FOX News Invents Another George Soros Conspiracy

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=4427

On the Fox News web site today, Dan Gainor, a VP at the ultra-conservative Media Research Center, wrote an op-ed that asked, “Why Don’t We Hear About Soros’ Ties to Over 30 Major News Organizations?” The answer, as it turns out, is because there aren’t any such ties. In the opening paragraph Gainor writes that Soros…

“…has ties to more than 30 mainstream news outlets – including The New York Times, Washington Post, the Associated Press, NBC and ABC.”

Then Gainor fails to provide a single piece of evidence that Soros is connected to any of those enterprises. The article is a hodge-podge of guilt-by-association assertions that are held together by the thinnest of threads.

Rather than support his headlined accusation, Gainor offers as examples of Soros’ omnipotent influence the fact that he has donated to a few independent, non-profit institutions that focus on journalism. The organizations he chose to pick on are ProPublica, the Center for Public Integrity, and the Center for Investigative Reporting. These groups have indeed received donations from Soros, as well as many other donors. Soros has no executive control of any of them. But more to the point, these groups hardly qualify as being “major news organizations.”

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[Mojeoux]

1. Good Catch!

Can they find anything constructive to talk about?!!!

[checks-n-balances]

3. If they did find something constructive to talk about

they would lose their rightwing, don'tcha know.
Of course, you already know that!

[Mojeoux]

8. Just posted to a guy in another thread that said MSNBC makes up

fakey stuff too and they are ll the same Lame Stream Media.

If anyone can prove that, maybe with the equivalent of this absurd Soros apocrypha, I'd like to see it.

[Celebration]

2. yeah I tried to follow that article

It's a bunch of stupid stuff that makes no sense......trying to combat all the legitimate Koch stuff I guess? :shrug: Everything was laughable in that article. Soros has his prints on.......................... Media Matters. :eyes:

[FormerDittoHead]

4. Here's a widdle info about the Media Research Center

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Media_Research_Center

Funding (including my 5 minute research)

* Exxon Mobil<5>
* The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc. - Original charter members of the John Birch Society
* Sarah Scaife Foundation (Richard Mellon Scaife)
* Castle Rock Foundation - Adolph Coors Foundation - guy who brought us Heritage and CATO.
* John M. Olin Foundation, Inc. - arms and ammunition manufacture
* The Carthage Foundation (Richard Mellon Scaife AGAIN!)
* JM Foundation (Borden milk products family)

[Donnachaidh]

7. Coors did Cato? I was under the impression that the Koch boys started that group

live and learn, I guess.

[FormerDittoHead]

9. NO! I'm wrong, you're right. I just always put Adolph Coors at the epicenter. n/t

[Donnachaidh]

10. well they are both frigging evil, so they would be interchangeable, wouldn't they?

:rofl:

Sometime DU needs to put together a masterlist, with charts, as to who started what and who belongs to whom. I'm still trying to wrap my head around a lot of it.

[WinkyDink]

5. Well, it's not like there are Republican billionaires.

[Elwood P Dowd]

6. Thom Hartmann has this piece of shit on his show at least once a week.

Maybe someone should send Thom this post and let him have some fun with that POS.