BREAKING NEWS – Paris, France – Billionaire George Soros warms up to coal as stock prices hit bottom demonized fossil fuels for years through his think tanks and political contributions, seems to have warmed up to Big Coal now that stocks are dirt cheap. The left-wing hedge fund legend has raised eyebrows with major purchases of stock in two large coal companies, firms his critics say he helped bring to their knees. While buying low is the hallmark of any shrewd investor, buying coal goes against the political and environmental ideology Soros has long espoused. He explained the appearance of his hypocrisy by saying, “If those idiot liberals are criticizing me for completely reversing my previous hard line on my view of fossil fuels just so I can become even richer, then they are even stupider than I thought they were!”