Re: Is Soros a treat to democracy?

There's a sucker born every minute.

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Investor's Business Daily has as much as 100 lies on every page

Category: Global Warming
Posted on: September 27, 2007 1:13 PM, by Tim Lambert

[T]he hacks at IBD can churn these things out faster than Hansen can
knock them down. Look:

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The Soros Threat To Democracy

How many people, for instance, know that James Hansen, a man
billed as a lonely "NASA whistleblower" standing up to the mighty U.S.
government, was really funded by Soros' Open Society Institute, which
gave him "legal and media advice"?

That's right, Hansen was packaged for the media by Soros' flagship
"philanthropy," by as much as $720,000, most likely under the OSI's
"politicization of science" program.
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And if you invest just $10,000 in my get-rich-quick pyramid scheme you
can make as much as $720,000 profit! Once you realise that "as much as
$720,000" includes the amount $0, you understand the scam.

So what did the IBD build this story out of? Well, the OSI annual
report says:

Scientist Protests NASA's Censorship Attempts James E. Hansen, the
director the Goddard Institute for Space Studies at NASA, protested
attempts to silence him after officials at NASA ordered him to refer
press inquiries to the public affairs office and required the presence
of a public affairs representative at any interview. The Government
Accountability Project, a whistleblower protection organization and
OSI grantee, came to Hansen's defense by providing legal and media
advice. The campaign on Hansen's resulted in a decision by NASA
revisit its media policy. ...

The Strategic Opportunities Fund includes grants related to
Hurricane Katrina ($1,652,841); media policy ($1,060,000); and
politicization of science ($720,000).

So the OSI didn't give Hansen any money at all. They did give money to
the Government Accountability Project, "the nation's leading
whistleblower protection organization", who provided legal advice for
Hansen, and a detail report. And the $720,000 is the total of grants
to defend against the politicization of science, not the amount of
money given to GAP.

The IBD has declared George Soros a "threat to democracy" because he
helps defend whistleblowers. You can't make this stuff up.

Of course, the usual collection of anti-science warriors blogged about
it, often embellishing the story with their own fabrications.

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