Soros funded Media Matters for America promoted Nazi sympathizer’s book 23 times

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(WIREUPDATE) — George Soros funded Media Matters for America has on numerous occasions mentioned Elizabeth Dilling’s “The Red Network” on its website. Dilling, who Media Matters calls a “Nazi sympathizer” spoke at rallies hosted by the leading American Nazi group of her day. She even praised Hitler.

Media Matters then went on to smear Glenn Beck for simply reading the same  Elizabeth Dilling book back in June 2010 and reporting on it during his radio program.


Beck, who is a self-taught history buff enjoys reading from all sources – including authors who has positions that he vehemently disagrees with.

Dilling’s book has been mentioned on Media Matters website an astounding 23 three times, making it clear the editors of Media Matters have too read it. Each Diller mention points to the one and only book review segment that appeared on Glenn Beck’s radio program in June.

In October of 2010, George Soros donated $1 million to Media Matters for America. In announcing the donation Soros claimed,”despite repeated assertions to the contrary by various Fox News commentators, I have not to date been a funder of Media Matters.”

Media Matters has received donations from The Tides Foundation, which itself has received donations from the Open Society Institute, a George Soros organization that works to build “vibrant and tolerant democracies” by trying to shape public policies. [keywiki]

Editors note: Apparently, Media Matters believes in banning books from public discourse and those who read the books must believe everything the author stands for. This article was written to prove how absurd this line of thinking truly is. At this point they have mentioned the book way more often that Beck ever has. They claim it is part of Beck’s psyche – when in reality they have made it part of their own narrative.

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  • Soros is my homeboy

    What a stupid, dishonest article. Don’t link to this anymore google.

  • Opening My Eyes

    I feel sad for all the Glenn Beck critics and the Fox News critics because when we live in a country where we as a people no longer vote and we have other countries deciding how Americans should live maybe then they will open their eyes but by then it will be too late. Sad my children will not have the same freedoms my parents or I have had.

  • http://thefireinsider.com Richard Cummngs

    We need a serious discussion of Glenn Beck’s work and positions. He had many viewers and has a considerable amount of influence. What he really thinks and why is a matter of considerable importance. A serious inquiry into George Soros’s position on issues is, likewise,something to be examined seriously because of his considerable influence.

  • Turbo

    George Schwartz was a hungarian jew whos father changed his last name to Soros, a greek sounding name and sent him to live with the minister of agriculture in hungry.

    Soros worked for the Nazi Jewish Council whos job it was to recover funds from the estates of Jews who had been killed or deported. Soros got his starting capital confiscating the wealth of his murdered fellow jews and he admits he has no guilt over his role in this.

    Admitting that you cooperated with Nazis to save your own life is one thing, but to admit that you feel no guilt or remorse for it is another.

    Soros promoted the “Color Revolutions” in easter europe through the 80′s and then profited by betting against currencies when these countries collapsed due to their un-sustainable socialist models.

    He professes himself a philanthropist who promotes social harmony yet when he can short a countries currency and profit from their collapse, he has no problems with capitalism. Socialize the losses, privatize the profite. Soros is pure evil.

  • sarahgoldie

    There is a big difference between mentioning a book and promoting its contents. Beck seems to have an obsession with Nazis, it’s not natural.

  • Spike Spiegel

    >> Soros is my homeboy says:
    >> November 13, 2010 at 3:52 am
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    >> What a stupid, dishonest article. Don’t link >> to this anymore google.

    Gyorgy Schwartz, aka George Soros, is two-faced and dishonest enough to be a bad James Bond villain. Claiming he’s never funded Media Matters while funding The Tides (which in turn funded Media Matters) is as legendary an obfuscation as asking what “is” is.

    So, “homeboy” — or should we just call you Mini-Me? — we wait with bated breath for you to explain dishonesty.

  • http://afloridabeachweddings.com/ Robert Walker

    Good information and if true will exonerate and confirm what Bech says. Maybe Soros should be stripped of citizenship, like John Demjanjuk (born Ivan Mykolaiovych Demianiuk and have wealth confiscated?

  • J Young

    “Beck, who is a self-taught history buff enjoys reading from all sources – including authors who has positions that he vehemently disagrees with.”

    That’s nice. Because Glenn Beck says he reads a variety of things even when he doesn’t agree with them you believe he’s telling the truth–and then say it as if it’s a truism. Though, simply listening to him would tell you that he only reads (or, at least, he only understands) books that help him reach his foregone conclusions.

    I suppose you’re probably right though; a guy who spends virtually all of his waking hours prepping for a show or on a show or at a speaking engagement probably has the time to study things he dislikes. He probably has time to write his own books too, huh?

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  • Gabriel

    You’re trying to imply that George Soros, a Jew and Holocaust survivor, supports Nazis.
    Your evidence is that he funds an organization that has mentioned a book written by a Nazi sympathizer.
    Media Matters mentioned the book in question to discuss how Glenn Beck praised the book for its anti-communist content without appearing to care about its anti-Semitic content.
    You are apparently trying to support Beck’s assertion that Soros was “a Jewish boy helping send the Jews to the death camps.”

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  • bc

    WHAT A NON-STORY.

    99% of all rich people fund corporate mainstream media (ie: CONSERVATIVE) news with their advertising.

    General Electric- the biggest war contractor in the world- owns NBC, MSNBC and CNBC. All three networks have an obvious conservative bias (with the exception of one or two token “balanced” commentators).

    Rush Limbaugh and other right wingers are funded by rich republicans.

    Almost no one has heard of Media Matters.

  • Glenda

    Have you looked at the Dilling books? I have two of them. They are the blueprint on how to use disinformation and lies to discredit people like FDR and Eleanor. The list of organizations that are “RED”… include any social group where people join together to better themselves during a horrible Wall Street depression. Without proof they label everyone “communist” or “socialist”…just as the Tea Party did Obama on their posters.

    Seemingly the right wing is going back to use Dilling and other “Red Network” books as a textbook for how to “bring down” Obama, the same way the right wing tried to bring down FDR. The anti-worker, anti-black, anti-everybody rants are full of the tactic of putting a good person/idea/organization next to a not good person/idea/organization and thus suggesting they are the same. Obama as THE JOKER. Obama as a WITCHDOCTOR. IT IS THE SAME TACTIC. Propaganda is propaganda is propaganda.

    I found these books I had heard about but never seen before, at a used bookstore owned by a cowboy writer famous for The Lonesome Dove–hardly a “red” book.

    The ONE story that hurt my “white girl who grew up during segregation” feelings the most, was a rant against Eleanor for inviting black girls to the White House for ice cream. They said the girls had “sexual diseases”. They were talking about children, young black girls “14-21″. Then as now the angry right seem to have no sense of decency. The BOLD heading: “Why Not a Party for Black and White Virgins?” The report is said to come from “Time (5/25/36)” *(Page 233: The Roosevelt Red Record And Its Background, by Elizabeth Dilling)

    If these books are exposed, the media of THAT time would have a great deal of explaining to do. Knowing of the past–the present leaves me disheartened and sick. After all the progress we have made, shall we really go back to this TRASH? The depression generation is mostly dead now. Beck and Company are counting on an uneducated modern audience not to trace the source. THAT – I presume – is why Mr. Soros keeps trying to alert us to the dangers of these awful books.

    I wish someone would put all of these books on line so people can see where the tactics come from. It would be a great act of education and would once and for all let people see how the wickedness of the past puts on a new disguise and trots out the same old same old.

    DON’T BE FOOLED AGAIN!

  • Gabriel

    @Turbo: No, that’s false.
    http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/focus-u-s-a/glenn-beck-george-soros-and-a-row-about-the-holocaust-1.324381
    Soros made his fortune starting as a trader with Singer & Friedlander in 1955; he worked as a waiter and railway porter before that. You’re also equating his support for the Color Revolutions, which replaced the last Communist governments in Europe with democracy, with his shorting of the pound. Very different things. And you appear to be suggesting that the Color Revolutions set up Communist regimes which collapsed shortly thereafter, when in fact they ended the communist regimes that had oppressed Eastern Europe since 1945.

    @Spike Spiegel: The Republican Governor’s Association spent $2000 on a strip club. By your logic, anyone who gives to the RGA and denies funding strip clubs has committed a “legendary obfuscation.”

  • Turbo

    @ Gabriel

    When Soros sold short massive volumes of Thai Baht and Malaysian Rinngit he starved to death many thousands of people.

    One can argue his breaking bank of england was just capitalist move. In thailand and malaysia are developing countries with many living on the fringe. Hurting the purchasing power of these people directly contributed to many not being able to eat or feed their children.

    Soros will hurt people and commit genocide if it means profits for him. His roles in color revolutions did replace communist governments, however the regimes that took over are how would you say it “managed democracies”, that are brutally opressive if you actually investigate them.

  • Jeff

    This Joe Brooks dude keeps on deleting the negative posts. “Well I’ve been caught lying so I will just delete all the posts that point that out.” Hey Joe, how about you just stop lying. Seriously, that you feel compelled to lie simply means that your goals are negative.

    The quesiton is what vile things do you want to support with your lying?

  • Jeff

    LOL, “Turbo” is Joe Brooks. Hey Turbo, why don’t you tell your “friend” Joe to stop deleting the posts that reveal his and your position as dishonest? And also, why not stop the anti semitism, you nazis?