Maybe he was having a “senior moment.” [That was a speech.-ed. Okay, a "senior evening."]
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There is no excuse for this kind of character assasination. I do not always agree with the socalled right wing, but it seems to me when it comes to just plain mean and malicious they can not hold a candle to the self proclaimed good guys of the left.
Moyers has a fetish about all things Christian. He just goes off the deep end on the subject.
Why? Because he can, and expect no retribution.
A couple of months ago, I met a nice older couple who were deeply saddened by Moyers’s retirement. They felt that Moyers represented “true integrity.”
Of course, as they watch public TV and listen to NPR, there’s little chance they’ll ever hear anything to contradict that notion.
About Moyers’ anti-christian fetish…He’s had it out for western religion ever since the ‘power of myth’(probably earlier than that when he read ‘Conditions of the Working Class’). Good ole Jo’ Campbell (umm Mircea Eliade for the masses)assured him of that.
Essentially the theory is that anything ‘other’ is good while anything so banal as homegrown religion is an ‘opiate’ designed to keep the poor in their place…
I would advise anyone who is interested in the genesis of this self-loathing ‘love of other’ moral/religious relativism to pick up Claude Levi-Strauss’ ‘tristes tropiques’.
Personally I find it interesting when left leaning interests such as animal rights come in conflict with other left-leaning interests like native american rights (should we allow them to skin badgers alive in the name of the religion we so callously destroyed?). The answers are not as black and white as good ole billy would have us believe and the self loathing we should feel is not as cut and dry.
But he can make things up just make them seem so and by his and most academic standards today that’s just fine as long as you make things up in the right (or in this case Left) direction.
Terrye,
Most of those on the ‘right wing’ don’t focus on revenge and many of those who do focus on it consider living well as being adequate. Mr. Moyers has lied all his adult life in advancement of a narrative vision that he can now see will never come to pass. His bitterness is understandable and his recourse to yet another lie is even more understandable. He knows no other way. This is just a pathetic coda to an ultimately futile life. Perhaps others who share that failed vision will learn something and exit in a more appropriate manner. Silent exile in France, perhaps.
Rick:
Well it is just silly. unseemly even.
I just saw Art Linkletter on Cavuto. He is 93 and makes more sense than Moyers. Imagine, all this talk about social security and he was in his 30′s when the program came along. He is very pleasant. BTW he believes in private accounts.
But the Democrats have opted for the problem, what problem [?] approach…they will just go after Bush for even bringing it up.
Roger:
The amazing thing is that Moyers will be on some panel talkfest and will say the blogs are unreliable because rumours are passed off as facts. The inrellectual laziness of the MSM is stunning. Now Moyers screed about Watt will become gospel among the left. The fact that it is already being repeated by the MSM is a testimony to the reliability of the blogs and the rumour mongering of the MSM.
“About Moyers’ anti-christian fetish…He’s had it out for western religion ever since the ‘power of myth’(probably earlier than that when he read ‘Conditions of the Working Class’). Good ole Jo’ Campbell (umm Mircea Eliade for the masses)assured him of that.”
I’m not going to defend Moyer’s current antics, but you can’t just say he’s “against western religion.” He did create and host on of the best TV programs on religion ever, the Genesis series.
Bill Moyers is a classic example of a completely coccooned liberal. Pretty soon, when young, urban liberals, whose parents and grandparents were liberals, meet an Evangelical Christian for the first time in their lives, they’re likely to say “so where’s your horns and wings?”.
I would advise anyone who is interested in the genesis of this self-loathing ‘love of other’ moral/religious relativism to pick up Claude Levi-Strauss’ ‘tristes tropiques’.
Jeeeez, what’d we ever do to you?
Just remember, whenever you think Bill Moyers has a shred of decency, that he got his start as LBJ’s consigliere for IRS harrassment of his enemies…
Of course these undercurrents have been there all along with the Left, it’s their explosion into thousands of angry-eyed screechers since the 2000 election and 9/11 that makes them seem more powerful than they are.
Their world died on 9/11 but they cannot and will not admit it. Their rage flies at anything and everything except the real target because seeing the world for what it truly is means they must change direction.
But they cannot. The centrifugal force of the right has overcome the left’s inertia. How’s that for a twist. Watch all those lefties leave the earth as the forces spin them out into space, screeching in horror as they disappear one by one into the ether.
Pop. Pop. Poof.
Man, do I sound like a wingnut or what?
According to this guy , it is Bill Moyers himself who thinks that we are at the end of days.
Heh. Moonbat echolocation system needs an upgrade.
Moyers is a ground zero democrat in eery sense, in that he was there at the creation of teh American welfare state. Moreover, as a previous poster noted, he was a ball-breaker in LBJs white house.
as penance for this–especially the Vietnam bits–he has seized on a form of Christianity that is the only form really acceptable on the left: liberation theology.
Mr. Moyers strident attempts to emote on paper fail him because like many on all sides of the debate, the times have outstripped him. in the age of blogs, his ability to marshall factsis greatly diminshed by the presence of fact-checkers everywhere. all that he has left is emotion.
Moyers is having a “senior movement”, not moment.
I hope a retraction is published. I wonder what the original citation of Watt was?
BTW, don’t be too boastful about the fact-checking ability of blogs. PowerLine wrote that Zell Miller was talking about last year’s Super Bowl and Janet Jackson but his speech was more far-ranging – he even included Toynbee!
Steve:
I know you will not do this but go check powerline, they have done some background on that.
And taking things out of context can be dangerous, we all know that. Teddy Roosevelt was a dedicated conservationalist himself and I suppose if someone wanted to make him look strange they could, but he was just an individual. I kinda miss the time when people could be individuals without facing public ridicule.