A Left-Wing Plant at ABC News
Cliff Kincaid — November 1, 2004
Writing in Front Page magazine, Lowell Ponte charged that Mark Halperin of ABC News is the son of veteran left-winger Morton Halperin, the side-kick of billionaire leftist George Soros. Ponte calls him “the red-diaper baby of hard-Left-connected controversial foreign policy specialist Morton Halperin.” That’s significant, Ponte noted, because Mark Halperin wrote the infamous memo telling the media to go hard on George Bush during the final weeks of the campaign
The Soros connection also helps explain why so many in the media have gone easy on Kerry’s connection to Soros, who is spending millions of dollars to put the Democrat in the White House. So easy in fact that Kerry has never been asked to explain whether he agrees with the Soros agenda of legalizing hard drugs and turning America into a version of “Needle Park.”
We emailed Halperin’s political unit at ABC News for his response to Ponte’s charge. Ponte’s story has been up on the Internet for several days without a denial of the family connection. Mark Halperin, of course, is not responsible for who his father is, but this connection is definitely relevant in this presidential campaign season because of Morton Halperin’s role with the fat cat Soros. Writing in The Nation magazine, Robert Dreyfuss revealed that Morton Halperin began discussions with Soros in 2002 about creating a new far-left think tank. Halperin, then head of the Soros Open Society Institute, brought former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta into the discussions. Podesta was made president of what became the Center for American Progress and Halperin became Senior Vice President.
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In the Sixties, a couple of relevant songs referred to "MacArthur Park" and to "Itchycoo Park". I once read an article about the stoners and junkies of Switzerland, who had their little park where they hung out. They were so few compared to the whole country, but spectacles like that defame an entire nation. We, of course, had Washington Square in New York (which I saw in 1971, with the druggies enjoying themselves), and I think it was Golden Gate Park in San Francisco that served the same function on the Left Coast. I didn't go there when I passed through San Francisco 22 years later.