Coulter suggests Soros, "the head of" the Democratic Party, "collaborate[d] with the Nazis"
March 05, 2009 10:04 pm ET
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Previously:
- Coulter: Dems have "a Nazi collaborator, literally -- international financier George Soros -- funding their phony grassroots organizations"
- TNR's Peretz cropped transcript to support his smear of Soros as "a young cog in the Hitlerite wheel"
- KSFO program director retracts Soros Nazi smear: "These statements are not accurate, and KSFO regrets that they were broadcast"
I hope she shaves her armpits.
Otherwise we'll find out whether she's a natural blond or not.
The only one who could would be Soros.
I do find it interesting that the Republicans/Rethuglicans/Republicraps, etc. have found the de facto head of the Democrat Party in George Soros. They're now trying to paint him into the "Blue" Rush Limbaugh
He sure did. And he wasn't thirteen years old when WWII ended, like Soros was.
The Reichwing has been trying to make a bogeyman of Soros for years now. It doesn't work because not one in 1000 Americans has any idea who Soros is, and even fewer care.
Earth to Reichwing: Not every liberal with money is a Nazi or a Commie or a Socialist, ok? Just call Soros a "Traitor to his Class," and get it over with, please.
JJamelle,
You are correct.... George Soros was born in 1930... if we are to assume that he collaborated with the Nazi's ... he would have done so at the ripe old age of ... not older than 15 years of age.. since the war ended in 1945.
If we are to take Ann Coultergiest at her word... and he did work with the Nazi's... he did so AFTER the war was over , at least at an age he would have been mature enough to have been responsible for...
Unlike Prescott Bush who DID work illegally with the Nazi's DURING the war as a full management representative of his bank! But never prosecuted! Lucky us that that not occurring gave us his grand kid for 8 long years!!
But somehow I doubt we or Mr. Soros will be hearing any kind of an apology from the man... er woman... whatever it is?
Ann Coulter is a lying douche. George Soros worked to UNDERMINE the Nazis.
Soros, a Jew, was thirteen and living in Hungary when it was occupied by the Nazis. Soros was told to report to the Jewish Council, a Nazi organization formed to carry out antisemitic activities. When he got there, he was given a list of names and told to hand deliver messages to the individuals on the list informing them to report to the Jewish Council office.
Soros showed the list and the messages to his father, who recognized the names as those of Jewish lawyers. Soros' father then told him to deliver the notices, but to warn the recipients that if they did report as ordered, they would be deported or worse.
After Soros finished this two-day task, his father hid him from Nazi repercussions by paying a non-Jewish Hungarian government official to call Soros his godson and allow the teenaged boy to live with him.
After the war Soros moved to England, and then the United States.
So, Soros is not a Nazi collaborator. If anything, while still a naive teenager, he worked to prevent the Nazis from carrying out harmful policies against his fellow Hungarian Jews.
Now, if Coulter wants to find a REAL Nazi collaborator, she might try looking up Prescott Bush, the father of George H.W. Bush and grandfather of George W. Bush.
The Hungarian government official that Soros' father paid to house George Soros and call him his "godson" was doing the confiscating. George Soros was NOT a Nazi collaborator -- he was a teenaged boy who was pretending he wasn't Jewish so that he could stay alive. To call someone who experienced the excesses of Nazism first hand a collaborator is beyond shameful. To twist his words in support of your lie is even more egregious.
Kroft: “My understanding is that you went … went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.”
Soros: “Yes, that’s right. Yes.”
Soros' own words, scooter.
No, you deceitfully cropped the interview. Soros says just a couple of comments later "...whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away. So the - I had no role in taking away that property."
He was not a Nazi collaborator. He was a very young teenager, trying to save his own life by going along with someone who did aid in harming Jews, but he was not a collaborator.
Coulter is lying.
Here's a link.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200702050005
I hope to God you just misunderstood Soros's position during the Holocaust, and your disgusting accusation of a frightened 13-year old boy who has the audacity of wanting to live to adulthood is based on ignorance, and not maliciousness.
If I am wrong, and your slander is intentional, then you will have to look elsewhere for forgiveness, and I'm left wondering how you sleep at night.
Oh puhleez! I know Soros bankrolled Media Matters and he's very precious to you all, but the man helped the Nazis victimize other Jews...yes, he was a Nazi collaborator. This money changer also shorted the British pound, nearly bringing down the Malasian gov't and causing great chaos and suffering. He's one of the most evil, corrupt men alive today.
Ann Coulter got it 100% right, as usual.
Guess we'll have to walk away. Your brain is simply broken.
You have lived through the utter failure and annihilation of conservatism, and you still say Coulter is usually right. Maybe that's some sort of defense mechanism, but I wouldn't know. My party hasn't destroyed the world.
Bobo's brain is made up entirely of bumper stickers, clearly.
I think he has to be kidding, and this is just a sad cry for help.
George Soros is not exactly the greatest man in the world when it comes to his finances, but he was NOT a Nazi Collaborator by any means.
Since you probably didn't go to the link that we've provided you, I thought I'd post it myself.
As explained in Michael T. Kaufman's biography of Soros, Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire (Knopf, 2002), Soros' father attempted to protect his family from Nazi persecution by paying an employee of Hungary's Ministry of Agriculture named Baumbach to take in Soros, "ostensibly as his godson." Soros accompanied his "godfather" as he went to oversee the confiscation of property from Hungarian Jews. Peretz, however, cropped out a key portion from the transcript of a December 20, 1998, 60 Minutes segment in which interviewer Steve Kroft asked Soros about those activities. While Kroft noted that Soros "went out with this protector of yours," Peretz left that out of the transcript, suggesting that Soros, at the age of 14, went out on his own and, in Kroft's words, "helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews." From Peretz's column:
What makes Soros's remark even more twisted is that he himself experienced something of Nazism. He was 14 when the Nazis entered Budapest. On December 20, 1998, there appeared this exchange between Soros and Steve Kroft on "60 Minutes":
Kroft: "You're a Hungarian Jew ..."
Soros: "Mm-hmm."
Kroft: "... who escaped the Holocaust ..."
Soros: "Mm-hmm."
Kroft: "... by posing as a Christian."
Soros: "Right."
Kroft: "And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps."
Soros: "Right. I was 14 years old. And I would say that that's when my character was made."
Kroft: "In what way?"
Soros: "That one should think ahead. One should understand that -- and anticipate events and when, when one is threatened. It was a tremendous threat of evil. I mean, it was a -- a very personal threat of evil."
Kroft: "My understanding is that you went ... went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews."
Soros: "Yes, that's right. Yes."
Kroft: "I mean, that's -- that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?"
Soros: "Not, not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child you don't ... you don't see the connection. But it was -- it created no -- no problem at all."
Kroft: "No feeling of guilt?"
Soros: "No."
Kroft: "For example, that, 'I'm Jewish, and here I am, watching these people go. I could just as easily be these, I should be there.' None of that?"
Soros: "Well, of course, ... I could be on the other side or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sense that I shouldn't be there, because that was -- well, actually, in a funny way, it's just like in the markets -- that is I weren't there -- of course, I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would - would -- would be taking it away anyhow. And it was the -- whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away. So the -- I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of guilt."
Here is the unedited text of the 60 Minutes interview:
KROFT: In what way?
SOROS: That one should think ahead. One should understand and -- and anticipate events and when -- when one is threatened. It was a tremendous threat of evil. I mean, it was a -- a very personal experience of evil.
KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.
SOROS: Yes. Yes.
KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.
SOROS: Yes. That's right. Yes.
Just in case you missed it:
Your transcript:
Kroft: "My understanding is that you went ... went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews."
Unedited Transcript
KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.
SOROS: Yes. Yes.
KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.
SOROS: Yes. That's right. Yes.
KROFT: No feeling of guilt?
Mr. SOROS: No.
KROFT: For example that, 'I'm Jewish and here I am, watching these people go. I could just as easily be there. I should be there.' None of that? Mr.
SOROS: Well, of course I c–I could be on the other side or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sense that I shouldn't be there, because that was–well, actually, in a funny way, it's just like in markets–that if I weren't there–of course, I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would–would–would be taking it away anyhow. And it was the–whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away. So the–I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of guilt.
If you're going to be intellectually dishonest. At least include the entire quote. I know Ann Coulter is very important and precious to you, but to live and propagate a lie as insidious as this really sinks you low on the totem pole of humanity.
Mann Coulter, the “Nazi” label didn’t work during the campaign so it certainly isn’t going to work now that the “Nazi” you tried to portray is THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, you dimwit! You folks on the far right need to get some new material to fling at the Dems. The old stuff just doesn’t cut it!
Pre-war German National Socialism was foremost an economic policy, as I've outlined briefly above. It was decidedly left wing (nationalizing the banks, railroads, oil companies, coal companies, auto companies, etc., national health care, gun control, huge "make work" projects). The only political party to the left of the Nazis were the communists, and there were about two dozen political parties in Germany when Hitler was duking it out in the beer halls. So, when you say "Hitler was 'right wing'", the obvious reply is "compared to what?"
That Hitler was a racist and an authoritarian who silenced his opponents, jailed or killed them is not "right wing", unless you're ready to claim Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao were also closet Republicans??
Again, try actually researching the basics of National Socialism instead of just parroting back what some pothead college prof told you in polisci 1....you'll be less likely to embarrass yourself.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.-George Santayana, 1863–1953, American philosopher
The Nazi's allied themselves with facists. They went to war with communist Russia. They destroyed unions and confiscated their funds. They purged leftists from the party.
Stop being a demagogue for five minutes and educate yourself.
This is coming from an uneducated dolt who is parroting back the delusional rantings of Weiner-Savage and Mann Coulter. Congrats.
It's better to remain silent and risk being taken for an idiot, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt-- Calvin Coolidge
Words to live by. Try to keep your mouth shut until you find something to say that doesn't scream MORON ALERT to this entire community.
We won't be holding our breaths.
Please provide proof of this "fact". People with graduate degree or higher educations were more likley to vote for Obama and Kerry than McGrampa and dubyah. Oops. Bozo is debunked....again.
Ugh, you are beneath contempt. And to call you beyond stupid, and crass beyond belief, would be complimenting you.
No one who knows anything about Nazi Germany could compare what happened during that tragic period in history to what Obama is doing now. I hope to God you are just a little boy and there is time for intellectual growth. And if you are an adult, I pray you don't breed.
You must be a source of constant shame to your family.
Even if I am political.
seesh!
Fascism and Nazism are right wing ideologies. That's why the Americans who admired and supported Mussolini and Hitler before World War 2 were Republicans. Prescott Bush, Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford...
Mussolini was a life-long communist, and Hitler was socialist. These are historical facts, not subject to debate.
IThose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.-George Santayana, 1863–1953, American philosopher
"In 1926, the Fascist government of Benito Mussolini outlawed the PCI (Italian Communist Party). Although forced underground, the PCI maintained a clandestine presence within Italy during the years of the Fascist regime."
Mussolini was a Communist, huh? FAIL.
Oh, PLEASE!
Who was it that argued for the "unitary executive", gave us warrantless wiretaps, extraordinary rendition, the leaking of a covert CIA agent's identity, the threatening of journalists from the White House press secretary's podium, a vice president who was neither executive or legislative but was allowed to be completely secret, the expulsion from Bush rallies and arrest of peaceful citizens simply for wearing t shirts or displaying bumper stickers mildly critical of the George W. Bush and his administration, Congressional resolutions condemning advocacy groups who were critical of Bush-loyal military leaders, used the Justice Department to bring bad faith prosecutions against Democrats whole ignoring evidence of crimes by Republicans, rigged elections and redistricting to put Republicans into office, and on and on and ON!?
There WAS an administration that wanted to establish a dictatorship and outlaw opposing points of view and took covert and overt steps to make it happen. It was Bush's. Not Obama's.
Once again, Bozo proves she's not a student of history.
Try again.... (here's a hint: GWB) Dolt.
Now as far as Ann; why is it that he consistently is given day passes from the sanitarium without the requisite medicines? You can clearly see how this impacts his behavior and one can, I think, safely assume that once he reviews the video tape this causes horrible embarrassment and untold psychological harm (The data are in).
Anyway, can someone please find the person responsible for his medication and have him fired!!!
Coulter suggests Soros, "the head of" the Democratic Party, "collaborate[d] with the Nazis"
You mean like the traitor Prescott Bush who not only collaberated with the Nazi's but aided and abetted them?