Leak: Soros funded ousting of Glenn Beck from Fox News

wnd.com

Among the 2,500 documents hacked from Soros’ Open Society Foundation are documents in which Soros’ Open Society Foundation boasts of funding a minority activist campaign against advertisers that succeeded in ousting Glenn Beck from Fox News and Pat Buchanan from MSNBC.

In a memorandum dated March 27, 2012, Bill Vandenberg, the head of Soros’ Democracy Fund, discusses a two-year grant to support the Color of Change...

In the memo, Vandenberg says a reason for continuing to fund Color of Change is that the group through implementing successful political communications campaigns “has held media companies accountable for derogatory actions, including successful campaigns to oust Glenn Beck from the Fox Network and Pat Buchanan from MSNBC.”...

The memo appears to confirm the suspicion among conservatives that Soros has funded aggressive attacks on advertisers to silence effective conservative commentators.

$40 million attack

Eric Boehlert, reporting in Media Matters – another Soros-funded, leftist organization – wrote on April 7, 2011, in the wake of Beck’s firing, that Color of Change “was instrumental in launching the Beck ad boycott that cost Fox some $40 million in advertising,” while neglecting to report that Soros either funded the advertiser boycott campaign or participated in funding Color of Change through his Open Society Foundation...

In June 2011, when Glenn Beck was fired from his highly popular, hour-long weekday show on Fox News, the Huffington Post attributed the firing to “an aggressive campaign [that] caused up to 400 advertisers to drop their support of the show,” although news sources at the time did not identify Soros as the culprit.

Two years later, in May 2013, WND presented evidence Beck was fired because he dared to attack Soros on air...

In June 2011, WND reported that Jewish Funds for Justice, the charity WND had identified as leading the crusade demanding Fox News fire Beck, was backed by Soros and tied to many of the liberal activists that Beck routinely excoriates on his program.

WND noted Jewish Funds for Justice delivered a petition with 10,000 signatures to Fox News in protest of a program in which Beck called Soros a “puppet master.” JFSJ deemed the show anti-Semitic.