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Glenn Beck’s three-part Fox News series about George Soros in 2010: “The Puppet Master.”
Soros
was very rich and world-famous before the series aired. He had been
sometimes portrayed as a hero, such as for spending billions of dollars
on foundations promoting democracy in Eastern Europe. And he had been
sometimes portrayed as a villain, as when he earned a fortune by
speculating against the British pound in the 1990s.
But
Beck turned Soros into a cartoon nightmare — using actual puppets as
props as he told Fox News viewers that Soros was funding a vast web of
liberal organizations and trying to “form a shadow government, using
humanitarian aid as a cover.”
Beck’s
treatment of Soros’ childhood was bizarre. In the second episode of the
series, Soros was called “the son of Orthodox Jews.” In the third, Beck
said, “his mother was wildly anti-Semitic” — a Nazi sympathizer who had
perverted her son.
“He was a Nazi collaborator,”
Jones told his viewers a few weeks after Election Day. “He went around
and helped round up thousands of people, stole hundreds of millions of
dollars, reportedly. ... He got off on it. The guy is fundamentally
evil.”
From Alex Jones to
actor James Woods. From James Woods to anonymous underground forums,
where someone pasted George Soros’ names onto an old photo of a Nazi
S.S. officer and sent it out for viral distribution.
