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PBS’s Bill Moyers: George Soros Has Been The Victim Of ‘Fox News Assassins’

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Bill Moyers has been making the regular media rounds to promote his return to PBS, and on Friday joined Arianna Huffington for a discussion on the media. But the subject quickly changed to the infamous billionaire George Soros, and Moyers ended up defending Soros from some of the attacks leveled at him by the American right wing. He called Soros a “victim” of attacked leveled against him by “Fox News assassins.”

In the midst of a discussion on the media and contemporary society, Moyers cited Soros as an example of someone whom people should be listening more to.

I’ll tell you somebody you could, you should go for, because he has given more thought to this than almost anyone I know: George Soros, believe it or not. George Soros, whatever you think about his wealth or his politics, George Soros was next to Vaclav Havel I think the most catalytic agent for helping to bring down the Communist government behind the Iron Curtain because he, he gave everybody who wanted one an equivalent of a Xerox machine, and so they could get the message out.

And he is deeply troubled by the Orwellian power of the right-wing in this country today. He talks about it. I was on his board for a several years, and I’m off now that I’m back on the air, but I was on his board, and he is deeply troubled. He is a great devotee of the open society, the society that does change because it listens to itself, and learns from its experience.

He’s been the victim, of course, of Glenn Beck and the right-wing, the Fox News assassins. So he’s thought a great deal about the Orwellian idea, and he said it has arrived in this country. It is here, part of the permanent, a permanent characteristic of American democracy which is therefore self-suicidally bent because of the power and force of propaganda. He’d be somebody I know would write you a really good piece for that.

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  • Anonymous

    The dude made all his money on the back’s of other people’s failures. Now he funds a large part of the Democrat party. He is the absolute perfect figurehead for the liberal cause.

  • Anonymous

    Moyers has never been shy or apologetic about his views and he has no reason to be now.  Fox news has heaped every despicable claim they could on Soros including that of Nazi collaborator and Moyers is right to defend him.

  • Pablo

    You can feel free to tell us what’s been said about him that isn’t true, Bill.

  • Anonymous

    The truth is very bothersome to Moyers, Soros and the rest of the liberals.

  • Anonymous

    Who the scary dude who says the only obstacle to a world government is the United States?  That George Soros?

  • Gloves Frank Donahue

    Moyers is just one more journolist bought by Soros.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000089653819 Mike Harris

    This is what Fox News does. They’ve repeated the name George Soros 8 billion times, always carefully associating it with the most horrendous assaults on truth and decency imaginable. No wonder the Fox addled brain can never see the obvious, even though it requires only a few facts to work it all out. “He said the name George Soros! No really! Well that’s certainly all I need to hear!!! OMG! stupid liberals. LOL” 

    Viewed with the aid of facts its fairly obvious that Soros, like Moyers, is obviously a decent human being that actually cares about someone besides himself and we certainly can’t have that. Watching Fox News is like going to church. Just keep saying the blessings. Careful! You might actually *learn* something if you listened to a guy like Soros. Worse, you might actually start to open your mind and see that the truth is just about the exact opposite of whatever you believe on most subjects.

  • Duke Chesnut

    I remember the Koch brothers being smeared by Media Matters. I remember the boycotts orchestrated by Media Matters against Glen Beck and Lou Dobbs when they were on CNN.
    Now MM cries foul when their financer is attacked by the truth? The many Tides Foundations,et al, that Soros funds have undercut the currencies and economies of other countries around the world. Now that exposure has cut traffic to sites like MM and Huffington Post, his agenda exposed, and MM cries foul? Digging up Bill Moyers to defend Soros, wow, did he not report on the sinking of the Titanic, Lusitania, or no it was the Andrea Doria in 1956. Soros is reaching, Beck is winning!

  • Anonymous

    “Billion Dollar Babies” Alice Cooper

    Billion dollar babies
    political lackies, slicker than a weasel
    grimey as an alley
    Kochin’ me like a Soros.

  • Duke Chesnut

    George Soros,born 1930 as Schwartz Gyorgy, did carry slips of paper for the Jewish Concil of Budapest, to Jewish Lawyers to inform them they would be deported.  How he survived the Nazi conquest and the Soviet battle for Budapest is in question, being a jew he most probably colaborated in order to survive. Despicable claim or despicable history, wiki his name and his own quotes of that time. Bill Moyers is/was a sitting board member of the Soros group, not a neutral journalist.

  • Anonymous

    I couldn’t agree more with you.

    It’s easy to say George Soros “Has Been The Victim Of ‘Fox News Assassins’”, but maybe
    Bill Moyers should point out what things were said about him that aren’t true.

    You cant claim victim on behalf of someone, when only his own words and actions are what supposedly made him a “victim”.

  • Anonymous

    when did mitt romey fund the democrat party?

  • Anonymous

    everything…

    tell us what has been true–that would be easier..

    lil rupert is just jealous and now with the scandel of the rupie empire–we know who is the scumbag huh?

    unless you cons actually like ‘news’ folks tapping personal phones???

  • Anonymous

    not as bothersom as it is to the cons..
    wire tapping? closet homosexuals? prostitution? scams, frauds and hypocrites..

    ya–whatever you say about liberals–the cons are much worse..
    sorry..truth hurts..

    only difference between the cons and the libs..the libs do not claim to be righteous, they are no judgmental, do not want to be in everyones bedroom and do not attack others for the very things they are doing behind closed doors..
    and that is that~

  • Anonymous

    rupie wire tappers…
    hmmmm

    love that tabloid news–lies and personal destruction by bleach blonde bimbos..
    nice..

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  • Anonymous

    Time to defund PBS any day now.  I can’t believe they are bringing this guy back…he is nothing but a democrat propagandist…well, maybe that doesn’t surprise me afterall given the status of PBS…which is of course nothing but a democrat propaganda machine.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    Moyers used to be a pretty good journalist; now he’s just like the Democratic Party, a race-based pundit who will  compromise his own ethics to help the Left. He acted as a fire dept. to help put out the Jeremiah Wright blaze by giving a soft soap interview in an hour long show before the Presidential election that only addressed Wright’s controversial statements one short time. Nothing about white gov’t creating AIDS and importing drugs to kill blacks, nothing about Romans as “garlic noses” who lynched Jesus.

    Moyers has no credibility as he is a common shill.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    How many “facts” do you need to see Obama as spending 20 years in the equivalent of a KKK church with one of the most virulent bigots in America as his pastor?

  • Bobby Brady

    Soros is a victim of being exposed, but not by the liberal media, which is why Moyers is upset.

  • Anonymous

    Let’s forget the liberal and conservative stuff. Just tell me what you think about the current economic state of the country and do you believe that the middle class is disappearing. It used to be that you could get a job out of high school and still marry, buy a modest home, and have children. You could even hope to send your kids to college so that they would do better. Is that still true of the average working man or woman? Are they earning enough to save for their retirement? Can they afford college? Now that companies routinely do not supply healthcare insurance can a father afford it for himself and family? 

  • Anonymous

    Mr moyers, perhaps you might look into his past. Are you upset because some facts came out?

  • Anonymous

    Right wingers can hate Soros all they want and proving Moyers right by parroting the “facts” they got fed. Has nothing to do with the real problems in this country anyway. Pretty informative broadcast by the same Moyers.

    http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/01/14

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Vivlian-Wozz/100003324676254 Vivlian Wozz

    I am a 27 years old doctor,mature and beautiful. and now i am seeking a good man who can give me real love, so i got a sername Andromeda2002 on  Agedate.СòM, a nice and free place for younger women and older men,or older women and younger men, to interact with each other.Maybe you wanna check out or tell your friends.
     

  • Anonymous

    You guys really are sheep. Instead of providing evidence to your claims, all you can do is link to right-wing think tanks and summary of Glenn Beck episodes. Does it only take a strong assertion to get the GOP base to believe something is true? 

    By the way, it’ll be funny the next time Frontline reports something that gets everyone fired up. It’s a great news source, but Moyers runs it and Moyers is associated with Soros so Frontline must be part of the secret leftist agenda to topple the United States for the puppet master Soros. 

  • Anonymous

    You must not watch Frontline. They do serious reporting that’s heads above most shows, and Moyers runs it. The show isn’t partisan and has been critical of Obama just as it was of Bush. 

    You also don’t seem to question Murdoch’s publications, even though the guy’s son has been implicated in tapping people’s phones, as dcjesus points out. The other stars on the Right: Loofa O’Reilly, Pill Popper Limbaugh, and company aren’t exactly upstanding citizens either. 

  • Dee Smith

    quote by George Soros Nov 2007 c-span miami book fair “I know exactlly where the dollar will be OCT 2008″ than laughed and said I am just kidding. I knew he wasn’t kidding because he also just anounced that he was backing an unknown by the name of BARACK OBAMA, and not Hillary clinton. I knew that very day in the pit of my stomach WE ARE IN TROUBLE. Some of that interview has been scrubbed, All that went through my mind is we are in for an Oct surprise. Of course they had to push it up to SEPT surprise. Look at the polls Sept 15,2008 who was moving ahead ??? It wasn’t Obama.

  • Anonymous

    Moyers? Who resurrected him from the crypt? What is this– Night of the Liberal Dead?

  • Anonymous

    Bill Moyers is completely right in his views and I welcome him back to PBS, we missed him dearly!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jonathan-Carpenter/1000240898 Jonathan Carpenter

    Moyers would know about Assasinating Character considering what he did to Barry Goldwater.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, Fox News have been “assassins” by playing George Soros’ own vile words.

  • Anonymous

    But that was when the wealthy were paying their fair share of the tax burden and we weren’t taken into two unnecessary wars.  Yes, and it was before 2000 when George W Bush just stood there and waved goodbye as the Chinese took all our manufacturing jobs to China. 
    And now we have some really intellectually challenged Republicans who think more of their religious cults than the rights of the poor and middle-class.  Barack Obama is on the right track to get us out of the mess that the republicans took us into for 6 years of all republicans running our nation.  Dont’ give the keys to them again or they will total the car this time.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think Obama “spent” as much time in that church as he is being given credit for.  You certainly see no videos of him in that church and if he was there, don’t you think that even as a state senator he would have had the camera on him?  Of course.

  • Anonymous

    cookoo!    It used to be Democrats had such a wide range of opinions it was hard to get them to move coherently in a common direction.  In recent years you could put their talking points on a 3×5 card and hear the same nonsense (with occasional truth) on just about whatever channel you choose.

    I thought it hilarious yesterday when I happened to have Fox on just for filler (in between watching something I had on DVR) as I was prepping something in the kitchen and I heard the closing part of an interview with a couple of Democratic officials talking about how numerous Democrats were being indicted for fraud, and how when things like this occurs he’d have to turn to Fox News to hear about it – meaning no other network has the guts to go against the liberal lemmings and report bad actions by a Democrat – just look back to the John Edwards fiasco that went on almost a year before NBC dared make mention of it.

  • Anonymous

    Soros was fourteen at the time some claim he collaborated.  “Collaborated” insinuates he did so willingly and without coercion, neither is the case . And by Moyers own admission he was on Soros board but resigned when he went back on air.”

  • david r

     the libs do not claim to be righteous, . . .

    No ?

  • Anonymous

    And I gather then you believe that all journalist are bought but just by different people for different reasons.  I guess I never thought of Bill Moyers as a journalist but rather a commentator. Journalist report the news but columnist and commentators give you their take on the news.  There is a difference don’t you think?

  • Anonymous

    We all enjoy to listen to people who validate what we already believe. Or people who give us ammunition for our own arguments. That is human nature.  It does not take the place of carefully doing your own research from different sources and forming an opinion that is not gathered by osmosis. 

  • Anonymous

    If you want to call out Fox News then you must also call out MSNBC. They do the same thing to the Koch brothers. Both sides have “evil” rich people they attack. 

  • http://twitter.com/g_byst Greg Bystroff

    Ironic you should bring up Romney. Bain Capital invested in troubled companies resulted in most of those companies recovering. Soros’ investments have resulted in the destruction of the economies of 4 countries.

    Which one do you want to associate with?

  • Pablo

    “It was actually, probably the happiest year of my life -  that year of
    German occupation.  For me it was a very positive experience.  It’s a
    strange thing, because you see incredible suffering all around you, and
    in fact, you are in considerable danger yourself.  But you’re fourteen
    years old and you don’t believe that it can actually touch you. You have
    a belief in yourself, you have a belief in your father. It’s a very
    happy making exhilarating experience.”

  • Pablo

    Moyers is making the claim, little lamb. He should be providing some evidence, no?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dolf-Fenster/100000420267385 Dolf Fenster

    The one whose actions led to the recovery (from communism) of 4 countries.  Easy answers to stupid questions.

  • Pablo
  • Pablo

    They’ve repeated the name George Soros 8 billion times, always carefully
    associating it with the most horrendous assaults on truth and decency
    imaginable.

    Cite, please.

  • Pablo

    So he was lying about his church attendance? About Wright being like family to him? About Wright being his spiritual mentor?

  • Anonymous

    all hyperbole and exageration–hence–NOT TRUE…

    i could say that pablo is radical american potential terrorist…
    is that true? prove it wrong?
    your posts are radical, i assume you are american…and prove you are not a potential terrorist…
    i bet you have even done the terrorist fist bump huh?
    so if you want to be honest for once in your life—you will admit that fox is a sensational, fear mongering, grocerystore tabloid, type of shop..
    the take an ounce of truth-or less and then spin the crap out of it..
    so-whats not true? you radical, potential terrorist…

  • Anonymous

    show me where any lib has used pious language ie as in ordained by the almighty god to justify attacking you kind folks on the right..
    all we have done is use your own reference book ie the bible—TO SHOW YOU ARE NOT CHRISTIAN AND ARE HYPOCRITES AND SINNERS..
    that is all i am saying..

  • Anonymous

    The manufacturing jobs went to China, because the unions demanded and still demand ridiculously high wages and benefits for ridiculously low effort and output.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Hmmm  who to believe?  I choose the ADL — and only idiots believe Fox News http://www.adl.org/PresRele/HolNa_52/5906_52.htm

  • Anonymous

    I am ashamed to have been born in the same country as Gyorgy Soros.

    Gyorgy Soros should be ashamed for being Gyorgy Soros.
    Bill Moyers should be ashamed for sticking up for Gyorgy Soros, and also for being Bill Moyers.

  • Anonymous

    Moyers is one of the last real journalists left in America.

  • Anonymous

    You honestly think that’s what he really said, or more likely it’s something someone else claims he said.  A fourteen year old in 1940s, war torn Europe is only doing what he’s told, he had no idea of the scope of what was happening to him or the rest of the world.  There’s a reason the age of consent is not fourteen, you have no idea what’s happening.  I sincerely doubt that’s how he felt at the time. 

  • Anonymous

    The issue is Soros. Try to stay on topic.

  • Anonymous

    What do you consider their “fair share of taxes”? Would that be the ”fair of  taxes” you don’t want to pay?
    General Electric is moving to China. Isn’t the head of GE one of Obimbo’s closest advisors? Let’s see, a Liberal Progressive president and a huge American corporation moving overseas? What is that telling us?

  • Anonymous

    If George Soros name is being associated with scum 8 billion times, do you think there’s any truth in say, the 3rd, 4th, of 8th billionth time he gets associated?

  • http://newsbusters.org/ AliveStiIIKickin

    Awwwwww!!
    Poor, Evil George is a victim.
    How dare those naughty boys at FOX tell the world about his deal with the Devil and  what a sleazy dude he is.
    Foul!!!

  • Anonymous

    Enjoy
    bestoffox.blogspot.com

  • Anonymous

    Wtf are you babbling about?
    I’m certain that you have no idea.
    He’s just there to counter the evil image of the Koch Bros in the easily led minds of the wrong-wing pawns, of which, you are undoubtedly one.
    And now you, with no powers of persuasion whatever, are going to convince those of intellect, that you are in the know?

    Please.

  • Duke Chesnut

    George W Bush did not assume the presidency until Jan 22,2001, when did whom wave bye-bye to these jobs,? Bill Clinton who signed NAFTA.

  • Anonymous

    Soros makes good things happen.
    He puts his money where his mouth is.  Admirable man of values.

    Beck and Fox News only put their hands where your money is.
    Hardly philanthropists, more like charismatic charlatans preying on the fears of the ill-informed and frightened.

  • Anonymous

    “Soros’ investments have resulted in the destruction of the economies of 4 countries”

    Says who?
    You?
    Your puppeteers?
    What countries did he destroy, and how? And when?

  • Anonymous

    Wtf is that?
    An alleged quote of his?
    From where, exactly?
    Or just some crap that you copied from your handlers.
    Or is your crediblity so great here that your word is enough?

  • Graeme Edgeler

    While Frontline is incredible – no wait, credible and awesome – and while Bill Moyers is an at-times excellent interviewer, he does not “run” Fronline. Indeed, he doesn’t even seem to be involved (although he has done some work there in the past).

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/about-us/senior-editorial-team/(you can also check under producers, just to make sure)

  • Anonymous

    FormerlyLOGICandREASON is right.
    As in, not now.

    To save all of you, but especially the rational ones, a waste of time, I can tell you that the first link, to blip.tv, is a video of Soros, in 2004, making a few extremely sensible statements, and contains NOTHING WHATEVER that is at all controversial, questionable, or indictable.
    Naturally, I didn’t bother going to the other links, given the results of the first one.

    If a wrong-winger had said any of those things, no one would have said anything about it.

    In other words, you’re full of crap.
    But not logic.
    Nor reason.

  • Anonymous

    “… that fox is a sensational, fear mongering, grocerystore tabloid,…”

    Plus, a collection of complete scumbags, as evidenced by the hearings last summer.

  • Anonymous

    What truth?
    The crap that you believe?
    Sell that to the other morons.
    We’re too bright to be taken in by people who have already been taken in.
    You just don’t get it.
    You’re not the salesmen, you’re the customers.

  • Anonymous

    Only difference?

  • Anonymous

    He means self-righteous. Holier-than-thou. God-directed.
    But you knew that, didn’t you?

  • Anonymous

    Soros is the topic.
    The issue is his demonization and character assassination by the wrong-wing, and fux news, in particular.

  • Anonymous

    NAFTA resulted in a net job gain, and didn’t involve China. NA stands for North American.
    Maybe this is too advanced for you.

  • Anonymous

    Weren’t you just telling someone to stay on topic?

  • Anonymous

    No. He didn’t say that.

  • Anonymous

    As opposed to all of those bought by Murdoch and the Kochs?

  • Anonymous

    One.

  • Anonymous

    Not if it comes from fux news.
    That’s how the Big Lie works.

  • Anonymous

    Wtf are you babbling about?
    Seriously, you think that if more morons watch Beck, than intelligent people watch Moyers, then you’ve won something?
    What, exactly?

    Moyers is so far superior a newsman than Beck or Limpbough or anyone on fux news, that your attempt to compare them only reveals your own utter and abysmal lack of credentials to even be commenting here.
    So thanks. Now we can judge your remarks accordingly.

  • Anonymous

    Exposed as what.
    A wrong-wing villain?
    Like that matters.

  • Anonymous

    No facts, just lies.
    Or harmless truths, amounting to nothing at all.

  • Anonymous

    “I thought it hilarious yesterday when I happened to have Fox on just for filler (in between watching something I had on DVR) as I was prepping something in the kitchen..”

    I think it’s hilarious that you would think that any of that was remotely worth mentioning, much less relevant.

  • Anonymous

    What did he do?
    He worked for LBJ, who was running against Goldwater then
    What did you expect, that he would hand the election over to his opponent, the lunatic of his day?

  • Anonymous

    Not so. At all.
    That was the idea behind demonizing Soros. To counter the effects of the Kochs.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, but there are soo many of them.
    They feed off each other.

  • Anonymous

    Try for something intelligent next time.
    You know, facts, logic, reason.
    Otherwise, you’ve said nothing, but asked to be taken seriously, anyway.
    I’m ashamed that you’re here in my country, now. But who cares?

  • Anonymous

    Especialy when it’s bullshit.

  • Anonymous

    I stand corrected. He was, however, involved at one point in the 1990s as an editor and a host. I assumed he stayed behind the scenes but it looks like I was wrong. 

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133302/fullcredits#cast 

    Thanks for setting me straight. 

  • Anonymous

    Return to PBS? hmmm…… I guess it’s time to pay the piper.

  • Anonymous
  • http://newsbusters.org/ AliveStiIIKickin

    Still not weaned off the teat…I see.
    Thanks for the laugh…Now go do some research and get back to me when you become an informed man.
    Bill O’reilly:
    http://www.billoreilly.com/pg/jsp/billsfavorites/billscharities.jsp

    Big Soros Money Linked to “Occupy Wall Street”
    http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&sqi=2&ved=0CDYQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenewamerican.com%2Fusnews%2Fpolitics%2F9269-big-soros-money-linked-to-occupy-wall-street&ei=iJQUT-DhAYLo0QHl7cWHAw&usg=AFQjCNEhXN4J0txudXO-_aWoyuBN0Nq2Gw

    Philanthropist…my ass!!

  • http://newsbusters.org/ AliveStiIIKickin

    In the liberal world….”Special Ed” Schultz is a “journalist”
    LOL!!

  • Anonymous

    Maybe one day you’ll be lucky enough to find a fact in it’s natural habitat.

  • Anonymous

    I have no idea what that means.
    If you have something, what is it?

  • Anonymous

    Are you serious?
    Or just insane?
    There’s nothing on that site but a lot of wrong-wingers (Michelle Malkin) bitching about the fact that he supported liberal candidates.
    SFW?(So what?)
    Apparently, your standards only requires that something about Soros be in print, and then, you quote it as proof of ….what?

  • Holistic

    Moyers proving once again just how out of touch he is with reality. But I think he likes it that way.

  • Anonymous

    As a young man, Soros was also instrumental in helping Nazi Germany bring filthy Jews to justice.  But that doesn’t count because it was before he changed his name.

    This is just what we need.  Another tax payer supported old political hack on public television.  This is perfect timing.  Moyer will be very good at moderating a presidential debate.

    Moyer, if they will pay you for your lies on MSNBC with all the other bozos, that’s fine.  Don’t make me pay your salary. 

    Oh, but you’re no longer on Soros’ board.  So now you’re an objective journalist?  When did you start being an objective journalist?

  • Pablo

    I think that’s what he said to Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes, December 20, 1998. I think that because that’s when he said it.

  • Pablo

    Google is your friend. It can keep you from looking rabid.

  • Pablo

    What is hyperbole and exaggeration? Specifics, please.

  • Anonymous

    pablo

    Thanks, but I wasn’t rabid.
    I was sneering with contempt.
    Sorry it went over your head.

  • Pablo

    Sneering with contempt works a lot better when you’re not flat wrong.

  • Anonymous

    Everything I said is true and you’ve added nothing to the discussion. You’re simply resorting to the all-too-common liberal tactic of sanctimonious, ad hominem blithering, hoping other liberal lemmings will flock to you. That act is getting very tired.

  • Anonymous

    Apparently the definition of ‘sanctimonious’ eludes you, so if you could provide an example of same, and at the same time, answer my original question, and show how Soros ‘…made all his money on the back’s of other people’s failures…’, that would be great.

    Sorry for the, “..all-too-common liberal tactic ..”, of asking for facts.

    And I believe that “ad hominem ” means that I was attacking you.
    So?  You had it coming.

  • Anonymous

    Wrong about what?
    Asking for specifics?
    And context?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Weiss/100000817744695 Jeff Weiss

    Seriously, this is the best you could find from the right wing noise machine?

    Let’s summarize the points:

    1. George Soros makes his money currency trading.
    2  George Soros helped collapse 6 communist dictatorships.
    3. George Soros recommends a managed decline of the value of the dollar to improve  US global competitiveness, reduce the trade imbalance, and stave off a possible collapse in the dollar precipitated by China.
    4. George Soros was used by the Nazis in Germany.
    5. George Soros believes the US should clean up its foreign policy so we can lead the world from a point of moral superiority again.

    Seriously, that’s IT? You know what the history textbooks called men who collapsed communist regimes when I was in high school? Heroes, you damned morons. And we do need to reform our foreign policy. Blowing people up is NOT a workable foreign policy. #3 is self explanatory.

    I won’t even address the ridiculous accusations Glenn Beck makes about the Center for American Progress especially when the charges of propaganda against them are being levied by the equivalent right wing propagandists. Pot kettle black.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Weiss/100000817744695 Jeff Weiss

    Seriously, this is the best you could find from the right wing noise machine?

    Let’s summarize the points:

    1. George Soros makes his money currency trading.
    2  George Soros helped collapse 6 communist dictatorships.
    3. George Soros recommends a managed decline of the value of the dollar to improve  US global competitiveness, reduce the trade imbalance, and stave off a possible collapse in the dollar precipitated by China.
    4. George Soros was used by the Nazis in Germany.
    5. George Soros believes the US should clean up its foreign policy so we can lead the world from a point of moral superiority again.

    Seriously, that’s IT? You know what the history textbooks called men who collapsed communist regimes when I was in high school? Heroes, you damned morons. And we do need to reform our foreign policy. Blowing people up is NOT a workable foreign policy. #3 is self explanatory.

    I won’t even address the ridiculous accusations Glenn Beck makes about the Center for American Progress especially when the charges of propaganda against them are being levied by the equivalent right wing propagandists. Pot kettle black.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Weiss/100000817744695 Jeff Weiss

    Seriously, this is the best you could find from the right wing noise machine?

    Let’s summarize the points:

    1. George Soros makes his money currency trading.

    2  George Soros helped collapse 6 communist dictatorships.

    3. George Soros recommends a managed decline of the value of the dollar
    to improve  US global competitiveness, reduce the trade imbalance, and
    stave off a possible collapse in the dollar precipitated by China.

    4. George Soros was used by the Nazis in Germany.

    5. George Soros believes the US should clean up its foreign policy so we
    can lead the world from a point of moral superiority again.

    Seriously, that’s IT? You know what the history textbooks called men who
    collapsed communist regimes when I was in high school? Heroes, you
    damned morons. And we do need to reform our foreign policy. Blowing
    people up is NOT a workable foreign policy. #3 is self explanatory.

    I won’t even address the ridiculous accusations Glenn Beck makes about
    the Center for American Progress especially when the charges of
    propaganda against them are being levied by the equivalent right wing
    propagandists. Pot kettle black.
    2  George Soros helped collapse 6 communist dictatorships.
    3. George Soros recommends a managed decline of the value of the dollar to improve  US global competitiveness, reduce the trade imbalance, and stave off a possible collapse in the dollar precipitated by China.
    4. George Soros was used by the Nazis in Germany.
    5. George Soros believes the US should clean up its foreign policy so we can lead the world from a point of moral superiority again.

    Seriously, that’s IT? You know what the history textbooks called men who collapsed communist regimes when I was in high school? Heroes, you damned morons. And we do need to reform our foreign policy. Blowing people up is NOT a workable foreign policy. #3 is self explanatory.

    I won’t even address the ridiculous accusations Glenn Beck makes about the Center for American Progress especially when the charges of propaganda against them are being levied by the equivalent right wing propagandists. Pot kettle black.

  • david r

    Thanks.  I was a liberal for years in my youth.  I thought being righteous was very important.  I’m a centrist now, though I voted for Gore and Kerry. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Weiss/100000817744695 Jeff Weiss

    Sorry about the multiple postings, I kept getting an error message “error – Meebo not responding”, so I kept hitting the post button. I have tried to remove the multiple posts but Mediaite won’t let me remove my own posts.

    Has Mediaite always had this crappy Meebo plug in on the page?

  • Anonymous

    Sanctimonious: attempting to appear morally superior to others, often hypocritically.

    Your posts absolutely reek of it. Keith Olbermann would be proud.

    It’s fairly common knowledge that Soros made his money by shorting on investments, I believe it was banks or currency. It’s on Forbes, CNN, many other reputable sites.

    Ad hominem attacks are merely a sign of weakness. I hope they’re bringing you some comfort.

  • Anonymous

    Soros is the furthest thing from a decent human being.  He is in fact, a criminal. convicted of insider trading in France.  He almost destroyed Britain by shorting the pound, and is widely thought to have caused the ” Asian Contagion” in the 90′s that shook the world economy. He has made huge amounts of money by betting against the dollar.  He admits to having messianic tendencies.  He manipulates hid Obama puppet to make millions – while Obama tries to destroy the oil industry here, he backed an IMF loan to Brazil for offshore drilling there because Soros is heavily invested in Petrobras. Soros is the worst kind of rapacious “capitalist”, leaving carnage in his wake.  Wake up and do some homework. Moyers is an idiot.

  • Anonymous

    Non sequitur much?

  • Anonymous

    In the teabagger world,,,,”Oxycotin boy” Rush Limbaugh is a “journalist”
    LOL!!

  • Anonymous

    “Your posts absolutely reek of it”

    You still didn’t offer an example. I know that I’m both morally and intellectually superior to you wrong-wing clowns, but in no way am I hypocritical. About that, or anything else.
    And, as I said, you haven’t proven it with any examples. Nor can you. You just don’t like being proven wrong yourself. So you engage in ad hominem attacks, yourself. Which you claim, sanctimoniously, and again, without proof, are a sign of weakness.
    With your weak, no-proof argument.

    As for Keith Olbermann, are you under the impression that he is now a pariah whose association I would shrink from? Wrong, again. He’s a good guy, his critics, apparently, you, are the idiots. So, I’ll take that as a compliment

    As for Soros, selling short is a common investment tactic, employed by every professional investor, and to use that as proof of some wrong-doing is beyond stupid. If you think that something is going down in value, you sell short. It’s called capitalism, which, I’m guessing, you’re not about to attack. Apparently, your knowledge of investing is as limited as everything else that you choose to comment on. An as hominem attack? So what? You attacked me, I answered you.

    Try for an intelligent response, or don’t go after liberals just because you mistakenly believe that they’re easy targets.

  • Anonymous

    You voted for, not against, Palin?

  • Anonymous

    “Now go do some research and get back to me when you become an informed man.”

    And then you send him to your designated source to become “informed”?
    As you became “informed”?

    Could you be any more absurd?
    Get back to me when I have time for you.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CVRZE7H2ENKKMCYYOMIUIVWRW4 rhody

    Soros made his first billion in
    1992 by shorting the British pound with leveraged billions in financial
    bets and became known as the man who broke the Bank of England.
    He broke it on the backs of hard-working British citizens who
    immediately saw their homes severely devalued and their life savings cut
    drastically, almost overnight.”

  • Anonymous

    I see an end quote but no citation.
    Can you provide a link.

  • Anonymous

    Soros has done more to promote democracy than the U.S. effort in the Middle East.
    Never dropped a bomb and made money in the process.
    He should be a Republican icon.

  • http://gamewhen.com/ Michael T

    I would say to Mediaite’s Josh Feldman that the readers of this article can evaluate it perfectly fine without a link to an extremely partisan bomb thrower like Noel Sheppard form NewsBusters.

    I know Mediaite leans right, but this is just taking it too far IMO.

    You have to ask yourself would you link to a column by Keith Olbermann if the article was about the influence of the Koch brothers? I think not.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CVRZE7H2ENKKMCYYOMIUIVWRW4 rhody

    Soros owns Bill Moros and the lucky American taxpayer gets to fund his propaganda.

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