A Case Study: Part 2

Part 2: The Origin of a Smear/ Who’s Smoking Dope?

The Media Matters “Glenn Beck has a Jewish Problem”  hit job on Beck started in October as the commentator dedicated a program to outlining George Soros’ political network, and outlining Spooky Dude’s history of currency manipulation.

Part of the programs covered Soros’  history as a currency speculator whose sometimes underhanded dealing brought down the British pound sterling and aninsider trading conviction in France . He had also been accused of triggering the economic meltdown of Southeast Asian currencies in 1997.

Beck claimed Soros “rolled the dice in ‘97 in Asia, and many, including the Malaysian prime minister, believe it was billionaire speculator George Soros who helped trigger the economic meltdown that spread through Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.”

Media Matters took Beck relating this story and invented some crazy, twisted logic. Try to follow this (if you can)— since Beck mentioned Soros was accused of doing underhanded dealing by the Malaysian Prime Minister—and since the Malaysian PM is a serial anti-Semite who once said Soros’ currency dealings were part of a Jewish conspiracy–and since Soros is Jewish—well then, that must mean Beck must be a Jew-hater who believes that Jews run the banks. Understand? No, I didn’t think so. Don’t feel bad because it doesn’t make the slightest bit of sense. It is reminiscent  of those weird questions found on the S.A.T. exams in the 1970s. Remember? —Cat is to Dog as hamburger is to automobile. You would be scratching your head for days trying to figure out what the exam’s creator was smoking.

The problem with Media Matters charge (besides the fact that it isn’t true) was Beck did not mention or even hint at the word Jew in his discourse. Of course according to the Media Matters play-book Beck’s omission of  any tie to the Jews is not a concern, because like the Ministry of Truth from 1984 truth is not their concern.

When attacking the Media Matters claim, I pointed out if giving the title of underhanded currency speculator to George Soros made one an anti-Semite, there was going to be some real dirty looks when I next attended Shabbos services at Shul, since I have made similar accusations about Soros.

What I didn’t realize at the time, this was was not to be an isolated incident, it was actually the beginning  of a new strategy of “Spooky Dude” and his team of progressive cronies’ to silence one of their fiercest critics. For the next four months they have been trying to label Beck as “Someone with a Jewish Problem,” and someone who seeks to water down the meaning of the Holocaust by cavalierly throwing out Nazi, and other Holocaust -related terms.

The last charge was very ironic since Soros wrote a book where he said George Bush used Nazi-tactics; Move-On an organization seeded with some of George Soros’ money created a TV commercial comparing George Bush to the Nazis, and many of their progressive supporters on TV have made similar analogies with nary a peep from Media Matters.