It isn’t news to anyone paying attention that there are people in America who are working against free speech. Up until the advent of talk radio, the mainstream media, which at that time was slightly left of center and is now seriously left of center, held a monopoly on the news. Americans saw what the mainstream media wanted them to see and heard opinions the mainstream media wanted them to hear. That changed with the advent and popularity of talk radio. The political left has been attempting to regain its monopoly ever since. The political left has maintained its monopoly of thought on almost all college campuses (which is troubling for the future of America), but they have failed to gain a foothold in the marketplace of talk radio and alternative news.<\/p>\n
Yesterday World Net Daily<\/a> posted an article about some information recently discovered by email hackers.<\/p>\n The article reports:<\/p>\n Among the 2,500 documents hacked from Soros\u2019 Open Society Foundation<\/a> are documents in which Soros\u2019 Open Society Foundation boasts of funding a minority activist campaign against advertisers that succeeded in ousting Glenn Beck<\/a> from Fox News<\/a> and Pat Buchanan<\/a> from MSNBC.<\/strong><\/p>\n In a memorandum dated March 27, 2012, Bill Vandenberg, the head of Soros\u2019 Democracy Fund, discusses a two-year grant to support the Color of Change<\/a>, an online organizing group described within the document as the largest online political activist group representing African-American issues.<\/strong><\/p>\n \n…Eric Boehlert, reporting in Media Matters \u2013 another Soros-funded, leftist organization \u2013 wrote on April 7, 2011,<\/a> in the wake of Beck\u2019s firing, that Color of Change \u201cwas advertising,\u201d while neglecting to report that Soros either funded the advertiser boycott campaign or participated in funding Color of Change through his Open Society Foundation.<\/strong><\/p>\n Another hacked Soros document, a memo from Diana Morris to the U.S. Programs Board of the Open Society Foundation, dated Jan. 30, 2012, makes clear the two-year grant discussed in Vandenberg\u2019s memo cited above was an extension of a pre-existing funding commitment.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIt is important to recognize U.S. Programs\u2019 primary role of granting money to other organizations,\u201d Morris wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWhile we undertake our own communications and advocacy efforts, we also invest in others to advance open society in the United States<\/a>. Some grantees, such as the Center or American Progress, Media Matters, and Color of Change, to name a few, are sophisticate communications machines, while other grantees scarcely engage in any communications efforts,\u201d Morris continued. \u201cThere was broad agreement in the working group that it is important to strengthen grantee communications efforts.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n It isn’t news to anyone paying attention that there are people in America who are working against free speech. Up until the advent of talk radio, the mainstream media, which at that time was slightly left of center and is … Continue reading