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If you say that billionaire George Soros and his empire is trying to shape American politics by injecting scads of money into it, you\u2019re portrayed as some kind of hyperventilating, hyper-fixated conspiracy theorist who sees shadowy intent behind everything the Hungarian-born financier and his Open Society Foundations does.<\/p>\n

Unless, of course, you\u2019re a representative of the Open Society Foundations who notes that Soros\u2019 empire is injecting scads of money into American politics \u2014 while insisting it\u2019s \u201cnonpartisan.\u201d Then, it\u2019s just news.<\/p>\n

According to an Associated Press<\/a> article published Tuesday, the Open Society Foundations<\/a> \u2014 now run by George\u2019s son Alex Soros \u2014 says \u201cit will commit $50 million to increase civic engagement among women and young people over the next three years as part of its strategy to support democracy in the U.S.,\u201d the wire service reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the early stages of the Trump administration, philanthropic support for organizations seeking to protect and defend progressive policy wins and to counter democratic suppression efforts surged,\u201d Alex Soros said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut groups dedicated to the civic engagement of women and young people did not see similar increases in levels of support.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the AP, Soros\u2019<\/a> message was that \u201cadvocacy from women and younger generations is essential to stopping the advancement of authoritarianism.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, apparently with a straight face \u2014 I can\u2019t see behind her laptop, after all \u2014 the AP\u2019s Thalia Beaty actually typed this out: \u201cThe new funding is explicitly not timed to influence the 2024 presidential election, said Laleh Ispahani, the executive director of Open Society-U.S., emphasizing that the funding is nonpartisan.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want them at the forefront of informing a new agenda for any administration,\u201d Ispahani said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want them to be there if there is a resistance again. They are important no matter what.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s absolutely \u201cnonpartisan.\u201d They\u2019re going to provide $50 million to groups ranging from leftist to far-leftist to are-you-kidding-me-I-can\u2019t-believe-you-could-go-this-far-left-leftist.<\/p>\n

Again, I\u2019m not sure if Beaty has a wicked sense of humor or is the biggest na\u00eff working for straight news on the AP or any wire service<\/a>, because after echoing Ispahani\u2019s contention that the money wasn\u2019t intended to influence the 2024 presidential election and that it was being disbursed in a totally nonpartisan fashion \u2014 then including her \u201cresistance\u201d quote which should have been dispositive of the fact that was a farcical lie of astronomical proportions \u2014 she listed some of the groups that will benefit from this largess.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrantees include Planned Parenthood, the National Women\u2019s Law Center, the Alliance for Youth Action, Run for Something, and Power Rising, a member of the Black Women\u2019s Leadership Collective, which led a campaign to support the nomination of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court last year,\u201d the piece read.<\/p>\n

Really, she could have just stopped at \u201c Planned Parenthood<\/a>,\u201d and we would have all gotten the idea. It probably didn\u2019t hurt either that Beaty\u2019s piece noted several paragraphs prior that OSF\u2019s \u201cwide range of issues\u201d they seek to meddle in include \u201creproductive justice, climate change, voting and gun safety.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also cited Shawnda Chapman, who is described as the \u201cdirector of innovative grantmaking and research for the Ms. Foundation for Women.\u201d Research by Chapman\u2019s group \u201cadvocating for more financial support for women and gender nonconforming people of color leading nonprofits on the frontlines of social justices issues\u201d was asserted as proof of how urgently this $50 million injection into the American political system \u2014 but in a way that was totally nonpartisan,<\/em> everyone! \u2014 was needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this moment, when women and women\u2019s bodies and gender nonconforming folks are being attacked on a daily basis, are they willing to move 10 percent to us?\u201d said Teresa Younger, the president and CEO of the Ms. Foundation, speaking of her organization and others like it.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre the bodies of black and brown women and gender nonconforming folks valuable enough for them to continue to feel uncomfortable about the dollars that are sitting in their endowments and move those dollars to the field?\u201d<\/p>\n

I quote so heavily from this article because it\u2019s half-wire service report, half-Babylon Bee<\/a> piece. I was reading one of P.G. Wodehouse\u2019s \u201cJeeves and Wooster\u201d novels in bed this morning, along with some old \u201cCalvin and Hobbes\u201d strips, and no piece of media I\u2019ve consumed today has induced involuntary snickering on my part as much as Beaty\u2019s piece did. Sadly, I don\u2019t believe that was her intent.<\/p>\n

And by the way, all this talk about \u201cnonpartisan\u201d funding on the Soros\u2019 part includes prior commitments \u201clike $220 million for black-led organizations working for racial justice, $100 million to Latino organizations to support civic engagement and immigrants\u2019 rights and $52.6 million for organizations that work in Indigenous and Asian communities,\u201d as Beaty puts it.<\/p>\n

This also ignores the Soros\u2019 nakedly partisan history of dumping money onto progressive causes in order to affect radical change, most notably in attempting an overhaul of the U.S. criminal justice system by electing prosecutors who don\u2019t believe it\u2019s their job to, um, prosecute people not named Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Somewhat mercifully, a few of these prosecutors have been relieved of their jobs, either by voters<\/a> \u2014 witness Chesa Boudin<\/a>, the former district attorney who was so ineffective in his post that the voters of San Francisco<\/em> got fed up with his progressivism and recalled him \u2014 or by governors<\/a> sick of seeing jurisdictions go to pot under these purportedly enlightened folk.<\/p>\n

However, it\u2019s a mockery of real journalism to say that this money is being spent in a \u201cnonpartisan\u201d fashion \u2014 or that the OSF and Soros<\/a> have ever been nonpartisan players on the American political scene, or that they\u2019re not trying to influence the outcome of the 2024 election. Even a Brezhnev-era editor for Pravda might find these prevarications a bit much to stomach. But Thalia Beaty and her gatekeepers at the AP either 1) really think their readers are that dim or 2) are laughing their posteriors off by passing along the obvious lies of Soros and the OSF and reporting them as straight news.<\/p>\n

I hope it\u2019s the second. I fear it\u2019s the first.<\/p>\n

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