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Rabbis Want Glenn Beck, Roger Ailes to Stop Fox News' Holocaust Comparisons
By David Gibson - Politics DailyA coalition of some 400 rabbis has published an open letter to Fox News Channel owner Rupert Murdoch, calling on the media mogul to discipline Roger Ailes, president of Fox News, and Glenn Beck, the cable channel's incendiary and popular host, for exploiting the Holocaust in their comments. In particular they were upset over Beck's attacks on liberal magnate George Soros and Jewish leaders. "We share a belief that the Holocaust, of course, can and should be discussed appropriately in the media," the rabbis write in the letter, which appears Thursday as an advertisement in The Wall Street ...
Jewish Group Wants Glenn Beck Dropped From Fox News
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyJewish Funds for Justice (JFSJ), a charity that campaigns for social change, delivered a petition with 10,000 signatures to Fox News Thursday demanding that talk show host Glenn Beck get the pink slip. The petition drive began in November after Fox News aired a three-part Beck special on businessman and philanthropist George Soros called "Puppet Master." The television show was deemed anti-Semitic by many in the media and Jewish groups. Beck once said that his election coverage goal was to "make George Soros cry," which is "hard to do," as Soros "saw people into gas chambers." Beck's ...
For Conservatives, Soros Is the New ACORN
By David Knowles - AOL News
(Nov. 12) -- With ACORN now officially out of business, conservative ire has found a new focal point: billionaire George Soros. As the one-man bank behind a plethora of liberal causes, seemingly lefty nonprofits, reviled media outlets like NPR, Democratic candidates and agitating websites like Media Matters, Soros has received an awful lot of attention in the past year, much of it from the commentators at Fox News. In fact, at Fox, Soros' name has replaced ACORN as the new synonym for all that is wrong with the world. The past week alone two rather significant Soros stories have made news: ...
Beck Slammed for 'Horrific' Holocaust Remarks
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Nov. 12) -- Jewish leaders have condemned Glenn Beck for comments he made on Fox News accusing billionaire philanthropist George Soros -- a Jew -- of being complicit with the Holocaust as a child in Nazi-occupied Hungary. On three TV programs this past week, the conservative commentator has focused on Soros, a Hungarian-born financier and democracy advocate, calling him a "puppet master" who is "notorious for collapsing economies and regimes all around the world." Soros' pro-democracy Open Society Institute played a role in the collapse of communist regimes in Hungary and Georgia, and has ...
George Soros Gives $1 Million to Back Legalized-Marijuana Ballot Measure
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyCalifornia's marijuana legalization measure, Proposition 19, got a deep-pocketed supporter this week when billionaire George Soros announced a $1 million gift to boost the pro-pot ballot initiative. "Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws," Soros wrote in an op-ed piece Tuesday in the Wall Street Journal. The liberal financier and philanthropist was also a backer of the 1996 measure that legalized ...
Why Does Soros Really Support Legalized Pot?
By Carl Franzen - AOL News
(Oct. 26) -- Liberal investing giant George Soros already commanded quite a reputation, for good and for ill: "The Man Who Broke the Bank of England" in the early 1990s was also a sworn enemy of George W. Bush and Fox News in the United States, and more recently, a generous donor to Media Matters and National Public Radio (you know, the station that fired Juan Williams -- yes, some conservatives are drawing a connection). But now he can add another feather to his cap: that of legalized pot promoter. "Our marijuana laws are clearly doing more harm than good," Soros begins in a widely ...
George Soros Donates $1 Million to Media Matters
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyConservative critics have long accused the liberal activist group Media Matters of being propped up by George Soros. Well, now they're right, at least partly. Soros, a billionaire philanthropist with a history of supporting liberal causes, has donated $1 million to Media Matters, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The group said in a statement that it would use the money to boost its ongoing efforts to fact check the reporting of Fox News, and to hold the network's hosts accountable for their statements. "Fox has transformed itself into a 24-7 G.O.P. attack machine, dividing Americans ...
George Soros Saving His Billions This Year, Not Betting on Democrats
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyGeorge Soros has parted with some of his fortune to help Democrats in past election years, but this year he's saving his money. The reason is simple: the billionaire financier just doesn't think betting on the Democratic Party is a wise investment in 2010, and he is predicting big gains by Republicans. "I don't believe in standing in the way of an avalanche," Soros, 80, told The New York Times in an appearance at a monetary management forum sponsored by the Bretton Woods Committee. "I made an exception getting involved in 2004," Soros told the newspaper. "And since I didn't succeed in ...
Afghans Blame U.S. for Civilian Casualties, Report Says
By David Wood - Politics DailyThe "surge'' troops President Obama sent into Afghanistan to turn the tide against the Taliban may be having the opposite effect. According to a new study published Thursday, Afghan civilians increasingly are "angry and resentful'' at U.S. and allied military forces, blaming them for "civilian casualties, night raids, wrongful or abusive detentions [and] deteriorating security.'' The study, based on interviews and focus group sessions with more than 250 Afghans, conveys bad news for Gen. David Petraeus, the top commander in Afghanistan and architect of the U.S. counterinsurgency strategy, ...
Soros to Donate $100 Million to Human Rights Watch
By not in system - AOL News(Sept. 7) -- George Soros, billionaire investor and philanthropist, is donating $100 million to Human Rights Watch in his largest ever gift. Soros will announce the gift later today, The New York Times reported. It will be by far the largest gift that Human Rights Watch has ever received. ...
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