What are you thoughts concerning how some media personalities have tossed around communism, mao, socialism, and so on so forth.
Well to satisfy your curiosity why don't you look at it for yourself. I highlighted your words above, because it says a lot where your mind is at. You seem to think these "media personalities" are "tossing" around accusations, but in reality they are just replaying videos of these folks implicating themselves in front of what they probably assumed to be as friendly or harmless audiences (there is no such thing). Now if your under the impression these video's are faked somehow, that's an entirely different issue. The only thing I can conclude by your words is you have doubts these people say these things on camera or think it's no big deal at all. People have different levels of what matters.
When you come across something like this, reverse it and see how it sounds to you. Imagine if someone in the last administration said they admired Genghis Khan. Don't you think MSNBC, NBC, CNN and Jon Stewart would have it on a loop? Sure they would, and rightly so.