The Soros ThreatThe Capitalist Threat
(1997 article by Soros)SOROS SNACKING ON SIDE DISHES
(Soros the Adulterer)FR Search for Keyword George Soros
Posted on 03/04/2005 1:49:41 PM PST by Alexander Nevsky
Newsroom shills for the left tend to fare badly in confrontations with bloggers, as former New York Times executive editor Howell Raines, former CBS anchorman Dan Rather and former CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan learned the hard way. Now another leftwing journalist hangs on the ropes, bruised and bloodied from an ill-advised brawl with yet another indignant and fatally well-informed weblogger.
This time the recipient of the beating is David Brock – founder and CEO of MediaMatters.org, a self-styled media "watchdog" group more accurately described as a smear site targeting conservative journalists. The blogger is author, journalist and conservative activist David Horowitz.
"Nobody can utter a word about [George] Soros without [Brock] pounding on him," Horowitz told Cybercast News Service (CNSNews.com) this week. He charged that Brock's MediaMatters.org is "a hit site that is set up to attack all the enemies of the Soros network. There is a shadow party that has taken control of the Democratic Party and David Brock is their rapid response team."
Horowitz first fingered Brock as a Soros plant in a blog entry of December 1, 2004, published on Horowitz’s news and commentary site FrontPageMagazine.com. Brock’s organization responded with a blanket denial the same day, stating, "To date, neither Media Matters nor its president and CEO David Brock has received any money from Soros or from any organization with which he is affiliated."
The Shadow Party
Brock was using weasel words. It is quite likely that he never cashed a check bearing Soros’s signature. Yet, without Soros funding, Media Matters would not exist.
In a three-part series posted to FrontPage in October 2004, David Horowitz and I exposed the inner workings of Soros’ political machine, which we called "the Shadow Party." We followed the money trail and demonstrated that the network of supposedly "independent" 527 committees and other non-profit groups which played such a key role in funding John Kerry’s campaign were not "independent" at all. On the contrary, Soros had created and organized the network from the top down, controlling it through a highly centralized, corporate-style command structure.
In our series, "The Shadow Party," we identified seven non-profit groups – dubbing them the "Seven Sisters" – through which Soros administered his Shadow Party’s far-flung operations. In alphabetical order, the Seven Sisters are: America Coming Together; America Votes; Center for American Progress; Joint Victory Campaign 2004; The Media Fund; MoveOn.org and the Thunder Road Group.
As Horowitz explained in a blog entry of December 2, 2004, Brock’s "watchdog" organization Media Matters depends for its lifeblood on the Shadow Party. Horowitz wrote:"Peter Lewis, a billionaire who is a Soros crony and has funded one of Soros' 527 operations to the tune of $7 million, is a funder of Brock and Media Matters. … the Brock operation is viewed by its funders as part of the leftist Shadow Party that Soros has constructed and that includes such organizations as Harold Ickes' Media Fund and John Podesta's Center for American Progress. Podesta, who was Bill Clinton's chief of staff and whose Center is a Soros-funded operation, seems to have been Brock's patron in finding funders, according to the NY Times. The same source indicates that Brock also consulted Hillary Clinton, Tom Daschle and Al Gore. … In addition to Hindery and [Peter] Bing, Brock is funded by MoveOn.org, which is a Soros beneficiary and a key player in the Shadow Party cabal…"
Horowitz went on to cite a National Review article of June 14, 2004, in which Byron York identified Leo Hindery Jr. as a major funder of Media Matters. In addition to being former CEO of the scandal-plagued Global Crossing, Hindery is a Democrat strategist and moneyman who recently made an unsuccessful bid to become chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
York’s article quotes Hindery explaining Brock’s role in the Shadow Party machine. "There are people like Mike Lux [a Democratic consultant who runs an important ad agency], who are into the strategy point of view, there’s Podesta, who’s into the think tank/intellectual side, and I think the third part of the triangle is David [Brock]’s initiative."
To this, Horowitz deadpanned, "If so, the IRS should take another look at Brock's operation which has filed as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt entity, which is barred by law from being the third part of a political operation."
Raines, Rather, Jordan… Brock?
Despite the damning evidence Horowitz brought to bear on his blog, his charges of a hidden alliance between Brock and Soros went unnoticed for three months. Then came vindication.
On Thursday, March 3, Cybercast News Service ran a story that not only corroborated Horowitz’s charges, but forced Media Matters to back down from its previous blanket denial of a Soros connection. In a piece headlined, "David Brock Group Backpedals on Soros Funding," CNS correspondent Marc Morano writes:"After initially claiming on Dec. 1, 2004 that `neither Media Matters nor its president and CEO David Brock has received any money from Soros or from any organization with which he is affiliated,' the group is no longer disavowing any connection with groups `affiliated' with Soros. … Media Matters for America (MMA) spokeswoman Sally Aman responded to Cybercast News Service's questions with an e-mail. `In response to your query regarding donor funding Media Matters for America has never received funding directly from George Soros,' Aman stated, no longer denying any relationship with organizations affiliated with Soros.’"
And so it begins. Howell Raines, Dan Rather, Eason Jordan… will David Brock fall next?
A few more Soros links:
The Myth of Innocence--Soros-funded Culture Project & CourtTV
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/marquis200501270742.asp
The Capitalist Threat--a major Soros OPUS
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/soros.htm
The Friends of George Soros
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1301511/posts
Soros -- The Man Who Would Be Kingmaker
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15710
In Central Asia, Soros Foundation to continue despite setbacks
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1316773/posts
Soros Interfering in Ukraine (March 2001)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1288126/posts
George Soros Funds report News Corp, Time Warner stakes
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1344124/posts
Investor Soros Appeals Trading Verdict
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1340404/posts
Greenback account is not worth the weight in dollars (Soros at it again)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1354837/posts
"After studying the tactics of the left I'm not so sure Brock ever was on the right. Think infiltrator."
How about a Soros financed, Deep Fudge Packing Mole with a lisp and knee pads to kneel and kiss booty of the DNC.
Great data and thanks for posting this:
"Howell Raines, Dan Rather, Eason Jordan… will David Brock fall next?"
Brock has been on his knees forever, so he doesn't have far to fall.
fyi
It does to me .. and it shows how the former Clinton admin people are all involved in the Soros 527 organizations .. the momey people for her campaign ..??
No wonder she doesn't need the DNC - she already has her own money groups. I believe I said she would do this - if she couldn't control the DNC - and with Dean at the helm - being ruled by Kerry/Kennedy - Hillary is definitely not running the DNC.
Brock sucks. But then, we all know that.
Thanks, I have been using that site for about two weeks, since it was posted here. I think that you pinged me about the site.
Thanks. We have a lot of talented Freepers keeping tabs on $oreA$$ and his money.
I like Horowitz. He is one of those reformed liberals who can take an incoming liberal hand grenade, pull the pin and throw it back.
Ok.....will do.
Sounds like the socialist party of america is thinking of taking their (democratic party) mask off.
Thanks- we are finally settled in for the evening, so everything has quieted to a low roar around here.
The Soros ThreatThe Capitalist Threat
(1997 article by Soros)SOROS SNACKING ON SIDE DISHES
(Soros the Adulterer)FR Search for Keyword George Soros
Yes!
Seems the snake is getting close to losing it's head, huh?
Bring her a cup of tea for me :)
David Brock is a Soros hoe!
Will do- asprin, glucosamine & MSM, cold packs, ace bandages... sometimes I feel like a Den Mother!
You're a good man!
If anything, Brock's former collaborators only became more persistent in his defense after the despicable "outing" on the part of that noxious NYT hack, Frank Rich.
David Brock decided to break ranks with TAS-and by extension, the entire conservative movement-because he was a venal, traitorous bastard, not because his homosexuality supposedly offended certain religious elements within conservative Washington D.C. circles.
His playing of the homophobia card was merely an attempt to deflect attention from his real failure as a journalist/investigative reporter, i.e., the inability to live up to the fat advance he received for penning The Seduction Of Hillary Rodham.
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