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