[lbo-talk] Stomping Out the Reds

[Brad DeLong]

>On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Lance Murdoch wrote:
>
>>
>>  DeLay presided over the recent 55th biennial convention of the College
>>  Republican National Committee and in honor of Yalie Scott Stewart they all
>>  joined in a rousing chorus of "Stomping out the Reds"
>>
>>  http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2024872
>>
>>  The Michigan State College Republicans were so enthralled they videotaped
>>  it and put it on the web
>>
>>  http://www.msu.edu/~repubs/crnc.htm
>>
>
>"Bayonets bright gleaming, panzers forward streaming,
>Hear the Commies screaming, underneath our treads!
>Scorn their masses teeming, and their traitors' scheming,
>We're the West redeeming, stomping out the Reds!"
>
>wow.  panzers???!!!  what a hoot!  i don't know much about this song,
>whats the fascism connection here?
>
>-gr

IIRC, "panzers" are a Yale Party of the Right thang...

Brad DeLong