OUTRAGE: Fox News Now Considers Any Criticism of George Soros to Be Anti-Semitic
By CNN. . .On Sunday, the network’s senior vice president for programming, Gary Schreier, released a statement denouncing what many people called an anti-Semitic trope used by a guest on Dobbs’ show earlier in the week. . .
“We condemn the rhetoric by the guest on Lou Dobbs Tonight,” Schreier said in a short statement. “This episode was a repeat which has now been pulled from all future airings.”
The comment in question was made by Chris Farrell, a board member of the right-wing organization Judicial Watch, during Thursday night’s episode of Dobbs’ show. During a segment about the caravan of migrants moving toward the US’ southern border, Farrell called the State Department “Soros-occupied” territory, referring to billionaire and liberal philanthropist George Soros, one of the targets of mail bombs discovered earlier this week. (Read more from “Outrage: Fox News Now Considers Any Criticism of George Soros to Be Anti-Semetic” HERE)
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House Republican Campaign Chief Defends Anti-Soros Ads
By NBC News. Ohio Rep. Steve Stivers, chairman of the House GOP campaign arm, defended the group’s repeated criticism of billionaire liberal donor George Soros in campaign ads on Sunday.
The National Republican Congressional Committee has been running ads in Minnesota’s First Congressional District tying the Democratic candidate, Dan Feehan, to Soros. Feehan worked at the Center for New American Security, a think-tank that received funding from Soros.
The first ad, which began running the middle of this month, shows Soros sitting behind a pile of money as the words “connoisseur of chaos” show on the screen. . .
When asked about the ads, Stivers noted that the group’s independent expenditure staff, which creates the ads, is walled off from the rest of the committee leadership to comply with campaign finance laws. But he defended the ad as “factual.”
“Our independent expenditure arm is independent. But that ad is factual. And it also has nothing to do with calling for violence. That ad is a factual ad,” he said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” (Read more from “House Republican Campaign Chief Defends Anti-Soros Ads” HERE)
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