Jewish billionaire George Soros responded Saturday to Glenn Beck's recent Fox News shows dedicated to prove that he was a "puppet master" behind a movement trying to bring down the American government, and said he would be amused had people seen Beck's accusations more as a joke.

"I would be amused if people saw the joke in it because what he is doing is he is projecting what Fox, what Rupert Murdoch is doing. He has a media empire telling people falsehoods and leading the government in the wrong direction," Soros told CNN's Fareed Zakaria.

"But by accusing me of doing that, it kind of makes it rather hard to see that really he [Glenn Beck] is working for the man who is really doing it, which is Fox News," he added.

Soros also responded to a show in November in which Beck said "George Soros used to go around with this anti-Semite and deliver papers to the Jews and confiscate their property and then ship them off."

Soros said told CNN that "Fox news makes a habit of he [Beck] has imported the methods of George Orwell where you can tell the people falsehoods and deceive them.'

Following Beck's comments on Soros' alleged actions during the holocaust, 400 rabbis published a letter calling on Fox News to sanction Beck for his repeated use of Nazi and Holocaust imagery and for airing attacks on WWII survivor George Soros.

The rabbis cited "unacceptable attacks" by Beck against Soros. Beck, according to the rabbis, has made "literally hundreds of on-air references to the Holocaust and Nazis when characterizing people with whom he disagrees" and compares American leaders he does not like to Nazis and has said putting the "common good" first leads to "death camps."

Soros also spoke about the uprising in the Arab world, in particular in Iran. He said he believed that the Iranian regime would not survive "I dont think they will be able to succeed – people behave very differently than in normal time, they are actually willing to sacrifice their lives for a common cause – the impossible, what seems impossible becomes a reality."

"I would like to think that the Iranian regime will not be there in a years' time," Soros said.

