Why are we not allowed to talk about him, and what he’s doing to America?
And what the hell is wrong with Fox News? I’d expect this from MSLSD, or the Clinton News Network, but Fox?
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Why are we not allowed to talk about him, and what he’s doing to America?
And what the hell is wrong with Fox News? I’d expect this from MSLSD, or the Clinton News Network, but Fox?
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It’s called blackmail, Rand. See Chief Justice Roberts for another example.
I have a guess:
Fox news probably has a black list of topics that they don’t talk about on TV, so that the network doesn’t look bad. The list is probably not limited to:
* loony conspiracy theories
* pedophilia
* Anything associated with any parent companies or advertisers
* attacking children of celebrities
and so on. It’s the Overton window of TV shows.
Fox had no problem talking about Soros prior to this. Their own news feeds named him as a political funder of the far left. So the question is, what changed?
One of the most alarming and weird elements of the last 30 years, and getting progressively worse, is the monolithic press lockstep to adopt a leftist slant to their coverage. Fox news was the last holdout and is presently morphing into MSNBC. This is a subject that I have seen few, if any books on the reasons this is happening at this date in time.
There was some tweets which seems to me to be spot on, which mentioned that Wapo’s vicious anti-Trump coverage was due to owner Bezos’s company Amazon critically depending on cheap Chinese manufactured products. ABC (Disney) depends on Chinese theme parks and movie audiences to keep their profits increasing. No doubt there are other commercial reasons that the media has gone left, but those reasons must be made explicit to fully understand the present day politics.
“Fox news was the last holdout and is presently morphing into MSNBC.”
Roger Ailes is dead. Rupert Murdoch (owner of Fox news) is getting old and probably ailing his kids (who are probably subtly being leftist indoctrinated) probably are taking over the reigns increasingly.
Marie Harf is a leftist so of course she’s going to say what she said. I’m not real familiar with Melissa Francis but I’m betting she is a left leaner as well. Which leaves Harris Faukner, I think she was up against the end of the segment and was a bit flummoxed as to how to respond.
There is certainly not a Fox wide prohibition on talking about Soros, I’m certain Shawn Hannity and Tucker Carlson don’t cut Soros any slack.
OK. But what does he get out of all this chaos? Or am I just naive about making money off disorder?
Cloward–Piven strategy?
The key to winning a fight (one of them anyway) is to make the other side not realize they are in a fight. Vaguely like the tendency on the part of some robbery/mugging victims shocked inability to recognize they are being attacked even as they are being assaulted. This can’t be happening to me, this must be some kind of misunderstanding…wait a minute can’t we talk about this?
In an argument (a ‘verbal’ fight) you have an ‘Easy Win’ if you can cause the subject to be discussed in only your terminology. For example an abortive discussion (I dropped the subject) when a sister totally refused to say the word “abortion”. It. Was. “Right To Choose”. And. Don’t. You. Forget. That!!
As a near libertarian, I just can’t get worked up over campaign donations from billionaires, especially, when the very first example given was of Soros funding the guy who replaced Joe Arpaio. That was a good call.
The elephant in this room is that Soros would have a lot less power through those campaign donations, if abuses of power and trust by the police weren’t such a huge problem throughout the US.
And I don’t buy that politically pushing law and order, as the author of the article above does, means we actually get it. My take is that you would get more genuine law and order from decriminalizing recreational drugs and retroactively ending sentences for related drug offenses. That’s another thing Soros backs which I also back.
Even if Soros is doing this campaign donation game for ultimately sinister reasons, it remains that he can do so because there are real problems here. It’s time to look at our flaws rather than the people taking advantage of those flaws.
True. But Soros is the person turning small problems into unsolvable impasses — like someone advocated a “Neck tourniquet” for a bleeding scalp wound.