Posted on 02/28/2024 11:19:12 AM PST by Heartlander
Unless you happen to live under a rock on a distant planet, you’re probably familiar with George Soros—and his politics.
For the uninitiated, Soros is a Hungarian-American billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist. Politically speaking, he leans so far Left that he makes Bernie Sanders look conservative.
Which makes Soros Fund Management’s recent $400 million investment in Audacy, the nation’s second-largest radio company, so worrisome. Audacy owns more than 220 stations nationwide, including New York’s WFAN and the Los Angeles-based KROQ.
On February 20, Audacy was granted court approval to exit bankruptcy proceedings, with Soros’s investment fund poised to become the primary shareholder of the company.
Well, who listens to the radio anyway?
Tens of millions of Americans, that’s who.
Contrary to the prevailing notion that radio is obsolete and lacks relevance among younger demographics, it remains the most widely accessed medium with the greatest reach, making it an effective tool for amplifying advertising campaigns, especially politically-oriented ones. Some 82 percent of Americans over the age of 12 listen to terrestrial radio in a given week, according to Pew.
In fact, in any given week, more Americans listen to the radio than use Facebook. Fifty-five percent of Generation Z in the United States tunes in to AM/FM radio daily. And the average adult in the U.S. spends 104 minutes listening to the radio each day, totaling 12.2 hours per week. The radio industry is currently experiencing growth due to the increasing use of smart speakers and online listening. Radio advertising, strange as it may seem, holds the highest level of trust among all advertising channels, with 77 percent of radio listeners willing to try a brand or product recommended by their favorite radio personality. If this allegiance extends to political brands, one imagines that Soros is well aware of it.
The Audacy investment must be viewed through a much broader lens. That’s because it’s just the latest in a long line of Soros-driven dealings that have implications for the political direction of the nation. In August of 2023, the financially (and morally) bankrupt Vice Media, once worth close to $6 billion, was sold for $350 million to a consortium of former lenders that include a fund linked to the 93-year-old investor.
According to an extensive report by the Media Research Center (MRC), wherever Soros, his foundations, or his investments have ventured, turmoil has ensued. He has played a role in inciting revolutions, destabilizing national currencies, and financing radicals across the globe. Soros has been found guilty of insider trading in France, receiving a $3 million fine, and has been fined an additional $2 million in his home country of Hungary. His foundations have been accused of protecting spies and violating currency laws, while his investment strategies have been blamed for damaging multiple national currencies. Even his contributions to higher education raise significant concerns. Soros has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to colleges and universities, including many prestigious institutions in the United States. He was instrumental in establishing the Central European University, which uses its resources to advance his vision of an “open society.” If you’re imaging open borders, then, yes, you’re on the right track.
In the United States, Soros’s financial support underpins liberal organizations advocating for causes ranging from same-sex marriage and drug legalization to prison abolition. Not surprisingly, his donations primarily benefit liberal groups with strong ties to the Democratic Party, and his political contributions overwhelmingly support Democratic candidates.
Soros has established a wide-reaching network of nonprofits, media outlets, and activist groups, thereby gaining significant influence in American elections. His impact on the American political Left has been and continues to be profound.
As MRC notes, Soros and his family have contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to politicians and political organizations over the past decades. In 2004, for example, Soros personally allocated more than $32 million toward funding the anti-Bush campaign, with liberal grassroots organizations such as MoveOn.org, Joint Victory Campaign 2004, and America Coming Together being among the primary beneficiaries. These figures only scratch the surface of Soros’s political funding endeavors. He has donated billions of dollars to support the liberal infrastructure in the United States, encompassing causes such as pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia, pro-gay marriage, pro-drug legalization, pro-union, pro-government-funded media, as well as anti-faith, anti-death penalty, and anti-conservative initiatives. To provide context, Soros has, in the past, significantly outspent the Koch network—constantly promoted as the last word in evil billionaire buyers of influence—in terms of individual political contributions, by an 8 to 1 ratio. By promoting left-wing ideology across various spheres, from judicial elections to immigration reform, Soros has wielded considerable influence over the nation’s liberal political establishment.
One needn’t be a tin foil hat-wearing nutcase to worry about the intentions of George Soros, a man whose actions and history betray a drive to subvert America and destroy every institution worth salvaging. The idea of a single individual deciding an election might sound ridiculous. However, when you examine the influence of Soros, and his latest move to absorb a massive segment of the telecommunications broadcast bandwidth, the possibility becomes far less unreasonable, and far more troubling.
“With Booschidt on loan from Satan.”
Georgie might want to talk to the Chinese to see if they’d be interested in manufacturing transistor radios so the far left turd rollers can listen to the Georgie Porgie Show radiating out from Havana from Noon to Three, Monday through Friday.
Please, Mr. Soros, move to some other country and “help” them.
He still has to find talent that people want to listen to, and so far the left has failed to do that.
“Will George Soros turn the airwaves blue?”
No. Not talk radio because people can call in and refute your arguments.
So liberalism won’t work with this format.
If people want to be told what to think they can already listen to NPR.
HA!
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what happens now
Commies got it All ?
Probably time to stop speaking of 93-year-old, hearing aid George and start speaking of his 38-year-old son Alex who he has turned power over to. He carries on the perverted mission.
NPR-— We are Smarter Than You !
Why is this a$$clown not at room temperature?
Maybe Engoron can assess him a half billion dollar fine? Surely, there has to be a way!
A fool and his money are soon parted.
This is just Air America 2.0. Progressive dribble is not popular and can’t hold an audience. The majority of people listening to the radio do it at ‘work’ and the very word ‘work’ is Kryptonite to liberals.
I am happy to watch him squander his money.
“No. Not talk radio because people can call in and refute your arguments.”
unfortunately incorrect, there are call screeners.
I sometimes listen to the Thom Hartmann show, not sure if the people who call in are actually real people or just plants.
controlling the mass media (and education) .. big parts of the Communist/SorozNazi playbook to secure control over a conquered country
does anybody think the Soviets or Nazis could have stayed in power as long as they did if they hadn’t made sure to terminate the free press?
Did you see who Alex is dating? Huma Abedin.
I didn’t know she was done with Anthony Weiner.
Purportedly in “final stages” of divorce Nov 2021.
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