Reuters has a new story that breathlessly concludes that George Soros is behind the entire #OccupyWallStreet venture because - wait for it - some kid saw a poster in a cafe criticizing Wall Street, the poster was made by a small group of arch-liberals in Canada, the arch-liberals in Canada receive a small amount of their funding (less than 5%) from the Tides foundation, and the Tides foundation receives some of their funding from George Soros.
Get it?
Reuters did forget to mention that George Soros is a Jew and has horns, but it's implied.
I'm astounded by how bad this article by Mark Egan and Michelle Nichols really is. You have to read it. They actually quote Rush Limbaugh as proof that George Soros is behind #OccupyWallStreet.
Pressed further for his views on the movement and the protesters, Soros refused to be drawn in. But conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh summed up the speculation when he told his listeners last week, "George Soros money is behind this."Then they go on to give their "proof," that some kid was inspired by a random poster in a cafe. Well I'm sold. Egan and Nichols go on to explain that Soros appears to agree with some of the opinions of the protesters, so he simply must be in cahoots with them.
Like the protesters, Soros is no fan of the 2008 bank bailouts and subsequent government purchase of the toxic sub-prime mortgage assets they amassed in the property bubble.Holy cow! You mean the protesters aren't big fans of the Wall Street bailout and George Soros also isn't a fan? That kind of deductive logic deserves a Pulitzer:
"A" dislikes something incredibly unpopular and "B" also dislikes something incredibly unpopular, so A must be allied with B.
Yeah, there's that. Or perhaps A and B simply agree with the majority of the country.
This article reads like Joe McCarthy wrote it.
More important than who's behind the #OccupyWallStreet protests, I'd like to know who's behind this Reuters' "story"?
