Why Is George Soros Buying Up Radio Stations?
Download MP3This is the Heartland Daily Podcast. The other day, the Heartland Institute's Donald Kendall, deputy director of our Socialism Research Center, was a guest on the Sean Thompson show on AM 560 in Chicago. Donnie's a regular guest on that fantastic program, and he talked with Shawn about George Soros' purchase of a slew of conservative radio stations across America. Is Soros buying these stations because he wants to suppress any speech that counters the leftist agenda and the public narrative? Have a listen to find out.
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Shaun Thompson:Boy, that gerbils. New propaganda. Any squirrel? 3rd right Nazi? George Soros' work for the Nazis probably explains odyssey.
Shaun Thompson:We're gonna discuss exactly how we can stop socialism with the host of In the Tank podcast and stopping socialism TV, Donald Kendall from the Heartland Institute. Donald, how are you?
Donald Kendal:I am doing fantastic. How are you doing today, good sir?
Shaun Thompson:Oh, I love it. I love exposing these rat corrupt bastards and the smarmy ones with the feminine sons for for, family like George Soros when they bought Odyssey, 220 stations, radio stations around the country. I think there's 7 in Chicago, WBBM, and a couple of stupid ones.
Donald Kendal:Yes. Yes. Right. Picking them up on the cheap too. It seems like this is actually kind of part of a, a larger plan of George Soros too.
Donald Kendal:You know, I'm sure that the way that he would put it, it's just like diversifying his assets. Surely, there's no political implications of all of these moves, but he's picking up all these different media, related, outfits It's all over the place over the past several years, and this is the latest one and might be his biggest gambit yet.
Shaun Thompson:Well, how does the Quantum Fund, which is what his entity is that's been used to implode such currencies as the British pound and some other nations around the world, how does the Quantum Fund buy an American radio oligarch like Odysee without being scrutinized? I mean, after all, the Quantum Fund isn't an American company. It's never had any SEC regulation. We don't really know where the money comes from other than George Soros and his son with the painted fingernails and toenails proving that Uma Thurman is in fact or I mean, Uma Aberdeen is in fact a lesbian.
Donald Kendal:Right. Right. Yep. Well, George Soros has got a whole web of different, organizations, from, you know, nonprofit ones like the Open Society Institute, who is Soros Fund Management, and which is an investment company. So he's got a whole bunch of different operations.
Donald Kendal:So surely there's all sorts of different flush fund activity. But because he has such, ties into the media, I was looking at one report from the media research, institute, which where they were talking about how he has donated 100 of 1,000,000 of dollars to all sorts of different organizations. 253 separate organizations that all have a role in influencing the media in one way or another. This you know, the all different web of of groups, including the committee to protect journalists, all sorts of them. But they all have ties to these different people, whether it's Lester Holt with NBC Nightly News or different people from CNN.
Shaun Thompson:Very own.
Donald Kendal:CBS, Face the Nation, Washington Post, NPR, PolitiFact, Associated Press, Reuters. So he's got this whole web of different people that, are indirectly or even sometimes directly, being paid by certain outfits, aligned with George Soros. So it almost creates a little bit of a shield for him where it's like, you know what? Maybe he's doing something, maybe he's not. We're not even gonna look into it because, you know, there's some money coming trickling down into our pockets from all of this.
Shaun Thompson:That's interesting when you really think about what's been happening, especially when it comes to mergers and acquisitions lately because, that seems like a lot when you have print media, you have investments in TV stations and people like you were just saying, and now you have investments in talk radio and other venues. I mean, that would be something that you think the SEC would be like, wait a minute, this seems to be a conglomerate that almost seems like a monopoly and they're taking on very strategic targets. But it you know, because it's obviously redundant. I mean, why would you go after talk radio stations? Or I think he has sports in there, which makes sense because sports stations suck.
Shaun Thompson:But it it it it it it seems like the SEC would be involved in this. But then again, maybe I'm just passe, and maybe I'm just too suspicious of a government that would, you know, bend over, for George Soros.
Donald Kendal:Could you imagine? I mean, just think about the the stink that was raised when Elon Musk, purchased Twitter, now called x. Like, if if Elon Musk were to try to pull off the same thing and buy the controlling shares of, the 2nd largest radio company out there that controls all of these different stations, surely, there would be all sorts of, you know, criticism and and making sure that he checked every single, box that was possibly necessary. Because, of course, they would be looking into him. But because George Soros kinda plays the left wing game and he's involved in every single thing from media matters to planned parenthood to all these different DA races across the country, that he's, you know, he's just given a free pass with all of this.
Shaun Thompson:I mean, it's it's Donald, it is it is outrageous what's going on. It truly is outrageous. And none of it could happen without the the the blessing of a corrupt government. And, you know, it's funny that this happens because my one of my producers, the lovely Squirrel Hands, just told me that the FCC sent a questionnaire to our station to find out, you know, who how many transvestites we have here and whatnot. So I I said that my I was transgender, and I want them to fill me out as transgendering.
Shaun Thompson:My real birth name was Sheila, and I just wanna show one of these fascist pigs my tallywacker to see if they believe I'm really a man. But what do you think is the move? Could this any of this happen without the government cooperation to the Nazi collaborator known as George Soros?
Donald Kendal:Oh, man. I would be just absolutely shocked if we if I heard even a whiff of them doing some regulatory checkup on the the validity of a move like this. I would be absolutely floored if there was any level of, you know, validating these types of moves. But the the other thing that, you know, we have to make sure to talk about is that well, there's there's a couple of things. One is we know that talk radio is historically a very conservative medium, when it comes to news dissemination.
Donald Kendal:So him kind of getting involved in this just kinda seems out of the ordinary. And all of the stations, you know, 220 stations nationwide, big markets, New York City, Chicago, LA, they're host to a lot of very notable leading conservative voices out there. So it it seems to be pretty conflict, you know, right on
Shaun Thompson:We don't have any competition. We're the only one in Chicagoland. I mean, really, if you if you take a look around the dial, they're all they're all collaborators with the Democrat, Marxist mafia as I see it, but it's interesting to see what their plan of attack is. I mean, after all, nobody listens to them. Their stations suck.
Shaun Thompson:So what exactly is his reasoning for purchasing this? Because the reason he was able to buy it is because they go bankrupt. Right?
Donald Kendal:Mhmm. Yeah. I I see. I kinda wonder if that's, you know, it's almost like whatever, effectiveness these radio stations do have, I'm sure that there are gonna be actions taking place under new management that reduces the amount of effectiveness of these new stations. Maybe that includes putting in more moderate voices or, you know, maybe we have to, you know, maybe we have to balance the the the messaging that are on these stations or anything like that.
Donald Kendal:Obviously, this is just speculation, but I wouldn't put it past them. But the other thing that we also have to keep in mind is that, there is a lot of these radio stations, very notable ones that are inside these, areas that are gonna be in very important swing states in the upcoming election. We're talking about certain stations in Las Vegas. We're talking about certain stations in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. So, you know, if all of those are now, you know, which were used to be bastions of conservative thoughts are all gonna be switching over to some George Soros branded, media or something like that right before the election.
Donald Kendal:That seems like it'd be could be pretty important.
Shaun Thompson:So I know this is pretty fresh. Right? I mean, the the news came out about,
Donald Kendal:it's
Shaun Thompson:squirrel gave it to me about 11 days ago or so. Is it a done deal? Does anything have to happen here? Because I I I say this to you because a lot of companies have gone from public to private. It's more advantageous to go private when you have a totalitarian corrupt government like the one Joe Biden represents.
Shaun Thompson:So a a lot of companies have already gone private. So is this deal done? Did, the SEC and the FCC and all of the fascist government entities sign off on this?
Donald Kendal:Yeah. Yeah. So this is also something that came across my desk, you know, a week or so ago. And and since then, I've been looking it up every couple of days to see, because I just have this little bit of hope that maybe, you know, we're threatened about nothing and it's all gonna fall apart. And, you know, maybe the, the initial reporting was was a little bit more overblown than it was.
Donald Kendal:But, so far, I haven't seen anything like that. So far, it seems like it's just a matter of, you know, the the proper boxes being checked. And once they officially go into bankruptcy and all of that, it's just gonna immediately transfer over. That's what it looks like to me. But, you know, I'm still I don't I don't think it's a done deal quite yet, but, you know, I'm not necessarily holding my breath as gonna
Shaun Thompson:Well, I'll tell you what, Donald. I learned this a long time ago. Hope is for guys that bet on horses. It doesn't really put, put commas in the bank account. So I hope that, and ironically, the double entendre is intended.
Shaun Thompson:I I hope that we know sooner rather than later because the reality is a a lot of mischief can go down in the next 8 months. And when you see that the information flow of the absolute fact that Joe Biden is a traitor, we've got $40,000 that we know know has been confirmed by his brother that he stroked the check from the Chinese Communist Energy Company. I mean, this is very, important that this information be controlled because you have keep the morons out there thinking there's still a Democrat versus a a bad evil Trump and a good Republican party. Right? So they need to pro promote this lie that Joe Biden represents.
Donald Kendal:Oh, sure. Yeah. And, you know, and and the idea, you know, somebody listening to this and hearing my speculation about them maybe changing the, the the kind of the makeup of these stations in the lead up to the election. I even said that, you know, it's speculation on my part, but they might write that off as just like, oh, that's kind of seems conspiratorial. But if you look into George Soros, and I know that it's kind of hard because they don't talk about him in the media.
Donald Kendal:But if you actually look into him and kinda see his practices when it comes to any one of these things, whether it's media control with media matters and all this different stuff, or these DA races that he's been somewhat popular, you know, trying to get these radical DAs and all of these, major cities across the United States. Yeah. Like, he is very underhanded. Yes. Oh, true.
Donald Kendal:Exactly. He is very underhanded. They he specifically funds these very radical people in the primaries when the race is a lot cheaper knowing that if they get that radical into the general election, there's no way that the Democrat is gonna lose to a Republican in Chicago. So it's it's he's buying these things for pennies on the dollar. It's very underhanded.
Donald Kendal:So to think that he's not gonna do that in radio is just naive.
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Shaun Thompson:I'd like to know exactly what the process was for him purchasing a distressed company like Odysee. I mean, first of all, was it exposed? Is Audacy publicly traded? What happened to the stock? Is it a hostile takeover?
Shaun Thompson:What happens to the people who own stock? And then I'm I'm you know, I'm curious to know on the details because this once again smells like an inside, trader, an inside deal. Right? I mean, he's able to to just buy the the bankruptcy. Was it a bidding process?
Shaun Thompson:Who was next in line? Was there somebody? You know, this is what Democrats do. They lie and they cheat and they steal. So it's crucially important to understand he's been interwoven with the Democrat mafia since the eighties.
Shaun Thompson:I mean, I remember when I was a kid and he imploded the British pound. It was a scandal at the time. And the only way that he got away from it is the same way Bill Gates rebuilt his reputation through a PR firm. He hired a PR firm. He went out there.
Shaun Thompson:He did a lot of interviews, some of which are coming back to bite him where he admits to collaborating with the Nazis against his fellow Jew. And it's really, something that people should be aware of, but now that he controls the media, I guess it doesn't matter. Right?
Donald Kendal:Yeah. And and, you know, to to answer your question, it seems like he's has a knack for this sort of thing. This is kind of buying for, pennies on the dollar when it comes to media outlets. One example sitting in front of me of, George Soros, backed group buying up Vice Media for $350,000,000 after it went bankrupt.
Shaun Thompson:I love that story.
Donald Kendal:Media outlet that was valued once at $6,000,000,000. So that is a huge discount that, he got that one for.
Shaun Thompson:Well, Vice Media is a very inter I had it on the board yesterday. Honey Bunny's probably throwing stuff at me right now. I had it on the board yesterday. It's a really interesting story because that guy was gonna be the he was gonna take over Fox. Right?
Shaun Thompson:It was a I I believe he's out of Canada, if I'm not mistaken. Correct, Vice News? And he always wrote the stories with kind of a slant. He and and it was funny because he pretended in the beginning that he was actually gonna be, unbiased, just give you the fact and give you the news. And for a while, he did it in his magazine, but when he got the television, going, he really went hardcore Marxist sympathizer.
Shaun Thompson:And, that just imploded right before your eyes. So you're telling me George Soros bought this as well?
Donald Kendal:Yep. Yep. Absolutely. He bought, that's like I said, the Odysee thing, a bunch of other examples here. He in in just a couple of years ago, he bought the Latino Media Network, which was composed of 18 different Spanish language speaking stations, across I think a lot of them were in Florida.
Donald Kendal:But, yeah. So he's just buying up these things just hand over fist.
Shaun Thompson:He's not gonna fire the weather girls, is he? Because if he fires the weather girls I mean, that's the the the great report in all of the world is the is the Latin weather station. Are you out of your mind? I absolutely I'd much rather see that than Tom Skilling. So so it's it's it's interesting when you think about what are the options you have out there?
Shaun Thompson:I mean, how much longer until he just I mean, does he have to buy anything else? Hasn't the media successfully propagandized the dim wooden diapers as you see him staggering around? I mean, he's clearly convalescing. Is it even necessary, or or is it nothing to be worried about because it's so redundant?
Donald Kendal:Yeah. You know, I feel like this has less to do with kind of magnifying magnifying the the voice of just kind of the left in general and more about nullifying the voice of the right in the in the couple of key areas that we still are able to get to, you know, conservative, messages out in. So I think that that that has more to do with that. But again, like and this is kind of a thematic of a lot of the segments that come on your show to talk about. It's just these, like, the the machinations of all of these kind of global elitist types from the Klaus Schwab's over at Davos and the World Economic Forum to George Soros and the Open Society, is that they often are doing these big grandiose sorts of things just so far under the radar that they're not talked about on the, you know, nightly news or anything like that, the front page of, you know, Fox or something along those lines.
Donald Kendal:And that is why, you know, I come on your show to talk about these things because I think they deserve a lot of attention. And, I'm glad that you, you're asking on to talk about it.
Shaun Thompson:I think we have to really adopt what I've been calling them for for over a decade, the 4th Reich. You know, it's I don't think it's a coincidence that Klaus Schwab is the son of the flamethrower manufacturer for the 3rd Reich. He is. He's his son. George Soros on an interview with 60 minutes that I I I am hoping you look up.
Shaun Thompson:If you haven't seen it, I'm sure you might have, where he admits that he worked for the 3rd Reich. When you look at the Ukraine and Stefan Bandera and Igor Kolomoisky, all collaborators with the ideology of the Azov Nazis, this is truly a 4th Reich. The only difference is they're not as bold as they were in the 3rd Reich, and they're doing it through the back channels. And they were smart this time because they bribed very specific politicians on both sides. And the the problem I have is if they're not as audacious as they were in the 3rd rank, can we fight them back when they finally reveal themselves, or will it be too late?
Shaun Thompson:Will that agenda of the takeover be too late? And that's kind of where this piece of odyssey fits in. It doesn't make any sense other than to just keep the the the the people calm as the takeover is happening.
Donald Kendal:Mhmm. Yeah. You know, your question is probably the question of our of our lifetimes, honestly. And that that's kind of the battle that we're in, is to recognize, acknowledge, push back against all of this sort of stuff. But, I mean, you're you're absolutely right.
Donald Kendal:And you can see kind of the the agenda of all of this being played out by all of these different organizations at at the George Soros, Klaus Schwab, World Economic Forum, web has their fingers in. Most notably in the in recent history is these kind of extreme DAs and the lengths that they're going to, you know, take out Donald Trump at his knees. So I mean, that's just one example of probably a 1,000 that are currently going on at the same time.
Shaun Thompson:How old is this rotten son of a dog that he is the devil's cousin, George Soros? Isn't he in his nineties?
Donald Kendal:You know, I'm gonna Google that because I'm very
Shaun Thompson:old this rat bastard is. In the meantime, we are too old to cry, so let's have a little fun. I will bet you 5 American dollars, that really is only worth 2 from when I remember it, that Jimmy Carter outlives George Soros. You want a piece of that action, kid?
Donald Kendal:Poof. Well, George Soros is currently at 93 years young. Oh. Jimmy Carter is the only
Shaun Thompson:vasectomy reversed. He's going out on Tinder this weekend. I'll take Carter for $5. You want George George Soros?
Donald Kendal:I'll I'll yeah. I'll put my money on George Soros, I think. Although he was kinda stuttering and stammering at a recent, press thing that he was doing some conference. And people were thinking that that might have been a sign against his health, but I don't know. Clocks like this just keep ticking.
Shaun Thompson:Come on. He's Lucifer's cousin. In the meantime, you are Donald Kendall. Thank you so much for everything at In the Tank podcast on Sopping Socialism TV. I know you're at Heartland, but where do you prefer the people keep an eye on you?
Donald Kendal:Yeah. Heartland.org for sure. You you can look at all of our work on there, on YouTube. If you go and and look up so stopping socialism TV, you'll find in the think podcast. We do that every week.
Shaun Thompson:Thank you, brother. Appreciate you making time.
Donald Kendal:Thank you for being having me on.
Shaun Thompson:We'll be back with your calls and comments.
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