Wonder what George Soros has been doing since he failed to buy the election? He's been keeping busy but keeping a low profile. Last month he and some other progressive billionaires had a private meeting in San Francisco to plan the future. The results are secret - even their assistants were ordered out of the room. The rumor is that they are hoping to build a progressive think-tank to match the conservative ones.

He's also trying to take over the world, one election at a time.

Really.

Specifically, he has branches of the Soros Foundation all over the world. Each branch has a different mission. Many of these branches are having problems, especially in the former USSR. Here are some examples:

CENTRAL ASIA: Soros Foundation to continue despite setbacks. "...Her comments follow a report by a Turkish newspaper that Tajik President Imomali Rahmonov had accused some organisations, and in particular the Soros Foundation, of acting to destroy Tajikistan's unity."

A branch of the Soros Foundation in Kazakhstan has strongly denied charges of tax evasion by the authorities, describing the allegations as politically motivated.

In rapid sequence, Uzbekistan kicked out SOROS, Kazakhstan issued a back-taxes notice that is likely to lead to closure of SOROS offices, President Askar Akayev of Kyrgzstan whipped SOROS for interfering in the society and President Imomali Rakhmanov of Tajikistan told his cabinet of ministers that he considered SOROS a destructive presence for the society.

One of the declared aims of Soros Foundation and its downstream organizations is to create ‘Civil Society’ in Central Asian nations. This noble intention is quite possibly based on the assumption that Central Asia is inhabited by barbarians and uncivilized creatures – ‘natives’ in short.

SHILLING FOR THE MULLAHS

LEFT-WING billionaire and Bush-hater George Soros was not content to spend millions to thwart a Bush victory in last November's presidential election. Now his Open Society Institute in New York is joining forces with pro-Tehran lobbying group to promote the interests and the viewpoint of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

In tandem with the American-Iranian Council, an industry-supported group that favors opening trade and diplomatic ties with Iran, the Open Society Institute will host Iran's ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday at the Open Society Institute's offices in New York

Bias can be good in reporting. At some point, you just have to make up your mind and say what you think happened. Reporters do this. The authors of the CBS Memogate report did not. They carefully spell out their findings but carefully refrain from drawing conclusions. Even Eric Alterman has a problem with this.

The internal CBS panel, led by former Republican politician Dick Thornburgh, have given CBS News a clean bill of health on the charge of political bias because, well, they asked and Rather says, “No.” They can’t possibly expect right-wing witch hunters to buy that. Instead, it merely compounds the evidence of some sort of conspiratorial cover-up and the whole game starts again.

The panel gives the benefit of the doubt to CBS News. They admit that there is the appearance of bias but other people were persuing the same story and everyone involved insists that there was no bias.

The same thing happens with the memos themselves. The report spells out in detail all of the problems with the memos. These include the typeface and superscript, the deviation from military usage, and problems that the memos have meshing with the verified records. They even quote Killian's clerk who did all of the typing as saying that she did not type the memos.

Still, at least one document expert said that they could not prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the memos are forged unless the originals can be tested. On this basis, the report gives CBS a pass and says that no one knows for certain.

If the panel wasn't bending over backwards to appear fair they would come out and say that CBS showed bias and that the memos are fakes.

This was enough of a wedge for Keith Olbermann to assert that the liberal media is a myth. He also managed a drive-by smearing of the Swift Boat Vets and Fox News. As with Alterman, Olbermann if you are far enough to the left, everything looks conservative by comparison.