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What Happened on Fox When Gingrich Mentioned Soros?
Something odd happened on Fox when former Speaker Newt Gingrich, a guest on the show Outnumbered, mentioned George Soros as one of the people funding the radical segments of our society, including BLM, the riots, etc. He was cut off by two of the panel, and an awkward pause ensued. Then they cut him off and proceeded to talk about another story.
Soros has been accused of buying the media and fueling government disruptions across the globe for decades. A critical election is seven weeks out and much of the media is biased toward the liberal agenda and beyond. Fox remains one of the few forums that offer alternative thought, including news stories that many will not touch. So what happened when Newt used the “S” word on their show? You be the judge:
Harris Faulker, who hosts the show was caught off guard and had something to say about it.
“So, we had a little incident on the show yesterday that was not smooth,” she said. “While I was leading that segment, we had interruptions, and I sat silently while all of that played out. Also not ideal. Our guest, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who is beloved and needed to be allowed to speak with the openness and respect that the show was all about, was interrupted. Do we debate with fire here? Yes. But we must also give each other the space to express ourselves.”
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LOL
Uh.
Are those both Lori Lightfoot?
If so…
Wow.
When did Gene Wilder get her on his operating table?
So, really. Those are both Lori Lightfoot? Before and after Soros funded her election to mayor of Chicago?
@frontseatcat – okay, so first of all sorry for that very uncivil response. I am abashed.
So I looked and I found:
Fact check: False claims about George Soros (Reuters)
George Soros conspiracy theories surge as protests sweep US (AP)
Why is billionaire George Soros a bogeyman for the hard right? (BBC)
A somewhat magisterial article in the Guardian which lays out a lot of information.
From the last of which, none of it is Conservative, but none of it seems destructive either.
I couldn’t find anything credible linking him to open borders. (Credible meaning something that included proof instead of just accusations.)
I remain perplexed.
FWIW, the first three articles you cite are full of spun misinformation, such as one stating that Soros was 17 in 1945 and therefore was too young to have joined the Schutzstaffel; whereas in an interview that Soros engaged in, he said he was in his early teens when assisting the Germans taking the property of Jews. In the second, early on the article states that “The Hungarian-American, who is Jewish, has also been the subject of anti-Semitic attacks and conspiracy theories for decades” but I know of no anti-Semitic attacks, and the article doesn’t cite any. The third is a puff piece that spins Soros’ humanitarian, philanthropic intellectual, but it contains no facts.
As for direct links of Soros to political activity there’s this from Fox:
He backed Parisa Dehghani-Tafti to beat Arlington County Commonwealth’s Attorney Theo Stamos, and supported former Justice Department employee Steve Descano in his race against Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Raymond Morrogh. Campaign finance reports show Dehghani-Tafti received $583,000 and Descano received $392,000 just from that PAC. Meanwhile, Stamos and Morrogh raised $162,000 and $242,000, respectively, for their entire campaigns.
I understand that years of false rumors can end up being accepted as facts, and that this is wrong. But in his interview, he admits to helping the Nazis confiscate Jews property, and justified his activity saying “If I didn’t so it, somebody else would do it.”
I’m sure that if you look you will see information linking Soros to Open Society. In fact your first article from Reuters, that you cite makes that explicit claim: “George Soros is a billionaire philanthropist and founder of Open Society Foundations.”
Sounds like check-mate, to me.
Go over to youtube.com and check out Democracy Now with Amy Goodman. It is very well established that Soros has a hand in funding it. (I have the list of all the various foundations that fund it somewhere on one of the computer s in the house, will have to find that list and get back to you with it.
“Democracy Now” is to the Leftists as Jesus and the Bible are to Christians.
Among things that “Democracy Now” is now about:
1) the fascism inherent in the Donald Trump Administration, and that his followers are proud of participating in
2) Global Climate Change – its verifiable truth and the fact that it will be destroying our earth in at least forty years if not in twelve.
3) The importance of reparations for people of color, including newly arrived people from south of the border and of course African Americans
4) Cancel Culture
5) the need to abolish ICE and to restrict the police from their ability to act as police need to act
And those are just off the top of my head.
@stad You mentioned the take down of the British economy some time ago, by both Soros and Wall Street shorting the Pound.
https://priceonomics.com/the-trade-of-the-century-when-george-soros-broke/
@zafar
Here is the citation I said I would offer up in reply # 67:
https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/democracy-now-dn/
“Democracy Now!” receives indirect funding from George Soros, and direct funding from the Ford Foundation, the Glaser Foundation, Soros’ Open Society Institute, the Public Welfare Foundation, the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, the Tides Foundation, and other left-leaning foundations.
My comment:
Among the important topics that Amy Goodman is not allowed to discuss is the ability of whichever party is in control of that state’s Secretary of State office has the power to “flip elections” through the fact that America’s ballot count occurs on electronic machinery.
From Robby Starbuck’s article on The Federalist:
There’s a lot more info. For the full article:
https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/19/why-arent-we-allowed-to-talk-about-george-soross-plan-to-remake-america/
She looks demonic……
I wasn’t offended at all. The Soros info that I have been reading has been from Glenn Beck’s research for 10 years (in fact, Beck was threatened by some of Soros’ goons and had to get protection – this was back in NY and one reason why he left), and he has a lot of links that traces his money.
So I followed the money went to some of these sites like BLM, Move On.org, and many others. It’s spread out over many radical groups. I read that he also helped fuel Code Pink, and the Arab Spring. the South American caravans, and even the riots we are seeing – with the brick deliveries, and other weapons. If I have time, maybe I’ll write a post on it.
Do you have a link?
Vox explains this differently. It’s a pretty serious allegation.
Thank you Carol Joy. I appreciate this. I will confess that I find Democract Now one sided but not malign.
That’s a systemic flaw. Is Soros the only individual that directs donations in response to that?
More broadly – the issue seems to be that Soros donates to candidates whose policies he supports.
How and why is this illegitimate?
He needs to be watched closely. Obviously some of the things he does is pretty underhanded. The secretary of state project and the prosecutor/attorney general thing has just been brutal. They screw with the justice system and the voting system. I think he funds sort of bullpen jobs for Democrats the tow the line but get voted out of office. I know he does some of that in Minnesota.
I find most of this topic pretty tedious, but he really is a menace.
He has a lot of money and his belief system really sucks.
Glad to hear it, a relief.
That’s one of the things that Reuter’s facts checked and found false. ??
Also – doesn’t that sound as nuts as the Russians Flipped the US Elections nonsense? One foundation is responsible for the Arab Spring, Central (?) American refugees and BLM? No actual issues at all?
Look forward to it.
I guess I don’t think you can have a system that allows political donations from foundations like this but then finds donations from a subset of these problematic because you don’t like their agenda. It’s a comment for the Left as much as it is for the Right.
He’s in his own separate category of trying to undermine the country. It may be democracy, but it sucks. I don’t have a solution.
No – I did not mean that one foundation started the Arab Spring or that Soros is single-handedly responsible for the world’s miseries. It was interesting that in the Obama years with Clinton and Kerry at the state dept. that things went awry and out of control – one fire after another. People at the Arab Spring, the so-called “spontaneous uprising” were carrying socialist/communist signs, even Code Pink was present. That’s one small part of it.
The original point of the post though, is silencing freedom of speech. To shut down Gingrich and not allow him to finish? One of them could have stated, isn’t that anti-sematic, or back up your statements?
Well, it’s the sort of slander they always run to. All opposition to Obama’s policies were said to be racist, of course. Because if Obama was a white man, we’d all be on board with the fundamental transformation of the United States into a socialist hell-hole, right?
No, I agree that’s it’s odd that they shut down Gingrich.
I just don’t have the interest to fish through this stuff like some people do. The length of this list is incredible:
Vox would. I’ll look for the link.
The talk of his childhood starts at about the 7:00 mark and goes on.
What does my DA have to do with HIM? He doesn’t live here. He doesn’t even live in the states. What does my DA have to do with HIM?
This isn’t his country to kick around like a football. He shouldn’t be involved in our politics. It isn’t his country. That’s one of the biggest issues with open borders guys is that they feel entitled to every body’s country.
That isn’t democracy.
As Saint Al once said: “..no controlling legal authority…”
Is Soros even a US citizen? If so, does he have dual citizenship? If he is not a US citizen, is he using front groups to launder his political donations?
I’m pretty sure he is.
Yes, according to wikipedia (which is 80% right 50% of the time) he has dual citizenship in Hungary and the United States.
We should not have dual citizenship.