Billionaire Soros Picks $1 Million Fight With Fox News

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Billionaire philanthropist George Soros hasn’t given much in the way of political donations this election season. Yesterday, though, he made an indirect contribution to the left: $1 million to research nonprofit Media Matters to fight Fox News and its “incendiary rhetoric.” Said Soros in a statement:

“Despite repeated assertions to the contrary by various Fox News commentators, I have not to date been a funder of Media Matters. However, in view of recent evidence suggesting that the incendiary rhetoric of Fox News hosts may incite violence, I have now decided to support the organization. Media Matters is one of the few groups that attempts to hold Fox News accountable for the false and misleading information they so often broadcast. I am supporting Media Matters in an effort to more widely publicize the challenge Fox News poses to civil and informed discourse in our democracy.”

Immediately and perhaps predictably, Fox News’ most outspoken host Glenn Beck cried foul, likening Soros’ $1 million gift to a “wanted dead or alive poster”. On his show yesterday evening, Beck addressed Soros, saying:

“Mr. Soros, let me just tell you something. If I happen to fall — what was that movie where the guy fell out of the window at the end?…I love this phrase. Blood will be on your hands, sir. One million dollar bounty.”

Media Matters is currently headlining a campaign to get advertisers to stop paying for ads on Fox, in large part due to Beck’s show. In a statement thanking Soros for his gift, the group’s CEO David Brock called The Glenn Beck Show “an out-of-control vehicle for the potential incitement of domestic terrorism.”

“No American should be quiet about these developments — the degradation of our media and the reckless endangerment of innocent lives,” Brock said. “George Soros, a philanthropist of the highest integrity, unfortunately knows first-hand what it’s like to be grotesquely caricatured and flatly lied about on Fox.”

http://blogs.forbes.com/clareoconnor/2010/10/21/billionaire-soros-picks-1-million-fight-with-fox-news/

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Hey what about the chamber of commerce money?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Hey what about the chamber of commerce money?

I sent my check in. How about you?

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Immediately and perhaps predictably, Fox News’ most outspoken host Glenn Beck cried foul, likening Soros’ $1 million gift to a “wanted dead or alive poster”. On his show yesterday evening, Beck addressed Soros, saying:

“Mr. Soros, let me just tell you something. If I happen to fall — what was that movie where the guy fell out of the window at the end?…I love this phrase. Blood will be on your hands, sir. One million dollar bounty.”

That was a funny show! I loved the bit where Beck imitated his accent.