{"id":6267,"date":"2009-03-10T09:38:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T16:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=6267"},"modified":"2009-03-10T09:38:58","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T16:38:58","slug":"conservatives-hit-obama-with-accusations-of-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/03\/10\/conservatives-hit-obama-with-accusations-of-socialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives Hit Obama With Accusations of Socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest031009\/2009_03_10_king.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest031009\/2009_03_10_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=40% src=\"http:\/\/justgetthere.us\/blog\/uploads\/Newsweek-We-Are-All-Socialists.jpg\" alt=\"newsweek\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President Obama has come under increasing criticism from conservatives for some of his economic policies. Reminiscent of the campaign-era rhetoric from the right, Obama is accused of being a socialist from Newt Gingrich to Rush Limbaugh, and a good portion of the right-wing blogosphere. One blogger warned: &#8220;Personal freedom, individual liberties and self-determination are evaporating as fast as stocks and most retirement accounts. Rules, regulations and restrictions will soon be rampant. Government will soon be unbridled, uncontrolled and uninhibited&#8230;We will have to learn for ourselves that socialism simply doesn\u2019t work.&#8221; Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference recently denounced the formation of so-called &#8220;Socialist Republics&#8221; in the US. There is a conversation about socialism in the media &#8212; Newsweek had a dramatic cover story called &#8220;We are All Socialists Now.&#8221; But Tim King, Executive news editor of Salem-News.com asserts, &#8220;It is questionable whether most of the accusers even know what Socialism is.<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Tim King, a former U.S. Marine with twenty years of experience on the west coast as a television news producer, photojournalist, reporter and assignment editor. He is Executive News Editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Salem-News.com\">Salem-News.com<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more information, read Tim King&#8217;s article at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salem-news.com\/articles\/march092009\/socialism_usa_3-8-09.php\">http:\/\/www.salem-news.com\/articles\/march092009\/socialism_usa_3-8-09.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program President Obama has come under increasing criticism from conservatives for some of his economic policies. Reminiscent of the campaign-era rhetoric from the right, Obama is accused of being a socialist from Newt Gingrich to Rush Limbaugh, and a good portion of the right-wing blogosphere. One blogger warned: &#8220;Personal freedom, individual liberties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}