Blowing Smoke - Michael Wolraich [76]
And once again, the “international Jewish financier” raised his ugly schnoz. According to Poe:
[George Soros] seems to operate today as something of a lone wolf, answering to no particular master and loyal to no one—but still willing to lend a hand in geopolitical intrigues by this or that government, provided there is money to be made.35
Only this time, the “Jewish” bit was left out. Indeed, Poe presented Soros as a self-hating Jew and an atheist whose animosity toward President Bush was driven by a profound hatred for religion. In other words, Soros was one of those “Jews who are not Jews.”bk
“The Guy That James Bond Goes After”
Bill O’Reilly must have read Richard Poe’s article with deep skepticism. He invited the award-winning journalist into the no-spin zone for a hard-hitting interview in which he pummeled Poe with tough questions like, “If Soros is what you say he is, and I have no reason to doubt it. I mean, what I know about the man pretty much matches up to what you found out.”36 (With the right inflection, that statement could be construed as a tough question.)
Of course, O’Reilly is a very fair, very balanced journalist. He has repeatedly voiced his opposition to liberal “smear tactics” and “character assassination.” And so it was with great fairness and consideration of the facts that Bill O’Reilly presented his opinion of George Soros—over and over and over again. In O’Reilly’s words, George Soros is a big left-wing loon, a total radical, Mr. Socialism, as far left as you can get without moving to Havana, definitely anti-Israel, a crusading atheist, a dogmatic globalist, an incredible imbecile, the most powerful Democrat in the country, the Godfather, the single most dangerous individual in the United States of America, a real sleazoid, the guy that James Bond goes after—“They ought to hang this Soros guy.”37 (Had O’Reilly lived in the Middle Ages, he might have had a respectable career as a Latin demon-cursor.)
Not that O’Reilly would ever malign Soros’s character. He explained, “I don’t go after him. I tell you what exactly George Soros is doing. All right? And then I back it up with facts. But I don’t say George Soros is evil or he’s a terrible guy.”38 Unlike, say, the guy that James Bond goes after.bl
The thing about the guy that James Bond goes after is not just that he’s an evil guy. Evil intentions alone would not prompt MI6 to send its most debonair spy to infiltrate some sleazoid’s secret lair underneath a volcano. The ideal James Bond villain has four essential elements:
1. A cunning plot to destroy the world
2. Immense financial resources for building sadistic weaponry of massive proportions
3. A crew of villainous collaborators
4. A fluffy cat
George Soros has llamas, but other than that, he’d make a perfect Bond villain.39 Let’s break down points one to three.
1. A cunning plot to destroy the world
Here is O’Reilly’s full James Bond villain quote:
I think he’s got some crazy vision of some one-world insanity. He’s like the guy that James Bond goes after and slides down the volcano and blows up. That’s who he is . . . There’s more to it than money for him. He doesn’t like our country and our system.40
Okay, so Soros doesn’t want to destroy the world exactly; he just wants to transform it according to his crazy vision. As we saw in chapter 1, he has a “secret plan” to destroy Christmas in order to replace the current system with a “brave new progressive world.” That was 2005. In 2006, O’Reilly claimed that Soros’s secular