George Soros, a liberal billionaire and big donor to Democrats, has been lobbying the Democratic-controlled Federal Communications Commission for months to speed up the purchase of more than 200 radio stations in more than 40 markets. These stations carry shows by Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Erick Erickson, Sean Hannity, and Dana Loesch.
According to reports, the FCC approved the purchase on Wednesday. This means that in just a few days, Soros will likely be able to control communications with over 165 million Americans with the help of foreign investors who have not been vetted and who Democrats have not subjected to the FCC’s normal national security review process.
Glenn Beck, a national radio host and co-founder of Blaze Media, asked Trump appointed  FCC commissioner Brendan Carr about the apparent desire to back Soros’ latest attempt to control the narrative.
There is a “weaponization of government power… against free speech” going on, and Carr made it clear that “it’s an unusual decision for the commission.” This decision would not have been made if Soros was a different political party’s supporter.
The three Democrats on the FCC decided Wednesday to accept Audacy’s plan to reorganize the agency. The New York Post reported this. Commissioner Carr talked to Glenn Beck about what will happen next.
“Now, the FCC voted. It had a bias. It got three votes from Democrats. It got two Republican votes against it,” Beck said. “The real issue is that foreign companies shouldn’t own more than 25% of U.S. radio stations, according to current FCC rules. But Soros got money from outside the country to make his bid, and then he asked the FCC to skip the normal review process.”
“I’ve been very vocal about this problem for the reasons you talked about,” Carr said. “The FCC has a very clear process that we set up. It could take six months or a year to go through the process of [the national security] study of the foreign ownership in question. For some reason that I don’t fully understand, the FCC has skipped that process for this Soros-backed group for the first time ever.”
“It’s a choice that the commission has never made before,” Carr said.
