SOROS ALERT Stop the Presses; Target: George Soros

Eric Alterman ^ | December 29, 2003 issue

[Liz]

Liberals. Gag. They can dish it but they can't take it.

[Liz]

The Washington Post editorial page, which many people continue to mistake for a centrist--or even liberal--voice, is also up in arms about Soros's giving. Donald Graham told me more than a decade ago that while he enjoyed reading the Journal editorial page, he would become "very uncomfortable if the tone of the Post editorial page was as harsh and intolerant." Well, Graham may want to start worrying. The Post has already adopted the Journal's ploy of attacking liberals who state truths gleaned from its own front page.

[Qwinn]

"To declare oneself an unapologetic liberal in mainstream political debate these days is to invite abuse."

Riiiight. And to declare oneself an unapologetic conservative gets you invited to -all- the Manhattan cocktail parties and invited to speak at graduation ceremonies all over the country.

[Qwinn]

LOL - nice catch. Not even slightly surprising that Alterman misses the irony there. This is the guy who claims that that LA Times editor never openly admitted there was any liberal bias at the LA Times, in complete denial of demonstrable fact.

Qwinn

[sgtbono2002]

Does Mr. Soro's think that electoral reform is taking the power of giving out of the hands of PACS and placing it in the hands of the rich??

[Liz]

Does Mr. Soro think that electoral reform (means) taking the power of giving out of the hands of PACS and placing it in the hands of the rich??

Gosh, that's a tough one (snicker).

Hey, Soros is just practicing "free speech" but with a louder voice (/sarcasm).

[Liz]

"To declare oneself an unapologetic liberal in mainstream political debate these days is to invite abuse."

Ahhhh, the waning days of political correctness (applause).

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks for the post and ping, Liz !! ...

The Washington Post editorial page, which many people continue to mistake for a centrist--or even liberal--voice, is also up in arms about Soros's giving. Donald Graham told me more than a decade ago that while he enjoyed reading the Journal editorial page, he would become "very uncomfortable if the tone of the Post editorial page was as harsh and intolerant." Well, Graham may want to start worrying. The Post has already adopted the Journal's ploy of attacking liberals who state truths gleaned from its own front page.

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[yoe]

"...like those alleging the murder of Vince Foster and Bill Clinton's involvement in drug-running out of an Arkansas airport, are a great deal less healthy for the quality of public discourse than anything to which Soros has contributed (although they may have provided sources for both the Post and the Journal in their frenzied reporting on Clinton's sex life).

Alleging? Foster was murdered; by whom and why remains the question. Bill Clinton along with his Arkansas mafia did become involved in drug-running and selling tainted blood from the Arkansas prisons. All the latter and more is chronicled in books that tried to tell the real story of the Clintons before they could take America to their level of quick rich schemes and other shadowy deals with even more shadowy people. Was there a barf alert on this article?

[MeekOneGOP]

about

Eric Alterman

Columnist

Eric Alterman currently writes the "Stop the Presses" media column for The Nation and the "Altercation" web log (www.altercation.msnbc.com) for MSNBC.com. In recent years, he has been a contributing editor to, or columnist for: Worth, Rolling Stone, Elle, Mother Jones, World Policy Journal and the Sunday Express (London). His Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (1992 2000), won the 1992 George Orwell Award and his It Ain't No Sin to be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen (1999, 2001), won the 1999 Stephen Crane Literary Award.

[MeekOneGOP]

Amazing resemblance, eh ?? ....

[BOBTHENAILER]

Hey, Soros is just practicing "free speech" but with a louder voice

A voice like fingernails on a blackboard.

[BrucefromMtVernon]

There's no mention in the Sauros (sic) article about the mega-billionaire being a major pusher for legalization of illegal drugs.

[MeekOneGOP]

No offense intended toward Bob Denver, btw !

[Liz]

There's no mention in the Sauros (sic) article about the mega-billionaire being a major pusher for legalization of illegal drugs.

Course not, the piece was intended to polish up Soros' sordid image.

[Liz]

I think Alterman looks more like Lenin.......with hair.

[MeekOneGOP]

haha ! Even better !

[TC Rider]

No offense intended toward Bob Denver, btw !

Lucky for you, Gilligan is too stoned to care.

[TC Rider]

How sweet is this? Alterman defending an uber-capitalist!

[A. Pole]

The Wall Street Journal is suddenly exercised about the political influence of "fat cats."

"Fat cats" - another term for free market "oligarchs"?