[Mamzelle]

re: Soros has always fancied himself an intellectual as well as a moneymaker)))

(snicker)--this remark, studiedly consdescending, must enrage a vanity like Soros'...

Fact is, all celebrities of any kind fancy themselves as intellectuals. Success of one kind implies "I'm right in everything" hubris.

[bdeaner]

Fact is, all celebrities of any kind fancy themselves as intellectuals. Success of one kind implies "I'm right in everything" hubris.

Yes. And other people tend to fall for this too. In psychology, it is called a "halo effect" -- a cognitive bias, wherein one positively valued qualitity in a person is likely to bias our assessment of other qualities of that person. For example, if someone is attractive, people are more likely to assume they are smart, wealthy, more talented, etc. Same thing happens when someone is rich. Truth is, there are a lot of rich nutcases around, and Soros takes the cake.