CNN's Stelter Claims Attacks on Soros Are Anti-Semitic

Ryan Foley | October 30, 2018
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During Tuesday's edition of CNN's New Day, media critic Brian Stelter put together a package claiming that Fox News bears responsibility for the massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh over the weekend.  Stelter pointed out how Fox News hosts and guests have claimed that left-wing groups were funding the migrant caravan making its way to the United States from Honduras. Stelter talked about how "Soros is a favorite boogeyman of the right. He's a billionaire donor and he's Jewish." Apparently, Stelter thinks that any attack on Soros, one of the far-left's biggest bankrollers, is anti-Semitic. Stelter took issue with a guest on Lou Dobbs Tonight's assertion that the caravan has received funding from the "Soros-occupied State Department," saying that he called to mind "an anti-Semitic trope about Jews secretly running the government." That seems like quite a stretch. Maybe it never occurred to Stelter that Soros's opponents criticize him because of his politics not his religion.

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