The Cult of Soros

Front Page Magazine ^ | Aug. 25, 2006 | David Horowitz and Richard Poe

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[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Since 1994, [Soros] had worked with a network of leftwing foundations to fund a $140-million-dollar lobbying drive in favor of “campaign finance reform.”

. . . about which Rush at the time made the point that CFR was barely even on the radar of the public, polling something like 2%. His point was that the journalists were the only ones who cared about the issue - but then, Soros later bragged that he had done it.

The campaign succeeded in passing the McCain-Feingold Act, which, by outlawing “soft-money” donations, in effect de-funded the Democratic Party.

. . . Having driven the Democratic Party to the brink of bankruptcy, Soros, [in effect, took financial control of it].

That is obviously a tin foil hat conspiracy theory. After all, the Democratic Party was the driving force in Congress behind McCain-Feingold, and this posits that the party essentially cut off its own financial legs in the process, essentially setting itself up for a white knight takeover. It's a crazy notion. No political party can even exist without mass public support.

OTOH, the idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR. And PR, when push comes to shove, is money. Whether it comes from circulation subscriptions or advertising or from Daddy Warbucks, money runs printing presses and the broadcast networks.

Hmmm . . . Pass the tin foil . . .

Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate

And everyone craves PR. People even make themselves suspects in the Jean Benet Ramsey case just to get PR . . .
The whole Drive-by Media thing is about craving PR among the operators of the media: knocking important and valuable institutions promotes the people who do the knocking (sick, but true).

[E.G.C.]

Media bias bump

[Mind-numbed Robot]

I think you underestimate the left who have been patiently at this effort to destroy America for about 85 years. Psychopolitics is their main weapon because they can't defeat us militarily, although their handmaidens, Carter and Clinton did all they could to destroy our military. They are very skilled in deceit and infiltration of the key levers of information and power.

That is what is going on here, psychopolitics at its core.

[ClaireSolt]

The difference is that Horowitz actually proves his case while you just dismiss it and go on a paen about PR. Read his book.

Having driven the Democratic Party to the brink of bankruptcy, Soros, [in effect, took financial control of it]. That is obviously a tin foil hat conspiracy theory

[johnny7]

They're starting it up again on that insane, deep-sea burial of CO2 emissions.

[13Sisters76]

What planet, exactly, do these folks come from?

One MUST wonder....

[13Sisters76]

You are absolutely right about Maurice Strong. I would venture that not too many Americans know who this man IS. They need to find out.

(lol) When I read the "Left Behind" series- Maurice Strong was the man I pictured as Nicolae Carpathia.

[13Sisters76]

You consider what Soros has been doing as mere "dabbling"? Are you not paying even the most casual attention? Right now the man's money is just influencing the demonRAT party- it could be much more in the future and at that time, it won't take money.

This man means to damage everything you have come to expect from being an American- and you can trust me on this- he doesn't think for a moment that YOU are smart enough to run your own life. NONE on the left do.

Is that what you want? A government that interferes in every aspect of your personal life? Perhaps we should ask any person living under a communist regime what THEY think.

[13Sisters76]

Don't forget their efforts to infest the government agencies with their army of under-trained, under-educated, overpaid, lazy and worthless "workers". Every agency, from Defense to State to the IRS is infested with these saboteurs. OH! and they are unionized...

[Milhous]

In a review of Soros’ new book The Age of Fallibility, blogger Jane Hamsher hails him as a latter-day Socrates.

Going ahead and running with Jane's Soros as Socrates metaphor it seems we better force Soros to drink hemlock before the old kooky coot prematurely dies on us.

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[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Horowitz actually proves his case while you just dismiss it and go on a paen about PR. Read his book.

My point is that Horowitz' case is wierd, but he does prove it.

My point is that Soros has "taken over" the Democratic Party with his money and with the PR campaign to "eliminate money from politics," but the Democratic Party was already the party of big money. The Democratic Party is the party of PR - the party of money and big journalism. And now the party of Soros. But part of the PR is maintaining that the Democratic Party is the party of the little guy.

Of "the little guy," and not of some billionaire with a foreign accent.

[pepperdog]

I believe Soros to be more dangerous to the survival of this country than the mad man of Iran! To ignore his influence over the Democrat (and some fake "Republicans") party is foolish. My hope is that he'll be "called home" before he can complete his grand plan. I can't believe people don't understand that the man took away a part of our constitutional rights without ever being even mentioned until well after the fact. And the fact that the Supreme Court supported the Campaign Finance law and that McCain is still prancing around wearing the mantle of a possible Presidential contender shows just how powerful Soros is.

[Milhous]

The whole Drive-by Media thing is about craving PR among the operators of the media: knocking important and valuable institutions promotes the people who do the knocking (sick, but true).

A neo-burlesque form of entertainment where only Middle America's important and valuable institutions (eg family, church, nation) seem to get knocked. Institutions important and valuable to the upper class (eg stock exchanges) somehow remain nearly untouched except for the occasional scapegoat offered up to tout the SEC's supposed watchdog role. When Drive By Media mercessly beats losers like Ken Lay DBM actually wind ups covering its own assets by bolstering Middle America's faith in public equity as a sound, prudent investment. A darned good place where Middle America can safely stash cash until retirement.

[griswold3]

I'm not so sure. His folks really tried to manipulate the elections here in Ohio recently. It was rejected when the Soros name came up. I describe this guy as "power hungry".
However, you can't blame a guy for trying. He and his ilk could run things without worrying about reelection and that nasty 8 year limt thing.
Who benefits when the masses are "equal"? Elites! Intellectuals and Billionaires. They don't have to worry about competition and have the power to control.

[griswold3]

mark

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Don't forget their efforts to infest the government agencies with their army of under-trained, under-educated, overpaid, lazy and worthless "workers". Every agency, from Defense to State to the IRS is infested with these saboteurs. OH! and they are unionized...

Thanks for including those. Of course there are the labor unions themselves, the NGOs, the teachers, the MSM, foreign money, and the ever present useful idiots on whom the psychopolitics works wonderfully.

[auboy]

PR today means perception redefined.

[ClaireSolt]

I agree. Anyone who still believes that the Dems are for the little guy really is not paying attention.

[ClaireSolt]

Ney said he was #1 on soros list, and I see he has quit. Don't underestimate his impact. He came up with $300m extralegal funding in 2004. I think they lost because they were too negative. What Horowitz documents is his connection to the radicals who are determined to break the American system to get control.