Soros Donates $1.8 Million to NPR, Juan Williams Fired Days Later
"Follow the money," the left insisted when News Corporation donated $1 million to the Republican Governor's Association. The implication was that since News Corp. gave lots of money to Republicans (nearly 10 times as much as it did to Democrats), Fox News coverage that casted the GOP in a positive light could fairly be seen as a direct result of that contribution.
By the standard much of the left advanced, National Public Radio's firing of Juan Williams can fairly be presented as a direct result of liberal billionaire George Soros's $1.8 million contribution to NPR two days before Williams's firing.
Like the News Corp. RGA contribution, there is no hard evidence to demonstrate a connection between the donation and Williams' firing. But a number of liberals didn't need any evidence in News Corp's case. They immediately alleged causation.
NPR flatly denies any connection between the Soros donation and Williams's ouster. Likewise, News Corp. brass rejected the notion that its political actives have any effect on Fox's news operation, or that of any other News Corp. subsidiary.
Ron Arnold writes in the Washington Examiner:
Alert readers noted the proximity of Soros’ NPR grant and Williams’ firing, which must have touched a nerve: NPR’s Schiller quickly told New York Times blogger Brian Stalter, "It's nonsense to suggest that there was any correlation between the two."
Maybe not. The same day, George Soros personally announced a $1 million grant to Media Matters, “to hold Fox News accountable for the false and misleading information they so often broadcast,” adding that “the incendiary rhetoric of Fox News hosts may incite violence.”
So the motive, if you will, is clear: Fox is bad. If Soros is willing to drop seven figures to slime the channel, he clearly does not like it. And neither does NPR, which fired Williams for what many - including Williams himself - believe was his closeness with the cable channel, and its star prime time talker Bill O'Reilly.
We also have correlation. Two days after the Fox-hating Soros donated to Fox-hating NPR, Williams was fired.
Motive and correlation were all it took for the left to ceaselessly holler about News Corp's political contributions, even though no observer could demonstrate a causal relationship between the contributions and Fox's news coverage.
In fact, NPR itself advanced this standard in News Corp's case. In one segment of "All Things Considered", NPR indiscriminately parroted the claims of one Eric Burns. Who is Burns? NPR only identifies him as a "former chief media critic for Fox News," never mentioning his current position: president of Soros-funded, Fox-hating Media Matters!
"This latest revelation revives complaints raised by the Obama administration last fall," NPR stated, citing White House claims that Fox is "the source and the outlet for Republican Party talking points."
So NPR may claim that questions regarding the connection between Soros's gift and Williams's departure are "nonsense," but the station is reaping what it helped sow. Apply the standard devised by Burns and his ilk and advanced by NPR and other mainstream media outlets, and the claim is not "nonsense" at all.
As for the rest of the left's Fox haters, it seems clear - and at this point it nearly goes without saying - that the folks condemning Fox's parent company have no interest in journalistic ethics, as they claim. Their motives are purely political.
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Would you believe two non-smoker?
Submitted by Tomorama on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 3:47pm.
So Soros is simply a racist, he hates black people.
I like that meme, pass it around.
Scenario number two, he hates Hispanics, he saw the name Juan and figured.......................
I also like that one, pass that on as well.
Soros is funnelling foreign money to take away our Democracy by subverting OUR STATE FUNDED MEDIA.....
I REALLY LIKE THAT ONE, pass it on.
Williams Fired. Behar and Maher continue on.
Submitted by JakeMo on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 3:54pm.
The firing of Juan Williams proves that liberals will remove those in their ranks who don't speak for them.
From that, we can infer that Behar and Maher speak for them as liberals have made no attempt to silence them.
Joy Behar and Bill Maher are the face of the Democrat party. Hang those two around their necks at every opportunity.
The left loves to complain about evil rich guys...
Submitted by Phryj1 on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 4:56pm.
...who throw around their money to try to buy elections and control governments, yet they NEVER complain about Soros who has crashed entire economies, sent banks under, cost taxpayers billions in recovery funds, and caused hundred of thousands, if not millions of jobs to be lost in his insane crusade to advance global authoritarian socialism.
The greatest atrocities of the 20th century were all at the hands of authoritarian socialist governments. Since Soros wants the whole world to be under one socialist regime, he's nothing short of a complete monster.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
Juan should sue NPR and Soros
Submitted by buddyc on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 7:09pm.
Juan should sue NPR and Soros claiming induced NPR to wrongly terminate Juan's contract. He has:
Soros declared war on fox
Soros attacks on O'Reily, Hanity and Beck
Soros gift of the money
The insane way Juan was fire and the insane reasons given.
Where there is smoke there is fire. IT GETS SOROS IN COURT and at a DEPOSITION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
George Soros and NPR
Submitted by MominMD on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 9:11pm.
I saw this a week ago. This is NOW just making the MSM?
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