Fox News 52-year-old primetime host Tucker Carlson went after 91-year-old liberal Hungarian investor George Soros in a Fox News Plus streaming title, “The Fight for Civilization.” Carlson goes into great detail about how Soros works day-and-night with his Open Society Foundation to change authoritarian regimes, including the one in Hungary. Carlson interviewed 58-year-old Hugarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, considered by many in the European Union [EU] to defy the open border and immigration policy. Orban stood up to the EU Oct. 2, 2016 putting the immigration service on notice that Hungary would not take any Syrian refugees flooding into the EU from the Syrian War. Orban rejected the EU policy of toppling 56-year-old Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.. Former President Barack Obama spent his entire presidency trying to topple al-Assad.
Soros’ Open Society funds many admirable projects, including early life education all over Eastern Europe. But Carlson’s Fox News Plus show exposes how Soros’ Open Society Foundation pressures countries in Eastern Europe, including his native Hungary, to take refugees or immigrants whether from the Middle East, North Africa or Latin America. Soros Open Society Foundation, like most liberal groups, seeks to end authoritarian, promote democracy, but, more importantly, find a home for displaced populations, especially in war-torn areas like the Middle East. Soros ran afoul with Orban who was up to his neck with pressure from Brussels, didn’t need Soros to rub it in his face Defying EU refugee quotas, Orban ordered Hungarian authorities to build a fence around Hungary to keep Mideast refugees out. Soros created more grief for Orban causing the current spat.
Orban received the praise of 75-year-old former President Donald Trump, who strongly opposed the EU’s liberal immigration policies, but, more importantly, opposed Obama’s Syrian War that drove some 15 million people into exile. While Obama blamed al-Assad for the atrocities and immigration flows from Syria, the fact is that the U.S. and EU prosecuted a bloody conflict in Syria that drove millions into exile, creating the worst humanitarian crisis since WW II. Orban went against the U.S. and EU group think, making up his own decision to keep Islamic refugees out of Hungary. Soros’ Open Society Foundation criticized Orban, much like liberal groups slammed Trump for his four years in office. By the time Trump left office, he was demonized like no other U.S.president, excoriating him as a racist, white supremacist, authoritarian dictator, the same nonsense Soros used in Hungary to demonize Orban.
When it comes to Carlson’s piece on Fox New Plus, Soros’ Open Society group is “waging a kind of war—political, social and demographic war—on the West,” Carlson’s piece alleges that Soros’ group is “trying to eliminate national borders, to oust democratically elected leaders, and install ideologically aligned puppets into positions of power,” something rejected by Open Society Foundation Open Society Vice President Laura Silber pushed back against Carlson’s piece, claiming her group his only worked to end the horrors of Nazism and authoritarianism. “Mr. Carlson appears to prefer authoritarian rule, state capture of media and the courts, crony corruption and rigged elections,” Silber said, sounding more like Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) than head of a nonprofit organization. Silber completely missed the point of Carlson’s piece that deals with border security, not liberal utopia.
Carlson’s piece tried to put into open light the kind of demonization that Orban lived through trying to keep Muslims out of Hungary. Trump applauded Orban for building his fence around Hungary, much like Trump did to protect the U.S. Southern border. But once Trump was booted from office, 79-year-old President Joe Biden and his acolytes have tried to reverse Trump’s border protection policy, leaving the Southern border a hazard to U.S. citizens. Soros didn’t realize in demonizing Orban, he wasn’t telling the honest story about countries like Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland that didn’t accept the Syria War and wanted no part of providing safe harbor to millions of Mideast refugees caused by a failed U.S. and EU policy to topple the government of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. Silber wants to turn a failed war into some ideological struggle between democracy and nationalism.
Response to Tucker Carlson was typical of the left wing media, looking like they did to Trump for four years, to demonize any dissenting voices. Carlson did the piece on Orban because he withstood the avalanche of criticism from the EU about his immigration policies. Carlson’s Fox News Plus piece on Orban attempted to paint him in a different light than Soros and the left wing media. “You have a right to know exactly what George Soros is doing to this country and to other countries around the world and we think we have an obligation to tell you, so we are going to continue,” Carlson said. Neither Carlson nor Soros should be demonized for telling their stories. Orban has a right to stand up the bullying at the EU over Mideast immigration something that Brussels’ failed policies created. If Soros stayed out of politics and did his humanitarian work, Orban would accept it.
