Glenn Beck apparently threatened by George Soros
Lemmy @ Thu Nov 11, 2010 7:47 pm
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
FOX being a news organization
Man, that was a belly laugh. I haven't laughed so hard in weeks.
raydan @ Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:00 pm
“Yesterday on Fox News, commentator Glenn Beck said that he believes President Obama is a racist. Well, to be fair, every time you watch Glenn Beck, it does get a little easier to hate white people.”
–Conan O’Brien
xerxes @ Fri Nov 12, 2010 12:15 pm
Lemmy Lemmy:
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
FOX being a news organization
Man, that was a belly laugh. I haven't laughed so hard in weeks.
Seconded.
But lets also realise that this "news organisation" is now standing behind its host who spent 2 hours reviving the worst anti-semetic conspiracy theories of the 1920's and 30's.
BartSimpson @ Fri Nov 12, 2010 12:22 pm
Thanos Thanos:
ADL steps up and condemns Beck's comments:
You're siding with the indefensible abnormals again, Bart. Stop doing it and you'll probably start to feel better about a whole lot of things.
$1:
Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director and a Holocaust survivor, issued the following statement:
Glenn Beck's description of George Soros' actions during the Holocaust is completely inappropriate, offensive and over the top. For a political commentator or entertainer to have the audacity to say – inaccurately – that there's a Jewish boy sending Jews to death camps, as part of a broader assault on Mr. Soros, that's horrific.
While I, too, may disagree with many of Soros' views and analysis on the issues, to bring in this kind of innuendo about his past is unacceptable. To hold a young boy responsible for what was going on around him during the Holocaust as part of a larger effort to denigrate the man is repugnant.
The Holocaust was a horrific time, and many people had to make excruciating choices to ensure their survival. George Soros has been forthright about his childhood experiences and his family's history, and there the matter should rest.
Glenn Beck's description of George Soros' actions during the Holocaust is completely inappropriate, offensive and over the top. For a political commentator or entertainer to have the audacity to say – inaccurately – that there's a Jewish boy sending Jews to death camps, as part of a broader assault on Mr. Soros, that's horrific.
While I, too, may disagree with many of Soros' views and analysis on the issues, to bring in this kind of innuendo about his past is unacceptable. To hold a young boy responsible for what was going on around him during the Holocaust as part of a larger effort to denigrate the man is repugnant.
The Holocaust was a horrific time, and many people had to make excruciating choices to ensure their survival. George Soros has been forthright about his childhood experiences and his family's history, and there the matter should rest.
You're siding with the indefensible abnormals again, Bart. Stop doing it and you'll probably start to feel better about a whole lot of things.
Beck actually played an interview of Soros' where Soros was telling a reporter from 60 Minutes that he had participated in sending Jews to the death camps. I guess it's now wrong to quote people.
xerxes @ Fri Nov 12, 2010 12:37 pm
Yeah, the wrong people. It was the interviewer who said that, not Soros.
$1:
In Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire -- a book cited by Beck during the program -- Michael T. Kaufman detailed Soros' reaction during the interview, as well as Soros' actions in Nazi-occupied Hungary:
$1:
While he was living with Baumbach as Sandor Kiss, an event occurred that more than a half a century later would become the basis of charges that George Soros, the international financier and billionaire, had somehow collaborated with the Nazi occupiers of his homeland and had exploited his fellow Jews. The issue was raised in a bizarre television profile and interview of Soros aired on the CBS television program 60 Minutes in December of 1998. In the segment, Steve Kroft, the interviewer, noted with prosecutorial gusto that George's father had "bribed a government official to swear that you were his godson," and added that this survival strategy "carried a heavy price tag." For, he continued, "as hundreds of thousands of Jews were being shipped off to the Nazi death camps, a thirteen-year-old George Soros accompanied his phony godfather on his rounds, confiscating property from the Jews." Visibly dumbfounded by the line of questioning, Soros could only manage to say that he had no role in the seizure of property and was merely a spectator. To underscore Kroft's point, film footage showed masses of Hungarian Jews being led away at gunpoint.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201011110031
This is cute Bartman. Keep on trying to defend the indefensible.
hurley_108 @ Fri Nov 12, 2010 12:42 pm
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
I just saw yesterday's Beck program and he more or less outlined Soros' political efforts much the same as I saw done in Time magazine about ten years ago.
Quite effectively, Beck used Soros' own quotes - such as the taped interview where Soros said he found using subversive activities to undermine and overthrow governments he didn't like to be "kind of fun".
Beck has some pretty damned disturbing things from Soros posted on his site and it's worth looking at http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articl ... 198/47856/
That fucking troll Soros is, when you think about it, the absolute worst kind of parasitic capitalist ever. He poses as a philanthropic socialist all while making BILLIONS at the expense of hundreds of millions of others peoples' lost dreams, homes, retirements, savings, jobs, educations, and etc. And that cocksucker thinks it's 'fun'.
Thanos, care to wager $100 that Soros WON'T sue FOX News and Beck? See, if he does then FOX and Beck get to PROVE what they've said is true and Soros and his lawyers know it.
Quite effectively, Beck used Soros' own quotes - such as the taped interview where Soros said he found using subversive activities to undermine and overthrow governments he didn't like to be "kind of fun".
Beck has some pretty damned disturbing things from Soros posted on his site and it's worth looking at http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articl ... 198/47856/
That fucking troll Soros is, when you think about it, the absolute worst kind of parasitic capitalist ever. He poses as a philanthropic socialist all while making BILLIONS at the expense of hundreds of millions of others peoples' lost dreams, homes, retirements, savings, jobs, educations, and etc. And that cocksucker thinks it's 'fun'.
Thanos, care to wager $100 that Soros WON'T sue FOX News and Beck? See, if he does then FOX and Beck get to PROVE what they've said is true and Soros and his lawyers know it.
That Soros makes money on currency speculation and that his name was used in this Bob The Angry Flower strip:
are basically the only two things I know about Soros.
That said, there are a whole lot of shitbags who make money on no productive work, gaming systems set up long ago for vastly different pruposes and bilking honest people out of their hard-earned money. People like Soros to be sure, but also the high-speed robotraders who are technically doing nothing wrong, but the legitimacy of whose activities any reasonable person would seriously question, and whose identities are far less well known than the likes of Soros.
Zipperfish @ Fri Nov 12, 2010 12:51 pm
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
Beck has some pretty damned disturbing things from Soros posted on his site and it's worth looking at http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articl ... 198/47856/
Saying disturbing things is prettyhh much his schtick. Instead of "Thye Boy Who Cried Wolf" it's "The Boy Who Cried Nazi."
Just shows how liberal the media is in the US though.
BartSimpson @ Fri Nov 12, 2010 1:29 pm
Soros brags about collapsing the British pound on video...I guess that's "out of context", too, eh?
andyt @ Fri Nov 12, 2010 1:31 pm
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
Soros brags about collapsing the British pound on video...I guess that's "out of context", too, eh?
And he's the only guy who plays that game? At least he seems to give some of it back. I he was a raving rightwinger doing what he does and saying he deserves to keep every penny, you'd be cheering him on, and so would your buddy Beck.
BartSimpson @ Fri Nov 12, 2010 1:33 pm
andyt andyt:
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
Soros brags about collapsing the British pound on video...I guess that's "out of context", too, eh?
And he's the only guy who plays that game? At least he seems to give some of it back. I he was a raving rightwinger doing what he does and saying he deserves to keep every penny, you'd be cheering him on.
Except that A) he's not and B) there are no right-wingers trying to collapse the US dollar as Soros said he wants to do.
andyt @ Fri Nov 12, 2010 1:37 pm
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
Except that A) he's not and
Really - all his philanthropy is just bs?
BartSimpson @ Fri Nov 12, 2010 1:51 pm
andyt andyt:
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
Except that A) he's not and
Really - all his philanthropy is just bs?
Yep. His philanthropy tends to be focused on countries where he subsequently invests (or hedges against) in order to make money.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros#Philanthropy
As an example, and this is NOT from Glenn Beck, Soros 'invested' in destabilising the Yugoslavian government and then he donated to 'help' the ethnic Albanians take control of Kosovo. Then, in turn, he tried to take control of the Kosovo tin mine which is the big deal about Kosovo (can you say $$$$$$$$).
In any case, the region's Muslims blame Soros for the deaths of so many Muslims in the course of strife that Soros directly caused.
http://radioislam.org/islam/english/jew ... empire.htm
QBC @ Fri Nov 12, 2010 1:56 pm
Um...who is Glenn Beck?
BartSimpson @ Fri Nov 12, 2010 2:45 pm
QBC QBC:
Um...who is Glenn Beck?
He's a loudmouthed, quasi-political entertainer in the mold of Rush Limbaugh.
Not anyone I typically care for, but like a broken clock, he's right twice a day. This is one of them, as I am finding out.
The_Doctor @ Fri Nov 12, 2010 3:22 pm
QBC QBC:
Um...who is Glenn Beck?
This is Glenn Beck: