George Soros and the Sundance Kid (Soros Radical Movies Network)

Front Page Magazine ^ | February 7, 2005 | David Yeagley

[flattorney]

Robert Redford and George Soros surely make one of the oddest couples in American pop culture. For most of us, Redford’s all-American good looks evoke images of the dashing outlaw Harry Longabaugh, better known as the Sundance Kid. By contrast, Soros’ gaunt visage, thousand-yard stare, thick Central European accent, levitating gray hair and megalomaniacal pronouncements weirdly echo those of the “Dr. Strangelove” character in Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 Cold War classic. The differences between these two men are only skin deep, however. Both owe allegiance to the far left. And both work quietly, in a sinister partnership, to flood U.S. media with anti-American agit-prop in the tradition of Michael Moore.

Most of Redford’s fans know nothing of his radical politics. Redford has successfully appropriated some of America’s most beloved archetypes on the silver screen. Just as an earlier generation identified John Wayne with the manly spirit of the Wild West, baby boomers confuse Robert Redford with the American folk heroes he impersonated on celluloid, from the rugged frontiersman Jeremiah Johnson to the tough but good-hearted pistolero Harry Longabaugh. But Redford is no John Wayne. The Duke loved America. Redford threatened to leave America for good if George W. Bush won the 2004 election.

Redford has been a major funder of leftwing filmmakers for decades. He provided seed money to help Michael Moore get started. His Sundance Institute, Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Cable Channel and Sundance Documentary Fund all specialize in promoting far-left films and programming. That’s where the Soros connection comes in. On September 16, 2002, Robert Redford proudly announced at a press conference that he was launching a Sundance International Documentary Fund with $4.6 million in seed money from George Soros’ Open Society Institute (OSI). The new fund would underwrite films aimed at “promoting social justice and social change.”

Redford characterized his new relationship with OSI as a “partnership.” A press release from the Sundance Institute explains how the partnership works. It notes that “the OSI grant supports the transition of the Soros Documentary Fund, originally established in 1996, to the Sundance Institute …” In effect, the Soros Documentary Fund simply changed its name to the Sundance International Documentary Fund. Diane Weyermann, who had directed the "old" fund for Soros, stayed on to direct the "new" fund for Redford.

The deal helped both parties. Redford got access to Soros’ money. Soros got to camouflage his propaganda operation under the apple-pie image of Robert Redford and the respected Sundance label. “With its… proven success in supporting projects that receive widespread public distribution and acclaim … Sundance Institute offers a compelling home and promising future for the [Soros Documentary] Fund,” commented Soros operative Diane Weyermann.

As a Comanche Indian and American patriot, George Soros’ appropriation of the Sundance label rubs a particularly raw wound in my soul. It’s that word “sundance” that irks me most. Indian activists of the left have long made careers of attacking schools and professional sports teams for using Indian names, images and logos. However, Soros and Redford have received no such criticism, even though their project bears the name of the most sacred rite of the Lakota Sioux. Why the free pass?

The answer, of course, is that Soros and Redford are leftists. And so are most American Indian activists. Take, for example, Ward Churchill, co-director of the American Indian Movement of Colorado and an associate professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado/Boulder. Churchill has written that the civilian victims of 9/11 were “little Eichmanns” – “technocrats of empire” – who got what they deserved. You will not hear such talk among real Indians on the reservations, most of whom are the staunchest patriots you’ll ever meet. But among the pampered, overpaid “tribe” of leftwing Indian academics, such crude America-bashing has earned Churchill a place of high honor.

These are the sort of leftwing Indians who pay homage to Soros and Redford. These are the Indian activists who gave them a free pass to use the name “Sundance.” Just for the record, the outlaw Harry Longabaugh got his nickname “Sundance Kid” from Sundance, Wyoming – a town located in the sacred Black Hills. The town was named after the Lakota ritual. So I must repeat: Why the free pass? Why do innocent high schools get sued for using the word “Warrior” on their school jerseys, while Soros and Redford flaunt the name “Sundance” with impunity?

Maybe it’s time to revoke that free pass. Maybe it’s time to give the left a taste of its own medicine.

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[flattorney]

See related FR post on Diane Weyermann and Soros Shadow Party movie production organizations. There are other related SSP movie posts by FlAttorney on this “Charlie Wilson’s War” FR Intel thread - TAB

[Right Cal Gal]

“And so are most American Indian activists. Take, for example, Ward Churchill”

I don’t know that I’d use Sitting Bulls**t as an example of an American Indian activist.

[rocksblues]

After three weeks in theaters, the antiwar drama directed by Robert Redford with an A-list cast featuring Redford, Cruise and Meryl Streep, has grossed a meager $14 million in North American ticket sales and about $26 million more overseas. [...] Entertainment trade paper Daily Variety said the film was unlikely to gross more than $60 million in theatrical revenues worldwide and reported some industry watchers projecting the movie could lose as much as $25 million.

Hat tip Noel Sheppard at Newbusters.

Tom Cruise was reported to not understand why his first effort as a Mogul failed so miserably in the US.

Here is a hint Tom most Americans want to win the War on Terror!

[freekitty]

That pretty much sums it up for Robert Redford. Anyone that would associate with Moore and Soros has got to have a screw loose.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Brick short of a load.

[joebuck]

A celebrity will get in bed with anyone to keep the cameras turned their way.

[flattorney]

The Real Terrorists
The Democrats~George Soros Shadow Party (D-SSP)

The George Soros Shadow Party's well delineated mission statement is to take full control of our government - via using the Democratic Party as their front - , totally wreck our Judeo-Christian based legal system, and covert our great Country from majority rules capitalism to autocratic controlled socialism. The D-SSP's overall strategy, by utilizing the chaos theory in which they are highly effective, is to make politics so disgusting and so repulsive that they continue to disenfranchise intelligent Republican voters and erode this highly critical core voting base. It is already happening, particularly in our mature market and professionals voting base, and is of grave concern. The D-SSP threaten the very fiber of our great County. On a daily basis they become more powerful and extremely dangerous. - FlA

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Charlie Wilson’s War
12.21.07: Theater Movie (3 1/2 Stars) | 12.22.07: 2 Hour TV Documentary: The True Story of Charlie Wilson (4 Stars)
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NOTE: It is very important you READ the purpose of this thread. I also appreciate FR NancyTx recapitulation of my key positions HERE. It is very important that you understand the movie was funded and produced by George “Soros Shadow Party" ("SSP") Participant Productions, the same company that backed Al Gore's highly fraudulent movie "An Inconvenient Truth" and the barf-fest movie "Jimmy Carter Man From Plains". Both men were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize - in different years - in which George Soros has significant friendships and influences with key members of the Noble selection committee in both awards. If you visit the movie's official website do not respond or send money to the "Act Now" request by TakePart.com. “TakePart.com: Social Action Network” is a SSP organization like ultra radical “MoveOn.org: Democracy in Action”. TakePart states your “Charlie Wilson’s War” (“CWW”) donation will go to “Fulfilling Charlie’s hope of rebuilding Afghanistan” and supporting causes that help veterans” through “Roots of Peace.org”, which is another SSP front organization. In my and other highly knowledgeable individuals opinion, and it is only our opinions, the purpose of both SSP CWW related organization are fraudulent and your donations will go to directly funding Democratic candidates along with an SSP agenda and mission that is destroying our great Country. - FlAttorney.

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