"Soros said Fox News has imported George Orwell's "Newspeak," in order to deceive its viewers."

[babylonsister]

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/george-soros-responds-to-glenn-becks-puppet-master-criticism-video.php?ref=fpb

George Soros Responds To Glenn Beck's 'Puppet Master' Criticism (VIDEO)
David Taintor | February 21, 2011, 1:24PM
Video @ link~


George Soros has responded to Glenn Beck's extensive criticism of him, in which Beck calls Soros a "puppet master" trying to overthrow governments around the world.

"I would be amused if people saw the joke in it," Soros said in an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria that aired Sunday.

Soros added that News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch is actually responsible for spreading anti-government falsehoods, and Beck is echoing his ideals on TV. "He has a media empire that is spreading falsehoods," Soros said.

Beck has dedicated no shortage of air time trying to expose Soros' "secret" plans, including hanging actual puppets from strings -- something The Daily Show's Jon Stewart specifically lampooned.

Soros said Fox News has imported George Orwell's "Newspeak," in order to deceive its viewers.

"This is a very, very dangerous way of deceiving people," he said. "I would like people to be aware that they are being deceived."

[spanone]

1. k&r

[FSogol]

2. Error. You cannot recommend this 100 times. n/t

[upi402]

14. lol

where's anon when you need 'em? Gotta be some hax..

[Raster]

29. No shit! If there is an axis of evil, it is Fox News. Roger Ailes is the spawn of Satan.

And Murdoch, well, he is a living example of someone with way too much money and nowhere near enough social conscience. His fifteen were over a long time ago. Perhaps he could go out with a splash and get eaten by even a larger reptile than himself. I'm thinking a saltwater crocodile. Televised live in Australia. Sponsored by Fosters..."it's bee-ah en Australian."

[Dappleganger]

3. Sadly, many Murikans think Orwell makes vacuum cleaners.

[polichick]

4. That's our biggest problem - people don't know they're being deceived...

It's hard to believe that so many are so clueless - maybe the union busting will wake up a few people.

[firehorse]

5. Do the red-state schools read Orwell?

Or have books like 1984 been banned?

[louis-t]

7. I think they burned Farenheit 451.

:evilgrin:

[Enthusiast]

27. LOL! nt

[TroglodyteScholar]

15. 1984 was required reading in my highschool in Alabama...

...but it was a very expensive private college prep school :(

[cordelia]

21. Yes

[Kingofalldems]

6. K and R for the idiot freepers

[AndyTiedye]

8. K/R

:kick:

[Buns_of_Fire]

9. Faux News = doubleplusungood nt

[Pathwalker]

10. No, Glenn, your boss is the puppet master. You're the puppet.

silly boy.

[JCMach1]

11. Doubleplus good!

REC

[TroglodyteScholar]

17. I think you left an UN out...

...i.e. Fox News using simplistic language to manipulate public opinion is doubleplusUNgood.

[JCMach1]

22. the article, not FAUX

Isn't Murdoch from East Asia anyway?

[TroglodyteScholar]

24. Murdoch is from Eurasia.

He's always been from Eurasia.

[StarsInHerHair]

12. strange that however wealthy Soros is he seems to be holding back i.e.

he isn't exactly leading, he does give some insights but he does not lead

[shanti]

19. his hands

aren't totally clean either. just saying...

[Juche]

13. The problem with fox news isn't the bias, it is the misinformation

I wouldn't care if Fox news was only biased. MSNBC and PBS have liberal biases (PBS not so much anymore but they used to). But MSNBC and PBS are honest.

Fox news uses misinformation to make their audience as ignorant and emotional as possible. Ignorant, emotional people are easy to control and lead. That is the problem with Fox, and Soros is one of the few people I've seen who addressed it.

Conservative media is good at accusing others of what they are doing themselves though, you have to give them credit (People like Gingrich and Limbaugh accusing Sotomayor of being a racist as an example).

[babylonsister]

18. Deception and misinformation are basically lies, but I get

your point and agree.

[KittyWampus]

16. yeah, well... it'd be nice if some other media mogul stepped in to create a real alternative

[Turborama]

20. I uploaded this to my YouTube channel on Sunday

Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inoEoIG7MUs

Also posted it in the videos forum here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x555966

[Turborama]

23. That's not all he said about Faux. Full interview (vid & transcript) available online now

CNN clipped this off, interestingly...

ZAKARIA: You lost many, many people in the holocaust. How did you feel when you heard that?

SOROS: Well, look, FOX News makes a habit -- it has imported the methods of George Orwell, you know, newspeak, where you can tell the people falsehoods and deceive them. And you wouldn't believe that at an open society and a democracy these methods can succeed.

But, actually, they did succeed. They succeeded in Germany where the Weimar Republic collapsed and you had a -- a Nazi regime follow it. So this is a very, very dangerous way of deceiving people, and I would like people to be aware that they are being deceived.

Now, I -- because I saw it as a child, I immediately react that way. But people in America, they are innocent. They -- they haven't had the experience. But having the experience now, and I hope they wake up and they realize that they are being deceived.

Full transcript: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1102/20/fzgps.01.html

Full interview (video): http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/podcasts/fareedzakaria/site/2011/02/20/gps.podcast.02.20.cnn

[democracy1st]

25. +1

[Turborama]

26. Full version of what he said about Faux & how extremely dangerous they are is now in the vids forum

Here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x556600

[Enthusiast]

28. K&R

I fear it is already too late for the citizenry to recognize the Soros warning.