GOP Rep Sounds the Alarm as Soros Seeks to Circumvent FCC Rules to Seize Control of Local Radio Nationwide
Supervillains with a thirst for world dominance often think and act on a grand scale.
Ironically, however, one of the most notorious of all globalist supervillains has proven most effective by concentrating on local power.
In a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, published Wednesday by Fox News, Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas expressed grave concern over globalist billionaire George Soros’ efforts to bypass the usual regulatory process and secure FCC approval for his investment company’s purchase of one of America’s largest broadcast and Internet radio platforms.
Audacy, a major owner of local broadcast radio stations across America, filed for bankruptcy in January, according to Reuters.
By February, Soros Fund Management — the sinister billionaire’s private investment firm — had purchased $400 million of Audacy’s $1.9 billion debt.
That purchase raised legitimate fears that Soros hoped to control more than 200 radio stations ahead of the 2024 election.
Meanwhile, courts have approved Audacy’s restructuring deal, according to Fox News.
Thus, with Soros Fund Management’s purchase of Audacy awaiting only FCC approval, Roy demanded that the regulatory agency not give the Hungarian-born globalist billionaire special treatment and instead follow the law.
“Of particular concern,” Roy wrote, “the Soros groups are asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to approve a change in ownership in Audacy without the FCC running its normal, statutorily required process.”
That, the Texas congressman insisted, must not happen.
“The FCC has an obligation to complete a full and thorough review of any radio station purchase of this size and magnitude,” Roy wrote.
Roy then cited Section 310(b)(4) of the 1934 Communications Act.
That fourth clause under sub-section (b) requires the denial of a radio station license to “any corporation directly or indirectly controlled by any other corporation of which more than one-fourth of the capital stock is owned of record or voted by aliens, their representatives, or by a foreign government or representative thereof, or by any corporation organized under the laws of a foreign country, if the Commission finds that the public interest will be served by the refusal or revocation of such license.”
Curiously, the first clause under the same sub-section (b) prohibits direct foreign ownership of any U.S. radio station. And it gives the FCC no discretion in the matter.
It seems clear, therefore, that the Communications Act’s authors intended to prevent exactly what Soros Fund Management’s purchase of Audacy now threatens.
The discretion afforded FCC regulators under the fourth clause, however, allows sinister actors like Soros to get around legal intent.
In fact, the Soros group has brazenly requested that the FCC waive its standard review requirements.
“The Soros group says that skipping the foreign ownership review at this time will enable the FCC to expedite its approval of the Soros applications and thus allow them to more quickly realize their ownership interests in, and take the reins at, these hundreds of local radio stations across the country,” Roy wrote.
“While this may be true, the Soros group’s interest in expediency does not obviate the FCC’s obligation to follow the law and protect the American people,” he added.
Soros-affiliated groups, of course, have poured millions of dollars into down-ballot elections. Democrat district attorneys in cities across the country, for instance, have benefited from Soros largesse.
Soros also has a taste for authoritarianism, as all globalists do.
Some globalists, like the dour-looking Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the sinister World Economic Forum, come straight from central casting. Others, like the dopey software-monopolist-turned-phony-medical-expert Bill Gates, look deceptively harmless.
On at least one level, however, Schwab and Gates pose fewer threats to freedom, for we can see them coming. We recognize their absurd pretensions to global control. And, most important of all, we imagine them operating at a distance.
But Soros’ slimy influence reaches into local communities. It oozes beneath the doors of soft-on-crime district attorneys’ offices. And now, perhaps, it will pollute radio airwaves.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
