Little Russert on The Cycle just now played the Equivalency Game.

[Skidmore]

Discussion is about Adelson and the Post Citizen United landscape. And Li'l Luke pulls George Soros out of his back pocket as an example of how Dems kiss the ring of the billionaire kingmakers too.

Did Soros have a primary somewhere and we weren't told?

[spanone]

1. such a smarmy shit. i saw that crap he was spewing....the voice of privilege.

[Mika]

8. Privilege worked for him. Everyone should try it.

[yeoman6987]

2. George Soros

Well to be honest, I hope that Democrats don't kick Soros to the curb. I think we need him and he is effective at helping us win elections. I know we hate money in politics....and oh I do so much, but until we change the way elections are won, we need every "Soros" we can get.

[Skidmore]

3. Point taken, but

I had a very visceral reaction to his lobbing a blatantly RW talking point out there in that condescending nasally intonation he is wont to use.

[Mike Nelson]

4. Saw that... will someone please take Luke and The Cycle off the air...

... and give Ron Reagan and Stephanie Miller the hour...

[RGinNJ]

7. +1

[madashelltoo]

5. That boy irks the living shit out of me.

He hates the democrats and it shows. He couldn't wait to toss in that bullshit about Soros.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Wow! This Red Herring has been around since

Raygun. Never changes,the Rethugs run out of new attack material,return to Frank Luntz's focus say group talking points. Sad to say,the American populace bits on this shit. And so it goes!!!!

[malaise]

9. What's more Soros is not against workers' rights or women's healthcare

or a plethora of stupid RW policy objectives.

Lil Russert is not only a lightweight but he's a stupid moron of a hack. He reminds me of lil Lego men (down to the haircut) and is just as likely to have two thoughts click in his head at the same time.

[asjr]

10. Little Luke has watched too many

of his father's previous television outings. He has managed to upgrade the meanness of his father. In a way it is sad he does not know it.

[JHB]

11. All these guys know is to reflexively invoke Soros's name...

Adelson has nearly twice as much as Soros. For Charles and David Koch, you can skip the word "nearly". And that's each of them separately, not combined.

Combine the Kochs and Adelson and you have about six times Soros' net worth. They are far more aggressive in their strategic political donating than Soros, and the Kochs have been doing this for decades.

Then we get to the other politically-funding billionaires: anyone recall Richard Mellon Scaife and his role in the attacks on Bill Clinton?