The irrepressible Bill Moyers
Announcing his retirement from television, Bill Moyers stated, "the biggest story of our time [is] how the right-wing media has become a partisan propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee. We have an ideological press that's interested in the election of Republicans, and a mainstream press that's interested in the bottom line. Therefore, we don't have a vigilant, independent press whose interest is the American people."
This is Bill Moyers, who has been employed in public television for a good part of thirty years. Has he been "vigilant," "independent," and nonpartisan? You decide. Following the 2002 elections, Moyers stated on his PBS website,
"[T]he entire federal government — the Congress, the Executive, the Judiciary — is united behind a right-wing agenda for which George W. Bush believes he now has a mandate. That mandate includes the power of the state to force pregnant women to give up control over their own lives. It includes using the taxing power to transfer wealth from working people to the rich. It includes giving corporations a free hand to eviscerate the environment and control the regulatory agencies meant to hold them accountable.
"And it includes secrecy on a scale you cannot imagine. Above all, it means judges with a political agenda appointed for life. If you liked the Supreme Court that put George W. Bush in the White House, you will swoon over what's coming.
"And if you like God in government, get ready for the Rapture. These folks don't even mind you referring to the GOP as the party of God."
You also get a glimpse of Moyers' contempt for Christians whoo are engaged in politics by reading the acceptance speech he gave when he was presented Harvard Medical School's Global Environment Citizen Award. Fair, evenhanded, balanced commentary, no?
Obviously Bill is not part of the "ideological" press interested in electing Republicans. Since he criticized the "mainstream" press over its concern for the bottom line, one presumes he is not in that category either. Bill apparently believes that he is the voice of reason, vigilant, independent, and looking out for the American people. Give me a break. He is as partisan as they come, has made no effort to hide that fact, while all the while proclaiming his objectivity and being funded by tax dollars.
Goodbye, and good riddance.
This is Bill Moyers, who has been employed in public television for a good part of thirty years. Has he been "vigilant," "independent," and nonpartisan? You decide. Following the 2002 elections, Moyers stated on his PBS website,
"[T]he entire federal government — the Congress, the Executive, the Judiciary — is united behind a right-wing agenda for which George W. Bush believes he now has a mandate. That mandate includes the power of the state to force pregnant women to give up control over their own lives. It includes using the taxing power to transfer wealth from working people to the rich. It includes giving corporations a free hand to eviscerate the environment and control the regulatory agencies meant to hold them accountable.
"And it includes secrecy on a scale you cannot imagine. Above all, it means judges with a political agenda appointed for life. If you liked the Supreme Court that put George W. Bush in the White House, you will swoon over what's coming.
"And if you like God in government, get ready for the Rapture. These folks don't even mind you referring to the GOP as the party of God."
You also get a glimpse of Moyers' contempt for Christians whoo are engaged in politics by reading the acceptance speech he gave when he was presented Harvard Medical School's Global Environment Citizen Award. Fair, evenhanded, balanced commentary, no?
Obviously Bill is not part of the "ideological" press interested in electing Republicans. Since he criticized the "mainstream" press over its concern for the bottom line, one presumes he is not in that category either. Bill apparently believes that he is the voice of reason, vigilant, independent, and looking out for the American people. Give me a break. He is as partisan as they come, has made no effort to hide that fact, while all the while proclaiming his objectivity and being funded by tax dollars.
Goodbye, and good riddance.
posted by Hal | 1:41 PM
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