Newspaper Accuses "RED NED" Lamont Of Being A Communist

[kpete]

Newspaper Suggests Lamont Is A Communist: Names Him “Red Ned”...
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A Connecticut Yankee in Joe Stalin's Court: Painting Ned Lamont 'Red'

The editorial page of Waterbury's Republican-American, stuck in a 1950s time warp, suggests that blueblood U.S. Senate candidate Ned Lamont is actually a Marxist whose "true color" is Red.

“According to one recent commentary, Corliss' nephew, Edward M. ‘Ted’ Lamont Sr., embraced liberal-socialism ‘and passed his religious devotion to atheistic materialism along to his son.’ Ned Lamont, in turn, has surrounded himself with people who may be characterized fairly as dedicated socialists and borderline communists. ...

“Corliss Lamont was the only Lamont unashamed to declare his communist sympathies and beliefs publicly, but that doesn't make Thomas, Ted and Ned any less Marxist. Red Ned may label himself a progressive, but when he espouses goals shared by Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Castro, et al., he gives away his true color.”

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002986825

[Pale Blue Dot]

1. ....

:rofl:

[eleny]

2. Let me hold my side!!!

[me b zola]

3. I thought they replaced red baiting for terrorist baiting

I can't keep up with the stupid made-up shit that is supposed to make me hate and fear someone. :crazy:

[Richard Steele]

4. I love the smell of Repub DESPERATION in the morning....

Smells like VICTORY.

[Webster Green]

5. He's a hippie too!

And he listens to Rock & Roll music. The Devil's music, I tell 'ya!

[MADem]

15. Does he swivel his hips and rotate his pelvis suggestively?

Oh, the humanity!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

6. LOL doesn't the guy own/run a cable business? How Marxist is that?

[berni_mccoy]

7. Where's McCarthy when you need him!

[Selatius]

8. As a libertarian socialist, this makes me very angry

Just because somebody is a socialist does not automatically mean he is of the authoritarian kind. Ned Lamont's views could be characterized as liberal or liberal centrist. He is nowhere close to believing that capitalism is not the ultimate solution for humanity.

For over 100 years socialists have been involved in shaping US history just like anybody else. It was socialists and unionists who are responsible for the internationally honored May Day celebrations, and in all the major political movements from the Labor Movement to the Civil Rights Movement, we socialists were there in the trenches with you.

We have suffered long years in the dark, and we have been some of the first victims of government authoritarianism. When Woodrow Wilson was busy liquidating not just the anti-war movement, he was also busy liquidating democratic socialists as well, and this was before the Soviet Union even existed.

We have been burned, lynched, beaten, stabbed, shot, and mutilated for holding these ideals in the past, but I guess that is the fate of people who dare to challenge authority and the status quo. You can go ahead and claim people like Ronald Reagan for being big supporters of corporate capitalism, but you can never claim fellow democratic socialists like Martin Luther King, Jr.

[leesa]

9. Are these people trapped in some sort of McCarthy time warp?

Idiots! The fake war against Communists is over, we're on to the fake war against terrorists now...get with the program!

[Mist]

11. Really--kinda dated, isn't it? Not to mention why a millionaire

businessman would be a communist. I know, I know, don't try to make sense of Rethug ravings....

[MADem]

16. Yeah, with that kind of cash, the only red might be in the choice of

caviar!!!

http://i.pbase.com.nyud.net:8090/g3/73/300373/2/55445929.KremlinCaviar.jpg

:rofl:

[silverojo]

18. You got that shit right

Communists are so 1984! The new millennium is all about terrorists, people, TERRORISTS! :eyes:

[JohnnyLib]

23. Yup,

McCarthyism is out. Cheneyism is in.

[MzNov]

10. A Communist HippieLeft Luny? My Kind of Guy! nt

[RoyGBiv]

12. "Communism is just a red herring"

So sayeth Wadsworth.

[China_cat]

13. Uh...I thought 'red' was what everybody is supposed to be

in order to be considered a good true loyal (tm) American and that blue was the color of godless nation hating libruls.

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[Norwood]

14. The Republicans are absolutely terrified by Lamont and its delicious!

:toast:

[madrchsod]

17. i see they did not mention our good friend the chinese

i wonder why they never ever mention the largest communist country in the world?

[Rex]

19. Following the PNAC plan, sad to see Joe involved.

The M$M will do anything to make sure the GOP stays in power.

[raysr]

20. Millionaires are regulary communists LOL

[MindMatter]

31. I heard he made his millions

by figuring out a process for automating communes and labor camps. A communist is entitled to a little something for such a breakthrough, isn't he?

[eridani]

21. Ned is not in favor of single payer health insurance

Therefore he isn't even a little bit pink, let alone red. He is, however, not Lieberman.

[kaygore]

22. Then what does that say about Bush W whose grandfather

supported Hitler???!!!

[Tsiyu]

24. The Republican-American is confused.....

Lamont is BLUE, Baby!!!!!! The BLUEST OF BLUES.

You Repuke freaks are RED.

Didn't Rove send you guys the color chart? :rofl:

[no_hypocrisy]

25. Hey Waterbury Republican-American! You forgot "secular Humanist"

and co-founder of the ACLU as long as you're holding Ned to the standard's of his uncle's resume.

Stick to Ned.

No Corliss.
No Bill Clinton.
No Whitaker Chambers.

Ned. Just Ned.

[NewJeffCT]

26. This is from the town that brought us Phil Giordano

Remember former mayor of Waterbury, Republican Phil "Child rapist" Giordano? The man who got caught having sex with a prostitute's underage (like 11 years old) daughter.

Or, Johnny "Hot Tub" Rowland, the Republican ex-governor of CT and now an ex-con.

Waterbury is a town famous for its corruption.

[Justice]

27. don't forget Mayor Joseph Santopietro - also convicted

He was around in the 1990s - convicted of taking bribes. Also, the City government failed b/c of scandals with pensions.

[KamaAina]

32. and ex-Gov. John Rowland

has a few years in a license plate factory on his resume, too.

[JHB]

28. I guess "Red Ned" is operating on orders from Moscow

Might as well unearth all the old favorites!

/sarcasm

[elehhhhna]

29. WTF? Is he an Atheistic materialist OR a socialist/communist?

As if THAT sentence makes any sense at all!

The column is an offensive smear piece of hyperbole but misses its mark, imo.

After all this fine Capitalism we're practicing, methinks the electorate might find a bit of socialism quite refeshing!

[cascadiance]

30. We will control "the spice" soon!

Muadib! Muadib!

[Nutmegger]

33. That's sooooo 1950's.

Sad really.

[killbotfactory]

34. Commies drink milk...

Ned drinks milk...

coincidence? I think not!

[dalaigh lllama]

37. O.M.G.!!!111!1

He's probably going to put fluoride in our milk!1!1!
:rofl:

[Mir]

35. The writer of this

newspaper article is also lacking in the knowledge that Marx's views were different than Lenin's views which were profoundly different than Stalin's views which bear no similarity to Castro's views. What a dumbass. The evolution of what is understood to be communism from Marx to today is rife with misunderstanding and ignorance. What a cheap and unworthy hack.

[mmonk]

36. !

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[KelleyKramer]

38. A commie with personal wealth of $300 million ???

A man who started hiw own business and made 100's of millions of dollars in profit is... a communist.

Pretty damn funny, no?

[calico1]

39. Shhhhh....

Greenwich is just filled with Commies! It's a well kept secret (until now) but it's the reddest part of CT.

:silly: