In Soros’ book, The Age of Fallibility it is noted that after 9/11 when President Bush said “Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists,” Soros was reminded of Nazi propaganda. Although he attempted to backpedal on this outrageous claim, he did say, “the Bush administration has been able to improve on the techniques used by the Nazi and the Communist propaganda machines by drawing on the innovations of the advertising and marketing industries.”
In a recent article published in the New York Review of Books, Soros asserts that America should pressure Israel to negotiate with the Hamas-led unity government in the Palestinian territory regardless of its refusal to recognize the right of the Jewish state to exist. Mr. Soros goes on to say that the overarching reason the United States has not embraced this policy is the insidious influence of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, an argument reminiscent of the Walt-Mearshimer thesis.
The Soros article puts Democrats in the awkward position of having to choose between Soros, a major funder of its causes, and the pro-Israel lobby whose members are disproportionately represented in the Democratic Party.
In a sense even Karl Rove, as bright as he is, couldn’t have invented George Soros. He is the leftist that keeps giving, not only to the causes he wants to support, but to those he detests. Imagine a megalomaniacal billionaire intent on destroying a democratically elected president with well oiled propaganda institutions he subsidizes and with outrageous commentary he glibly delivers to the press.
Soros thinks he funds public interest organizations, but in fact they are ideologically driven propaganda enterprises designed to foster his belief system. Some on the left have denounced Soros and his campaigns, but one shouldn’t underestimate the lure of Soros money and what it can buy. He has become the principal philanthropist for radical groups and, if money talks, Soros should be heard from for a very long time.