Having money is not the issue, rex. It's what you do with it that matters. Do you use it to make the world a better place? Or do you use it to selfishly satisfy your own personal whims at the expense of others less fortunate?
I'm sure george soros is doing a bang-up job of making the world a better place.
What does whoever that is have to do with anything I said?
I hope you're not thinking with a partisan brain there...
first of all, I've said it before and I'll say it again. it is thoroughly impossible as a human being to be completely unaffected by bias. thinking you are just means you need to brush up on being able to detect it - hell, everyone's a fuckin professional when it comes to seeing bias in
other people! and let's not even bother bringing party into this, unless you're really interested in a point-for-point rhetorical analysis of your use of sloganeering over the course of this thread - and I'm a
friend, man!
to answer your question, billionaire george soros is an 'economist' and venture capitalist (though he'd
never admit to it) who has been credited with almost singlehandedly 'destroying the british pound' through short-selling and speculative sabotage. he's originally from... somewhere in eastern europe, can't be bothered to look up where right this moment. wondy will gladly inform you that he is the mind and checkbook behind media matters and moveon.org, but those are only his most visible politically-oriented hobbies.
come on, man, he's an eastern european billionaire with a palindromatic surname accused of destroying national currencies! that just
screams bond villain! anyway, my point is that he's one of the richest men around, and just as involved on wall street and in washington and in the media as anyone out there, yet his support of left-leaning media outlets generally earns him a free pass when it comes time for the useful idiots to start bashing anyone who makes more money than the parents who paid for their six-year journey to a gender studies degree with a GPA scraping the bottom of the three-point range.
