Liberal Group taking heat due to being funded by George Soros...owner of the Democrat Party

Liberal Group taking heat due to being funded by George Soros...owner of the Democrat Party Scotty Starnes | September 30, 2010 at 2:37 PM | Tags: George Soros, Jeremy Ben-Ami, JStreet, lobbyists, pro-Israel | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-2Uv

Now, why would a liberal group lie about receiving funds from pro-New World Order George Soros?

The Washington Post reports:

JStreet, an up-and-coming pro-Israel lobbying group, has attracted criticism from both its detractors and its usual supporters for allegedly making misleading statements about one of its top financial backers.

The liberal group's Web site suggested that J Street had received no funding from George Soros, the wealthy philanthropist who serves as a bete noire for many conservatives. It also said that donors were "primarily individual Jewish Americans" and that it "accepts no funding from foreign governments or from foreign organizations."

But confidential tax records mistakenly made public by the Internal Revenue Service seemed to undermine those characterizations - causing a major public relations problem for the fledgling group, which has enjoyed regular access to the White House and senior Obama administration officials.

The tax records, which were discovered by the conservative Washington Times newspaper, showed that Soros and his family had contributed $245,000 to J Street in 2008, and J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami acknowledged that the group has received $500,000 more since then as part of a three-year gift.

After the report was published, Ben-Ami apologized on the group's Web site for "being less than clear" about Soros's support for the group.

"I said Mr. Soros did not help launch J Street or provide its initial funding, and that is true," Ben-Ami wrote. "I also said we would be happy to take his support. But I did not go the extra step to add that he did in fact start providing support in the fall of 2008, six months after our launch."

But Ben-Ami also said that many of the group's critics were attempting to use the donations to attack the group's reputation for ideological reasons.

"I'm thrilled to have him as a supporter," Ben-Ami said in an interview Wednesday, referring to Soros.

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