Film—Animated
Kent Mansley: You know, Hogarth, we live in a strange and wondrous time: the Atomic Age. But there's a dark side to progress, Hogarth. Ever hear of Sputnik?
Hogarth Hughes: Yeah, first satellite in space.
Mansley: Foreign satellite, Hogarth, and all that that implies. Even now it orbits overhead - Boop! Boop! - watching us. We can't see it but it's there, much like that giant thing in the woods. We don't know what it is or what it can do. I don't feel safe, Hogarth. Do you?
Hogarth: What are you talking about?
Mansley: What am I talking about? What am I talking about? I'm talking about your goldarned security, Hogarth! While you're snoozing in your widdle jammies, back in Washington we're wide awake and worried! Why? Because everyone wants what we have, Hogarth! Everyone! You think this metal man is fun, but who built it? The Russians? The Chinese? Martians? Canadians? I don't care! All I know is we didn't build it, and that's reason enough to assume the worst and blow it to kingdom come! Now, you are going to tell me about this thing, you are going to lead me to it, and we are going to destroy it before it destroys us!
Hogarth Hughes: Yeah, first satellite in space.
Mansley: Foreign satellite, Hogarth, and all that that implies. Even now it orbits overhead - Boop! Boop! - watching us. We can't see it but it's there, much like that giant thing in the woods. We don't know what it is or what it can do. I don't feel safe, Hogarth. Do you?
Hogarth: What are you talking about?
Mansley: What am I talking about? What am I talking about? I'm talking about your goldarned security, Hogarth! While you're snoozing in your widdle jammies, back in Washington we're wide awake and worried! Why? Because everyone wants what we have, Hogarth! Everyone! You think this metal man is fun, but who built it? The Russians? The Chinese? Martians? Canadians? I don't care! All I know is we didn't build it, and that's reason enough to assume the worst and blow it to kingdom come! Now, you are going to tell me about this thing, you are going to lead me to it, and we are going to destroy it before it destroys us!
Literature
"Great Britain, once the home of free-market economics and the vaunted English liberty, the great source of civilization in much of the darkest parts of Africa and Asia, has fallen to the ludicrous license of the loony Left. Today, I am sad to report to you my friends, the forces of Joe Stalin have marched up the steps of Westminster and sat themselves down in the lap of the Queen. The once-mighty bastion of freedom—the Britain that would rule the waves and never, never, would be slaves—has fallen under the Red yoke, and Britons are indeed slaves under the chains of global Communism.
Like France, Italy, Greece, and Portugal, another free government has fallen to the insidious machinations of the Marxist malefactors of Moscow's malicious hegemon. Where once the Red tide stopped at Berlin, now the very Atlantic is seeped in the red of Communist tyranny. A new Iron Curtain has fallen from Edinburgh to Lisbon to Havana, and our beloved America is now on the frontline of tyranny. (...) So falls Great Britain, home of Churchill and John Bull, lost to the merciless tide of red tyranny and desolate despair. How long before we will have to fight the Stalinist hordes on our shores? Will we again fight at Valley Forge and at Lexington, but not this time against the Redcoats but the Red Menace? I say it is not if, but when—and that when may be sooner than you think. (...) For, my friends, if we do not stop them there, then surely we will have to stop them here. Let us work together, to fight the howling harbingers of Hades and reclaim this land, before, like Britain—where the torch of freedom has just been snuffed out—we too fall into the abyss of Stalinist terror."
Like France, Italy, Greece, and Portugal, another free government has fallen to the insidious machinations of the Marxist malefactors of Moscow's malicious hegemon. Where once the Red tide stopped at Berlin, now the very Atlantic is seeped in the red of Communist tyranny. A new Iron Curtain has fallen from Edinburgh to Lisbon to Havana, and our beloved America is now on the frontline of tyranny. (...) So falls Great Britain, home of Churchill and John Bull, lost to the merciless tide of red tyranny and desolate despair. How long before we will have to fight the Stalinist hordes on our shores? Will we again fight at Valley Forge and at Lexington, but not this time against the Redcoats but the Red Menace? I say it is not if, but when—and that when may be sooner than you think. (...) For, my friends, if we do not stop them there, then surely we will have to stop them here. Let us work together, to fight the howling harbingers of Hades and reclaim this land, before, like Britain—where the torch of freedom has just been snuffed out—we too fall into the abyss of Stalinist terror."
Film—Live Action
Mission Control: Buckaroo, the White House wants to know, is everything okay with the alien spacecraft from Planet 10, or should we just go ahead and destroy Russia?
Buckaroo Banzai: Tell him "yes" on one and "no" on two.
Mission Control: Which one was "yes, go ahead and destroy Russia"... or number two?
Buckaroo Banzai: Tell him "yes" on one and "no" on two.
Mission Control: Which one was "yes, go ahead and destroy Russia"... or number two?
"With the outbreak of such '-isms' as socialism, anarchism, imperialism, communism, etc., sunspots began to swarm across the face of the diurnal orb. God casts no light on the Reds. Scientists have announced a major increase in sunspots since the advent of beatniks, Provos, and, most of all, pacifist tendencies from Italy, France and Scandinavia."
—The General, Z
Live-Action TV
Roy Cohn: You wanna test me? See how fast I can pull the chain and flush you. You want to see your name on a list? "Are you now, or have you ever been...?"
Dales: What are you talking about? I'm no communist.
Cohn: You are if I say you are.
Dales: What are you talking about? I'm no communist.
Cohn: You are if I say you are.
—The X-Files, "Travelers"
Merton: Communist America! This is like one of those Red Scare movies Chuck Norris made during the 80s, only without the paper-thin villain spouting clichéd commands—
Supreme Commisar: SILENCE, CAPITALIST PIGS!
Supreme Commisar: SILENCE, CAPITALIST PIGS!
— Big Wolf on Campus, "Commie Dawkins"
Yes! Whenever bicycles are broken, or menaced by International Communism, Bicycle Repair Man is ready! Ready to smash the communists, wipe them up, and shove them off the face of the earth... Mash that dirty red scum, kick 'em in the teeth where it hurts. Kill! Kill! Kill! The filthy bastard commies, I hate 'em! I hate 'em! Aaargh! Aaargh!
— Bicycle Repair Man, Monty Python's Flying Circus
"Suspected Pinko Ousted From Crossing Guard Post". What a jolly world I was born into.
— Frasier Crane reading a newspaper from the day he was born.
Colonel Flagg: I'm on to you, Pierce. Now you took a yellow Red before a white American, which is pretty pinko.
Hawkeye: You're even boring in Technicolor.
— M*A*S*H, "Rally Round the Flagg, Boys"
Video Games
You have communist pig on team. Heh. I go. I fix problem.
— "Unusually Ruthless" Reuban, Jagged Alliance
Wipe out all 1.2 billion of the red communists!!
BETTER DEAD THAN RED!
COMMUNISM IS THE VERY DEFINITION OF FAILURE!
COMMUNISM IS THE VERY DEFINITION OF FAILURE!
— Liberty Prime, Fallout 3
"If you haven't found any communists in your backyard, you aren't looking hard enough!"
—Book Chute, Fallout: New Vegas
"Ready to send those commies running back to their mommies?"
— President Ackerman, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
real life
"The old American virtues have already been eaten away by cosmopolitans and intellectuals; the old competitive capitalism has been gradually undermined by socialist and communist schemers; the old national security and independence have been destroyed by treasonous plots, having as their most powerful agents not merely outsiders and foreigners but major statesmen seated at the very centers of American power."
—Richard Hofstadter on the Red Scare, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics"
"With regard to the picture It's a Wonderful Life, [REDACTED] stated in substance that the film represented a rather obvious attempt to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a 'scrooge-type' so that he would be the most hated man in the picture. This, according to these sources, is a common trick used by Communists."
FBI memorandum (13,533 pages long), Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry (1947)
"Were the Junior Senator from Wisconsin in the pay of the Communists, he could not have done a better job for them."
—Sen. Ralph Flanders (R-VT)
"The real issues are whether the power of Western Civilization, as God has permitted it to flower in our own beloved lands, shall defy and defeat Communism; whether the rule of men who shoot their prisoners, enslave their citizens, and deride the dignity of man, shall displace the rule of those to whom the individual and his individual rights are sacred; whether we are to survive with God's hand to guide and lead us, or to perish in the dead existence of a Godless world."
— General Matthew Ridgway, Korea, 1951
"We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist.' You never heard a real American talk in that manner."
—Frank Hague, mayor of Jersey City, 1938
"Hi faggot. You are leftist leech, you suck Noam Chomsky's dick, you commie faggot."
—Richard Dawkins reads his fan mail
"I don’t wanna brag, but I sorta called it before he was elected and I was on O’Reilly and I said he was a communist. I got a lot of hate mail, but I got some that said I was 'prescient,' which means 'a prophet.'"
—Victoria Jackson on Barack Obama
"I absolutely unironically love the way the collective assholes of the world have collapsed on 'social justice warr~iors (come out to pla~aay!) as their catch-all insult for those damn dirty commie liberal hippie bastards. And it’s not just because I’m a lover of campy 70s action flicks (though I am [CAAAAN YOUUU DIG IT?!?]). Nor is it because it is the most honest any of these fuckers have ever been in their goddamn life (rambling on like a Captain Planet villain about how they are against those glorious do-gooders and their caring about justice)."
—''Sadly, No'
'"The pretext for all this, of course, was the necessity of 'containing' communism, which, they unblushingly informed me, was a threat to the 'free' world. I did not say to what extent this free world menaced me, and millions like me. But I wondered how the justification of blatant and mindless tyranny, on any level, could operate in the interests of liberty, and I wondered what interior, unspoken urgencies of these people made necessary so thoroughly unattractive a delusion."
— James Baldwin, No Name in the Street
