George Soros On Glenn Beck: ‘I Would Be Amused If People Saw The Joke In It’

In an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria set to air on Zakaria’s GPS this weekend, billionaire financier George Soros responds to recent comments made about him by Fox’s Glenn Beck, saying Beck’s comments about Soros would be funny if “people saw the joke in it.” Soros accuses Beck–and News Corp owner Rupert Murdoch–of “telling the people some falsehoods and…leading the government in the wrong direction.”

When Zakaria asks Soros specifically about comments Beck made back in November, accusing Soros of “helping send Jews to the death camps,” Soros concedes that it’s hurtful, but returns quickly to his charge that Fox News is a “media empire” that deliberately traffics in “falsehoods:”

Well, look, Fox News makes a habit — it has imported the methods of George Orwell, you know, newspeak, where you can tell the people falsehoods and deceive them.

Watch it here, from CNN:

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