Robert Redford Feeds at the Soros Trough

Hollywood leftist Robert Redford and billionaire Marxoid George Soros have quietly been producing radical documentaries through a venture called the Sundance International Documentary Fund. Comanche blogger and FrontPage columnist David Yeagley has decided that it's time to shine some light on their operation.

In a FrontPage article of February 7, titled, "George Soros and the Sundance Kid," Yeagley writes:

"On September 16, 2002, Robert Redford proudly announced at a press conference that he was launching a Sundance International Documentary Fund with $4.6 million in seed money from George Soros’ Open Society Institute (OSI). … In effect, the Soros Documentary Fund simply changed its name… Diane Weyermann, who had directed the `old' fund for Soros, stayed on to direct the `new' fund for Redford.

"The deal helped both parties. Redford got access to Soros’ money. Soros got to camouflage his propaganda operation under the apple-pie image of Robert Redford and the respected Sundance label."

Redford's media empire includes the Sundance Institute, Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Cable Channel and Sundance Documentary Fund, all of which "specialize in promoting far-left films and programming," says Yeagley. He continues:

"As a Comanche Indian and American patriot, George Soros’ appropriation of the Sundance label rubs a particularly raw wound in my soul. It’s that word `sundance' that irks me most.

"… Indian activists of the Left have long made careers of attacking schools and professional sports teams for using Indian names, images and logos. However, Soros and Redford have received no such criticism, even though their project bears the name of the most sacred rite of the Lakota Sioux. Why the free pass? …"

Of course we know why. "[S]oros and Redford are leftists," Yeagley concludes. "And so are most American Indian activists." What to do? In the grand Horowitzian tradition of fighting the left with the left's own tactics, Yeagley suggests that, "Maybe it’s time to revoke that free pass."

O’Reilly Weighs In

On Thursday, February 10, Yeagley found himself on the O’Reilly Factor. For some reason, O’Reilly focused only on Ward Churchill. He saved the Soros-Redford topic for the following night, when Yeagley was not there. O'Reilly's guests for that segment – Capital Research Center president Terry Scanlon and Byron York of the National Review – did a fine job, of course, but Yeagley's absence from the set was palpable.

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit," Harry Truman remarked. Yeagley may not have been on the set to savor his victory Friday night, but the fact remains, after crying out in the wilderness for a month, he’s finally got Soros and Redford on the run.

"[W]e asked Soros to come on [the show]," said O'Reilly last Friday. "He's in France. What a shock. And Redford's out of the country, too. We don't know where he is. But I wouldn't be surprised if he's in France."

Great blogging, Dr. Yeagley!