Echoing Lyndon LaRouche, Horowitz and Poe smear 14-year-old George Soros..

[bridgit]

as Nazi "collaborator"; new book features doctored quotes, factual errors

Summary: Echoing the rantings of political extremist Lyndon LaRouche and his followers, David Horowitz and Richard Poe charge in their new book that George Soros was a Nazi "collaborator in fascist Hungary" and "survived by assimilating to Nazism" as a 14-year-old boy. Horowitz and Poe further smear Soros and other progressives by doctoring or distorting quotes and falsely or misleadingly portraying events and statements.

In a book to be released August 8 that otherwise recycles the authors' old attacks from the discredited, Richard Mellon Scaife-backed right-wing website FrontpageMag.com, David Horowitz and Richard Poe newly charge that progressive financier, philanthropist, and political activist George Soros was a Nazi "collaborator in fascist Hungary" and "survived by assimilating to Nazism" as a 14-year-old boy.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200608020003

[JVS]

1. I don't care what any 14 year old kids were uo to in WWII

this goes for writers, popes, and financiers

[bridgit]

2. true, these worms have turned i hear you saying...but they are still worms

:patriot:

[Midlodemocrat]

3. I have a 14yo son. I wouldn't hold him accountable as an adult

for ANYTHING he does as a teenager.

They gave fuckface a pass for his 'youthful indiscretions' as a 40yo.

And, in the event Scaife becomes as philanthropic as Soros, maybe I'll listen to his vitriol. He's a complete asshat.

[bridgit]

5. it is stunning, Horowitz is to me a particular scurge...

[nancyr]

4. Fascist Hungary

I believe the fascists in Hungary evolved into the right-wingers of today. Painting Soros with that brush just doesn't jibe. I have a friend who grew up in Hungary during the war and he doesn't even believe the Halocaust ever happened and that the Nazis did nothing wrong. He is a rabid Rupublican. Just another example of pots calling the kettle black.

[bridgit]

7. pots, kettles, black = you got it...

:hi:

[JHB]

9. As I recall, Hungarian Nazis were Bush supporters...

...along with some of their East European brethren. Was a minor scandal for Poppy Bush (which should have been bigger).

[bridgit]

10. hm...

[madrchsod]

6. all youth had to join some form of "nazi youth" groups

otherwise their families were placed at risk for the train ride to the camps. these writers have no credibility in the real world of grown-ups.

[bridgit]

8. also too true...

thank you this your post...

[Norquist Nemesis]

11. Geez! Projecting much?

These people really need to look in the mirror once in a while.

[bridgit]

13. these people are still lending new meaning to the word 'demonize'...

and they will not stop for their own common good let alone ours is my thought

[unpossibles]

12. does anyone else get sick of this

hypocritical bashing of anyone left of Cheney?

[bridgit]

14. yup, that would be no-less than me, i am sick AND tired of it...