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Finally, it's worth noting that Yoda Lakoff generally steers clear of issues involved with the abortion movement. I guess it's hard to find anything “nurturant” about that.

Now—and this may surprise you—I do not think George Lakoff is evil, or even devious. He is simply wrong, and history has proved that over and over again. There is no doubt in my mind that he and the S-P foot soldiers who follow him believe they own the high moral ground. In theory, you see, the S-P movement has it all: equality, humanism, generosity, and universal empathy. That's the theory. But in the real world, the S-P platform would be impossible to carry out because of one inconvenient natural impediment: human nature.

If greed, venality, fanaticism, sociopathy, sloth, and emotional illness did not exist, then the S-P vision might have a chance at success. But as we've seen throughout history, utopian philosophies are impossible to impose and totalitarianism is often the result of trying. Hello, Soviet Union, Cuba, and Maoist China.

Professor Lakoff is not some wide-eyed nut sending out Marxist propaganda on a low-rent Web site. He's a realist. He readily admits his S-P movement has so far failed to win over the hearts and minds of the majority of Americans. He blames this on the dishonest conservative movement that intimidates politicians, and on the sheer stupidity of the regular folks. But Lakoff advises his S-P soldiers never to say that in public. Instead, the radical professor issues the following dicta in his book to progressives who engage in public debate:

         

• “Never answer a question framed from your opponent's point of view…this may make you uncomfortable, since normal discourse styles require you to directly answer questions posed. That is a trap.” (Now you know why I have instituted a “No Spin Zone” on my TV and radio programs—the S-Ps have been taught to dodge questions and recite rehearsed answers. I stop that cold, inspiring Lakoff's next offering.)

• “Stay away from setups. Fox News shows and other rabidly conservative shows try to put you in an impossible situation, where a conservative host sets the frame and insists on it….” (That would be me, and the “impossible position” is that the S-Ps have to answer my direct questions or be labeled a dodger. That's okay on the ball field in Los Angeles, but death on a national talk program.)

         

My question is this: Why would Lakoff tell his acolytes not to answer direct questions, since, as he claims, they hold all the moral high ground? Well, the answer is simple: The secular-progressive movement is so radical and desires such a departure from American tradition that once the folks understand the implications of implementing the S-P agenda, rather than simply debating the utopian theory behind it, they will recoil. Therefore, stealth and subterfuge must be used by the S-P armies of the night if they are to have any chance of succeeding in altering the social landscape of the country.

I enjoyed reading Lakoff's book, because he is so honest on the page. He makes no pretenses. He wants a new America, free from the old traditions that he feels do not “nurture” the individual. The guy's a fanatic, no question, but at least he doesn't hide behind a façade.

Lakoff is godlike to the S-P faithful, and it's easy to understand why. He's a stealth warrior, a battlefield theorist of the first order. The committed S-Ps march to his drumbeat all day long. Howard Dean even wrote the introduction to the
Elephant
book. (Isn't it amazing how close Dean came to actually acquiring serious power in this country? In 2004, the S-Ps were sooooooo close.)

Anyway, I'd love to get Professor Lakoff on
The Factor,
but he's too wily for that. He knows I have his number and he knows the only media game in town that will expose his vision is the Fox Newschannel. So he avoids me and the network.

But he can't avoid this book.

                  

                  

Far more malevolent and powerful than George Lakoff will ever be is the moneyman of the secular-progressive movement, George Soros. Without this dangerous guy, Lakoff and his crew might as well spit into the wind. Soros is El Jefe of the S-P forces, a man whose vast fortune is directed toward undermining traditional America and replacing it with a so-called Open Society. George Soros is the puppet master, the man with the plan, a ferociously far-left force about whom most Americans know little or nothing.

George Soros, S-P jefe, puppet master, and moneyman.

Born George Schwartz to a Jewish family in Hungary in 1930, Soros assumed the identity of a gentile boy when the Nazis invaded at the start of World War II. Young George survived the Germans but fled Hungary when the Russians occupied the country after the surrender of the Third Reich.

Soros wound up in London, studied at the London School of Economics, then migrated to America in 1956, where he began an investment fund that eventually made him one of the richest men in the world.
Forbes
magazine estimates his personal wealth at more than $7 billion. Along the moneymaking trail, Soros was convicted of insider trading in France in 1988, earning a $2 million fine. He has gained a reputation as a ruthless currency trader who often dances on the edge of illegality. In 1992, he made $1 billion in a single day by betting that England would devalue the national currency.

Now an American citizen, Soros keeps much of his vast fortune in banks on the Dutch island of Curaçao, where his Quantum Fund is registered. That means Soros can dodge many U.S. corporate taxes even though he himself is based in New York City. By the way, George Soros is on record as wanting affluent Americans to pay higher taxes, even as he operates a lucrative real estate company from Bermuda—another place where he can avoid U.S. taxes.

What kind of man is Soros? Well, he does not believe in God, his social philosophy is libertarian, and his political outlook is far, far left. According to investigative reporter Peter Schweizer, a fellow at the Hoover Institution, Soros has donated “hundreds of millions of dollars” to American left-wing causes. At this point, he is the prime financier of a number of operations on the Internet that consistently smear conservative and traditional Americans.

Up until the attacks on 9/11, Soros was just another ideologue screaming for legalized drugs (Joseph Califano calls him “the Daddy Warbucks of drug legalization”), euthanasia, and “progressive” taxation. But after the Al Qaeda attack, Soros became even more radicalized and more motivated. Through his Open Society Institute, which operates in at least fifty countries, he began funneling millions to groups opposed to America's war on terror and especially to those who criticized President Bush. According to the Center for Public Integrity, Soros spent $24 million trying to defeat Bush in 2004.

But most disturbing are his statements about the terror war and his support for a convicted terrorist enabler, New York attorney Lynne Stewart, who is currently in prison. More on her in a bit. Soros wrote the following words in the
Atlantic Monthly:
“Hijacking fully fueled airliners and using them as suicide bombs was an audacious idea, and its execution could not have been more spectacular.”

Yeah, so what? The billionaire followed up that observation by taking out an ad in the
Wall Street Journal
that stated: “The war on terror as we have waged it since 9/11 has done more harm than good.”

To whom? Whom exactly is Soros pulling for? It isn't the United States, as he has compared the Bush administration to the Third Reich, according to an article written by Laura Blumenfeld in the
Washington Post.
And in a
New Yorker
magazine profile he opined that the statements then–attorney general John Ashcroft made after 9/11 reminded him of how Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels jazzed up the German people's hatreds and insecurities before World War II.

Soros expanded on his post-9/11 angst in an interview with
Fortune
magazine: “The crisis now is the crisis of global capitalism and a political and military crisis. It has been brought about by the exploitation of September 11th by the Bush administration to pursue its policy of dominating the world in the guise of fighting terrorism.”

In no-spin words, George Soros believes that the United States does not have the right to act unilaterally to fight terrorism, although, to be fair, he did not object to the removal of the Taliban in Afghanistan. A significant hallmark of the S-P movement, by the way, is that, with rare exceptions, a world consensus is needed in order to use military force. (Thank you, President Hernandez.) This, of course, is off-the-charts dangerous, because much of the world despises America and is decidedly not looking out for us.

And if all this weren't disturbing enough, George Soros then took it a step further by actually helping an aforementioned terrorist enabler. On February 10, 2005, radical New York City lawyer Lynne Stewart was convicted of conspiracy, providing material support to terrorists, defrauding the United States, and making false statements.

A jury found that Ms. Stewart had smuggled messages from her jailed client—Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman—to his Islamic terrorist supporters in Egypt. As you may remember, Rahman is the blind Muslim cleric who was convicted of plotting to blow up the United Nations and planning the first bombing of the World Trade Center, among other things. He had also urged his followers to kill all Jews. Rahman is serving a life sentence in a federal prison in Colorado.

Anyway, the sixty-six-year-old Stewart, who had openly advocated violence in the past, is now a convicted felon essentially for helping her pal Rahman. And guess who paid some of her legal bills: George Soros's Open Society Institute. Nice. One footnote: Both Soros and Stewart come from Jewish backgrounds, which is peculiar in light of their support for radical Islamists who want to re-create the Holocaust.

Continuing to operate pretty much under the radar, Soros has cemented his alliance with another billionaire, seventy-year-old Peter Lewis, chairman of the Progressive Insurance Corporation. These guys are working feverishly to ensure that the secular-progressive battalions are supplied with plenty of resources and firepower by which to pursue their global foreign-policy strategy and radical domestic agenda. Their primary attack vehicle is the far-left Web site MoveOn.org, which routinely slanders and smears perceived opposition. With MoveOn as a conduit, Soros and Lewis funnel money to other smear Websites that target individuals in the media and politics for personal attacks. This is a nasty, nasty business and one that is constantly “evolving.”

Peter Lewis, another major funder of S-P causes.

Even with the MoveOn hatchet machine in good fighting trim, both Soros and Lewis realize that they must reach beyond the Internet to move the S-P movement ahead, so they have mustered various elite media people to carry their water. Aforementioned
New York Times
columnists Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, and Bob Herbert have all referenced far-left Web site postings in complimentary terms in their articles. Harvard pundit Alan Dershowitz used Internet smear material in a Los Angeles debate.
New York Daily News
entertainment columnist Jack Matthews and the paper's vicious gossip writers routinely use smear items fed to them by radical-left guttersnipes.
Dallas Morning News
columnist Macarena Hernandez and
Denver Post
columnist Cindy Rodriguez used information from Web sites under their bylines (Ms. Rodriguez was subsequently embarrassed by corrections printed by her employer). In fact, the far-left Internet smear merchants have solid access to the so-called elite media, something the far-right Internet bloggers will never have.