The Media Research Center’s professional George Soros hater, Joseph Vazquez, peddled his kneejerk Soros-hate all through the summer. He had his own Mamdani meltdown in a July 14 post:
Zohran Mamdani, the Democrat Party’s [sic] anti-Semitic, socialist nominee for mayor of New York City, apparently proved he’s extremist enough to earn the backing of the political machine of America’s most notorious billionaire.
The New York Post reported July 12 that George Soros poured $37 million into a litany of leftist groups backing Mamdani, which is ironic given the latter’s phony, public dog-and-pony show disdain for billionaires. As the Post summarized, “[I]t’s unlikely [Mamdani would be] be the front-runner to become the Big Apple’s next mayor if it wasn’t for” the left’s “kingmaker” Soros.
The Soros fortune went into a collective of at least 10 groups behind get-out-the-vote efforts that helped Mamdani upset former New York governor Andrew Cuomo in the NYC Democratic primary, including the infamous Working Families Party (WFP). MRC Business profiled WFP in its most recent report documenting George and his son Alex’s financing of the radical, global climate change movement.
Yes, Vazquez would think that trying to save the planet is “radical.” And as we noted, Vazquez co-wrote that report he’s touting with Matt Palumbo, who’s best known for being paid by corrupt billionaire Guo Wengui to write propaganda that was in turn given paid placement in right-wing media.
He added that “Soros’s own anti-Israel political stance is well-documented” — but cited only his discredited claim that Soros wrote an op-ed in support of Hamas, which required Vazquez to dishonestly take Soros’ words out of context. Still, Vazquez concluded by huffing that “It looks like the Soros machine has found its lackey to embed its anti-Israel extremism into the NYC framework for the foreseeable future.”
In a July 24 post, Vazquez whined that Soros funded a fact-checker:
It’s bad enough that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting had been funneling millions in tax dollars to leftist propaganda mills NPR and PBS over the decades. But what if we were to tell you that the CPB funded one of America’s “fact-checking” giants backed by George Soros responsible for censoring conservatives on social media platforms for years? Because that’s exactly what we’re about to tell you.
MRC Business discovered that the CPB, which is fully funded by tax dollars through federal appropriations, gave $599,330 to the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in 2023.
Poynter, which runs the left-tilting International Fact-Checking Network, was heavily invested in helping Big Tech platforms like Facebook widely censor supposedly “troublesome” opinions on the COVID-19 virus, amongst other topics, like elections and abortion.
What’s worse is that liberal billionaires like George Soros, eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar and others are also some of IFCN’s most infamous financiers, further compounding the First Amendment concerns that government funds could have potentially been used to silence Americans.
[…]So Poynter, in effect, was getting CPB money while training personnel of lefty publicly-funded media to help expand their digital capabilities online, while it was busy working to censor conservative voices — er — online.
Vazquez cited no actual evidence of anyone at Poynter “censoring” anyone, let alone targeting his fellow right-wingers — he’s mostly complaining that right-wing lies about COVID were called out for what they were — and he offered no evidence whatsoever that any Soros money to Poynter went toward the fact-checking operation.
Vazquez raged three days later:
Poynter’s head of the censorial International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) and former PolitiFact Editor-in-Chief Angie Drobnic Holan has just been elected to the leadership cabal of a globalist media behemoth financed by leftist billionaire George Soros.
Poynter proudly announced July 24 that IFCN director Holan was “elected to the Steering Committee of the Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD), the largest global community of journalism support and media development organization.”
Holan is apparently one of 17 newly elected members to the Committee who will begin their four-year term in November. The Committee serves as the “leadership body for the network, setting its strategic direction and representing its diverse membership.”
Again, Vazquez cited no evidence that IFCN is “censorial.” Instead, he grumbled that “GFMD in particular has a troublesome history of pushing leftist extremism,” but again offered no evidence of that, unless he thinks that fact-checking his fellow right-wingers is somehow “leftist extremism” (which, given his employer’s ideology, he apparently does).
Vazquez manufactured more Soros-rage in a July 28 post:
The “prestige press” of America and Europe is all too willing to repeat radical accusations that Israel is currently guilty of committing “genocide.” Nothing’s too inflammatory when Israel is the target.
As July comes to a close, The New York Times, CNN, The Associated Press, The Guardian, The Financial Times, Reuters and France24 all carelessly regurgitated the ramblings of leftist groups B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights–Israel to that Netanyahu’s government was engaged in “genocide.”
Of course, nowhere did they mention that anti-Israel fanatic billionaire George Soros was funding these groups. Seems significant, given that it was liberal Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz himself who wrote in 2023 that “no single person has done more to damage Israel’s standing in the world, especially among so-called progressives, than George Soros.”
At no point did Vazquez actually address the “genocide” finding, let alone try to disprove it, but continued to rage at Soros and the groups that made the determination.