No Spin Zone becomes Fearmonger HQ!

Does anybody else get the feeling that Bill O'Reilly hates George Soros?

Why he does, I do not know, but I do get that impression very strongly after seeing some of his recent "Talking Points" memos.

I've decided to do a little background research on George Soros, and guess what I've come up with.

First of all, his own website, which has the usual favourbale biography that most official sites do.

Next, comes the Wikipedia entry. Now these entries can be written and re-written loads of times to change the focus, but this one seems to be independent of the usual degrees of political bias, and seems quite centred.

From this entry, we can tell why Bill O'Reilly is picking on Soros. Soros has publicly voiced his dislike for President Bush, and spent money back in the 2004 campaign to ensure that Bush did not get re-elected. Of course, we know what happened. The rest of the world is having to put up with the result of that election.

But Bill O'Reilly seems to have the idea going that Soros is influencing political opinion in the US through websites such as Media Matters for America, and MoveOn.org. And a couple of weeks ago, he went even further, saying...

"The goal of George Soros, Peter Lewis, Suzy Thompkins Buell and other radical financiers is to buy a presidential election. —By that I mean find and fund a candidate who will tacitly do what he or she is told to do."

Such a charge, on US primetime television, should have resulted in an immediate suing of Bill O and Fox News, but strangely enough, I have heard nothing to that effect from the Soros camp. It could be that they don't want to give the claim any legitimacy by taking any legal recourse. However, I could be wrong.

Now, having checked out MoveOn and Media Matters for America, I can say this. Both organisations, to coin a phrase, do what they say on the tin. Move on want to realise what it calls the "...progressive promise..." of America, whilst Media Matters describes itself as a "...progressive research and information center...". So both organisations admit that inpolitical terms, they can be described as progressive.

Bill O rounded up his Talking Points memo on Monday 7th May by saying...

"Soros is so powerful that he can ruin most countries financially if he decides to attack their currency by selling it short. And now Soros has set his sights on the political landscape here in America. He has his character assassins lined up. He has MoveOn ready to move out. And he has direct access to the highest levels of our government. This, ladies and gentlemen, is an urgent situation."

No, Bill O. The "urgent situation" here is to get you back to the real world, not the Republican world of political fearmongering. Politicians and Pundits both, need to get back to the REAL world, which the rest of us have to survive in, down the political centre, whilst petty politicians and their pundit supporters stake out their territory in the wildreness of political extremity.