Soros Gives Media Matters $1 Million to Fight Beck and Fox News
by Liberty ChickIt’s official. There have been whispers in recent days, but George Soros decided to go public today. He’s giving Media Matters a million bucks. Why? Because FOX News and Glenn Beck must be stopped!
In a statement released today by Soros and Media Matters:
“Despite repeated assertions to the contrary by various Fox News commentators, I have not to date been a funder of Media Matters,” Soros said. “However, in view of recent evidence suggesting that the incendiary rhetoric of Fox News hosts may incite violence, I have now decided to support the organization. Media Matters is one of the few groups that attempts to hold Fox News accountable for the false and misleading information they so often broadcast. I am supporting Media Matters in an effort to more widely publicize the challenge Fox News poses to civil and informed discourse in our democracy.”
See, now there you go again, George Soros. Making FOX News out to be the evil (deceptively named) Ministry of Truth from George Orwell’s 1984, pushing out packaged Newspeak.
As Politico reported:
Soros figured prominently in the conspiracy theory that allegedly drove convicted felon Byron Williams to arm himself and set out to kill staffers at the Soros-funded Tides Foundation the ACLU this summer. Although Williams said he had first heard of the theory from other sources, he told Media Matters in a jailhouse interview that Glenn Beck was a “schoolteacher” who “blew my mind” on such topics. He told the interviewer to watch Beck’s June shows to get more information about Tides.
On Friday, Drummond Pike, the founder and CEO of the Tides Foundation, said “there will be blood on many hands” if the next assassin succeed, and called for a network-wide advertiser boycott of Fox News in response to Beck’s rhetoric. This morning Media Matters launched a website to join the effort.
Might we remind readers that Mr. Soros has donated money to, among many other organizations, the Tides Foundation.
Tides has given more than $2 million to Media Matters over the last five years. Tides also gave $51,000 last year to Velvet Revolution – the same organization we just wrote about last week that was founded by a convicted domestic terrorist.
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"I am supporting Media Matters in an effort to more widely publicize the challenge Fox News poses to civil and informed discourse in our democracy.”
Can you believe this arrogant, Hungarian-born, nazi-collaborating SOB?
You don't need to worry about "our democracy," george. But you may want to begin worrying about what OUR REPUBLIC is getting ready to do.
He'll be dead soon. Just look at him.
This is WONDERFUL news!
I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Mr. “Spooky Dude” Soros and encourage him to spend twice as much as he was intending, perhaps three or four times as much. Keep it coming Georgy baby! … keep it coming! … I am willing to bet every penny that Soros has that he can blow it all and it won’t make a rats ass bit of difference.
Now THIS is redistribution of wealth that I can believe in! …. WOOHOO!
Spooky dude is a foreigner, will MM be using any of this money when running political adds?? Beck did invite Soro's on his show for a one hour debate.
I heard that immediately after issuing this statement he ate a live baby.
Now if Soros would only fund a group to keep the MSM accountable for their false and misleading information!
There's already more blood on Soros' hands than most mass murderers. It's too bad we can't hear from those he betrayed in the 1940s. Their ghosts could tell us much.
Let's not forget that this is the same George Soros that spent $32.3 million financing various 527 committees during the 2004, 2006, and 2008 elections.
The Big Spenders Behind the Scenes http://soquelbythecreek.blogspot.com/2010/10/big-...
Let's not forget that this is the same George Soros that, along with other well-connected, big-money donors, is supporting California's Proposition 27. What is Proposition 27 except a method to eliminate citizen-based election reform and solidify one-party rule in the California Legislature?
Proposition 27 Revealed! http://soquelbythecreek.blogspot.com/2010/09/prop...
Is anybody you know who watches Beck or Fox News going to stop watching because Soros gave Media Matters a million dollars? I think the guy was looking for a tax deduction. I don't watch Beck because I don't have cable, now I might have to invest in cable so I can watch both Fox News and Beck, anything to tick off these communists.
FYI: The Liberals are not going to go down quietly, but ya'll knew that already. Remember to get the VOTE OUT.
All Soros needs now, is to be stroking a white cat as he speaks, and the image would be complete. What a creepy anti-American jerk.
Actually I think its funny. Sorass is stupid, the president of the United States went to war with Fox News —- and LOST. What does Sorass think a million bucks will do? Who listens to Media Matters anyway?
Thanks for the great article. Does Soros think his filthy dirty money will change how people think? I find this very humorous. Beck and Fox are powerful communication entities and Soros is going down.
GEORGE SOROS IS AN ENEMY OF THE UNITED STATES AND A LYING SACK OF SHIT.
THOSE WHO BELIEVE HIM ARE ALSO ENEMIES OF THE UNITED STATES AND DESERVING OF OUR DERISION.
While I'm no fan, George Soros is a naturalized American citizen.
You can throw a million bucks anywhere you want to, Georgie. It can buy a lot of stuff………..everything except the Truth.
Guess it's time for Defend Glenn.com to start up again. I have personally contacted his list of advertisers and threatened a personal counter boycott. There is for instance a cheese company that has not made a cent from me since the color of change boycott.
I have said this before, there are companies who donate heavily to liberal causes. One prominent Insurance Co used to still may. It's easy to cancel an insurance policy. Time to lean on these contributers until the progressives lay off.
From now on can Big Government/Journalism/Hollywood photoshop that hoodie thing that Emporer Palpatine wore onto Soros, and caption it with appropriate Palpatine quotes? The one thing that gives me encouragment about this POS is that he too is mortal and one day, all his money and all his manipulations and all his threats will not stop the Dark Ones from taking his soul away. It can't come a day too soon…
So this is the guy George Orwell warned us about. He sure looks the part and seems to act the part sending his millions of dollars to everything anti-American. Oh wait; that's what the Socialist Democrats want. I'm sure their anti-Israeli hatred will follow right after the election. They've got an election to try an steel first.
Talk about foreign donations.
Wish I had a million dollars to throw away like that.
Sheep
He'll probably have that ugly head removed and hooked up to a heart/lung machine, before he goes to room temperature…
Watch the interview he gave on 60 minutes a few years ago…..talk about evil.
Hey there George. I hate to burst your bubble, but Orwell was trying to warn Americans about people like you. Take your billions, buy yourself a nice island somewhere and leave the rest of us to live in peace.
But a Socialist non the less!
We need to stop these A-Holes that come to OUR country, and then try to change the rules to suit their needs. Enough already! Stand and Demolish
I'd say a new head would be a good use of that money. The old one is starting to smell a little…….
Liberals think billionaires are evil unless they are Soros, Oprah, etc.
Well, remember how the truth hurts the left minded and how they fight everything- By throwing money at it. No principles needed. This is the thing constantly missed and why phase 1 of The Revolution begins November 2nd.
The fraud in this midterm election will be enormous, and the Marxist/Progressive Press/Media is setting the stage for the massive cover up on November 3.
All races not won by more than 3 points will be stolen by Dems as 2008 Wisconsin.
If you think the Dems are going to accept defeat or respect the vote of the people, you are living a fantasy. All of this will help the Dems demonize the Reps as the party that committed the fraud as lying is what the Dem Party does best.
If the Reps win by large enough margins to take back the House; everything wrong in America from that point on will be blamed on the Reps, as everything wrong now is blamed on Bush, and the Press/Media will be more than happy to continue to promote the Dem Party lies. America is standing on its head; if we don't right ourselves, how long will it be before America's head explodes?
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
They're going to need more money. A LOT more!
We must all remember Soros is NOT an AMERICAN by birth, by blood as most of us are. He is a master
manipulator who has played his games all over the world, to the detriment of many nations, large and
small. The 'game' is his incentive, that and the cold hard cash he is able to amass through his manipu-
lations.
All our display of vitriol is for naught, save your breath. We must go to our Congressmen and insist they
ban him from trading in the US Stock market as the Brits have done. There is no doubt he is evil and dan-
geous, but we are a Nation of freedom and we don't ban even the evil lightly. Soros is bound to have
broken laws that would enable us to at least scare him away if not ban him.
His goal is to use Americans as pawns in his manipulative games, stripping our economy of billions
while dispiriting us as a free people. We are such a vast, wealthy country there is much here yet to glean.
He will break our spirit, dampen our appetite for our individualism that has sustained us for 234 years. We
must fight him on every front, at every level.
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The fraud alone will eat 40%. Add on another 20% for mis-mangement.
Spending $400K on a bunch of liberals will not get you far.
It's always a gift when your enemies identify themselves and then waste their money on a train that cannot be stopped! Go Glenn! and thank you. You have the majority of America behind and beside you every day!
I just watched the view–since its the norm to call for jihad–can we get some jihad dudes over to the view to do some jihad stuff–
According to the internal memo, Big Labor's plan includes:Halting normal "union operations" and sending 2,000 national union staff and 3,000 local union officials into the field to campaign full time from now until election day;
Making tens of millions of phone calls attacking pro-Right to Work candidates (23 million already and tens of millions more in the final weeks); Sending 4 million pieces of mail every week smearing candidates who oppose Card Check and other union power grabs. And that doesn't include the attack television ads that union bosses have launched nationwide. Truly, in the words of one government union boss, this is "a massive incumbent protection program."
Fortunately, voters overwhelmingly oppose Big Labor's agenda of more power grabs and larger government, but it doesn't matter if union bosses drown out pro-Right to Work candidates.
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The side benefit of marxist Obama getting elected is that we traced back to the entire network of socialists, thanks to Glenn Beck every night.
He connects the dots. He names the leaders of all of the socialist groups, and America learns. Now we can carry out a business plan to rid America of them, and prevent them from ever getting power again!
The Devil is waiting impatiently for this evil to finally croak!
Beck invited 'Spooky Dude'; to be on his show, yesterday! I hope he accepts! Beck will run circles around this evil!
So Media Matters is taking foreign money to advance political speech?
What would he know about civil and informed discourse?
Please lose the ALL CAPS it hurts the eyes
Teabaggers brainwashed by Glenn Beck then commit violence. What a surprise!
He sure acts like he's suffering with a mental disorder. Is he from a far away planet?
Never interupt your enemy they they are making a mistake…
I believe that this is a landmark occasion.
Imagine, the great puppeteer himself PUBLICLY disclosing what he is doing.
It is indeed a new world. The mask (such as it was) is off.
Good for George. Unlike the Koch addicts, he's not hiding his funding. That must drive you GOPeeps nuts, what with your addiction to secret funding and front groups for mega corporations.
Tortoises have the same kind of face and they live for over a hundred years.
Is the coin flowing for you again Dan.
This man needs to be arrested.
Oh, go ahead and keep liking them! No terrapin ever sought to undermine America or prop up propaganda houses.
and Beck is exposing him right now on the tv show….lol
I wouldn't hold my breath on that one…lol
Yet it is FOX News that is the real threat to our nation? Ah, to be as omnipotent as Soro's makes me chuckle.
He’s right of course. They are a threat, but not to our nation, about which he cares not one little whit anyway, as his actions and statements have proven in the past beyond any reasonable doubt. They are a threat to his agenda because they dare say that which would never have been said in the glorious past when every media outlet in the country was a wholly owned and controlled subsidiary of the Democratic Socialist Party. No wonder Obama comes out from behind his outhouse from time to time to blast Fox News, because it's totally unfair to have one friendly conservative cable news station to go up against the likes of MSNBC, CBS, CNN, ABC and of course, "Teh Vile" TV show.
he'll be right by the devil's side….
When Soros was banned by the Brits, he should have been banned here as well. But, considering the way this country has been being run, D.C. probably sent him an engraved invitation to Wall Street.
Asshat!
That's from lack of sleep. Beck is keeping him awake at night.
LOL…what a fine point! I'll follow your sage advice : )
I watch Glenn and listen to him pretty regularly. I have never heard that man make one statement advocating violence. Quite the opposite.
This is just typical of the Left – destroy what you cannot debate.
And as others have pointed out – all the violence so far since Obama as taken office has been from the Left. That's all they know – how to lie, and how to kill.
Now condemn Bill Ayers.
53% of all PAC monies (from corporations and from individuals working for those corporations) goes to DEMOCRATS.
97% of all union monies donated to political campaigns goes to DEMOCRATS.
You're just whining because you're not getting ALL the money, and you're not getting most of what comes from average working Americans like me.
Instead of investigating the Chamber of Commerce, I believe that George Soros, Move on.org & The Sierra Club should disclose where their money comes from.
I agree with you that the Democrats will try to steal every election that they can, but it takes big money to hire all of those lawyers and thugs. Thankfully, this time around their funds are limited.
Soros will burn in the eternal fires of Hell, prepared for the Devil and his angels.
Aw George, did the little alcoholic, former rodeo clown, ex DJ get just a little itsy bit under your skin? That's such a shame. Just remember, that WE SURROUND YOU! Spooky dude, I can't wait to skim past your obit. Hopefully sometime soon. You are one of the most destructive parasites on the planet.
Me and thousands of others.
How could anyone who's done what he has ever sleep soundly?
== "Can you believe this arrogant, Hungarian-born, nazi-collaborating SOB?" ==
You got a real way with words John — thumbs up.
The truth is still alien to you. What a surprise!
Soros reminds me of "Brain" in "Pinky and the Brain". Muah ha hah ha hah !
Ahahahah
Soros, you just wasted a million bucks.
You're money would have a better spent if you used it to support, THE RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH PARTY.
Hey TrollHeels go rip the tags off pillows and mattresses. Buuwaaahahahahaha!
"…should have been banned here as well."
I agree, but I'm sure he was already spreading the cash around in our Congress in order to forestall
that eventuality. I hope we will be able to impress on the new Congress of 2011 that we are fed up
with manipulators and their games and we will not stand for any of this sort of rot from anyone, as
I'm sure Soros is not the only EVIL b@$t@rD we need to worry about. Beck had a whole list last sum-
mer, if I remember correctly. I have notes around here somewhere on his tv shows where he named
names and showed us their faces.
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hopefully heavily medicated?;-D
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Doesn't the preface here require that people actually read the media matters crap.
I'm sure they are suffering.
Actually we are getting your salaries through taxes. And we've already spent it.
If it works, why not?
Soros is a convicted felon and a Godless Communist.
Why he still wastes our oxygen is beyond me.
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W O W . . . as though there was any doubt as to who george soros is and what he stands for . . . sure glad he cleared up those issues.
I like tortoises too, especially if the right spices are used when making the soup.
To all you leftist Sons of B*tches praising George Soros.
Let me tell you this little story.
In 1944, when George Soros was 14, his father bribed a Hungarian government official to swear George was a Christian and not a Jew. The official then adopted George.
George Soros' adopted godfather was in charge of confiscating the property of Jews who were sent to the concentration camps.
Soros accompanied him on his rounds.
60 Minutes aired an interview with Soros on Dec. 20, 1998 where Soros admitted that:
1. He help his "godfather" confiscated Jewish property.
2. That he had no problems with it and he did NOT feel guilty about it.
3. He justifies his action by saying " it's just like in markets–that if I weren't there–of course, I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would"
The evil thing isn't that as a teenager he helped steal people's belonging.
The really evil thing is that he can, even today, justify his collaboration by saying in essence, "Well if I didn't do it, someone else would."
Also in exchange for special priviledges, Soros help hand out leaflets to Jews urging them to turn themselves in for deportation. He continue to do it even after his father told him that deportation meant extermination.
Soros said that he was raised in an anti-Semtic Jewish household.
Soros may call Bush, Hitler, but Soros is the real Nazi.
psssst…your caps are locked.
Put yourself in his position as a 14 year old Jew in Nazi occupied Hungary and then tell me if doing what they tell you to do in order to survive and not be sent to a gas chamber is such an awful thing? You think he's the only Jew during the holocaust that did the bidding of Nazi's in order for them and their families to survive? Later, he also was in danger of being put to death and spent a year in hiding. You've got some set of balls from your armchair I'll tell you that. You and the rest of these idiots will never know what that's like until someone literally has a boot to your throat and is pushing you into a cattle car for extermination. They deserve your compassion for simply what they went through, not your scorn. But typical of right wingers you're a group of self righteous twats who cant help but politicize everything.
Someone has to stand up the Beck menace and that's all he is. His appearance on the American scene has coincided with a coarsening of discourse and a hyperpartisanship previously unheard of. And he's a goddamn moron to boot.
Sure hope that all of the BIG-GOVERNMENT visitors and contributors spend some quality time on the websites of Media Matters, the Huffington Post or Move On in order to submit just as honest of a response there as here . . . Also, consider wighing in at the various websites presented on Drudge OR your local, on-line community newspaper. IT WILL BUILD CHARACTER.
The Republicans are outspending the Democrats 8-1 in this election cycle. You people are owned by the plutocrats hiding behind Citizens United. Admit it and be proud. You're winning.
I guess Capitalism doesn't work? LOL
I wish George Soros would just go away. He is as ugly as it gets!
And thankfully beck will soon be blind.
Actually Orwell warned you about Glen Beck but you're too stupid to notice.
Soros is a coward… simple…
How many died to save Soros' life?
He's an Esperanto speaking anti-Jew…
and maybe someday you will grow sex organs.
Uglier.
Oh well, woops
LOL, I will put the correction up next week 
What a waste of money. Couldn't he have given it to the poor?
But that's the way libs think. Don't give the money to people who need it, give it to politicians and administrators who take their piece first, and give the "little people" what's left.
Supposedly, George Soros is going to sit out the 2010 election (well, after spending some $32.3 MILLION in previous elections).
http://soquelbythecreek.blogspot.com/2010/10/big-...
Apparently, the nut doesn't fall too far from the tree. Here's a recent article from OpenSecrets.org about George Soros' son Alexander Soros.
Led By George Soros' Son, Student Contributions Buoy Democrats in 2010 Midterms http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2010/10/college-l...
Oh, and for you Californians out there, don't forget that George Soros is also spending to pass Proposition 27.
VOTE NO ON PROPOSITION 27!
http://soquelbythecreek.blogspot.com/2010/09/prop...
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