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rhythmaning) wrote2007-05-17 09:09 am
rhythmaning) wrote2007-05-17 09:09 am
On the Radio
I was half listening to the Today programme on Radio 4 as I ate my breakfast. John Humphries was interviewing an American, and the debate got more and more heated.
I then heard John Bolton, the former US Ambassador to the UN, describe George Soros as "extremely left wing".
I had to laugh.
Soros is a capitalist who made a lot - an awful lot of money - in hedge funds before they became famous; he made billions by betting against the pound on Black Wednesday in September 1992, when the pound was forced out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism.
He may be a philanthropist, and a critic of US foriegn policy; even left of centre. But not "extremely left wing"!
Bolton finished off by criticising Humphries and the BBC for being leftist, too.
I then heard John Bolton, the former US Ambassador to the UN, describe George Soros as "extremely left wing".
I had to laugh.
Soros is a capitalist who made a lot - an awful lot of money - in hedge funds before they became famous; he made billions by betting against the pound on Black Wednesday in September 1992, when the pound was forced out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism.
He may be a philanthropist, and a critic of US foriegn policy; even left of centre. But not "extremely left wing"!
Bolton finished off by criticising Humphries and the BBC for being leftist, too.