Soros Moves to Take Over Radio

Meanwhile, as we focus on the election, unelected top plutocrat George Soros is seizing control of over 200 radio stations, including platforms for big name conservatives like Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, and Sean Hannity. With Democrats in control, the skids are greased:

[Last] Wednesday, the FCC reportedly adopted an order to approve the purchase, meaning that in a matter of days, Soros will likely take control of communications to over 165 million Americans with the help of unvetted foreign investors whom Democrats have spared from the FCC’s customary national security review process.

No one familiar with their border policy could expect Democrats to protect America from nefarious foreign elements.

Soros took advantage of radio network Audacy’s bankruptcy to become its primary shareholder through Soros Fund Management.

Audacy asked the FCC to approve the transfer of its broadcast licenses to the reorganized company.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and other critics noted, however, that such a transfer would be problematic as the reorganized company would exceed legally acceptable foreign ownership limits.

Legal limits don’t apply to friends of Democrats.

Audacy requested that the five-member FCC, which has a Democratic majority, take the unprecedented step of not only waiving the foreign ownership restriction in order to allow the purchase to move forward but of putting off a national security review of the stations’ foreign-interest holders.

The FCC acceded along partisan lines, confirming the political implications.

NPR president Katherine Maher, a censorious alumna of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leader program who previously worked at the National Democratic Institute, which is primarily funded by George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, provided a possible clue as to why her fellow travelers might want to take control of American radio stations.

Opines Maher:

“Control over the flow of information in a closed society can be tantamount to control over the state.”

A closed society is exactly what Soros et al. have in mind. This is why they call it Open Society Foundations, in the moonbat tradition of calling everything the opposite of what it really is.

If you liked what George Soros did to public safety by installing pro-criminal DAs throughout the country,* you’ll love what he does to radio.

Liberals have tried and failed to compete with conservatives in the talk radio format. Anyone remember Air America? So they will destroy it.

The internet has marginalized radio to some extent. But Democrats will be coming for that too. Consider where Google is putting its money:

On tips from Wiggins, MrRightWingDave, Mr. Freemarket, and The Great Cornholio

*Including Alvin Bragg (New York), George Gascon (Los Angeles), Kim Foxx (Chicago), Kim Ogg (Houston), Larry Krasner (Philadelphia), Chesa Boudin (San Francisco), Kim Gardner (St Louis), Marilyn Mosby (Baltimore), Monique Worrell (central Florida), Jason Williams (New Orleans), Pamela Price (Oakland), Jacqueline Sartoris (Cumberland County, Maine).

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