Fox Host Varney on Soros: ‘I Do Not Like Billionaire Socialists Who Hate America and Try to Make Money Out of Our Ruin’
Well here’s something that has seemed to ruffle Media Matters’ feathers. During a segment on Thursday morning’s Fox and Friends, Fox Business host Stuart Varney told his fellow Fox hosts and America what he really thinks of “billionaire socialists” like George Soros.
Varney was responding to a statement put out by Soros in which Soros asserts he always puts the “public interest” over his own self-interest in business. Soros stated:
“I have made it a principle to pursue my self-interest in my business subject to legal and ethical limitations and to be guided by the public interest. If the two are in conflict, the public interest ought to prevail.”
That’s when Varney unleashed, citing an instance where Soros reportedly did in fact put his own interest above not just another person’s but an entire country’s citizens. The discernibly irritated Varney fired back:
“Tell that to the Thais who were left in misery after he [Soros] made hundreds of millions in dollars in profits on them . That set off the ‘Asian Contagion’ currency crisis of 1997. Soros bet against Thailand, they lost their shirts and they live in misery to this day and he made hundreds of millions. Where is the public interest?”
“It was not in their [Thais'] interest,” Varney reminded.
Varney then blasted, “I do not like billionaire socialists who hate America and try to make money out of our ruin. I don’t like that.”But the Varney & Co. host had to quit while he was ahead, acknowedging to his fellow Fox hosts that he was getting “wound up.”
For reference, the Asian Contagion currency crisis refers to a series of currency devaluations in 1997 that started in Thailand and spread throughout various Asian markets, causing major stock market declines, diminished import revenues and reportedly even government upheaval. Soros is blamed by many, including Thailand itself, to be the trigger behind the Asian financial crisis as his hedge fund had a large bet against the Thai baht. A Forbes report from 2007 states that Soros is in fact so reviled by the Thai, that he cannot even step foot in the country.
And shortly after the segment aired, Media Matters latched on, posting the clip almost immediately on its website. Now watch Varney tell us what he really thinks of “billionaire socialists”:
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kickagrandma
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:05pmMr. Varney,
Hooray for you, Sir! I agree with you. The best thing is that GOD AGREES with us, and one of these days VERY SOON, that horrid man soros is going to meet his MAKER. Guess what, sorocitos? On that day, at that moment. ALL the horrible, despicable things you have done, you have thought, you have wished are going to come down on you full force. I hope for all the people and the countries you personally have destroyed by whatever means, a full HEAVENLY vindication of their pain and a forever-after existence for you of having to endure ALL the total pain you have caused others.
Mr. Stuart Varney, my “hat is off to you, Sir” for having the courage to say out loud and publicly what we all know to be the truth. May GOD BLESS AND PROTECT YOU!
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:05pmKickA Grandma — Well said and well supported here.
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americansfightingforcommonsense
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:58pmYou gotta love a guy who talks the truth. Not afraid to say what he means and means what he says! Go get’em Varney!!!!!! We got your back!!!!!!
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ICEDRAGONNITE
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:58pmJust remember when the man starts dropping rocks, stand at least 300 ft away so not to get any on you.
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TheCenturion
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 10:09pmThe more I listen to Mr. Varney the more I like him!
Now, who’s going to bring up the FACT that we have a communist residing in the White House? Don’t doubt me, Obama IS a communist.
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AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 10:33pmSoros is just Hitler turned inside out.
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jzs
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 10:41pmCool, I know what he means. I’m not too fond of billionairs like the Koch brothers or Murdoch subverting Democracy either. What bothers me most is that the people they influence make them richer and those same people poorer. If these guys have their way, their riches will ever increase and yours, those worship at their alter, will become poorer.
I think the great state of Wisconsin is about to kick the Koch brothers out of the state.
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iamazsrt
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 10:46pmIf anyone was a candidate for a government assassin squad to pay a visit to him this pig Soros is the guy, not only does the U.S have an interest and justification in seeing this guy dead but the U.K , Israel and at least 1/2 dozen other nations where he has caused untold harm and misery would also be justified in helping him meet his maker.
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Progressives_are_useful_idiots
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 10:57pm@JZS i find trolls to be a sad bunch and usually in need of a hug, but you are just an a$$ hole
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Caniac Steve
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 11:23pmI got to see it live and I have never seen Mr.Varney get so upsetat anyone..he’s rolled his eyes in a “oh please” moment from time to time…but a cool guy…
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Greenwood
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 11:33pm@JZS………..subverting Democracy ………….I think the great state of Wisconsin is about to kick the Koch brothers out of the state. (this is what democracy looks like) comrade………MOB RULE
We are a Republic not a Democracy……………well we are supposed to be, maybe that’s why were on the verg of economic collapse.
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MartyTr
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 11:34pmAmen, every knee will boy!! Eternity in heaven will be glorious.
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A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on July 29, 2011 at 12:13am@jzs,
“What bothers me most is that the people they influence make them richer and those same people poorer.”
Would you be willing to watch this video? Free market Capitalism is different than the Corporatist, regulated, collectivist economy we have now.
Smashing Myths and Restoring Sound Money | Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAzExlEsIKk
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1TrueOne55
Posted on July 29, 2011 at 1:15am@Kickagrandma:
He has fathered children that will follow in his footsteps and so the world will have to suffer the Scourge of the Schwarz Family Hegemony, he has a spawn son.
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Charlesjr
Posted on July 29, 2011 at 3:20am“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”Winston Churchill
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gotta light
Posted on July 29, 2011 at 3:44amThe Fourth Reich Rises!!!
George Soros is A anti-christ.
Hey bud gotta light?
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Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on July 29, 2011 at 5:49am@JZS typical common troll response. The Koch bros are not trying to bring down America. Soros is. And you sir, are a communist.
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Favored93
Posted on July 29, 2011 at 6:41amWe love you grand ma keep it up!!!!
Well said!
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Marcobob69
Posted on July 29, 2011 at 7:33amAmen @KICKAGRANDMA!!! Stuart tells it like it is, that is why he is held in such high esteem at Fox Business channel. If you don’t believe what he says about spooky dood, Google “Thailand” and the “Asian Contagion”. He absolutely RUINED that country, then moved on to the next like nothing happened at all. Sickening. If you don’t think he has the same plan for the USA, you better think again, for that is exactly what he plans to do.
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GettinReady
Posted on July 29, 2011 at 8:12amLove Varney! Also love Brad Thor’s new book FULL BLACK- loosely based on Soros and boy will you like the action.
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Pastor Ray
Posted on July 29, 2011 at 8:53amAmen Granny AMEN!
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smithclar3nc3
Posted on July 29, 2011 at 9:48amI think alot of Mr Varney and give much respect to his oppinions because he uses facts and isn’t beholdened to either of the two parties destroying freedom and prosperity in grow a monsterous big brother government. My hats off to him…
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turkey13
Posted on July 29, 2011 at 12:11pmHoward Hughes, old man Kennedy , Ted Kennedy and other countless millionaires and billionaires haven’t been able to cheat death and this mans day is coming soon. As far as his son goes as soon as the old man croaks he will throw the biggest party ever seen and party the rest of his life.
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Therightsofbilly
Posted on July 29, 2011 at 12:34pm@A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
JZS will not spend his time watching the video.
He / She has too much trolling to do, and besides, He / She already knows everything.
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jmdbarnes
Posted on July 29, 2011 at 1:15pmUnfortunately, Soros has sons that are as bad as he is.
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Fool
Posted on July 29, 2011 at 5:03pmI will rejoice with the Living and Just God watching Soros burn in hell for all eternity. I pray he sees the light and turns away from his evil actions, but if not, it is a righteous thing to glory in God’s justice.
Soros and his fanbase might laugh at what they consider fairy tales. But what is undeniable is that we all will one day die. Not one of us is immortal. Not even the ‘god-like’ Soros. And in every era of human history people have agreed that foul deeds are met with punishment and good deeds with reward.
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loriann12
Posted on July 29, 2011 at 5:49pm@TheCenturion
Agreed. Last year on Memorial Day, I did an interview with a WWII veteran for a piece on Asamom.org. He flat out said this country was more patriotic before we got a communist in the white house. Those of us who fought communism (whether in war or in the cold war) recognize it when we see it. I tracked soviet submarines for 4 years. I recongized this in 2008.
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teresa2010
Posted on July 29, 2011 at 10:38pmJZS…STAY OFF this SITE
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Jacqui
Posted on July 29, 2011 at 10:39pmwell said!
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robert
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:49pmThis old fool Soros is 81 this month.
I’m wondering if he succombs to senility or death first. Either way it will be a boon to the world to be rid of him.
After his demise, wouldn’t it be a joke if one of his heirs concentrated on funding conservative groups, turning out to be a closet conservative all this time, rendering the old clowns’s efforts null and void?
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Samual Rawmone
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:04pmI got a letter from Soros yesterday asking me to join his pro-Marijuana shadow organization the Drug Policy alliance. Soros sending me a letter. He asked me to join it in the name of “Americans just like you who are unwilling to pay ever higher costs–measured in our taxes as well as our liberty.”
That’s right, George Soros lecturing us about our taxes and our liberty; the open communists who asks for large government and high taxes lecturing us about taxes and liberty. This man is not only an evil, insane nutcase, he’s also a joke.
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Hiswill
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:25pmI read that Georgie is buying up 1000′s of acres in Brazil so he will be ready to start planting when the U.S. makes it legal.
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Conservative Hippy
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:34pmDo you blaze the herb, man?.. How’d he get your name and address?..
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AzDebi
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 7:08pmYou will NEVER convince me that Soros hasn’t broken all kinds of laws in this country…but…he is ALLOWED to get away with the things that he does…He isn’t far from ANSWERING to his Maker…we ALL have a BOSS…and…one day SOONER (rather than later) he’s gonna answer to his! There are people all over this world who have starved to death (and God only knows what all) due to the crimes this man has committed…all in the name of POWER! How does the RICH man die? Same as the POOR man! Just no gettin’ around it ol’ Georgie!
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SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 7:23pm^____^____^
Nutcase and a joke who is 5 for 5 in bringing down economies in other countries. IMO he is at again going for 6 out of 6 adding the US to his list of victims, here is why.
I sent this link:
The $1 Billion Armageddon Trade Placed Against The United States http://etfdailynews.com/2011/07/25/investors-the-1-billion-armageddon-trade-placed-against-the-united-states/
to the Blaze tipster but so far nothing mentioned about this.
This has Soros written all over it, and conveniently took place right around when he was going private! The guy is dangerous and should be investigated under Article 3 Section 3! http://www.savingtherepublic.com/Call_To_Action.html
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lonewolf57
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:04pmWay to go Varney! Soros should be behind steel bars.Justice will be served in the afterlife for this despicable POS.
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balrog25
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:50pmThere are some that must be too evil for God’s mercy. George may be one of them.
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jhaydeng
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 7:23pmGeorge Soros must have had intimate relations with farm animals to be so wretched and corrupt!
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ANTISOCIAL-IST
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:13pmjhay: like the farm animals would have him.
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SlimnRanger
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 8:21pm@Lonewolf57,yes Ole George needs to be in prison for crimes of helping to murder innocent people, scamming millions,but i doubt he will get any punshiment here on earth but his payday will soon be here,he will burn in hell for his actions
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momprayn
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:02pmYeah, I like Stuart. We need more of them getting “wound up”!!!!! I’m so tired of “pc” and trying to be “polite” & not saying it like it is. If it’s the truth, say it. I hope they recruit more of the Consvs. from UK or places where people have lived under Socialism, Multiculturism, etc. and moved here to escape it and tell the public regularly the horrible truths about it & get it out in the national news all the time. Most Americans have no idea.
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AngryRedneck
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:02pm@Susan, I don’t think 80% of America knows who this beast is. Most people are uneducated and highly misinformed.
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six6six
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 7:22pmSpeaking of being mis-informed… How is someone a billionaire socialist? Doesn’t quite make sense.
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iarefounder
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 7:30pmA billionaire socialist is a SION-Socialist In Name Only
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TruthSpeaker
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 7:44pma billionaire socialist that likes to play God – he just wants control and the ability to mess with our lives – watch us squirm and die, like hitler did. they are one and the same- evil from hell. he is the most vile of all -so far. a glimpse into what the future will be.
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Bubbyleg
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 9:43pm@six6six – You ask how a billionaire can be a socialist? R U Kidding? Do you not know that those in power who control every aspect of life (the elite) in a socialist environment are the ones with the money? Did you think that rulers (elite) in a socialist country only take their “fair share” of the distribution of wealth? For the record – distribution of wealth equals distribution to the elite while the people suk hind tit.
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Mil Mom
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 11:30pm@six6six
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 7:22pm
Speaking of being mis-informed… How is someone a billionaire socialist? Doesn’t quite make sense
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Sure it does, if you read the history of all Socialist Nations, there are always a corrupt few, who buy favor with the government, against the governed!
Socialist only means “SHARE OTHER PEOPLES WEALTH !!! ( after lining your own pockets!)
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MODEL82A1
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:02pmGeorge Soros paid over $1 billion to make me an unattractive, idiotic, overweight, destitute, malodorous loser. I’d never have known were it not for Glenn Beck. Thanks, Glenn, I feel SO much better now!!!!
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An AmericanMom
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:06pmWow!
And I thought liberals were suppose to be so tolerate of others….guess not!
Maybe your Mom forget that message!
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MODEL82A1
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:09pmSounds like You’re being intolerant of My many shortcomings. Of whom was I intolerant? Be specific.
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65Mustang
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:20pmI am okay with The Five, but I miss Glenn and his informative show. What a history lesson.
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crazyloon
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:24pmSorry. Not sure I understand you here. You are ugly, stupid, fat, broke, and you stink. George Soros somehow paid for this to happen to you (at quite a premium I would like to add) and Glenn brought this to your attention. I assume you didn’t know this because of the intillegence degradation you recently went through.
Now that you DO know, you are upset that you have been enlightened to your plight.
I am so sorry. Hope tomorrow’s better!
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TEARS FOR AMERICA
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:01pmStuart Varney is my hero and he is absolutely right!!! Soros is a demon from hell that sucks the life and freedom out of human beings and he has offspring.
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Silver Lining
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 7:08pm@VTXPHANTOM – Good luck arresting him for treason when he’s the guy who controls the MSM, got Obama elected, and is the voice on the other end of Obama’s Blackberry. He should be tried…but he won’t be…at least not yet…and good luck catching him if Obama loses the next election.
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AmericanPatriot01
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 7:31pmTheir plan is to create an election crisis. The will be how this gets blown up, its the MOD of Soros. He has done this before and brags about it on the videos that were brought to light by Glenn on his show. Wait for it, be prepared to find a huge problem with the election and the vote counters, then with the judges that have been bought and payed for by soros to back up the side that he wants to win we will be left with CHAOS!! and a fraud of an election. Look it up!! Do your home work and take notes!! You will see the same process he used in the other 4 economies this demon has destroyed. Step by satanic step, obama is his boy!! yea I mean it like it sounds. obama is his lapdog. Talk about a uncle tom, just makes me sick!!! Black people got nothing on us Native American Indians, you people think you got a crappy end of the stick?? You got off easy, after what they did to my ancestors, GET OVER IT!!!!
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Conservative Hippy
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 7:42pmHe’s friends with Obama.
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Ray2447
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 11:13pmHe’s very scary looking to me.
http://tinyurl.com/3fvybhn Hollywood would have us believe that evil is scary looking.
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rienheart
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:01pmTell it like it is, the Rest be damned, Soros is a sad, sad, sad excuse for a human being.
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CyberBoy
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:01pmThank you Stu…. How few there are of you that have the courage to speak out against a billionaire villian of society…
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Patrick in AZ
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:08pmCalling a spade a spade
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TumbleBumble
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:23pmI like what you say, Varney! Now please don’t apologize for it.
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SHOWMESTATEGUY
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:59pmSoros is playing the American socialist like a violin. With their help he can destroy America and make out like a bandit. He’s done it many times before and he will keep doing it until he’s pushing up daisies. I guess in his situation he would be pushing up weeds instead of daisies, but I regress. Just wonder what nation he has his sights on after America? Maybe China? Heck, even he is not that dumb. He knows they would have lined him up against a wall and shot him a long time ago if he tried the same things there that he has done here.
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In a Bunker
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:58pmGeorge Soros, puppet master of the left – a very bad guy, truly evil.
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Turin
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:58pmHow I love the unspoken truth, like the elephant in the room, to be acknowledged.
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ANTISOCIAL-IST
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:57pmnow we can add varney as the second person, after g.b., to have a pair and tell it as it is.
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An AmericanMom
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:03pmSo true!
Sad more newspeople don’t call it as it is…..I think Shepp Smith would love a Sorros world.
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Daddymac10
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:55pmHow old is Soros?? About 94 years old?? He’s about to check out right?? Oh will this be a better world when that day come..
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njconserv
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:57pmWe can only hope but remember only the good die young
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teddie888
Posted on July 29, 2011 at 12:10amHe has spawned 2 evil sons that run his hedge fund, Quatum Fund. Oh, & he’s 81, but don’t get too comfortable cuz his sons will continue the family business of self loathing jews, ruining countries and supporting fascism & communism. The people in his natural country of Hungary hate him after what he did by turning in jews to Hitler during the war. That’s why he never goes back there
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abbygirl1994
Posted on July 29, 2011 at 2:40amHe has his minions under him who will pick up the cause and quick. I would love to see them all rounded up and sent to a communist country and get the heck out of ours!
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thecrow
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:55pmThe interview with Ventura was better.
http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/ring-the-bells/
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TX_45_ACP
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:55pmI hear they are coming out with a cartoon series called Spooky Dude…
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The-Monk
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:58pmYou can see it on GBTV.com. It’s in the introduction video of what they are doing.
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beaubird
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:53pmOld soros has got to die soon !!!!!!!!! The sooner the better! He has cheated and obused so many people !!!! He should have been put in prison, and why has he not? If we had of done what he has we would have been. You tell Varney, somebody needs to not that anybody would listen. Washington had better start cause we the people are getting fed up with it and are not going to keep putting up with it, Somebody somewhere will ccome up with a plan for good, We all should March up to Washington and throw them all out by the seat of their pants and put a bunch of monkeys in , they could do as good or better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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cane247
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:06pmAny way we could help him along on the road to Hell?
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TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:52pmSV, you’re welcome on my radio show anytime! I wish we could clone your spine for those who need to grow one.
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peaches1
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:51pmArrest Soros.
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abbygirl1994
Posted on July 29, 2011 at 2:43amI asked my Senator why Soros wasn’t being investigated by our government and all I got was a bunch of jibberish.. they always seem to talk in circles when you ask them a straight forward question.
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sooner12
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:50pmVarney is right. Soros only cares about himself. He’s ablood-sucking leech.
Can it not be so that no investor is allowed to “bet” that any monetary unit to fail?
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UBETHECHANGE
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:49pmGeorge Soros is Dr. Evil.
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Meyvn
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:01pmSoros = Villain
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EZDOZIT
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 6:10pmSoros ouns the democrat party…that’s a fact! You democract are subject to your King… George.
America faught to free ourselfs from king George and know the democracts are putting back under a King George worst than the first. The first King George wanted america to succeed in order to collect taxes from us. Under King Georges sock puppet, Obama, it just the opposit. Liberals make everything worse…it’s like when a two year old helps you cook. They only make a bigger mess and leave it to be cleaned up by the adults.
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WILLIAM E.
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:48pmThan You for helping people see what this guy is really like Varney !!
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AmericaTheFree
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:45pmIm not sure how Soros sleeps at night.
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The-Monk
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:54pmHe sleeps on money….. LOTS of money!
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TX_45_ACP
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:55pmI hear that evil never sleeps…
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Ruthlou
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 7:03pmSleeps during the day in a ….. Don’t you mean?
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Star Spangled
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:43pmYou tell ‘em Varney ! Look out now you’ll be on the “hit list” .
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Susan Harkins
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 5:41pmVarney, I think about 80% of America agrees with you, detesting Soros.
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