Poetic Justice: George Soros Watchdog Group Ranks Another Soros Group 'Least Transparent' in Nation
"We are aware of the irony."
7.1.2016
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How is this for poetic justice?
A George Soros-funded watchdog group dubbed Transparify, which ranks U.S. think tanks in terms of their openness and accountability, just released its official 2016 transparency report. Number one on its list of "least transparent" think tanks is the other George Soros-funded group, Open Society Foundations. Newsbustersreports:
Transparify, a 3-year-old organization that ranks think tanks from “Highly Opaque” to “Highly Transparent,” released its 2016 transparency report on June 29. For the third year in a row, Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF) occupied the lowest spot in the United States, having ranked below the other 42 American think tanks evaluated.“We are aware of the irony," Transparify spokesman Dustin Gilbreath told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "Transparify applies the same criteria to all organizations, including our own donor."The organization ranks the transparency of an organization by how well it publicly disclose its funding sources on its website. When Transparify released its first report in 2014, it noted “The OSF website highlights George Soros as their founder, but does not specify the funding source on its expenditure page.”
Best of all, Open Society is now arguing its affiliate's ranking on the basis of semantics, saying Open Society has "incorrectly been labeled a think tank and should not have been included in the ranking."
According to Reuters, Open Society has used the same excuse two years running.
Newsbusters astutely notes that Soros used his Open Society Foundation "to influence the FCC, fund the Black Lives Matter protest movement, determine the Progressive political message, and even pushing for President Obama’s most recent Supreme Court nominee."
Of course this isn't even the tip of the progressive iceberg when it comes to the vast number of subversive groups and causes funded by the leftwing billionaire. We can, however, take some cold comfort in the fact that his own watchdog group turned around to bite him.
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