to answer your question, billionaire george soros is an 'economist' and venture capitalist (though he'd never admit to it) who has been credited with almost singlehandedly 'destroying the british pound' through short-selling and speculative sabotage. he's originally from... somewhere in eastern europe, can't be bothered to look up where right this moment. wondy will gladly inform you that he is the mind and checkbook behind media matters and moveon.org, but those are only his most visible politically-oriented hobbies.
come on, man, he's an eastern european billionaire with a palindromatic surname accused of destroying national currencies! that just screams bond villain! anyway, my point is that he's one of the richest men around, and just as involved on wall street and in washington and in the media as anyone out there, yet his support of left-leaning media outlets generally earns him a free pass when it comes time for the useful idiots to start bashing anyone who makes more money than the parents who paid for their six-year journey to a gender studies degree with a GPA scraping the bottom of the three-point range.
So, he's The Left's Rupert Murdoch? Got it. I'll file it with the rest of the billionaires this is about. They're not clamoring specifically for "Conservative Billionaires", you know. It's about everyone. Why do people keep trying to label this thing as strictly Liberal?
