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Liberal Bloggers Link Palin Aide to Soros

In one of the more amusing attempts to discredit Glenn Beck’s week-long expose on billionaire George Soros’ unparalleled influence in global politics, Salon’s Justin Elliott reports that one of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin‘s aides is actually on Soros’ payroll.  Scandal!

Uh, not quite.

Elliott writes:

Given Soros’ alleged role plotting to destroy the United States, Beck and his Fox viewership might be surprised to learn that one of Sarah Palin‘s top aides has been on Soros’ payroll for years.

That would be Republican lobbyist Randy Scheunemann, Palin’s foreign policy adviser and a member of her small inner circle. He runs a Washington, D.C., consulting firm called Orion Strategies. Scheunemann and a partner have since 2003 been paid over $150,000 by one of Soros’ organizations for lobbying work, according to federal disclosure forms reviewed by Salon. The lobbying, which has continued to the present, centers on legislation involving sanctions and democracy promotion in Burma.

According to their website, Orion Strategies performs a number of functions, including public relations, political consulting and even advertising. Needless to say, it’s a firm with a broad portfolio.

We advise and consult a variety of businesses (law firms, financial companies, services), organizations (professional organizations, lobbying groups and labor unions), political campaigns and public relation projects. Our political experience includes statewide, congressional, legislative, judicial and county races.

According to Elliot, one of the firm‘s clients is Soros’ Open Society Policy Center, an organization that “encourages Congress and the Administration to press the military dictatorship in Burma to restore political rights and democracy.”

In the course of Beck’s three-day look at Soros’ network of organizations and his links to Democratic politicians, the fact that a top aide to a likely GOP presidential candidate has been retained by a Soros outfit did not come up.

Palin has not commented on the Salon report, nor do I expect her to.  The fact that one individual obviously knowledgeable on international politics advised the one-time vice presidential contender is moot and extending this individual connection and extrapolating a wider relationship between Scheunemann‘s entire firm and Soros’ global business empire is a stretch, to say the very least. A further stretch is a conjectured connection between all of this and Beck’s thorough assessment of the controversial billionaire.

After an entire week of reporting the questionable agenda and unchallenged facts presented in Beck’s look at the “puppet master,” is this seriously the best, er, refutation (?) the left can come up with?  Fighting facts with sheer (unrelated) speculation?

So, what does this report — touted in the lefty blogosphere today — actually mean?  Literally, nothing.

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  • Conserving Ink
    Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:32pm

    The game 6 degrees of Soros is so easy its boring. That man has WAY too many fingers in too many pies.
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  • teddie888
    Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:29pm

    If I were Palin and found out that even 1 cent was taken from Soros from someone whom I hired, I would let them go immediately due to shadow type business that Soros conducts and if that person could be bought off by Soros would never be known

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  • mrclean
    Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:24pm

    zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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  • LadyLiberty
    Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:18pm

    It is entirely possible that firm has dealt with many Soros outfits and never knew what the man was doing behind the scenes. Not ONE of my liberal friends knew he was responsible for the collapse of the british banks. Not ONE.

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  • S_Malc13
    Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:13pm

    Look the other way while I lift your wallet.

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  • JDanielCross
    Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:09pm

    How could Beck have missed such damning evidence??!! Obviously, everything he has said about Soros is a lie…And that fraud Palin is probably against the military dictatorship in Burma, too…..

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    • wash1776
      Posted on November 13, 2010 at 5:14am

      Take your propaganda and stuff it. Preferably down a tube and go in after it. Beck does not LIE. There is so much corruption out there he cannot find every little or big thing all of the time. Palin has a lot more sense and cojones than you have.

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  • J.C. McGlynn
    Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:08pm

    I guess we’ll find out that one of her kids is working for soros and he has someone working for roto-rooter as well.

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  • jstone5241
    Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:08pm

    Looks like George Soros is infiltrating everywhere! Beck is right, we all have to be more careful and watch what this man is doing.

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    • starman70
      Posted on November 13, 2010 at 9:23am

      Even better, revoke his citizenship and send him back to Hungary!

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  • Angel D
    Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:08pm

    David Brock of George Soros’s “Media Matters” announces his organization to take the 2012 election in house,senate and Presidentcy.Starting donations now. He claims it is not a 527? So in plain language, George Soros will start now to choose his candidates and fund who will run in 2012 for Senate, House and President for his New World Order Plans. Conservatives, get your checkbooks out to stop the Shadow Government of George Soros. Stop the Soros Agenda.

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  • 3fingerpete
    Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:06pm

    If Soros can control NPR for a paltry $1.8 million it seems perfectly reasonable he can puppet master the Palin camp through payments to Scheunemann’s organization. That’s how this works, right? Sort of like the old rules of segregation. One drop of black blood and all that.

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  • oldasdirt
    Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:55pm

    LOL,,,Glen Beck,Living in Lib heads rent free 24 hours a day.

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    • felina g
      Posted on November 13, 2010 at 5:00am

      That is because they are dead from the neck up.

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  • patriotteapress
    Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:51pm

    I guess I just see this differently. It’s not so much as to a “gotcha” Palin association as it is Soros reaching into every facet of politics in order to drive his agenda. His long reach extends into everything to do with US and world policy making, including influencing the right as well as the left. His, under the radar/covert actions are a danger to our republic. Thank God for people like Beck that will stand up and expose his agenda.

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  • infidelamerican
    Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:46pm

    They are running scared because most of America is blue collar, middle class, regular folks and Sarah is exactly that. We can relate to her, and she to us. The polititans are running scared because they know she connects to America and they realize she will prevail if they dont do a trash campaigne on her. They think we are to dumb to know what good for us. We will show them the house cleaning only has just begun. 2012 will take out the rest of the trash. I had a few bumper stickers made at makestickers.com that say Palin/Bachmann ‘12. I can’t believe how many thumbs up I get, even in patheticaly liberal western Washington.

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    • uncleherbert
      Posted on November 13, 2010 at 7:50am

      That is what I call a dream team..uh..ticket. Do you think Karl will get on the wagon? I hope so!

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  • mistercondo
    Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:36pm

    And George “Schwartz” Soros would not have one person follow him if he does not pay them.
    George (I am really a Jewish guy really names Schwartz) Soros who is demented cause Mommy would not stop nursing me.

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  • HimmlersMasterPlan
    Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:36pm

    Meh

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  • vic138
    Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:30pm

    So, george soros hired someone for a job and that person now advises sarah palin. That’s a pretty far fetched implication; that soros and palin have similar views or that soros must be manipulating palin, don‘t know where you’re going with this. So many other interpretations…

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    • beekeeper
      Posted on November 13, 2010 at 10:53am

      Soros hired the organization this aide to Palin works for, at an average of $20K/yr since 2003.

      There is no indication that Palin‘s aide ever worked directly on any project funded by Soro’s $20K/yr worth of projects.

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  • haunyocker
    Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:26pm

    Logically, what this attempt to discredit both Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin by linking George Soros to them, in effect confirms what Beck is claiming, that Soros is bad news for America. Just what to thank Justin Elliott at Salon for apparently not realizing what he was doing. Of course the intellect at Salon has never quite made it to the top floor. If Elliott believes that it is a negative to be connected to the likes of Soros, and he attempts to connect a Palin worker to Soros as a negative for her, then Soros is a negative for America by his own definition. Thanks for proving Glenn’s point about Soros.

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  • BetterDays
    Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:22pm

    Where I agree with you it was a very long stretch for the leftists to come back with Randy Scheunemann, it does point to a need for us to be ever vigilant to whom we associate ourselves with. As a conservitive christian GODs word says avoid any question of impropriety, correct? That being said I fully realize thats alot harder to do in “real time” than to say it. For instance Soros‘s connection to Progressive Insurance means I don’t get my insurance from them, and often wonder why FOX accepts there advertising dollars, guess like almost everything money talks. Whenever possible the canidates should openly seek out all conflicts of interest, as well as quesyionable “connections” of aids, seeking to remove all stumbling blocks from before them.
    The tea party has an uphill battle in front of ourselves, fighting business as usual in DC, it’s one I think will take generations to complete. I am very concerned that our “tea party ”electeds” will become co-opted as easilly as there predicessors were.
    on a side note, I stand with your PAY scale for federal employees and congressmen, that was “spot on”. (todays Beck TV)

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 9:35pm

      Totally agree with the pay scale. Too bad it will never happen, polititions hold thier own selfinterests first and foremost.
      As far as FOX letting a company that is connected to Soros money I don’t fault them for that. I do business with people I don’t agree with on different things, thier money spends just like anybody elses. Politics and business are usually mutually exclusive.

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    • uncleherbert
      Posted on November 13, 2010 at 7:27am

      Beck makes common sence again! I am for the pay scale suggestions among other ideas. Get the book “Broke”.

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    • Hanna
      Posted on November 13, 2010 at 7:52am

      It would be nice if we could isolate ourselves from the slime in this world. Unfortunately, the only way we can do that is to isolate ourselves from society altogether and go live in some secluded compound with no outside communication or contact. If you choose to live in this world, you have to deal with all of the elements of it. Even Glenn Beck said he has liberals working for him. I don’t know how he stands it;/ And how can he ever trust them?

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  • Maximus
    Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:19pm

    That’s really spooky!

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:18pm

    Where’s the facts?

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  • hypnos
    Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:16pm

    Excellent work Sherlock.

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  • Sledgehammer
    Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:13pm

    The left, and George Soros, are suffering from scrambled brain syndrome. That’s when someone grabs them by the neck and shakes like L.A. during 8.0

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  • TruthTalker
    Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:13pm

    Lame indeed.

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  • megansmom
    Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:13pm

    Really, I think my kids do a better job at spin reporting when they are trying to get out trouble. You know the whole hey look at what she‘s done it’s worse than what I did routine.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 10:30pm

      It’s as if they can find someone else that has done something similar to what they got busted doing, then that somehow makes it alright for them to do worse. My grandaughter is more grown up than that!

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  • Fuzzy
    Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:10pm

    The left is losing so bad, that silly inuendo is all they have left to offer up to their drones.

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:17pm

      The left is still in total denial of reality.

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    • John 1776
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:23pm

      Funny… they just say anything and hope that something will stick. Doesn’t matter if none of it is true, they just keep repeating until people start believing it is true. Look at what the left has done to Palin without ever bothering to substantiate anything.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:46pm

      Anyone else ever notice how whenever the progressives get busted on something they always try to drag the conservitives into the mud with them? Obama has bankrupt the country and they say Bush spent too much, and so on. These people,(and I use that term loosely), are getting crazier by the day. I know small children that are more mature than they are. Sad thing is they have a large audience in this country that hang on their every word.

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:00pm

      I’m not gong to write the Left off on this one.

      I don’t like the connections. $150,000 paid for lobbying work done for a Soros organization? That’s not good.

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    • ConsiderThis
      Posted on November 12, 2010 at 11:32pm

      Time is crunching mercilessly forward towards 2012 and the lib/dems and DC GOP ‘good old boys’ are worried sick about Sarah. With every one of these frivolous attacks they only draw more people’s attention to the common sense, time tested solutions Sarah is putting forward. We can only expect more of the same because they just don’t seem to understand where Obama is leading. The lib/dems along with everyone else are going to have to pay for generations to make up for the massive debt he’s incurring for our descendants to handle.

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    • JGP
      Posted on November 13, 2010 at 8:17am

      Used to be this kind of spin and hack reporting was just taken at face value. Fortunately and thankfully we aren’t duped as easily since Rush, Beck, and others, the Blaze, Drudge, the internet in general, allows us to see the whole story.

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    • beekeeper
      Posted on November 13, 2010 at 10:55am

      What? $150K in payments from a Soros organization to a large DC lobbying, advertising, and consulting firm over the last 8 years (2003 -> present) indicates the aid to Sarah Palin is “owned” by Soros?

      That comes out to around $20K/yr – with that $20K/yr Soros has control/influence over every employee there?

      If Soros spends $20K/yr on BP fuel for his jet, does that mean everyone at BP works for Soros?

      I really would have thought George Soros could afford a better defense than this…

      And, BTW, influence over a possible future candidate? That’s pretty “possibly future” damming, but not now…

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on November 13, 2010 at 11:07am

      I guess the anti-semite accusation didn’t recieve enough attention. Can’t you just see their facade disintegrating?

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    • BigDadio
      Posted on November 13, 2010 at 11:32am

      Here is another connection I’ve been researching. Glenn Becks company, Mercury Arts, has close ties to the Obama administration. They both use the search engine ‘Google’, which, according to some, have insiders in the White House!
      /sarc

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    • godlovinmom
      Posted on November 13, 2010 at 3:46pm

      I agree with Drslabor…if there’s something to this..Sarah better check it out…

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on November 14, 2010 at 2:28am

      To the journalist who wrote this article – shouldn’t you just be reporting the facts and not making comments on them? Are you a journalist or an opinion writer? Some of the pieces written here are very unbias but other are not – what is the journalistic standards for this website? http://wp.me/pYLB7-l4

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on November 14, 2010 at 10:46am

      Subversives to free market capitalism are everywhere.

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