Soros's Nose in NASA "Science" As well?

How many people know that James Hansen, a man billed as a lonely "NASA whistleblower" standing up to the mighty U.S. government, was really funded by Soros' Open Society Institute ?...Hansen was packaged for the media by Soros' flagship "philanthropy," by as much as $720,000, most likely under the OSI's "politicization of science" program...Hansen had media flacks help him get on the evening news to push his agenda and lawyers pressuring officials to let him spout his supposedly "censored" spiel for weeks in the name of advancing the global warming agenda...Hansen even succeeded, with public pressure from his nightly news performances, in forcing NASA to change its media policies to his advantage. Had Hansen's OSI-funding been known, the public might have viewed the whole production differently....George Soros & Moveon.org: Exclusive Series, Editorial, Investor's Business Daily, 9/24/2007

How many knew? Certainly no major news outlet on television "knew." They may have known but they didn't let on. As with other stories countering the nonexistent consensus on global warming, the patron for the NASA whistleblower story was concealed to prevent injury to the cause.

One would be naive to assume, however, that Soros is the only man manipulating the press. Take it as a lesson that the blame-America-first crowd is using modern public relations methods. That's never good news. Better they should back to using mimeograph machines in basements, but that's not likely to happen. Take it as a lesson also that widely-disseminated news stories about science should be carefully looked into to see who's paying for the news.

Luther