WorldNetDaily has its own particularly virulent strain of Soros Derangement Syndrome, which has symptoms like Joseph Farah desperately calling for Soros’ American citizenship to be revoked. Now, WND’s Art Moore has had a derangement-fueled freakout over a commentary Soros wrote, hyperbolically declaring in a July 6 “news” article:
On Independence Day, billionaire activist George Soros effectively declared war on the United States Supreme Court and the Republican Party
“The American public has been alarmed and aroused by the US Supreme Court’s growing extremism,” Soros wrote in a piece on his site Project Syndicate that was spotlighted by the Gateway Pundit.
“But voters need to recognize the Court’s radical majority for what it is: part of a carefully laid plan to turn the US into a repressive regime.”
Soros made no declaration of war, effectively or otherwise, and Moore knows it. He’s paid by WND to spread lies about the declared enemies of far-right politicians, and that’s what he’s doing here — and that’s why he’s citing the Gateway Pundit, a notoriously unreliable website (even more than WND) who’s currently being sued for defamation over the lies and hate it spread in promoting Donald Trump’s Big Lie about election fraud.
Moore made no attempt whatsoever to rebut or challenge anything Soros wrote; instead, he played whataboutism, declaring that “Meanwhile, violent crime has risen substantially in major cities with progressive district attorneys whose campaigns were bankrolled by Soros” — which has nothing to do with anything Soros wrote about.
Moore’s highly inflammatory article was accompanied by a poll asking, “Is George Soros evil?” Unsurprisingly 99 percent of the 1,395 respondents — a decidedly paltry number that seems to indicate WND’s declining readership — said yes.
UPDATE: Moore also got it wrong when he called Project Syndicate Soros’ website. In fact, it’s an independently run commentary and analysis site to which Soros is only one of several donors.