WorldNetDaily managing editor David Kupelian has already devoted an issue of his sparsely read Whistleblower magazine to attacking George Soros, rehashing pretty much every single right-wing attack line against him — and WND proper has peddled the lie that Soros was a Nazi collaborator in World War II. So when President Biden awarded Soros the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Kupelian was primed for a full-blown meltdown of Soros derangement, which happened in his Jan. 5 column:
It was big news that President Joe Biden awarded George Soros the Presidential Medal of Freedom over the weekend, the highest decoration a U.S. civilian can receive, intended for individuals who have made “an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.”
Past recipients have included great Americans from Helen Keller, Neil Armstrong and Martin Luther King Jr. to Antonin Scalia, Rush Limbaugh and Billy Graham.
So, what has George Soros done to deserve the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
Soros’ name is typically preceded by the words “billionaire philanthropist,” but that already poses a problem. Philanthropists donate money and property to needy individuals and institutions for the purpose of advancing human welfare, security and happiness. Indeed, with its anthro root, philanthropy literally means “love of mankind.”
For decades, however, Hungarian-born left-wing “billionaire philanthropist” George Soros – to get right down to it – has supported, advocated and bankrolled everything subversive, destructive and evil.
Of course — Kupelian thinks anyone who’s not as far-right as he is must be “destructive and evil.” He went on to once again copy-and-paste the well-worn right-wing laundry list of Soros attacks. He added a few bogus ones of his own:
He detests fair elections and truthful news coverage, and indeed funds organizations that daily attack the only free press America currently has (including Soros-funded attacks on WND and this writer).
The first link goes to an 2022 article on how Soros “just contributed tens of millions of dollars to a super PAC that will support Democrats in this year’s midterm elections and beyond” — which actually tells us that, as a participant in the process, he believes in fair elections. The second goes to a WND article parroting a Media Research Center complaint that dishonestly frames effort to curb disinformation as “censorship.” The last goes to an article at Media Matters — which received a single donation from Soros 15 years ago, making Kupelian’s claim that he’s the victim of a “Soros-funded attack” a bit of stretch. The “attack,” such as it is, involved accurately quoting an email sent to WND readers by Kupelian in which he tried to exploit false claims of election fraud in 2020 to raise money for WND.
Kupelian then rehashed more right-wing freakouts over Soros’ admitted grandiose statements about having something approaching godlike powers, which tried to tie this into his headline claim of puportig to offer “The shocking but real reason Biden awarded George Soros the Presidential Medal of Freedom”:
Not only has George Soros succumbed to a form of madness, but he’s been imposing his insanity on the United States of America. And that is precisely why Joe Biden awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom: Soros has mightily helped Biden (and the neo-Marxist lunatics behind him) push a once-great nation ever further into social, economic, governmental, legal, moral and spiritual chaos.
After all, Soros’ proclamation in his 1995 book, “Soros on Soros” – “I do not accept the rules imposed by others. … And in periods of regime change, the normal rules don’t apply” – amounts to a moral code of total lawlessness and blind arrogance. And it is precisely this “the-normal-rules-don’t-apply-to-me” philosophy that has been embraced not only by Soros, but by the entire America-destroying leftist ruling regime, on top of which the puppet Biden has been precariously perched for four years.
So, of course he must pay homage to his godfather and benefactor, George Soros – the super-wealthy atheist with “potent messianic fantasies” who admits he’s a “self-centered” “nut” with “fantasies about being God.”
This coming from the man who abandoned his proclaimed sense of morality to support the thrice-married adulterer Donald Turmp as president and whose website pushed the right-wing idea that the hand of God got Trump elected. And Kupelian rehashing right-wing conspiracy theories about Soros to manufacure partisan speculation does not in any way constitute the “real reason” Soros got the medal. After all, he quotes nobody who would actually know.