dylan would have written about the Moonies!

[GETTINGTIRED]

40. Embarrassing

there just comes a point when things are lies foolish and crossing the line.... i really thought republican leadership was better than that... but it sounds like their agenda from the start has been to undermine the president and thats shameful and why ? why this president? and really you say you care about the people and what they want nah seems your against the poor and middle class and only about the rich thats sad

[AlbertCat]

42. OMG!!!!! The book on how the mind works I'm reading....

.... has a FORWARD!

Jesus! So does this book on Matisse!

and this one about Italian History!


They all have FORWARDS!

THey must all be commie manifestos!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

45. This is from The Onion, right? No?!?

Jeez, these people are certifiably nuts. Well, I guess I can't use the word "forward" in any of my vocabulary, lest my allegiance to this country be called into question.

These were the same idiots who believed Rachel Ray was sending secret subliminal messages regarding terrorism in a Dunkin Donuts commercial because the scarf she was wearing *looked like* a keyiffeh, a scarf traditionally worn by Palestinian men.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/28/dunkin-donuts-pulls-ad-fe_n_103859.html

Oh, and Joel Pollak? Guess what. Your employer's namesake is still a rotting corpse in the ground, just to let you know.

[Roland99]

47. All those Communist Marxist Fascists in the NBA and the NCAA and high schools and....

all them danged Forwards and especially the Power Forwards!!

[nanabugg]

51. Too funny!!!!!!!! nt

[citizen blues]

48. I just love it when they use the words.....

Marxist and Fascist in the same sentence. They obviously have absolutely no clue what either actually means.

"Let's shoot off our mouths and show the world just how stupid we are!"

[yurbud]

49. the National Socialists of Germany were socialists the way the Federalist Society is

federalist.

[ms liberty]

50. K&R. That Dylan tune is awesome - I had never heard it before. Thank you! n/t

[lunasun]

54. Teabagger's crazy didnt make it so

need to go back to the crazy Birchers and Communism!
Run Reds coming
Hope you got the secret message!

[Nitram]

55. whackos

The right is certifiably insane. Not only do they confuse the polar opposites of communism and fascism, they think Obama has a "secret" communist agenda that he then announces to the whole world with a new slogan. Makes my head hurt.

[NuttyFluffers]

56. he's both the sun, and the moon, at the same time! and a block of velveeta, too!

[classof56]

57. Thanks for the Dylan tune.

Reminds me of how much affect he had on my young life back in the day. Also reminds me that at one time I considered joining the Birch Society (mea culpa!). I was a Goldwater supporter, won't go into the reasons (was awfully young), but when the Birchers decided to claim Pres. Eisenhower was a commie, I stepped away and never looked back. Or...maybe it was Bob's song...Whatever, I'm grateful!