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Friday News Roundup: When did Soros Buy Fox News?, and a Mixed Bag at the PA Supreme Court
DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

Posted on 09/18/2020 4:57:06 AM PDT by EyesOfTX

A classic Clintonian non-apology apology. – In case you missed it – it was easy to do since so few people actually watch her show – Fox News’s CNN host-in-training Harris Faulkner offered a half-hearted non-apology for shutting Newt Gingrich down on her Wednesday show when he told the truth about George Soros’ funding of radical, anti-American district attorneys all over the country:

No word on when the “cherished” Mr. Gingrich will be invited back onto her unwatchable show, but don’t count on it being anytime soon. Fox is obviously compromised at this point. It is the Lindsey Graham and John Roberts of cable news.

Believe the media lies that Soros is just this nice old philanthropist living a quiet life in New York City? – If so, give me a call, I have some property you need to buy for a premium price.

If you’re low on funds, though, just read this expose’ at Brietbart. Here’s an excerpt:

Under the guise of seeking to “prevent a constitutional crisis,” a massive network of well funded left-wing activists and progressive groups are training, organizing, and planning to mobilize millions of Americans should President Trump “contest the election results,” refuse to concede, or claim an early victory.

More than 80 advocacy groups and grassroots organizations have joined in a broad coalition calling itself “Protect the Results” and proclaiming that “we cannot ignore the threat that Trump poses to our democracy and a peaceful transition of power.”

Both founding groups of the coalition (Indivisible and Stand up America) are part of the Soros-funded Democracy Alliance (DA), the largest network of donors dedicated to building the progressive movement in the U.S.

DA’s large body of donors aggregates resources for “focused investment,” marshalling as much as $80 million per year.

In 2017, DA developed a “resistance map” — a mix of anti-Trump groups it recommends its members donate to, many of which are now part of Protect the Results.

Other Soros-funded coalition groups include MoveOn, Women’s March, the Working Families Party and the Center for Popular Democracy, a network with over 50 local partners in 32 states, among many others.

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Soros’s tentacles are everywhere, and he has made no secret of his life’s ambition to destroy the American Republic. Sadly, about 95% of our news media – including Fox News – appears dedicated to helping him achieve that goal.

For those who obsess over polls, this happened on Thursday:

The interesting thing about his poll is that it even over-sampled Democrats when arriving at these findings. The party ID breakdown in this poll is:

45% D

40% R

14% I

A more valid sample reflective of the actual turnout in 2016 would look like this:

35% D

33% R

32% I

As we have seen in this and other polls, the independent vote is breaking hard in favor of President Trump.

The reality is that if President Trump is within 1.2% of Biden in a poll that would likely mean he is really 5-7 points ahead when you factor in his advantage in voter enthusiasm and the ongoing lockdowns in most blue states and university campuses that are going to depress the Democrat vote this year. If this poll shows he’s up 7 points in the swing states, that would mean he is in reality running away and hiding in those states.

Again, it is just one poll, but it’s another – like Rasmussen, Trafalgar and Zogby – that is not affiliated with any media outlet or university, and thus far less likely to be influenced by Democrat corruption.

It’s an interesting data point.

A mixed bag at the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. – Only one decision issued by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court got any real media attention Thursday. That decision was the one that changes existing PA law by judicial fiat to allow the counting of mail-in ballots that arrive up to 3 days after Election Day, November 3. The actual longstanding statute requires the ballots to arrive no later than Election Day.

So, just another example of Democrat judges corrupting the system at their party’s whims. To make this absurdity even more of a judicial travesty, the judges arrived at the 3 day time frame apparently by playing eeny-meeny-miney-mo, given that the depraved state Democrat Party had in fact asked for 7 days. They of course wanted the extra time to engage in “ballot harvesting,” which is an illegal practice under PA law, although it’s obvious that PA law has no real meaning anymore in the eyes of this repugnant activist court.

But the second decision didn’t get nearly as much attention since the court ruled against the Democrats: In that decision, the Court denied the corrupt, depraved Democrats the ability to have ballots delivered by third parties – i.e., Democrat activists – rather than the U.S. Postal Service. This was another effort by Democrats to facilitate ballot harvesting, or, as they call it in PA to try to get around the law, “community collection.”

Dear Anderson Cooper: Have you no self-respect at all? – When even the leftist activists at Politico are admitting you assisted the halting, elderly, declining Joe Biden through a “kid gloves townhall,” you know you’ve truly fallen into pure hack territory as a “journalist.”

That’s the campaign contribution in-kind Anderson Cooper and CNN provided to the Biden/Harris Harris/Biden ticket as Cooper might as well have been feeding Biden Gerber’s baby food with a spoon.

Truly pathetic stuff. No one should expect Chris Wallace to do anything different when he “moderates” the first presidential debate, given that Fox now appears to be a wholly-owned subsidiary of Soros, Inc.

Let’s close with some comic relief from one of Twitter’s funniest accounts, @Catturd:

Catturd turns 56 today. Go wish him/her/it a happy birthday.

That is all.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Humor; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: fakenews; mediabias; trump; trumpwinsagain

1 posted on 09/18/2020 4:57:06 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
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To: EyesOfTX

FOX sucks! Ever since Paul Ryan joined the Board. Chris Wallace, Donna Brazile, Neil Cavuto, Juan Williams, and Bret Baier make it unwatchable. OANN is the place to go.

Maybe Tucker Carlson can move over there!


2 posted on 09/18/2020 5:04:53 AM PDT by View from the Cheap Seats
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To: View from the Cheap Seats

Or NewsMax.


3 posted on 09/18/2020 5:11:04 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Biggirl

Yeah, I have watched them a little. Could be.


4 posted on 09/18/2020 5:15:58 AM PDT by View from the Cheap Seats
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To: EyesOfTX

The amazing thing about Soros is he gets by with it. He is unquestionably evil. Like the villans in the James Bond series. Just bad as all get out. He is far from the richest man in the world, but he knows how to leverage and throw his weight around and give enough to various recipients so he gets maximum impact for his punch. And no one takes him on, except some European prosecutors. Putin is on his ass, so Georgie avoids Russia, except to pay Putin’s adversaries. He openly admits his Nazi past. That should be enough for him to be deported. He did manage to gain American citizenship, but an 80 year old auto worker sin Cleveland names Jan Demjanyuk was deported very late in life due to not disclosing the fact he was a prison camp guard for the Nazis in his citizenship application. Surely they could get Soros for that, but he is untouchable. And as the Newtster found out, he is also the man who cannot be mentioned on FOX.


5 posted on 09/18/2020 5:22:37 AM PDT by shalom aleichem (Get movin' Durham!)
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To: shalom aleichem

13 Aug: Russia Today: Americans are free to vote Trump out of office, but they may be stuck with Soros forever – whether or not they like him
by Robert Bridge (American writer and journalist. Author of ‘Midnight in the American Empire,’ How Corporations and Their Political Servants are Destroying the American Dream)
George Soros had some tough words for Donald Trump, calling him “dangerous” and willing to do “anything to stay in power.” But what about the financier himself, who operates across the globe outside of democratic due process?

The life of the billionaire financier seems to be one long battle against the purported enemies of the ‘open society’ – a controversial concept popularized by Karl Popper, a Vienna-born philosopher who wrote ‘The Open Society and Its Enemies’. Chief among his sworn adversaries is Trump, whose ‘Make America Great Again’ campaign calls for, among other things, a wall constructed on the US-Mexico border and less reliance on foreign factory workers.
On the occasion of his 90th birthday this week, Soros sat down for an interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, in which he expressed some strident views about the US president.

“I’m confident that Trump will turn out to be a transitory phenomenon, hopefully ending in November,” Soros remarked. “But he remains very dangerous. He’s fighting for his life and he’ll do anything to stay in power, because he’s violated the Constitution in many different ways and if he loses the presidency, he will be held accountable.”...

At an extremely sensitive juncture in American history, when racial tensions were at breaking point, Soros decided this was the perfect time to donate almost a quarter of a billion dollars to several racial justice groups, including Black Lives Matter (BLM), which is responsible for violent protests in cities across the nation.
Soros said he was moved to act because this was the first time in the US “that a large majority of the population, other than black people, recognizes that there is systemic discrimination against blacks that can be traced back to slavery.”

Soros is wrong, however – or at least needs to be challenged on his perceptions. Many Americans, including blacks, reject the notion that the country is gripped by “systemic discrimination” and racism...

But donating money to controversial activist groups is child’s play compared to reshaping the American justice system. Yes, Soros has been quietly dabbling in that project as well. In 2016, it was reported that he’d donated over $3 million to progressive black and Hispanic candidates for district attorney campaigns. One beneficiary of that largesse is Kim Gardner, who is now the circuit attorney for St. Louis, Missouri...

The point is that one immensely wealthy man, who holds no public office, and is not accountable to voters, has managed to exert unfathomable influence over the political landscape of many nations. For anyone who doubts that assertion, consider the 177-page pamphlet (LINK) published by Open Society, entitled ‘Reliable Allies in the European Parliament (2014–2019).’ In it, 226 EU MEPs are listed and labeled according to their political orientation and views.

According to the publication, “The presence of an MEP in this mapping indicates that they are likely to support Open Society’s work. Considering there are 751 members of the European Parliament, ‘reliable allies’ of George Soros hold at least one-third of seats.” That revelation becomes even more problematic when it’s remembered that Soros donated $18 billion to Open Society Foundations in 2017, making it one of the largest philanthropic organizations in the world...

Yet, although Soros’s contribution to the world of politics is arguably no less than Trump’s, and possibly more, nobody is permitted to vote on his controversial agendas. If Soros were genuinely concerned about the people, as he proclaims, he would allow more democracy to shine in his gold-plated world. The fact that he does not says everything we need to know.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/497950-soros-trump-election-dangerous/

1 July 2016: Yahoo Finance: Here’s the chilling speech George Soros gave to European Parliament
by Julia La Roche
Soros: When I was invited to address this joint hearing, the refugee crisis was the greatest problem Europe faced. Since then it has played a crucial role in what could prove to be an even greater calamity — Brexit.

The vote for Brexit was a great shock to me and, I imagine, to most people in this room...
But as the initial disbelief wore off, something unexpected happened, and the tragedy no longer looks like a fait accompli.
Over the past week, buyer’s remorse has begun to set in, as the hypothetical became very real...
In a spontaneous response, over four million people petitioned Parliament to hold a second referendum. By the time the Parliamentary debate on this petition takes place, it is not inconceivable that more people will have signed the petition than voted for Brexit.

Just as Brexit was a negative surprise, the spontaneous response to it is a positive one. People on both sides of the referendum, and most importantly those who did not vote—particularly young people under 35—have become mobilized. This is the kind of grass roots involvement that the European Union has never been able to generate...

The European response to the refugee crisis was riddled with flaws even before the present turn of events.
Chancellor Merkel showed great moral leadership when she opened Germany’s doors wide to refugees. Unfortunately, her initiative was not well thought through...

At least €30 billion a year will be needed both inside the Union—to build effective border and asylum agencies, to ensure dignified reception conditions, fair asylum procedures and opportunities for integration—as well as outside its borders—to support refugee-hosting countries and to spur job creation throughout Africa and the Middle East. This does not include the costs borne by member states, which are on track to spend upwards of €200 billion between 2015 and 2020 on refugee reception and integration...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/full-text-of-soros-speech-to-eu-parliament-115156180.html


6 posted on 09/18/2020 6:05:54 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: EyesOfTX
I don't know why the Trump campaign agreed to allow Chris Wallace to be the moderator of the debate. Everyone knows Wallace is an anti-Trumper and cannot be trusted to facilitate a fair debate.

We ask ourselves every 4 years how we get snookered on the debate moderators.

The only really fair way I can see is for both presidential candidates to pick one moderator for the debate. Each moderator would be allowed to ask questions of both candidates. I would love to see Tucker Carlson ask Joe Biden a question, but we all know that will never happen, so I don't know why I even bothered to post this.
7 posted on 09/18/2020 6:10:31 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: EyesOfTX

Talking about all those groups that Soros funds, when I was a much younger leftist we would have demonstrations sponsored by dozens of organizations, but I noticed that only about 20 people would show up. I started looking into that and found that most of these “organizations” were made up of the exact same people with maybe a new face here and there. The left is great at forming “organizations” with catchy names. I’m sure the right does this too, but not to anywhere near the degree that the left does. That’s how they win so many arguments, they can present businesses or politicians etc., with a long list of “organizations” that that will boycott or demonstrate against them.

Back in the day when we needed more than 20 people to come and demonstrate, the organizers would walk around paying just curious onlooks $5 to carry a sign, sometimes going so far as rounding up bums and winos, giving them each a pack of cigarettes to march and carry a sign.


8 posted on 09/18/2020 6:32:55 AM PDT by euram
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To: EyesOfTX

Off Topic...

Remember Shepard Smith from Fox News?

On 30 September, he will start his own nightly news show on CNBC (the business channel), every week day, at 7 PM.

I would be surprised if CNBC even draws 100,000 viewers at that hour.

Shep was well paid at Fox, and apparently they did not want him to leave when he quit.


9 posted on 09/18/2020 7:25:56 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Dan in Wichita

“We ask ourselves every 4 years how we get snookered on the debate moderators.”

A similar question: Why does President Trump submit to interviews with a Woodward, or a Stephanopolous?

A theory: For every one undecided voter that the fake new can turn against President Trump, there are three undecided voters who will be outraged by the fake news lies, and turn TOWARD the President.

Remember, many of these undecideds are independent thinkers. The dishonesty of the fake news has become blatant to the point of absurdity. The Democrat leaders and the fake news political hacks don’t even seem to care how obvious their lies are.

The DNC and the fake news must be assuming that undecideds are dumb and dumber - that they will believe anything, no matter how unbelievable.

President Trump appears to be operating under a different assumption: that most undecided voters are smart enough to know when they are being lied to.

So he agrees to these hostile fake news interviews and debates - knowing the fake news will lie their asses off with the whole world watching. The lies will fool one third of the undecided voters and outrage the other two thirds.

This is why independents are breaking strongly for Trump in the swing states. And he is accelerating the process by willingly entering the lions’ den every chance he gets.

He is winning over independents by inviting the fake news to attack him (lie about him) in broad daylight, for all to see.


10 posted on 09/18/2020 8:05:12 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: enumerated
Interesting thought, and I hope you're right. All the same, it sure would be nice to see a fairly moderated presidential debate for once.

As for the "town hall" with Stephanopolous, it was blatantly obvious it was a set up. ABC advertised the participants were undecided voters, but even my cat could see they were Democrat Party political operatives. Any fair minded person would be turned off at the amateurish deception and more likely swayed toward Trump.
11 posted on 09/18/2020 8:21:15 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: Dan in Wichita

“All the same, it sure would be nice to see a fairly moderated presidential debate for once.”

Yes! Wouldn’t it be great to have the shoe on the other foot - Mark Levin, Tucker Carlson, Lou Dobbs, Larry Elder, Candace Owens, etc...??

- have some honest moderators who would call out Democrat lies and let President Trump tell the truth, without “fact-checking”?

Even those awful House Impeachment trials and Kavanaugh hearings were fairer than any modern presidential “debate” - at least there, they took turns: truth - lies - truth - lies - truth - lies.

In the debates - it is just nonstop Democrat lies, fallacies and manipulation.


12 posted on 09/18/2020 8:43:29 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: shalom aleichem

Where’s James Bond when we need him?


13 posted on 09/18/2020 9:11:38 AM PDT by MrChips ("To wisdom belongs the apprehension of eternal things." - St. Augustine)
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