"Joe" wrote in message
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Huffington Post is a well known site for half truths, demagoguery,
Democratic spin and propaganda. It is funded by billionaire George
Soros, a regular visitor to the White House. The reporting in the H.P.
is about on a par with a super market tabloid, and appeals to the
terminally ignorant.

There is no question HP leans well to the left, and that they have at times
given too much space to "alternative" medicine for example. However a lot
of what they post is taken from legit news sources rather than being cooked
up in their back room, and one can (and should) follow up to see if any spin
has been applied. At least with HP there is usually a distinction between
editorializing vs. news, in contrast to right-wingnut sites like Newsmax or
World Net Daily. As always, it's wise to look for multiple sources and to
be aware of the political slant of each of them--something that probably
doesn't occur to many Fox viewers, who either don't know or don't care that
Fox is the de facto propaganda arm of the Republican Party.

I'd like to see credible evidence HP is funded by Soros. It's possible he
has some money there, but so do a lot of other folks including venture
capitalists who expect to make a profit on their investment, e.g. Alan
Patricof, Ron Fisher, Michael Perlis, Eric Hippeau, Steve Murray--not
exactly a list of prominent socialists. Any claim that Soros is the sugar
daddy who makes HP possible sounds like something one would hear Limbaugh or
Beck spouting, in other words, dubious at best.

Hmmm, don't get to HP often, this makes me curious as to what they're
reporting today. Hey, here's a story about a Republican legislator in
Georgia who has introduced a bill that would require Georgians to pay their
taxes only with gold or silver coinage, apparently he's tried this before.
A bit of research shows it's a real story covered by the news media in
Georgia, but mostly mentioned only by political bloggers outside that state,
so it doesn't appear to be radical leftist propaganda. Odd, a search on Fox
News doesn't come up with the story, what a shock.