RADIO TIDBITS

I caught a little bit of both Hannity and Mark Levin today and they are both stuck in the past, as David Frum might put it. Both tried to portray Obama as a "radical" or "radical leftist" and that's the same position the blog Red State has taken. This is from an e-mail I received from Erick Erickson:

Last week at RedState we uncovered the news that Barack Obama was endorsed by something called the New Party. Since then we have investigated what the New Party was.

It is abundantly clear that the New Party was a political party designed to push the Democratic Party to the far left.

The radical left Democratic Socialists of America praised the New Party's endorsement of Obama and itself promoted Obama.

Tom Delay goes so far as to claim Obama is a Marxist and Goofball Gasbag Mike Gallagher agreed with him (from Andy Barr at The Hill blog) -

Former House Republican Leader Tom DeLay (Texas) called Barack Obama a "Marxist" on the Mike Gallagher radio show Thursday.

Explaining that Obama clinching the Democratic nomination is a good thing for John McCain, DeLay said Obama's "weakness" is that "nobody knows him."

"And if McCain does not define him as what he is — hey, I have said publicly, and I will again, that unless he proves me wrong, he is a Marxist," DeLay said.

The radio host agreed with DeLay, who is facing money laundering charges, saying Obama is "desperately trying to cover up what seems to be the kind of old school Marxist radical liberal failed ideology."

"Absolutely," DeLay said. "No doubt about it."

Matt at ThinkProgress has the audio clip.