{"id":159,"date":"2011-01-28T11:13:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T11:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/religionandpubliclife\/2011\/01\/the-anti-soros-playbook.html"},"modified":"2011-01-28T11:13:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T11:13:25","slug":"the-anti-soros-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/religionandpubliclife\/2011\/01\/the-anti-soros-playbook.html","title":{"rendered":"The Anti-Soros Playbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

As yesterday’s public letter<\/a>
\nfrom 400 rabbis declares, Glenn Beck’s promiscuous use of Holocaust and
\nNazi imagery to characterize those with whom he disagrees is
\ndisgraceful, and perhaps the recent outcry against the use of such
\nimagery will tamp it down. But Beck’s effort to discredit George Soros
\nby painting the financier of liberal causes as a 14-year-old accessory
\nto genocide comes from a different playbook.<\/p>\n

It’s the one used by Fox News’ Republican allies in campaigns against
\nDemocratic senators Max Cleland of Georgia and Sen. John Kerry of
\nMassachusetts. Both were Vietnam war heroes, Cleland a triple amputee;
\nand their moral statue derived in large measure from this service to
\ntheir country. So the GOP tore them down by discrediting their military
\nservice.<\/p>\n

Call Beck’s assault on Soros Holocaust Swift-boating. Naturally, Fox has responded by characterizing<\/a> the rabbis as “a George Soros backed left-wing political organization that has been
\ntrying to engage Glenn Beck primarily for publicity purposes.” Publicity for what? Holocaust denial?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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After teaching at Harvard in the Department of History and Literature for three years, he became editor of the Boston Review. In 1987 he joined the staff of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he worked variously as a reporter, editorial writer and columnist. In 1996 he became the founding director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College and in 1998 founding editor of Religion in the News, a magazine published by the Center that examines how the news media handle religious subject matter. In 2005, he was named director of the Trinity College Program on Public Values, comprising both the Greenberg Center and a new Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture directed by Barry Kosmin. In 2007, he became Professor of Religion in Public Life at the College. Professor Silk is the author of Spiritual Politics: Religion and America Since World War II and Unsecular Media: Making News of Religion in America. 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