Today’s far-left “smear merchant”… Eric Burns, the president of Media Matters. Funnily enough, Burns used to be the host of Fox News Watch a current affairs program focused on the media (much like CNN’s Reliable Sources).
For the Fox News take on Media Matters, here’s John Gibson (“Gibby” to his friends) trotting out the party line from back in 2007:
George Soros is after Bill O’Reilly, and he’s enlisted the help of CNN and NBC.
This is the fabricated flap over some benign remarks Bill made on his radio show. But it has been turned on its ear by George Soros’ Media Matters, a Web site that was funded by Soros and is dedicated to discrediting conservatives and folks like Bill who don’t toe the Soros line. They do this by the purposeful misinterpretation of one’s words.
It isn’t just Bill. Media Matters has done it to me, too.
NBC News has been using Media Matters as a script service for some time now, with certain anchors over there just lifting misinterpretations wholesale from the Web site and sending the Media Matters words directly to the teleprompter.
Ah yes, “purposeful misinterpretation of one’s words” — as in reprinting them verbatim.
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Did you know that George Soros would not be a multi-billionaire if it were not for the international language Esperanto?
Born in Hungary in 1930 as Gyorgy Schwartz, the family changed its name in 1936 to Soros, which in Esperanto means “to soar.”
The Soros name-change was an effort to protect the Jewish family from the rise of fascist rulers and the whole family spoke Esperanto at home.
As a native Esperanto speaker, (someone who has spoken Esperanto from birth), George Soros defected to the West in 1946, while attending an Esperanto youth meeting in Vienna.
Esperanto enabled Soros both to defect, and to become the 28th most wealthy man in the World, according to the Forbes rich list.