Video (above): “Fox News panel cuts off Newt Gingrich for blaming violence on George Soros” (Raw Story, September 16, 2020).
(UPDATED) Warning: Time to Flick Off the Switch on Fox News! It’s entered the Pravda Zone, censoring Newt Gingrich to defend George Soros instead
BY LISA MICHELLE | Updated September 22, 2020
The cat is out of the bag and the Fox News agenda exposed for all eyes to see. Aside from a few lone voices left on prime time, it has now officially entered Pravda territory and can be relegated to the dustbins of the “Enemy-of-the-People” heap with the rest of the corrupt fake media.
It was no great surprise when the former Obama administration political hack Maria Barf (Harf) admonished Newt Gingrich on Outnumbered this Wednesday for daring to mention George Soros’s name, the local elections he funds for radical left-wing pro-criminal district attorneys, and his links to the violent BLM/Antifa riots erupting throughout the country. Liars and political hacks lie. That should be expected, and there’s nothing newsworthy there to report.
What did come as a surprise to some and was most disappointing is when the once respected and credible Fox News and Fox Business hosts Melissa Francis and Harris Faulkner joined in, ganging up on and censoring Gingrich from telling the truth about Soros.
Yet, to add insult to injury (as if it isn’t bad enough that, to name just a few, Harf and the likes of Donna Brazile — who even CNN had the gumption to can — even get time, let alone spots on Fox News), Harf got the last word and called Gingrich a liar.
First, the once trusted Fox Business host and childhood actress Melissa Francis can be audibly heard reprimanding the ill-prepared former Speaker. “I’m not sure we need to bring George Soros into this,” she chimes in from the shadows off camera.
Oh no? Then, who, pray tell, should we bring in?
After a few uncomfortable seconds of silence and an uneasy chuckle from Faulkner, the now disgraced host with egg on her face announces, “I was going to say, you get the last word, Speaker.”
“He [Soros] paid for it,” the perplexed Gingrich responds. “I mean, why can’t we discuss the fact that millions of dollars elected these people?”
“No he didn’t,” interrupts Barf, raising her voice above Gingrich’s from the now developing off-camera choir. “I agree with Melissa. George Soros doesn’t need to be a part of this conversation.” Then, the camera shifts and zooms in on her.
“Okay,” says Gingrich, as the camera pivots to Faulkner. “So it’s verboten,” he eventually grasps and concludes.
A few more seconds of uncomfortable silence is followed by Faulkner attempting to gracefully back out of the segment. “Alright then,” she interjects, “we’re gonna — ”
The camera then pivots to and away from Faulkner to Newt and back to Faulkner again with a few additional peculiar moments of silence, which seem to last an eternity in the life of live TV. All the while, her eyes could visibly be seen moving rapidly up and down, as if receiving ear-piece instructions from the producers.
As a staff writer for The National Pulse observes in “Revealed: The Real Reason Fox News Censored Soros Debate,”
Look closely – the last few moments – before Fox unceremoniously dumps former Speaker Gingrich. That moment of silence, in case you don’t know how TV works behind the scenes, is a producer in Fox host Harris Faulkner’s ear telling her to dump out of the segment.”
“Okay,” we’re gonna move on,” Faulkner wraps up.
Wait a minute. Not so fast! The damage was already done. The clumsy Outnumbered exchange went viral, and comments about it abound up through to today on Twitter . . .
This is one of the weirdest exchanges I’ve ever seen on TV. @newtgingrich correctly points out that George Soros threw an unprecedented amount of money into DA races all over the country to elect radicals and Fox News basically told him to shut up. WTF? pic.twitter.com/IxwcLG2gOH
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) September 16, 2020
Wierd is an understatement. It was akin to a scene in the Twilight Zone. Robby Starbuck goes on to cite several reports to confirm the veracity of Newt Gingrich’s comments . . .
Here’s another Soros DA spending spree in Virginia of nearly $1 Million. The DA in Arlington went on to charge a smoke shop employee who shot masked a robbers who broke into the business to steal cash and merchandise. This is the kind of stuff Soros DA’s do. pic.twitter.com/fQ4NwcRCbx
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) September 17, 2020
Former Fox News host Glenn Beck also weighed in the next day, inquiring why Soros is “off limits.” According to Beck, the three unmentionables on Fox News are God, Israel, and George Soros . . .
Video (above): Glenn Beck in “EXPOSE HIM: Here’s how George Soros is funding today’s riots & chaos”
Yesterday, Faulkner tried to clean up the mess by issuing a half-hearted non-apology “apology,” but the veil had already been lifted. “We don’t censor on this show,” claims Faulkner in the face of reality. “And that’s why we’re winning weekdays at noon.”
Oh no! Not Faulkner too, who insists we should believe what we’re told and not what we see and hear with our own eyes and ears. Maybe they won’t be “winning” so much in the future.
Needless to say, Faulkner’s video “explanation” fell short and has not been received very well by the public— at least not on Twitter . . .
Terrible explanation. You did cut @newtgingrich off from talking about George Soros corruption of the election process around the country. That’s censorship. Very disappointed.
Another Twitter follower comments to Faulkner . . .
Look at Harris face and listen. Contempt & arrogance? “A little incident” “Not smooth”. A scolding “we don’t censor…”. I feared the worst would be revealed about FxN at about this point in the election. @IngrahamAngle @seanhannity
Many suggest fowl play . . .
Seems like the room got awfully silent when Soros was brought up. Dead air time … something is not right with how everyone claimed up the moment Soros’ name was mentioned. @newtgingrich was correct in his assertions and it’s a very legitimate topic of discussion.
Newsmax points to another unusual exchange that occurred this week on Fox & Friends:
This is the latest in a strange and awkward rebuke of conservatives voices on the Fox News Channel. Earlier this week, President Donald Trump offered to appear weekly leading up to the election on “Fox & Friends.”
“We’re gonna do it every week – every Monday, I think they said, and if we can’t do it on a Monday, we’ll do it on a Tuesday, like we did today,” Trump said.
But co-host Steve Doocy awkwardly rejected that overture.
“You may want to do it every week, but Fox has not committed to that,” Doocy said. “We’re going to take it on a case-by-case basis.”
Meanwhile, The National Pulse attributes the Newt Gingrich/Soros blunder to fears of being accused of “antisemitism” but also, similar to many comments to Faulkner on Twitter, suggests that Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch might be deliberately tipping the scales for the upcoming election and part of a coup against President Trump:
A senior Fox News staffer confirmed to me that the network discourages discussion of Soros which management claims is ‘anti-Semitic’.
‘Anti-Semitic.’
Talking about an atheist who hates Israel is anti-Semitic now.
But Gingrich, who did nothing but point out the accurate information that George Soros proudly and openly funded District Attorney (DA) races across the country, was silenced. For a reason.
Why don’t they want people knowing this, right now?
Because many of these DAs are going to be involved in the election dispute process after November 3rd, we’ve seen it already in the past year when a Surf City DA recused himself after one of his prosecutors spoke at a candidate’s rally.
That candidate went on to face six felony charges, later reduced to just one misdemeanor regarding errors on past voter and campaign forms.
And that brings me right back to the Soros-linked Transition Integrity Project and one of its co-founders, Nils Gilman.
On August 18th, Gilman gave an interview with the left-wing Vox website, and said this of who calls the election night winner in the United States:
Is that what we saw yesterday from Fox?
Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch making the call that there should be no conversation about George Soros because of his involvement with the coup – the Transition Integrity Project, and the DA races up and down the country?
It sure seems like it.
Fox News – at least in the day time – is turning into bizarro world.
Maybe it’s not so far-fetched and “bizarro” after all. Remember the 2018 elections, when Fox News called the election for House Democrats before California even had closed its polls?
Either way, Fox News’ viewers are too politically savvy and smart to be pandered and blatantly lied to and don’t appreciate disingenuous, patronizing apologies that insult their intelligence and intend to keep them in the informational dark. They are demanding answers and want Newt Gingrich invited back to finish his comments on Soros.
Still, the masks have come off. Faulkner and Francis have been fully exposed and can no longer claim journalistic integrity and neutrality. They have proven to be complicit and part of a much larger theme. Those who have been paying attention aren’t surprised and already know that Fox News has been moving more and more to the left well before it gave its former CEO, the late Roger Ailes, the boot. But perhaps the time now has come for its faithful viewers to once and for all also give it the boot and finally flick off the switch. Fox News has clearly betrayed and deceived them.
IMPORTANT OANN VIDEO UPDATE: SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Former DOJ attorney Victoria Toensing on One America News (OANN) with John Hines confirms that Fox News has instituted a policy to ban reports and discussions concerning George Soros — only, no one (not Gingrich, Judicial Watch’s Chris Farrell, or she and her husband) ever received the memo.
For 20 years she and her husband Joe DiGenova, a former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia and current law partner with Toensing, were frequent guests on Fox News, until DiGenova, like Gingrich, dared to mention the truth about Soros — that he controls parts of the State Department. As a result, they were “swiftly taken off the air never to appear again.” This was also the case with Chris Farrell of Judicial Watch, recounts Toensing, when he reported on Fox that Soros was funding the caravans with Central American immigrants crashing our borders, but “nobody got the memo,” she says— that is, nobody knew they were forbidden to mention his name.
Video (above) "Toensing says George Soros' influence and power is pervasive at Fox" (Sept. 19, 2020): Former DOJ lawyer Victoria Toensing raised questions about Fox News following recent comments from Newt Gingrich, who said he was silenced after mentioning left-wing billionaire philanthropist George Soros. One America's John Hines has more from Washington.
“George Soros’ influence and power is pervasive at Fox,” Toensing contends,
. . . Newt was saying that part of the problem with these city riots is that they have district attorneys who are funded by George Soros and these are the prosecutors who let loose the rioters and will not charge them. He was interrupted and told he couldn’t talk about George Soros, but, more importantly, he was told that he was in error. That he was wrong. And he was not in error in any way whatsoever. There are 27 cities that have prosecutors funded by George Soros.
“There is a pattern here,” she explains,
Fox fears Soros for some reason, and they’re not doing their viewers any justice at all in forbidding people to talk about him, because he is a trouble maker. He wants chaos in the United States, and that’s what he’s funding.
For a long time people have been saying, ‘why aren’t you on Fox?’ and I hesitated to come out and start the conversation, but with this incident with Newt, I thought it was time that people knew that it had also happened to Joe and me.”
UPDATED September 23, 2020 —IMPORTANT SEGMENTS BY TUCKER CARLSON
For two consecutive nights, September 21 and 22, Tucker Carlson boldly went “where no one dares to go” and bypassed the unspoken rule of Fox News to silence and ban any mention of George Soros—only this time big tech scrubbed his reports instead. Watch him expose Soros and explain how and why they were expunged. The segment from Tucker’s September 21 show begins at approximately the 20:40 minute mark, and the segment last night, September 22, begins at approximately the 13:40 mark . . .
Tucker Carlson Tonight, September 21, 2020 (Fast-forward to approximately the 13:40 mark)
Tucker Carlson Tonight, September 22, 2020 (Fast-forward to approximately the 20:40 mark)
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Read more about George Soros’s funding and strategy below . . .
Never Ever Mention That George Soros Is Funding Anti-Cop Candidates for District Attorney, Not Even on Fox News
STEVE SAILER • SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Here's our write-up of the awkwardness that ensued after the Fox hosts tried to get Newt Gingrich to stop invoking George Soros during the segment:https://t.co/aOrGxoA32T
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) September 16, 2020
That anti-enforcement organizations funded by the Soros family have been pouring often decisive amounts of money into previously obscure county-level races for district attorney used to be considered news, but now is considered an unmentionable anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.
For example, from way back in 2018, here is a long Los Angeles Times news story on the Soros efforts that was funded and written, in part, by a Soros-funded group:
Here’s why George Soros, liberal groups are spending big to help decide who’s your next D.A.
New York billionaire George Soros headlines a consortium of private funders targeting four of California’s 56 district attorney positions up for election June 5.
By PAIGE ST. JOHN, ABBIE VANSICKLE
MAY 23, 2018 AM
In most district attorney elections, the campaign playbook is clear: Win over the local cops and talk tough on crime.
But in California this year, the strategy is being turned on its head.
Wealthy donors are spending millions of dollars to back would-be prosecutors who want to reduce incarceration, crack down on police misconduct and revamp a bail system they contend unfairly imprisons poor people before trial.
The effort is part of a years-long campaign by liberal groups to reshape the nation’s criminal justice system. New York billionaire George Soros headlines a consortium of private funders, the American Civil Liberties Union and other social justice groups and Democratic activists targeting four of the 56 district attorney positions up for election on June 5. Five other California candidates are receiving lesser support.
The cash infusion in the nonpartisan elections turns underdog challengers into contenders for one of the most powerful positions in local justice systems, roiling conventional law-and-order politics.
In San Diego County, the groups back a deputy public defender who spent her legal career trying to keep the accused out of jail, not lock them up. …
challengers have matched or surpassed the millions of dollars — mostly from police, prosecutors and local business — flowing to incumbents unaccustomed to such organized liberal opposition
But the coordination between big money and advocacy groups that don’t have to reveal their funding sources is largely out of public view.
The campaign has alarmed some law-and-order prosecutors, who warn that discretion over which laws to enforce and how has its limits.
“These people who want to create their own social policy are not worthy of the office,” said former Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley. “If they win in San Diego or Sacramento, L.A. is next.”
As indeed it is in the November 2020 runoff in Los Angeles Country between the anti-crime incumbent, a black woman named Jackie Lacey, and the Steve Martin-looking George Gascon funded by the Soros alliance.
… Where law-and-order campaigns appeal to fear, the new strategy targets anger
One issue that has caught fire is police shootings.
“It’s really coming from this Black Lives Matter moment of police accountability,” said Margaret Dooley-Sammuli, criminal justice and drug policy director for the ACLU of California. …
In Sacramento County, where liberal activists are embedded directly in the insurgent campaign of Noah Phillips, the deputy prosecutor is attacking his boss’ record of having never charged a police officer who shot a civilian.
Phillips credits Soros’ team for scripting and paying for his television ad.
… At the same time, Black Lives Matter activists were holding near-daily protests on the doorstep of Phillips’ opponent, career prosecutor Anne Marie Schubert.
… Half of Phillips’ money is from Soros.
… In San Diego, the county’s limit of $800 for individual contributions forces campaigners to work independently of their favored candidate, Geneviéve Jones-Wright.
Soros has supplied more than $1.5 million to a political action committee to promote the deputy public defender waging a longshot bid for D.A. National liberal organizations have joined the fight for Jones-Wright, as have wealthy Silicon Valley donors. …
Jones-Wright rejects descriptions of her funding as an outside threat by groups trying to buy a national agenda, one county at a time. Soros’ money, she said, gives a voice to poor and minority communities often ignored in prosecutor races.
“I love it!” she told lawyers at a recent fundraiser. “If he didn’t take an interest in this campaign, it would be an even more uneven playing field.”
Alameda County Dist. Atty. Nancy O’Malley has expressed surprise that she’s a Soros target. The registered Democrat showcases endorsements not only from police leaders but also Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), organized labor and Democratic clubs.
Her opponent, civil rights lawyer Pamela Price, criticizes O’Malley’s ties with law enforcement, including political donations from police unions. Mailers sent by Soros’ PAC condemn “racist” stop-and-frisk policies and promise Price would end them. …
Soros, whose spending as of this week in California topped $2.7 million, is the most visible part of the national movement to sway county prosecutor races. Since 2014, he has spent more than $16 million in 17 county races in other states. His favored candidates won in 13.
One of them,
Philadelphia Dist. Atty. Larry Krasner, fired 31 prosecutors during his first week on the job in January. Calling for an end to “mass incarceration,” Krasner also ordered the rest of his office to stop prosecuting marijuana possession, steer more defendants toward diversion programs and announce at sentencing hearings how much a prison term would cost taxpayers.
After her 2016 victory in Houston, Kim Ogg announced she would no longer prosecute the possession of small amounts of marijuana. In Chicago, the Soros-backed candidate stopped filing felony theft charges for property worth less than $1,000.
The changes have outraged police and prosecutor associations. The head of the union for Los Angeles County prosecutors recently issued a statewide call for donations to counter Soros’ money in San Diego.
Michele Hanisee, the group’s president, said Soros and the ACLU call on prosecutors to “pick and choose” which laws they enforce.
… Many of those activities don’t show up in campaign finance reports. Federal tax laws allow nonprofit advocacy groups to hide the source of their money and to disclose summaries of their spending years after the fact. It will be 2020 before Californians will be able to see the full scale of the involvement in June’s elections.
But tax forms, grant documents and interviews by The Times and the Marshall Project show that a coalition of wealthy donors, private foundations and advocacy groups by last year had sunk $11 million into grants focused on district attorney elections across the nation. At the top is the Open Philanthropy Project, a foundation started by Moskovitz and Tuna, that from 2014 to 2017 directed $6.6 million toward “prosecutorial reform” or similar terms.
The Open Philanthropy Project of Facebook friend-of-Mark Dustin Moskowitz and his wife is, apparently, not legally related to Soros’s famous Open Society Foundation, but they seem to be on the same page a lot of the time, as you would expect from their similarity of names.
Major grant recipients include the ACLU. The group’s projects include national polling last year measuring voter interest in the county races, and score cards helping promote the liberal platforms of candidates in Texas and California. Soros gave $50 million to the ACLU in 2014 for work on criminal justice issues, though it’s unclear how much, if any, was earmarked for the prosecutor campaigns.
… In July, a similar group, the Tides Foundation, hosted campaign directors for Soros and the ACLU and racial-justice activists from Color of Change to talk about steering nonprofit money toward the cause. …
The 2016 election in Illinois of Kim Foxx as Cook County state’s attorney illustrated the power of combining national money and local field teams.
… Soros joined the fight. So did Color of Change, Move On and Democracy for America — national organizations also engaged in the California races. …
Foxx won in a landslide, becoming Cook County’s first black state’s attorney.
Foxx, of course, was the DA who dismissed charges against hate hoaxer Jussie Smollett.
…But other candidates have fallen short. Targeted incumbents in Arizona and Colorado survived challenges despite Soros’ heavily funding their opponents.
“We knew that George Soros couldn’t find Jefferson County on a map,” said Peter Weir, who heads the district attorney’s office in the suburbs west of Denver. “Justice was not for sale in Jefferson County.”
This story was published in partnership with the Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletter, or follow the Marshall Project on Facebook or Twitter.
The Marshall Project receives funding from the George Soros-funded Open Society Foundations and other organizations that support efforts to reform the state’s criminal justice system. Under terms of its funding, the Marshall Project has sole editorial control of its news reporting.
So that was the liberal, respectable Los Angeles Times just 2 years ago.
But now you should never mention the name George Soros.
Or you might attract the Eye of Soros.
And you wouldn’t want that to happen, now would you?
Also:
For decades, our founder George Soros and we at Open Society have supported the movement against systemic racism. We're building on this history by giving $220 million to build power in Black communities and promote bold new anti-racist policies. https://t.co/7voiy6OM5p
— Open Society Foundations (@OpenSociety) August 30, 2020
RACIAL JUSTICE MATTERS
JULY 13, 2020
Racial justice has always been central to the work and mission of the Open Society Foundations.
In the mid-1990s, after spending years working to reform U.S. drug policies that unfairly target Black Americans, George Soros and the Open Society Foundations expanded their racial justice ambitions in the United States by investing in the movement against systemic racism—from ending the drug war to reforming systems of education and criminal justice to securing the right to vote.
Now, in 2020, and in response to the unprecedented wave of activism and organizing for racial justice that’s spread across the world in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, Open Society is investing $220 million to build power in Black communities, promote bold new anti-racist policies in U.S. cities, and help first-time activists stay engaged. …
1998: Focusing on Black Americans in Baltimore
The Foundations launched the Open Society Institute–Baltimore—an innovative effort to address three intertwined problems affecting the city’s Black population: drug policy, high incarceration rates, and obstacles that impede Black youth in succeeding both in and outside of the classroom. To date, Open Society has invested over $113 million in Baltimore.
And that’s why, two decades later, Baltimore is an annual contender for the prestigious Murder Capital of America title.
… 2011: Fighting Stop and Frisk
Open Society helped develop Communities United for Police Reform, a New York City-based campaign to challenge—and substantially reduce—the police department’s racially discriminatory stop and frisk practices.
2014: Accelerating the End of Mass Incarceration
The Open Society Foundations gave a grant of $50 million to the ACLU to advance its efforts to reduce mass incarceration nationwide.
… 2020: Building Black Power
Open Society announced investments of $220 million to build power in Black communities, promote bold new anti-racist policies in U.S. cities, and help first-time activists stay engaged.
A woman sings while surrounded by fellow activists
LaTosha Brown, one of the cofounders of Black Voters Matter, sings during an event bringing together several grassroots organizations, in Greenville, Mississippi, on August 24, 2018. © Rogelio V. Solis/AP
Personally, my view of George Soros is, that while I disagree with him on much, he is a great man, a worthy foe. Sadly, he is now 90 and it is unlikely he has the strength of will and intellect anymore to change his mind and clean house among his underlings.
With the rise of anti-Americanism, antisemitism and anti-Israel/Zionist propaganda both on and offline, Lisa Michelle has also been an active advocate for America, Israel, and the Jewish community, managing various pro-Israel social networking forums and projects. Continue reading about Lisa Michelle here.
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