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  • Yeah, lets have a reasonable discussion about the how we drink the Kool-Aid with our heads in the sand over our failure to notice that we are ruled by a crypto-communist dictator.

    Matthew Yglesias » Breaking: Michelle Obama Reads Books 2010

  • Simply explain it away with "Oh well, he's the president, innit he?" if you want, but that doesn't justify entertaining the words of a crypto-communist abortion-fanatic like the Magnificent O at a nominally Catholic educational institution.

    Fr. Reese's flawed arguments for Pres. Obama at Notre Dame 2009

  • In the short-term, you'll feel terribly macho accusing Obama of being a crypto-communist, but in the long-term, you'll be missing a historic opportunity to participate in the solution to a vexing problem that makes life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness less like likely.

    Michael B. Laskoff: Republican Choice: Reality or Tea Bags 2009

  • His death-bed classification of eminent figures such as the historian EH Carr as an "appeaser" or the actor Michael Redgrave as a suspected crypto-communist was widely held to blacken Orwell's name as an informer.

    How MI5 kept watch on Orwell 2007

  • But that said, Venezuala is a real problem: Chavez is funding populist/crypto-communist groups all over South America Bolivia, Chile and Peru come to mind immediately with oil money and is providing oil to Cuba at cost, effectively subsidizing Castro's regime.

    A Dagger in the Heart of America, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • It's much darker than that - a bizarre, crypto-communist or socialist conspiracy to despoil and de-flower our virgin land.

    Jonathan Weiler: The Tea Party Movement's Populism 2009

  • Your attempts to smear Mandelson with a corruption charge seems even more desperate than your campaign to smear Obama as a crypto-communist.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • If it isn't, Melanie and the crypto-communist Harry's Place are should apologize for creating a tornado out of a typo.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • George Orwell, the socialist author, offered to provide a secret Foreign Office propaganda unit linked to the intelligence services with names of writers and journalists he regarded as "crypto-communist" and "fellow-travellers" who could not be trusted, documents released yesterday at the Public Record Office reveal.

    Orwell offered writers' blacklist to anti-Soviet propaganda unit 1996

  • Mr. Arbenz "was not a dictator, he was was not a crypto-communist," said Stephen Schlesinger, an adjunct fellow at the Century Foundation and co-author of "Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala."

    NYT > Home Page By ELISABETH MALKIN 2011

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