Comments on: Another Dinosaur Retires

By: saltaposaurus

saltaposaurus — Sun, 12 Dec 2004 17:30:09 +0000

To quote Barry Goldwater, who was somewhat familiar with Bill Moyers’ “work”:

“Every time I see him, I get sick to my stomach and want to throw up.”

By: EBrown

EBrown — Sun, 12 Dec 2004 05:20:32 +0000

It’s nice to see the “In your heart, you know he might” guy shove off.

By: The Fop

The Fop — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 21:06:38 +0000

“Good evening, I’m Bill Moyers. Tonight we’ll be discussing the fact that, due to President Bush’s economic policies, 98% of all Americans are starving to death. A little later on we’ll discuss a poll that I took myself which indicates that 98% of all US soldiers and their families opposed the war in Iraq. But first, a special report on a breaking story that you probably heard about on the evening news……Jerry Falwell and an armed militia of Evangelical Christians have stormed the White House and the Capitol and have effectively taken control of the federal government.”

By: tsol

tsol — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 01:38:24 +0000

“anchorperson” ?!?

Is Bill Moyers gender in question?

By: ahem

ahem — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 00:45:46 +0000

Actually, he’s still missing a big story: the story of how a Liberal-Left media had its foot on the neck of the American public for more than fifty years, but how the public finally realized it and revolted.

By: richard mcenroe

richard mcenroe — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 00:32:45 +0000

This is the same Bill Moyers who was LBJ’s consigliere for IRS tax harassment of LBJ’s enemies, right?

I’m just askin’…

By: chuck

chuck — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 23:02:25 +0000

Bob,

As I understand it, PBS is no longer really supported by the government. They run ads and beg. But they retain some of the cachet of an organization not brutalized by the almighty dollar, lol.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:37:17 +0000

“The case of Moyers’ beloved PBS is one of the more obvious examples [of the bias in media]. The idea that government would have an ‘unbiased’ news outlet is undemocratic on the face of it.”

But wait a sec … PBS’s slant is liberal, isn’t it? Ostensibly like the rest of the “mainstream media”? But the government is in the hands of the Republicans, isn’t it? And has been for years, hasn’t it? Why would a Republican (and thus conservative-leaning) government foot the bill for a liberal PBS? Oy, am I confused!

By: RandMan

RandMan — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 21:39:17 +0000

Democrats like Moyers just can’t get over the fact that the country, as a whole, has been trending to the Right since Vietnam. For them, it is evidently written somewhere that the Democrats are supposed to be in charge, and when they are not, it is a defacto Dark Age for the country. Oh the horror!

By: Rhod

Rhod — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 20:36:04 +0000

I should have added the the brief association with JFK was Moyer’s stint as deputy director of The Peace Corps, which I think was more important to Moyers than any connection with LBJ. When Moyers left Washington in the 60′s he pulled the curtain down on Johnson, who was important to Moyers as long as it mattered to him and no longer.