The speaker of the house of representatives recently called George Soros a drug lord.
“You know, I don’t know where George Soros gets his money,” Hastert said on Fox News Sunday. “I don’t know where — if it comes overseas or from drug groups or where it comes from.”
As I read this, I realize that he didn’t actually call him a drug lord, but he certainly insinuated it. That seems to be the primary tactic of the current administration… insinuation.
Anyway, what did Soros do? He sent a letter to Hastert demanding an apology.
Do you think he’ll get it?
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that he will give the apology. You wanna know why? Well, the subtext of this letter is “Apologize, or we’ll be discussing this in court and in the national media for the next couple of months.” Hastert deep down knows that what he said is not true and he has nothing to back it up with. The last thing the party needs is a whole bunch of media coverage of Soros. Cause then people will realize that he’s not a crackpot… just a pissed off rich guy that realllllly hates Bush.
But seriously, what do you think?
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this is from an article about the hastert/soros debacle that appeared in The Hill newspaper. i can’t fucking believe how insane republicans get. how can anyone take them seriously? it’s ludicrous.
“Conservatives have sought to discredit Soros by attacking his foreign and Jewish roots and his support of liberal causes … ‘No other single person represents the symbol and the substance of globalism more than this Hungarian-born descendant of Shylock. He is the embodiment of the Merchant from Venice,’ wrote GOPAC, an organization that helps elect GOP candidates, on its website last year.”
“In William Shakespeare’s ‘Merchant of Venice,’ Shylock was the Jewish banker whose venality would not stop him from cutting human flesh to repay loans.”
see? insane.
response from hastert:
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=35526
Nice one Mark. Not the “apology” that I was expecting, but certianly a step (sort of) in that (general) direction.
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