Fox feels the heat - Alterman

[dArKeR]

Just what is Fox trying to say?
The New York Times won't respond to Fox’s accusations re Robert Boynton’s Magazine piece last week, but I will.  Fox accuses the Times of "taking orders from" a George Soros-funded Web site," and describes Soros as "a left-wing billionaire currency speculator who funds many liberal efforts."

This is a particularly nasty and malicious bit of false innuendo.  First off, while the Center for American Progress did give Robert Greenwald $80,000 to support “Outfoxed” (which was less than MoveOn.org) it had no say whatever over its editorial content and did not see a single frame until it was completed.  It obviously had nothing whatever to do with Boyton’s magazine story.  So Fox is just lying right there. 

Second, the “Web site”—which is of course, a think-tank (where I am a Senior Fellow)- is funded by Soros, but he is far from its most significant funder.  That would be the Sandlers of Northern California.  So why is Fox picking on Soros?  I don’t know for sure, but we do know that Sean Hannity, Tony Blankley and Bill O’Reilly have proven part of a nasty disinformation campaign to slander Soros with anti-Semitic codewords and images, and attack his religious beliefs on Fox and elsewhere.  We note here the term “left-wing billionaire currency speculator” which can be read in some benighted circles as another way of saying “filthy, greedy, wealthy Jewish troublemaker.”  For shame.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/

[PROGRESSIVE1]

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[Cha]

2. I may have a clue why fausux is "picking on Soros"...

I've heard o'lielly listeners say bad things about Soros ..so evidently it's an easy target talking point that needs to be ratcheted up. The o'liellys conveniently forget the repukes billionaires who fund the freak shows!

[The Zanti Regent]

5. Scaife goooooooooooood, Soros baaaaaaaaaaaaaaad

Fox loves drunks like Richard Mellon Scaife who get away with murdering Steve Kangas. They cover up for Killer Pickles, Killer Janklow and Intern Killer Joe Scarborough, too. I guess these Christian Role models are doing Gawd's will.

As for Soros, well, if Screwpert "I lived in sin but paid Cardinal Phony Mahoney 1 million to get an indulgence" Murdoch, if he had his way, he'd broadcast clips of Alec Guiness as Fagan from Oliver Twist whenever his PRESSTITUTES talk about Soros.

Soros KNOWS what it is like to see the Nazis come to power. He's doing everything he can to stop the Nazi Republican Party from implementing their KKKristian ReKKKonstrKKKtionism!

[tom_paine]

3. Nice job by Alterman, as always.

[FighttheFuture]

4. Face it Soros has put his neck out, so now they are trying to chop it.

A few billion dollars makes a pretty tough neck collar!! LOL!

They have a lot to ear from Soros. This guy has lived where we are headed and is not stupefied by counter arguments like so many of the sheeple. He also as passion and conviction of his beliefs. This is much more powerful than some like Murdock who is simply a power mongering greedy amoral whore with ambitions of grandeur.


He is a big danger to them they have to train their faithful and try to create a movement against him.

[Democat]

6. Some on the far right hate Jews? Unheard of!

Next we will find out that some on the far right hate blacks too!