And while Murdoch aptly points out that NewsCorp
has contributed more money to Democrat campaigns in the past, he has
never divulged the value of time and promotion FOX News has given to
conservative political campaigns. It runs in the billions, to be sure.
So here we have two men in different realms of power: Soros
has international power and (ostensible) goals of social justice, while
Murdoch wields more national power through the media and has
(ostensible) goals formed from pure capitalism. It's almost a fight
between pure liberal and pure conservative (although Andrew Sullivan of
The Atlantic would disagree about anyone on the Right being a "pure" conservative). Murdoch's
Glenn Beck has been trying desperately to make "compassion" and "social
justice" pejorative to the lower middle and middle class, thereby
depicting left-leaning philanthropists like Soros as people who "embrace the darkness" (at least, that's the way Lou Engle would put it). George Soros has been fighting back with contributions to organizations like Moveon .org and Media Matters.* Soros knows, however, that Murdoch owns too much of the media to ever be attacked effectively: sicking the Beck-Bulldog on Soros is something Murdoch will never cease to do until Soros is buried (rhetorically speaking, of course).
There is an insightful article in the Nov. 10th post of News Corpse that eviscerates Glenn Beck's "special" broadcast, The Puppet Master (I especially like the flipped-off title with Glenn Beck as The Muppet Pastor). It brings out Murdoch's machinations and scrutinizes them with the same criteria used to skewer Soros .
Conspiracy
theory #4,876: So, is this feud merely a distraction? Is it a cover-up
for the REAL players in world power? If I were a spy/mystery/sci- fi freak, I suppose it could be. But think of this: the Soros -Murdoch
war may be a metaphor for the age-old war of "social justice vs.
capitalism." Both sides may want you to look at it that way.
On the other hand both sides may just want you to look the other way. Just a thought.
*Irony of Ironies: WASHINGTON -- In one of the more clever moments of issue advocacy in recent memory, the progressive media watchdog group, Media Matters for America, successfully won an online auction Thursday to have a "friendly lunch" with its long-time nemesis, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch. [And don't forget that Soros donated one million dollars to Media Matters just days before the elections]
UPDATE 11/13/2010:
In the category of "nobody saw this coming" one of Sarah Palin's top aides, Randy Scheuneman , (foreign policy) has been on George Soros' payroll for years! Beck and Palin have some 'splainin' to do!
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