Beck Responds to ADL Statement Calling His Soros Reporting ‘Horrific’ & ‘Offensive’
- Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:57am by
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After three days of television shows focusing on the work and impact of George Soros, the wave of Beck criticism crested Thursday night with the leader of the Anti-Defamation League issuing a strong denunciation of the programs:
Throughout three programs this week, Mr. Beck has portrayed Mr. Soros, a billionaire investor and philanthropist, as a “puppet master” who is “notorious for collapsing economies and regimes all around the world” and whose “next target” is the United States. Citing Mr. Soros’s statements about the decline of the dollar, Mr. Beck said, “Not only does he want to bring America to her knees, financially, he wants to reap obscene profits off us as well.”
Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, took issue with Mr. Beck’s depiction of Mr. Soros as a “Jewish boy helping sending the Jews to the death camps,” calling it “offensive” and “horrific.”
On Tuesday on his Fox program, watched by about 2.8 million people, Mr. Beck said that during the Holocaust, the 14-year-old Mr. Soros “used to go around with this anti-Semite and deliver papers to the Jews and confiscate their property and then ship them off.”
Mr. Beck continued: “I am certainly not saying that George Soros enjoyed that, even had a choice. I mean, he’s 14 years old. He was surviving. So I’m not making a judgment. That’s between him and God.” He also said that “many people” would call Mr. Soros “an anti-Semite,” though “I will not.”
On Thursday’s program, Beck revisited the issue and focused on how Soros has himself described that time in his life:
On his radio program Friday morning, Beck talked about a letter he recently received from the ADL’s Foxman.
Beck noted that his office provided a copy of the letter to The New York Times prior to the publication of their story. The contents of the letter were not included in the article.
This is the key segment from the Friday morning radio show:
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Comments (328)
HippoNips
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:32pmSo the ADL is in Soros’ pocket at well, it seems Why else would they twist and contort to defend him?
Report Post »Very interesting
SummerB
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 2:17pmI agree that they have to be in his pocket. Cannot imagine a 14-year-old saying that the time during German occupation was the happiest time of his life. Sick dog! Maybe he needs to re-read the Diary of Anne Frank & the all the other Jew’s stories of the atrocities of what happened to them under Occupation. Idea — maybe he should view Stephen Spielberg’s Jewish Film Archives for 1st-hand videotaped experiences. Not only is Soros warped psychologically, he’s also a vile, hate-mongering, dirty dog who lacks any integrity & who thinks that the peoples of the world are his personal Sim Game from which to profit from — pure power (remember, it‘s a disease thinking you’re a God) & financial gain; absolutely no morality in the equation. I’d love to see the Congress have a special hearing on his influence on our economy &, if warranted, removed all non-profit status from all groups that accept money from him or, at best, deem him an enemy of the State & freeze all his US accounts. Off to call the Speaker-elect’s office.
Report Post »tim55
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:32pmI wonder if the ADL received a “contribution” from Soros in exchange for their “statement”?
Report Post »hisuelos
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:55pmBingo!
Report Post »macarb55
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:03pmYour’e right!!!
Report Post »knuckle dragger
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:19pmA freedom of info act would clear the matter up!
Report Post »Iliketea
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 3:09pmI would say so. Almost everyone in this day and age can be bought. May God Bless you Glen.
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:31pmUnfortunately, the truth is the thruth. Many time times people of all races and religions collaborated with the nazis just to live a day longer.
Report Post »macarb55
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:30pm‘Horrific’ & ‘Offensive’ is what Soros is doing to America!!!
Report Post »neeleyt
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:30pmKeep a focus on the truth Glenn. The truth can never be defeated.
Report Post »SFconservative
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:29pmSeriously, this is the best they can come up with? Attack Glenn with false cries of anti-antisemitism? It is a dead giveaway that there is nothing of substance they have to offer. Don’t be intimidated. Now that Soros has been called out, he must be defeated.
Report Post »FaithHopeCharity45
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:28pmKeep exposing the truth….we will keep listening and researching and spreading the word to all who will listen.
Report Post »2Smart2BaLib
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:27pmGlenn please don’t stop these programs about George Soros they are absolutely fascinating. I have DVR’d all of the George Soros shows and burned the shows to DVD to give to all my friends and coworkers. Everyone in the USA needs to know about this man so we can stop him.
Report Post »Goohuman
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:26pmI would say to the ADL, what side do you think Soros is on?
ADL, Soros is using you in the worst possible way.
Report Post »exit108
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 2:29pmThe most dangerous enemy to the Jews are Jews that try to out gentile the gentiles.
Report Post »Hugh Williams
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:25pmGlenn those of us that actually watched your show this week know the truth. You said nothing that is even remotely anti-Semitic. Keep fighting the good fight Glenn I am with you brother.
Report Post »pap pap
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:49pmI couldn’t agree more. I got a DVR so just so that I wouldn’t miss one episode.
Love ya Glenn
Keep fighting the good fight.
Report Post »MattPSU
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:24pmThis guy basically disowned the Jewish people yet the ADL is so quick to jump to his defense. I don’t understand why. I honestly don’t see what was offensive about this at all. I even went back and watched it again. Some websites are saying that the “puppet master” analogy is somehow a jewish slur in itself- I have no idea whatsoever why that is.
Notice how none of the news outlets picked up this story. If it was truly offensive what he said, they you better believe that MSNBC would be telling you about it today.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:22pmwe just emailed the ADL under its anti-semtic reporting option, for them to know WE, this Christian AMERICAN family, has supported ISRAEL and the defense of Israel for several decades, and we will never trust THEM again, because Mr Glenn Beck was not anti-semitic when he used George Soros’s own words to explain how that man was a 14yr old working with the nazis. WE did our homework on Soros and he is nothing but a sociopath and could well be considered a willing nazi collaborator in WWII. “” SHAME on the ADL and we will never trust THEM again. “”
Report Post »Will NV
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:51pmWhy is this Sorass not being sent back to Hungary for war crimes against the Je ws?
Report Post »They did it to others. Who has he paid off? This guy needs to be investigated.
Skrew the ACLU, remember it has a union in its name and we know how unions work.
Sorry , oxymoron, unions don’t work.
Ruler4You
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:22pmActually it was Mr. Soros’ comments that Beck was stating. But although these msm outlets want you to consider their “context” they don’t want you to know any REAL context from which they may derive their “stories.”
The ADL has a long history, paradoxically, of being a self destructive organization. Why? I can’t even begin to guess. But that irony has never escaped me. Like the ACLU saying it stands for American freedom and liberty and doing everything it can to destroy it. Or CAIR saying it stands against terrorism while funding HAMAS with revenues. Who can figure what the motives are? But the actions speak louder than words and contradict the premise.
I don’t buy it.
N37BU6
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:19pmADL? Soros is a Jew when it suits him, apparently.
These morons will use any angle available to them… race, class, religion, sex… doesn’t matter. If Glenn was a female, they’d be crying “reverse-sexism” too.
ADL, NAACP, SPLC… all discredited jokes. All they do is manipulate.
Report Post »HouseNegro
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:17pmWhy do all the racist call everybody else a racist?
Report Post »ProdigalChild
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 7:15pmit is called transference. what is so funny about it it they don’t even see they are exposing themselves each & every time they make an accusation. they are literally blinded – they truly do not get it. Great isn’t it ??
Report Post »WHISKY13
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:10pmDidn’t Soros fund the new anti Israel “J street” PAC in DC. Foxman needs to more than apologize to you Glenn, how about a thank you and aim his anti semitic non-sense to the self hating Jew Soros and his anti Israel Jstreet gang. Don’t be an appeaser to Foxman.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:43pmsoros said that when he was 14, that year watching Jews go off to the camps and collecting their possessions was the BEST year of his life. think about it, Jews are not a Race, they are a Religion. soros was raised by parents who hated they were born Jewish. but they were HUNGARIANS. and they were RADICALS. soros is a sociopath who was probably a real smooth sly operator even as a kid, and that explains why he enjoyed that year. he grew up hating the Jews and he then was IN POWER over the Jews.
sounds just like the biography of obama today. no wonder soros handpicked him.
Report Post »zagfan
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:10pmThe truth hurts when you have been exposed with your own words Mr. Soros.
Hooray for Glenn, he brought that evil, sadistic man out into the light for all to see.
It’s hard to keep up the destruction of out country when we are on to the worst man in the world. He loves to see people suffer for his pleasure!
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:10pmif Israel wants US to keep supporting her, she better get onboard WITH GLENN BECK.
Report Post »Nvrforget
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:21pmThe US will continue to support Israel no matter what happens. Remember when Israeli forces attacked a US ship with white phosphorous, killing many sailors on board and even shooting the people escaping on life rafts and no investigation was ever conducted? US political sources have said time and time again that US support for Israel is unconditional. I don’t think some dislike of Glenn Beck is going to change that.
Report Post »Diamondback
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:09pmSurely the Jewish leadership is not that dense.
We must all remain aware of the “journalisttic jihad” financed by Soros against Glenn.
The enemies of freedom will do and say anything to bring him down.
They will ultimately be defeated by truth, prayer and the power of God.
Report Post »BSdetector
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:08pm(Spooky dude voice)
Report Post »ADL, I now want you to go GET’M!
BurntHills
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:23pmyes, when did the ADL get PAID OFF by soros. we will never contribute to or support the ADL again.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:50pm(Phone rings)
(Soros: “Spooky dudes residence how may I fund you taking over the world for me today?
(Voice: “Mr Soros, we of the Mossad will be seeing you soon to…investigate a few things about your financial donations to haters of Israel and of our allies…”
(Soros: “Sorry wrong number…”
Report Post »myfamily04
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:07pmGlen, Thank you for all that you do. Thank you for planting the beginning seeds to help us all open our eyes and our minds. It is time to wake up the rest of the zombies in this world!
Report Post »Star Spangled
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:07pmBLAZE , Your video is blank , at least that‘s all I’m getting .
Report Post »Diamondback
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:18pmI couldn’t play the “Beck Letter” video either — here or on youtube.
Report Post »Midwest Belle
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 2:15pmGive the video time – it’s being d/l so much that playback is extremely slow. Refresh the page, and eventually it WILL play!
Report Post »Ronko
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:02pmI‘m disapointed that the ADL would consider Glenns statements last night offensive but I’m glad they realized their mistake. The only thing truely offensive is what Sorros is currently doing and the con game that he has played on all of us.
Report Post »Diamondback
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:13pmYou might want to check the respective dates. The letter was dated October 22, 2010. Today is November 12, 2010. Therefore it appears they’ve “retracted” the letter with a subsequent denunciation.
Report Post »abc
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:43pmADL is denouncing him TODAY. That letter is from long before.
Beck plays that old game where he says he is not judging but then judges, claims he isn’t calling someone anti-Semitic but then does. Watch when someone prefaces a comment with, “some of my best friends are X” or “with all due respect.” What follows is the exact thing they claim they are not doing. Only fools believe these kinds of remarks.
Beck’s attack on Soros is so far outside of the facts, from his claim that Soros hurt the UK economy to his argument that he is anti-Semitic because he did what he needed to do to survive or because he is not a supporter of Israeli policies (as if protesting China’s foreign policy makes you racist against Chinese). The entire thing is a sham designed to divert attention from the massive spending by rich Republican donors in the last election, which have been more prevalent than Soros’ donations and which are done in the darkness of anonymity (again, unlike Soros). Only partisans so blind to or disregarding of facts and fair play would believe this nonsense. Unfortunately, there are a lot of ignorant or dishonest conservatives that do. Let’s hope that there are many more who rightly dismiss Beck for what he is: a charlatan who cares not what impact on the body politic his antics might have, since he seeks only to outdo his last fake crisis on the way to higher ratings. Coulter and Limbaugh have laid the groundwork, but Beck has taken it to a new and more irresponsible level.
Amerigo Vespucci
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:10pm@ABC
Report Post »That is exactly what most of us think of you and your posts:
“Let’s hope that there are many more who rightly dismiss [ABC] for what he is: a charlatan…as well as person with no regard for learned honesty and rapport…
Nvrforget
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:15pmBeck isn’t a charlatan, he doesn’t care about politics though (Quote: “I don’t give a flying **** about the political process”). He‘s just an entertainer who’s in it for the money and he said so himself. I mean, would you call Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert charlatans when people start believing the things they say on their shows? That’s ridiculous.
Report Post »Amerigo Vespucci
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:36pm@ABC…Check the date of that letter…you state it was from “long before…” It’s from LESS than two weeks ago. Using your understanding of time, BHO has been President for a long x 10 (5) time…Every time you post you expose yourself for who you really are: a hedgefund manager of failed liberal policies and ideas. Please move to China and “help” them because you are of no help to anyone here.
Report Post »abc
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:36pmNVR, John Stewart is a media critic and a comedian. His role is as old as the court jester–think King Lear’s fool. Beck is very different. He is a critic of the left and an ideologue. He cannot speak truth to power when those in power are conservatives. They are not at all the same.
Amerigo, I am fallible, but my commitment to factual accuracy far exceeds Beck. And I do not attempt to make money by trafficking in lies and misstatements, as he does. My job requires factual accuracy, while his requires only that he outdoes himself in creating the next crisis deserving of ratings boosts. I am not at all like Beck.
Report Post »watchmany2k
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:47pmABC, your “job” is the oldest “profession” in the world.
Report Post »Soros is wasting his money having you lamers post here, LOL
langushire
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 2:02pmABC
Report Post »You make some points I would like to listen to but you do not back them up with any audio or video or written references that prove any of your points. Glenn makes a statement and then shows you the video of them saying it themselves to back up what he has said. Can you provide any facts of this sort to back up what you say? If so, I would like to see both sides of this and make my own conclusions. So far, Glenn backs up every thing he says with the research to show for it and you guys from the other side of the issue just repeat talking points, resort to name calling, and never show us anything to support your statements or attempt to debate any specific information provided by Glenn with equal documentation to back up your point. He says, almost to the point of being anoying, to do your own homework and, if you find his research to be wrong, provide your research and he will admit to anything found to be wrong information and make ammends for it. What have you got? I am sick of hearing lies and distortions from both sides. What is refreshing about Glenn is that he makes a statement and then shows the guy on video or quoting his own statements telling us exactly where to go to get this information ourselves to be sure we are getting it in proper context. Again, what have you got? I want to judge both sides but, so far, only one side is backing up what he says and that is Glenn Beck. Forget about attacking Glenn and start addressing the specific thing he has said with your proof to back it up. Thats what I am hungry for is the truth. Show me some constructive documented truth to back up your statements.
BetterDays
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 2:35pmABC: MargoHarris’, or someone who posts like she does. go back to huff-n-puff post-toasties they miss your coffee cup avatar.
Report Post »justsaying
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 4:16pmLet’s not hold our breath waiting for ABC to back up his “facts”.
Report Post »barbaraw62
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 4:38pmABC——- GO BACK TO HUFFPO……. Just go away!
Report Post »abc
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:41pmLang writes:
“You make some points I would like to listen to but you do not back them up with any audio or video or written references that prove any of your points. Glenn makes a statement and then shows you the video of them saying it themselves to back up what he has said. Can you provide any facts of this sort to back up what you say? If so, I would like to see both sides of this and make my own conclusions. ”
I’d be happy to. First, I haven’t provided support for the 1992 billion-dollar bet on the pound, since I was on a trading floor in Frankfurt and watched it happen first hand. I knew people who had put in trades for Soros on various trading desks (e.g., Deutsche, Dresdner, Goldman, Merrill, etc.), so I have given a first hand account. You can read a decent account of it here:
http://olesiafx.com/Kathy-Lien-Day-Trading-The-Currency-Market/George-Soros-the-Man-Who-Broke-The-Bank-Of-England.html
It clearly shows that massive macroeconomic forces were at play that involved German reunification and a breakdown in the harmonization of economies in the EU. These forces are too large for a central bank to fight, so the inevitable happened. Soros was simply the biggest and most well-known predictor and profiter of these events, but he was not the cause. You can also prove this by looking at the relative size of the markets for major currencies, then or now. The US dollar cannot be moved for very long by our Treasury, since its resources are dwarfed by two orders of magnitude by the size of the volume in the dollar market. The same is true of the pound. For Beck to assert that Soros tanked the UK economy, by providing snippets of video, is to make ridiculous accusations that no economist or currency trader would take seriously. Yes, the video clips make it seem plausible to the untrained in finance and economics, but it is still the work of a charlatan. Hopefully, this explanation, along with the independent account and information regarding relative sizes of currency markets to government resources to move those markets, all help you see clearly and logically that the claim that Soros tanks economies is beyond stupid as a defensible claim.
“So far, Glenn backs up every thing he says with the research to show for it and you guys from the other side of the issue just repeat talking points, resort to name calling, and never show us anything to support your statements or attempt to debate any specific information provided by Glenn with equal documentation to back up your point. He says, almost to the point of being anoying, to do your own homework and, if you find his research to be wrong, provide your research and he will admit to anything found to be wrong information and make ammends for it. What have you got?”
So if you ask for specifics about Soros’ causes, I’d be happy to help out there as well. The Tides Foundation or MoveOn.org are clearly partisan groups that are promoting liberal ideas and progressive agendas, but they are not communist and they do not fall under the category of unAmerican ideas. You need only go visit their websites or read other third-party accounts of what they do to learn that Beck is massively exaggerating the “threat” associated with them. The Tides Foundation operates on the left the way the Heritage Foundation used to on the right when it was a more disciplined and serious think tank. This is hardly a Stalinist threat that Beck describes. Soros has done a lot to promote anti-authoritarian groups from taking hold in the Eastern Block after the fall of communism, and he was a big critic of Bush for promoting the War in Iraq and pushing through teh Patriot Act, which did much to curtail our civil liberties. These are not the deeds of a man seeking to consolidate power, but one who seeks to avoid authoritarianism in the first place. You can find a couple of important documentaries that appeared on FreeSpeech channel that show Soros quoting George Orwell and his prescient warnings about authoritarian regimes using propaganda to take people’s freedoms away through legal maneuvers and constant war. Soros saw aspects of that in Bush’s administration. He spoke, in my opinion, truth to power, while conservatives, who were enjoying the power and were corrupted by it, bitterly attacked Soros rather than owning up to this behavior. This is not the work of a Stalinist, but of a man more committed to individual freedom than Beck. Simply Google search Soros and FreeSpeech channel, or George Orwell to see what I am talking about. These are quotes that Beck has conveniently ignored as he attempts to misrepresent Soros. Beck is bothered that Soros is a liberal, but he is making him out to be a communist. This is slander and it doesn’t fit with the body of work that Soros has done.
” I am sick of hearing lies and distortions from both sides. What is refreshing about Glenn is that he makes a statement and then shows the guy on video or quoting his own statements telling us exactly where to go to get this information ourselves to be sure we are getting it in proper context. Again, what have you got?”
You certainly are smart enough to know that I can put together a montage with video that appears to show one thing when the reality is the exact opposite. I call this Breitbarting, since Breitbart did this to Shirley Sherrod by only showing video clips that made her look like a racist against whites when th reality is the exact opposite. The clips that Beck has chosen to show about Soros are ones that make him look like a megalomaniac who seeks to run people’s lives, but he ignores the clips in which Soros has denounced authoratarian regimes on the left and the right–again, take a look at the documentaries on Free Speech channel–which run counter to the Beck narrative. I also found an excellent rebuttal to many of the falsehoods perpetuated by Beck in the following piece published in Reason magazine, a leading libertarian publication:
http://reason.com/blog/2010/11/12/glenn-becks-ridiculous-misread
That will go a long way toward presenting the factual support for my contentions across a whole host of Beck’s lies and exaggerations and mistruths.
” I want to judge both sides but, so far, only one side is backing up what he says and that is Glenn Beck. Forget about attacking Glenn and start addressing the specific thing he has said with your proof to back it up. Thats what I am hungry for is the truth. Show me some constructive documented truth to back up your statements.”
So I hope that I have, without the help of a paid staff, gone some way toward showign that Beck is totally speaking lies when he claims that Soros is tanking economies. I also hope that you will find compelling the quotes that show Soros is clearly more worried about the loss of freedom to authoritarian regimes given that he was protesting the loss of civil liberties under the Patriot Act when conservatives like Beck were mindlessly supporting the President–as long as a conservative is in power, then we are happy no matter how incompetent or corrupt he might act.
I hope that you will respond to this responsibly. I find a deplorable pattern on this blog that when the conservatives lose an argument they simply ignore the counter-factual evidence and continue to spout the lies. If you really are going to make up your mind having done your homework then you have to be ready to abandon your ideological biases and preconceived notions and be prepared to come out on the anti-Beck side. If you are not able to do this, then you are worse than he is–although I have my doubts that Beck really wants you to do your homework in the first place. Call his bluff. Show that you have the diligence and the flexibility to change your mind and view things as they are rather than as your ideological narrative demands that they be. Else, I am wasting my time responding to you.
Report Post »abc
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:45pmLang, of course, you’ll perhaps discount this, since it comes from mediamatters.com. However, the facts are true:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201011090050
This also shows how Beck conveniently tells half-truths and ignores huge positive aspects of Soros’ work so that he can push the narrative that this man is dangerous and evil. Not good. And, if you really are doing your homework, you ought to know this already…
Report Post »abc
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:01pmLang, and this:
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/001922.php
Note that the author comments on how Soros has done more to promote anti-authoritarian governments with checks and balances than ANY PERSON IN HUMAN HISTORY. This puts him on par with George Washington, not Joseph Stalin. Also, note the correction of the slander first made by Marty Peretz and now taken up again by Beck regarding his actions as a 14 year old under the Nazi’s in Hungary.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 3:07pmABC, what’s this? Bringing facts into the equation? Good luck with all that truth and reason junk! :)
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 6:35pmThis letter is from October. The new letter is online. He’s NOT vindicated.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:02pmDon’t quit, Glenn. They’ll vote with Potter otherwise.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:14pmWhat’s the problem? …most of it was in Soros own words! They just can’t handle the truth (seeing the light of day) … KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK GLENN — WE STAND WITH YOU!
Report Post »staythecourse
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 12:53amGlenn. thank you for your courage. You continue in our prayers.
Report Post »seanpatriot
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:00pmWe love you Glenn
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:18pmKeep it up Glenn, Soros is getting desperate to have you quieted in any way possible. Maybe he is beginning to understand the reality of the situation – law of unintended consequences. He has made a major miscalculation that no one would dare to stand up against him. And one person is making the differnece in the nation indeed. We all need to keep pressing on for the higher ground.
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SgtB
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:34pmI want you screen name Sean. How often do you have to correct people on the spelling of your name. I just say my name and then spell it immediately anymore.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:37pmthis just burns us up, Glenn Beck has strongly supported Israel [as have WE] and now the soros-bought Foxman is targeting Glenn. we found a strange NYT article from 2007 about Abraham Foxman, it sounds like he could very well be the soros sleeper in the ADL. !!!!!
Report Post »WTH is up with our government
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:43pmI wonder how much they received from Soros?
slickmeister
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:47pmThe libdrone 20% will gobble up the smear. The ignorant “moderate/independents“ will only hear about it and vaguely wonder why Glenn Beck is an ”anti-Semite” and those of us who understand what’s going on recognize what the far left machine is trying to do.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:51pmJust had an interesting thought…
Imagine the day Soros stands before the Almighty one on his day of judgment, and finds out Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin are both filling in for him that day…
klstj
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 12:53pmwe do love you Glenn…and appreciate your sacrifice.
Report Post »RealityCheck
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:02pmWait a sec, isn’t the Holocaust a myth ? Man, we need to stop letting people turn our history and laws against us. The FACT they want to quiet Glenn Beck should outrage EVERY American weather you listen to him or not. I do not like what Mr. Ed spits out his mouth, but I’m not out trying to remove him from the media. This is and will always be America to me and I will die fighting with the American flag before I let someone tell me to take it down!
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Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:03pmWe support your every move.
LadybugsTX
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:09pmThe ADL is correct. It is horrific and offensive. It‘s horrific and offensive to me that a man like Soros is playing with people’s lives like a game of chess. It‘s horrific and offensive that Soros hates being a Jew so badly that he’s turned on them and offers no support for Israel or Jews in general. It‘s horrific and offensive that he’s rallied every American hating liberal, radical and idealouge as useful idiots and foot soldiers to harm America and it’s interests. Soros clearly wants to be King of the World and America as usual is the last thing standing in his way of making this happen. The ADL are fools for supporting this man just like his idiot storm troopers are fools. He would and has thrown the Jewish people under the bus for personal gain and he’s just using the idiots to gain ultimate world power.
And isn‘t it odd that the left’s accusation of Beck’s motivation is money? And that everything they hate about America, capitalism, etc. is what made Soros the power he is today? And isn’t it odd that every uber wealthy person in the world like Soros, Bill Gates and Oprah, after they’ve made their billions on the capitalistic system now want to change it so nobody else can?
Screw you George Soros. I am as successful as I want to be, but I reserve the right to make a billion dollars selling the next big idea like Windows, Snuggies, Chia Pets or the hula hoop. In America I can, so leave it the hell alone.
Report Post »DimmuBorgir
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:17pmFirst off, I HATE THE ADL. Even their name is a lie. The ADL is just a Jewish organization that people use when they need leverage ie. the race card.
Secondly, they are good for one thing. I printed out many a symbol from their “hate symbols” page to give to my tattoo artists.
AnotherWay
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:18pmI wish there were a stronger word than “love” to express what I feel for Glenn and his dedicated to Faith, Hope and Charity and to reviving the principles and values that made this country the greatest and most generous nation on earth.
Report Post »Erlidayz
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:21pmIt was called “Horrific and Offensive”, but not called wrong. They don’t disagree with the stories, but just think they are “Horrific and Offensive”. Let’s investigate and charge Soros and all Politicians and minions with TREASON, as they should be charged and prosecuted.
Report Post »Pecatonica
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:27pmYes we do love you. Godspeed.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:33pmIt’s Horriffic & Offensive when socialist agenda supersedes political correctness.
Report Post »watchmany2k
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 1:39pmLOL, I can see from the comments, that media matters and their ilk are invested in this lame smear.
Just another twist on the race card, and supporting the big bad multi billionaire “RICH” guy at that.
Don’t you guys get dizzy with all the back-flips ?
Think of the 12 people you have left following you,
NYTImes, msnbc, and cbs will all liquidate for a buck now.
Puppets of the world UN-TIE !
Report Post »Jim S
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 2:23pm…Go Glenn…slam those liars every time you find it…
Report Post »Rogue
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 2:37pmInteresting how someone speaking about one Jew ( a non-practicing atheist at that) can be called anti-semetic, yet when George Soros brought down the economies of entire cultures, not a word is spoken. There were over 10 million Jews in Czech Republic in 2006 – don’t you think a good number of them went through serious hardships due to Mr. Soros? I guess defamation is thier only concern when it comes to the lives of Jewish people around the world. You are free to ruin people’s lives, but don’t you dare say something bad about them. The ADL is a joke.
Report Post »Hoosier Daddy
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 2:42pmI seriously doubt that most ADL members have any clue what a turd Foxman is. Sorry, not turd…cheap whore…easily bought. They support the idea of ADL, kinda like animal lovers support PETA without knowing what a vile, domestic terrorist organization they are.
jzs
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 2:43pmA terrific article was published in Harper’s Magazine in 1964 entitled “The Paranoid Style in American Politics.” Easy to find on the net. Is a wiki link to some quotes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paranoid_Style_in_American_Politics
We been down this road many times before. Here’s one quote that I think Beck must have memorized, and something all of you here are buying into. From the year 1964:
“The enemy is clearly delineated: he is a perfect model of malice, a kind of amoral superman—sinister, ubiquitous, powerful, cruel, sensual, luxury-loving. Unlike the rest of us, the enemy is not caught in the toils of the vast mechanism of history, himself a victim of his past, his desires, his limitations. He wills, indeed he manufactures, the mechanism of history, or tries to deflect the normal course of history in an evil way. He makes crises, starts runs on banks, causes depressions, manufactures disasters, and then enjoys and profits from the misery he has produced. The paranoid’s interpretation of history is distinctly personal: decisive events are not taken as part of the stream of history, but as the consequences of someone’s will. Very often the enemy is held to possess some especially effective source of power: he controls the press; he has unlimited funds; he has a new secret for influencing the mind (brainwashing); he has a special technique for seduction (the Catholic confessional).”
Sound just like Soros doesn’t it?
Tucsonan
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 2:45pmI have been posting clips onto my Facebook and had one of my friends…a Priest no less jokingly call me Dale Gribble. Since I never watched that show I had no idea who that was. Googled it and then thought for a moment to comment. I let it go. Not worth it and I‘m sure he really didn’t mean it in a seriously mean way. I am still posting and have no intent on letting anyone convince me I shouldn’t. THANK YOU GLENN FOR SHEDDING THE LIGHT ON A VERY SCARY SPOOKEY DUDE. My research outside of your information has been very interesting and it is amazing at how you can literally go from link to link to link. Soros is certainly not a shy person. WE ALL NEED TO STAND UP TO THE BULLIES!
Report Post »butterfly53
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 3:19pmCreepy ole’ spooky dude is not comfortable being outed. Be careful Glenn.
Report Post »AnotherWay
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 3:24pmJZS–there is a clear difference between “paranoid” and “vigilant.” Seeing the 14 trillion dollar debt, out of control government and entitlement programs, arrogance and elitism in the highest offices of the land, the loss of the most fundamental American values of Faith, Hope and Charity–isn’t paranoia–it is vigilance.
The patterns are there and are not being superimposed. Soros has a track record of enjoying collapsing economies and profiting from their collapse. He masks his essentially predatory character in philanthropy–but his messianic aspirations for a “new world order” comes from his own mouth.
Paranoids have to fabricate facts to support their distorted world views. Glenn just uses Soros’ words and interviews themselves to “reveal” the predatory core beneath the calmly deceptive demeanor that Soros wears–and probably believes.
It is quite possible that Soros himself is split and not fully aware of the the danger that lies beneath his good intentions. After all, communism itself was seen by Stalin and Po Pot and Mao–as “a good thing.” Meant well–created hell. Again, the self deception of those who believe that the ends justify the means–even if it means collapsing economies and causing untold pain and misery.
Report Post »SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 4:08pmI guess racist, homophobe, bigot and the like have lost their luster and appeal. This is what a movement in decline looks like. Keep it up Glenn. These cowards are on their way back under the bridge.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 4:22pmI’m still waiting for Mr. Soros to give the world an explanation of his activities in his youth that would contradict Glenn’s discription. So far I have not seen or heard anything and I doubt that Mr. Soros CAN contradict Glenn. We are waiting, Mr. Soros. I don’t listen to the desperate banter of the Soros boobs who are flying around the Soros nest like trained monkeys from a long ago movie scene.
Report Post »A1955Rosie
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 4:25pmWent to the times article…can’t post to facebook using it as a comparison of truth. HMMMMM. Don’t have problems w/other articles.
Report Post »whamhost.info WORKS FROM HOME
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 5:31pmIf you read the comments above it seems that The pro blogers have a renewed vigor in trying convert Beck supporters.
Report Post »AnnMarie
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 6:05pmThank goodness for your imput Glenn. Does Sorus collect SS or is he on Medicare and one last thing.. where does he keep his money and is he subject to the same taxes that he promotes the Dems to push?
missionarydad
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 6:36pmWe love you and have your back Glenn, you are the best man.
Report Post »missionarydad
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 6:43pmPat is something else, Glenn’s trying to carry on a serious conversation and Pat is busting a gut the whole time lol! I love those guys.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 6:53pmIt was stated that Soros wanted to reap an obscene profit from the collapse of America? I don‘t believe the word ’profit’ is suitable. The proper word should be ‘steal’.
Report Post »geminisailor
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:06pmHas Soros greased ADL’s wheels?
Report Post »abc
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:14pmAnotherway writes:
“Paranoids have to fabricate facts to support their distorted world views. Glenn just uses Soros’ words and interviews themselves to “reveal” the predatory core beneath the calmly deceptive demeanor that Soros wears–and probably believes.”
Fabricating facts is exactly what Glenn Beck is doing. And you can do this by taking a person’s quotes out of context. For example, Soros didn’t collapse the UK economy. He predicted and profited from a 30% decline in the Pound. To say that he collapsed the UK economy is a fabrication. Similarly, to take his comments about feeling like a god–which many superrich people do, from Larry Ellison to James Cameron–and twist them into actually asserting that Soros has control over Eastern Europeans is fabrications of the most deluded order. Beck cannot name one variable or characteristic of Polish life that has been irretrievably changed because of Soros, yet you would think that Soros is the second coming of Stalin based upon the rhetoric. This is not vigilance but paranoia of the worst kind.
Report Post »An Arizonan
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:36pmNot only do we love you Glenn we pray for your safety regularly. Continue to hold up “The Title of Liberty”
Report Post »jzs
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 10:31pm@ANOTHERWAY, I think you give up in claim to objectivity when you say, ” I wish there were a stronger word than “love” to express what I feel for Glenn.” I think you give up a few other claims as well frankly.
You say, “Soros has a track record of enjoying collapsing economies and profiting from their collapse.” You heard that from Glenn, but have you verified that? Can you post here, to the world, what that “track record” is”? What economies? And how did Soros “collapse” them and profit from them? I challenge you to provide a single source independent from Glenn Beck.
You wish you had a stronger word than “love” for Glenn Beck. I can think of a few.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:21pmAnother quote appropriate to the discussion, soon to the added to the Tea Party Opinions for Dummies book that I’m writing and hope to make millions from. Black and white thinking, seeing the world as good vs. evil with no middle ground. You are with God, or you are with Lucifer. Nothing in between, no nuance, no complicated issues, no subtleties , no negative consequences from the stand you take. It‘s black or it’s white, and there is no gray.
http://www.harpers.org/archive/1964/11/0014706
“The paranoid spokesman sees the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms — he traffics in the birth and death of whole worlds, whole political orders, whole systems of human values. He is always manning the barricades of civilization… he does not see social conflict as something to be mediated and compromised, in the manner of the working politician. Since what is at stake is always a conflict between absolute good and absolute evil, what is necessary is not compromise but the will to fight things out to a finish. Since the enemy is thought of as being totally evil and totally unappeasable, he must be totally eliminated — if not from the world, at least from the theatre of operations to which the paranoid directs his attention.”
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 10:11amThis thread is a PERFECT example which proves the adage “LOVE IS BLIND.”
Report Post »AnotherWay
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 11:01amABC–ultimately you have to ask yourself if you think Soros is a man of character. I think that he has made his fortune off betting on the “don’t come”–=which means he profits and invites misery. He is clearly masking that predatory character with acts of philanthropy, but his efforts to get Fox and Beck off the air just confirm to me that he is predatory to the core. Instead of regret his year with the Nazi, he says it was the best year of his life. Instead of celebrating the First Amendment, he pays to silence people. Instead of being open about his support of progressive groups, he hides behind a network of front organizations. People who obtain wealthy without adding value to the world and society are in my opinion not people of character. People who intentionally profit from economic collapses are participants in those collapses, and people of the lowest possible character. New world order engineered in the dark by a messianic spooky dude using surrogates? No thank you.
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Posted on November 13, 2010 at 11:13amJZS–We all tend to love people who reflect our values and principles. Who personify them. My affection for Glenn reflects the fact that I share his emphasis on Faith, Hope, and Charity–and the greatest of these is Charity (love). Soros in not someone I admire because he has not made his fortune by creating something of value for society. Instead, he has made his fortune through benefiting from currency transactions that do not have intrinsic value. We are currently paying the price for this way of making money because of the collapse of the secondary mortgage markets and hedge funds. I have no problem with you admiring and perhaps loving Soros and what he has done and what he is doing. I don’t. I love Glenn as a person–and I love him for what he stands for. I can’t respect or admire Soros–no matter how much money he throws around–because I see his core–and at his core he is not someone I can admire or respect. But I am always open to the possibility that Soros will come to terms with the inner predator that is such a part of his character. The first step along the way to that would be for him to spend an hour with Glenn and openly discuss and debate his ideas in a public forum. What is he afraid of? Love and Truth does not need to hide.
Report Post »legacyboygt
Posted on November 13, 2010 at 1:11pmit’s not whether or not ur paranoid…it’s whether or not ur paranoid enough!!! OR just because i’m paranoid, doesn‘t mean they’re not out to get me…LOL
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