Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Roseanne Barr called George Soros a Nazi and then apologized. Some of us wish she hadn’t. It was one of those times when Roseanne shot her mouth off and we actually agreed with her; reveled in the bluntness of one of her politically incorrect pronouncements.
We understood why she
apologized, of course. She’s already under fire, what with the tweet about Valerie
Jarrett, and losing her show. (Talk about a bad day for freedom of speech.)
@therealroseanne OMG! You said something the thought police didn't like and they canceled your show???? Unfricking real!! :-(— (((Varda Epstein))) (@epavard) May 30, 2018
Sorry to have tweeted incorrect info about you!I Please forgive me! By the way, George Soros is a nazi who turned in his fellow Jews 2 be murdered in German concentration camps & stole their wealth-were you aware of that? But, we all make mistakes, right Chelsea?— Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) May 29, 2018
The media rushed to excoriate
Roseanne and “correct” the record on Soros. They bent over backward to
whitewash the relevant history. But the thing is, there’s a clip—a 60 Minutes clip from 1998, to be exact—in
which George Soros outright admits what he did during the Holocaust to his
fellow Jews.
In the clip, moreover, Soros
says he feels not a shred of remorse for what he did.
Here’s a transcript of the relevant
part of the interview:
60 Minutes: [You]
went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.
Soros: Yes. That’s right. Yes.
60 Minutes: I mean,
that’s—that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the
psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?
Soros: Not—not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child you
don’t—you don’t see the connection. But it was—it created no—no problem at all.
60 Minutes: No
feeling of guilt?
Soros: No.
But don’t take my word for it.
Watch the clip.
Seems pretty cut and dried,
right? He helped confiscate Jewish property. He doesn’t feel remorse.
But the media must try to spin
it, because Soros is their guy.
Vox,
for instance, tells you that Soros seems confused by the questions:
Even in that 60 Minutes
interview that is pasted across the internet as conclusive evidence of Soros’s
Nazi ties, Soros says that he was “only a spectator” to the confiscation of
property (though he does say initially that he did help but seems confused by
the question).
He didn’t look confused to me.
Not in the least. There was no hesitation, no stumbling over words, and no
pause. He understood the questions. He answered them. Period.
As to the claim that he was “only”
13, this is
utterly meaningless. Think back to when you were 13. Were you that clueless? Would you have helped
someone confiscate the property of your neighbors, your people?
There are some things you just
don’t do. Even on pain of death. Even at 13.
It is, after all, the age that
a Jew becomes a man: becomes bar mitzvah. Old enough to know right from wrong.
Old enough to be responsible.
Roseanne was right the first
time. Soros was a Nazi collaborator who stole property from his own people. And
he doesn’t even feel bad about it.
He was a bad person then and he’s
a bad person now
and none of us should be afraid to say so.
