Posted on 08/25/2006 6:52:08 PM PDT by 13Sisters76
The Cult of Soros By David Horowitz and Richard Poe FrontPageMagazine.com | August 25, 2006
Has the Democratic Party become a cult? And is leftwing billionaire George Soros its guru? The chorus of hosannas with which leftwing bloggers now greet Mr. Soros’ silliest utterances – and the faithfulness with which Democratic leaders repeat them -- suggests that the answer to both questions is yes.
Take the current Democratic mantra that, if there are terrorists in the world, George Bush has created them. This is a familiar Soros-ism. As he has done many times before, Soros decried Bush’s characterization of the current global conflict as a “war on terror” in a Wall Street Journal op-ed titled “A Self-Defeating War” (8/15). According to Soros “a misleading figure of speech applied literally has unleashed a real war fought on several fronts -- Iraq, Gaza, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Somalia -- a war that has killed thousands of innocent civilians and enraged millions around the world….we can escape it only if we Americans repudiate the war on terror as a false metaphor.”
In normal times and coming from an ordinary mortal, these would be regarded as the comments of a crackpot. After all, the Islamic jihad was on the march – and killing Americans -- for twenty years before George Bush employed the metaphor. Back in 1979, the streets of Teheran were already filled with a million frenzied Muslims chanting “Death to America,” and the 9/11 attacks were themselves hardly in response to anything that the American president had said.
But because this judgment is the considered wisdom of a megalomaniac billionaire whose network controls the purse strings of the Democratic Party, this is now the foreign policy of the liberal opposition. When George Soros speaks, the left listens.
In a review of Soros’ new book The Age of Fallibility, blogger Jane Hamsher hails him as a latter-day Socrates. Hamsher is the blogger who created a minor scandal by posting a doctored photograph of Joseph Lieberman in blackface on the Huffington Post website. She writes, “Challenging a ‘false metaphor’ such as the ‘war on terror’ is so threatening to everything the power structure of the Bush administration has been erected upon that to do so will certainly draw down the full force of the right-wing bullies… Mr. Soros has done the heavy lifting and dragged the topic into the national debate…”
Blogger Matt Stoller of MyDD concurs. “[This is] the first time a major figure took on the framework of the war on terror, and called it a false metaphor. I think he’s right… The war on terror just doesn't exist any more than a child's imaginary friend exists.”
Like Hamsher, Matt Stoller was a leading player in the anti-Lieberman blogswarm. A long-time Democrat operative, Stoller formerly ran the Corzine Connection blog for Jon Corzine’s gubernatorial campaign in New Jersey. Today Stoller co-directs BlogPAC, a political action committee for leftist bloggers founded by Markos Moulitsas Zuñiga of Daily Kos.
Their connection to the anti-Lieberman campaign is, as the Marxists like to say, no accident. The Lieberman ouster – and Soros’s role in it – signify the emergence of a new phenomenon in America’s political life: the Shadow Party.
During the 2004 election cycle, Soros put together a network of organizations through which he gained effective control of the Democratic Party’s campaign apparatus – and thus of the Democratic Party itself – in a silent coup whose ramifications are still unfolding.
Soros’s coup was ten years in the making. Since 1994, he had worked with a network of leftwing foundations to fund a $140-million-dollar lobbying drive in favor of “campaign finance reform.” The campaign succeeded in passing the McCain-Feingold Act, which, by outlawing “soft-money” donations, in effect de-funded the Democratic Party. As a result of the Act, the Democratic Party could no longer collect the multi-million-dollar donations from labor unions which were its lifeblood.
Soros stepped in with the Shadow Party to collect the donations instead.
Having driven the Democratic Party to the brink of bankruptcy, Soros then offered to save it. In effect, he privatized the Party, by setting up a network of privately-owned, non-profit groups which would raise the big campaign contributions the Party was now forbidden to raise itself.
In a new book, which describes Soros’s achievement, we call this network the Shadow Party, because it acts as a mirror image or shadow of the real Democratic Party. During the 2004 election cycle, the Shadow Party raised more than $300 million for the Democrat cause – but spent the money itself. This allowed it to shape the politics of the Democratic campaign and control the party’s future. Joe Lieberman now understands what that means.
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David Horowitz and Richard Poe co-wrote The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Sixties Radicals Siezed Control of the Democratic Party (Thomas Nelson, 2006)
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. . . 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 IllegitimateAnd 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).
Media bias bump
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.
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
What planet, exactly, do these folks come from?
One MUST wonder....
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.
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.
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...
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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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.
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.
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.
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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.
PR today means perception redefined.
I agree. Anyone who still believes that the Dems are for the little guy really is not paying attention.
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.
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