MRC Fearmongers About Soros To Raise A Few Bucks
Topic: Media Research Center

You may have been seeing web ads like this for the past week or so:

We saw them mostly at the Media Research Center. There's a reason for that: It's an MRC fundraising campaign.

The target is George Soros, and the MRC musters all the demonization it can to scare a few bucks out of gullible conservatives, starting with the awesomely evil image at the top of the "StopSorosNow.com" website:

The "puppet master" imagery is steeped in anti-Semitic stereotypes -- Soros was born a Jew --  but the MRC is too busy fearmongering for its money grab to worry about propriety:

George Soros is on a crusade to destroy the freest nation on earth and transform it into a hard-left, socialist state. He funds more than 180 media outlets and leftist front groups to advance his anti-American propaganda.

BUT—the MRC has the strategy and the courage to stand up to George Soros' ruthless anti-American empire. But we can't do this without your help. Your donation will give the MRC the firepower needed to dismantle the Soros Web by exposing his influence over the liberal media, and your support has never been more critical.

Curiously, an earlier version of the MRC's appeal was much more detailed, which promised many specific things it would do with the money (bolding and underlining in original):

There is nothing that can match the depth and intricacies of the George Soros media web.

But that's where the Media Research Center plays a pivotal role, and with your help, we can expose and stop his assault on America by:

• Operating a full-time team of researchers devoted solely to fully investigating George Soros' deep ties to the liberal American media.
• Funneling this information out to the American people by providing all we uncover to Fox News, conservative talk radio, and the conservative blogosphere.
• Countering and neutralizing the lies, smears, and propaganda that these leftist connected groups like Media Matters spread through their Soros ties in the liberal American media.

The MRC has the strategy and the courage to stand up to George Soros' ruthless anti-American empire. But we can't do this without your help.

Your donation gives the MRC the firepower needed to dismantle the Soros Web by exposing his influence over the liberal media. Two of the MRC's trustees are so convinced that George Soros poses a grave threat to America, they have offered to match dollar for dollar every gift made to the MRC by April 11. That means your gift will have DOUBLE the impact in our fight to stop Soros. Your support has never been more critical. Your gift will go TWICE AS FAR in saving America from George Soros' socialist agenda.

But we must receive your gift by midnight on April 11. Please don't wait to help us stop George Soros. Make your gift to the MRC today.

The appeal as it currently stands removes the specifics of how the money would be spent, and there's no mention of donations being doubled.

Instead, there is a notice that the campaign has been extended for a day, until April 12 -- an all-but-certain sign that it's not going well.

Remaining at the end of the appeal, however, is a version of the MRC logo with the addendum "100% Guaranteed No B.S."

Remove the word "no," and it would be a lot closer to the truth.