In Denial: Bill Moyers Claims 'We've Heard No Reporter -- Not a One' Advocate Liberal Ideas on NPR
Katrina Vanden Heuvel isn’t alone when she claimed on MSNBC that her magazine The Nation wasn’t leftish, it was “transpartisan” and “independent.” Bill Moyers (alongside Michael Winship) has penned a third loopy attack on conservative critics of NPR. It’s gotten so loopy that Moyers claims he’s never heard anyone advocate liberal ideas on NPR:
For one, when we described the right-wing media machine as NPR’s "long-time nemesis," it was not to suggest that somehow public radio is its left-wing opposite. When it comes to covering and analyzing the news, the reverse of right isn't left; it's independent reporting that toes neither party nor ideological line. We’ve heard no NPR reporter -- not a one -- advocating on the air for more government spending (or less), for the right of abortion (or against it), for or against gay marriage, or for or against either political party, especially compared to what we hear from Fox News and talk radio on all of these issues and more.
Moyers brazenly claims that it’s conservative NPR critics who can’t stand debates or differing points of view, and that they loathe NPR because it’s “fact-driven” and has a high regard for evidence:
So what do conservatives really mean when they accuse NPR of being "liberal?" They mean it's not accountable to their worldview as conservatives and partisans. They mean it reflects too great a regard for evidence and is too open to reporting different points of views of the same event or idea or issue. Reporting that by its very fact-driven nature often fails to confirm their ideological underpinnings, their way of seeing things (which is why some liberals and Democrats also become irate with NPR).
Moyers reaches a rhetorical climax by claiming that conservatives are the forces of culturally-induced ignorance (and the lefties, by contrast, have cornered the nation’s market on wisdom):
That's why our favorite new word is "agnotology." According to the website WordSpy, it means "the study of culturally-induced ignorance or doubt," a concept developed in recent years by two historians of science at Stanford University, Robert Proctor and his wife, Londa Schiebinger.
Believing that global climate change is a myth is one example of the kind of ignorance agnotologists investigate. Or the insistence by the tobacco industry that the harm caused by smoking is still in dispute. Or the conviction that Barack Obama is a closet Muslim, and a radical one at that, who may not even be from America.
Those first two illusions have been induced by big business in a cynical attempt to keep pumping profits from deadly pollutants, whether fossil fuels or nicotine. The third, dreamed up by fantasists of the right-wing fringe, is in its own way just as toxic and has been tacitly, sometimes audibly, encouraged by certain opponents of President Obama who would perpetuate any prevarication to further blockade his agenda and deny him and fellow Democrats reelection.
In an attempt at sleight of hand, Moyers claims that NPR isn’t liberal because it’s not the polar opposite of conservative – it’s “non-ideological journalism” that “threatens the conservative belief system,” so it must be quashed:
To the accusers of NPR, the created reality of however they define "liberal" is not the same as what they mean when they call themselves "conservative." If it were, the two would be exact reverse images of each other. Where media are concerned, all you have to do to know this is not the case is to hold them up, side-by-side. If "liberal" were the counterpoint to "conservative," NPR would be the mirror of Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and James O'Keefe, including the use of their techniques as well as content. Clearly it isn't. To charge otherwise is a phony gambit aimed at nothing less than quashing the public's access to non-ideological journalism, narrowing viewpoints to all but one. We know from first-hand experience that any journalist whose reporting threatens the conservative belief system gets sliced and diced by its apologists and polemicists at Fox and on talk radio.
Moyers completely dissolved his argument by arguing that radical Pacifica Radio is his "fact-based" model for asking "hard questions" about how corporations unfairly dominate our free society:
Americans need more and sustained reporting on what the journalist William Greider calls "the hard questions of governance" -- those questions of how and why some interests are allowed to dominate the government's decision making while others are excluded. Who gets the money and who has to pay? Who must be heard on this question and who can be safely ignored? None execute this kind of reporting better than Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez on "Democracy Now," which, while carried by many public radio and television stations, is not distributed nationally by either NPR or PBS. Public media -- radio and television -- too rarely challenge the dictum: "News is what people want to keep hidden; everything else is publicity."
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Not a One
Submitted by commentkazi on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 11:44pm.
Sounds like he'd make a good WH press secretary.
Moyers
Submitted by rpeeler42 on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 12:16pm.
Anybody who could work hand in hand for LBJ has got to be a weak richard and a whimp.
Moyers was indeed LBJ's WH
Submitted by Shrinque on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 12:22pm.
Moyers was indeed LBJ's WH press secretary from July, 1965-February, 1967 (piggy-backed on being informal WH COS from 10/64-66). During this time he approved the infamous "Daisy" ad and directed a number FBI investigations of LBJ's political enemies for use in smear campaigns. He made some soft, half-heartted apologies decades later, the kind leftists usually make when their hypocrisy is incontrovertibly displayed, something like (with the unspoken details and points in parentheses), "I have lived with regret over (getting caught for) my actions those many years ago (so many that you rubes should just get over it). That (ordained Baptist minister schtick) contradicted everything I stand for and is truly not who I am. It was a youthful indiscretion (by a major DC insider in his early thirties) to which I was seduced (power being the ultimate aphrodisiac, after all). I carry (but don't feel) decades of guilt that people were hurt . I will never do that (get caught) again."
After leaving the WH, he got toiled in some private sector "journalism" until he found the goose that laid his golden egg: the CPB, who would provide other people's money obtained under threat of imprisonment (often called "taxes") to Moyers' production company for Moyers to produce shows for PBS. Then Moyers' company had exclusive distribution rights for the VHS and DVD sales. He made a fortune--no capital outlay on his part and 100% of the video sales. Nice work if you can get it. And not a single moderate or conservative ever got it.
Moyers is one of the slimiest characters in all of media. His sanctimony is especially galling.
Agreed
Submitted by Galvanic on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 2:52pm.
Moyers has been get fat off Big Government for decades, and his holier-than-thou attitude has long worn out its welcome.
Having served in the LBJ Administration, Bill Moyers should visit the Vietnam War Memorial every day and beg for forgiveness.
Wow!
Submitted by Boil It Down on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 11:50pm.
Moyers really has had a complete break with reality. Perhaps he only knows the fabricated reality within the elitist bubble where he consumes all those many cocktails in order to help him sleep through the reality outside the bubble.
Moyers
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 12:18am.
and everyone else at NPR and PBS think they have debates on their programs. It's more like mental masturbation.
Hey tug.. questions you'll never hear on NPR..
Submitted by Gary Hall on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 12:43pm.
The fact that they have conservative guests on air is not an indication that NPR is conducting a fair interview for the purpose of holding an honest and informative debate on the issue at hand.
Questions (statements) to a Democratic guest go like this:
Questions (statements) to a Republican guest go like this:
Questions to a Democratic guest that you will not hear:
Questions to a Republican guest that you will never hear:
Should we have fun with Global Warming questions now? ha!
(;`> gary
Retired
Submitted by grammajane on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 12:43am.
Thought this lib retired?? There are places in nursing homes for those who have memory loss. Maybe he, Rather and Brokaw could make a reservation and quit making complete fools of themselves now-a-days. Who cares what any of them say and spin. Has beens!!!
Yea
Submitted by GregE on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 10:52am.
Moyers has seen no liberal advocacy.
And the media tried to paint John McCain was a hard right conservative.............during the campaign of course. Compared to themselves, he was........yet he isn't.
DRINK THE OJ
Submitted by JPTSO3 on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 1:11am.
And OJ is still looking for the killer...
So, let me get this straight,
Submitted by lumpy on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 1:14am.
he writes an article for Salon, a leftwing mag, wherein he claims that NPR is not partisan and in the article he trashes conservatives. Is he trying to prove himself wrong or does he think his readers are stupid? Probably the latter.
Exactly my first thought
Submitted by ThisnThat on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 9:57am.
Hi. I'm Bill Moyers. I'm here tonight -- representing NPR -- to prove to the world that NPR is not biased towards liberal ideology.
So there! What more proof do you need? I'll answer that for you -- none whatsoever.
__________
“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
NPR, Bill Moyers..
Submitted by Gary Hall on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 1:48am.
Find us a handful of folks who work for NPR that will come out and claim that they support conservatives and conservative ideas.
Until then..
(;~/ gar
Snarky, Gar
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 1:53am.
Very snarky.
Since NPR has no decent cooking programming....I think they ought to be summarily dumped.
Of course, cooking on the radio is a rather, um, imaginative exercise, but no matter. If they can't pull that off....NO FUNDING!
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Cooking on the radio
Submitted by rockyracoon on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 4:50am.
Your comment got me to thinking, about how odd it was to have a ventriloquist show like Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, on the radio.
Facts are like kryptonite to the liberal.
Your comment got me thinking...
Submitted by Red Jeep on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 8:16am.
...if a ventriloquist show is a radio success why not a cooking show. Think of all the sounds that a cooking show could have like meat sizzling, the sound of a knife hitting a cutting board, the roar of a blender, combine that with the imagination of the mind and a cooking show might work on radio.
meat sizzling
Submitted by rockyracoon on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 4:48pm.
Your post is making me hungry!
Facts are like kryptonite to the liberal.
Red Jeep---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 4:59pm.
I hear those very sounds when The Vet gets after a troll.
MD
Bergen was on the radio.....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 10:51am.
Did you ever SEE his act? That's why he was on the radio.
NPR Doth Protest too Much
Submitted by TerryWest on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 1:59am.
I find this attempt to justify NPR redundant dribble as the point is I don't want to fund it period.
They sure are putting up a struggle to get off our burdened backs for an organization who claims to be popular, independant and as middle of the road as hot dogs & apple pie.
So Vanden Heuvel chooses to
Submitted by Jer on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 2:33am.
So Vanden Heuvel chooses to describe The Nation in different terms than those employed by Brzezinski, which fact was first reported here as a "refusal to admit The Nation is leftist" and is now transformed into an affirmative "claim that [the magazine] wasn't leftish". What next, "Vanden Heuvel foolishly insists The Nation is the pre-eminent journal of conservative opinion?"
Okay, I agree Katrina was unnecessarily coy with Mika. I suspect she wished to highlight the magazine's maverick, anti-establishment, unconnected to the mainstream media [some would say "independent"] traditions. But anyone who visits The Nation website will quickly apprehend that the magazine and its editors make no attempt to conceal--indeed they trumpet--its unwavering commitment to progressive politics, progressive politicians, and progressive policies. It was frequently fiercely critical of the Clinton administration in the 90's, and more recently it has become increasingly critical of Obama as well.
Jer
Questions -
Submitted by Ashrak on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 10:40am.
Does the notion and some go even farther left (calling that position "progressive" than "others" mean that the "others" are then in the "middle" or the "center"?
Also, as Hillary Clinton is a self proclaimed "progressive", is she lying?
Ashrak...Answers [partial]
Submitted by Jer on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 1:40pm.
Does the notion and some go even farther left (calling that position "progressive" than "others" mean that the "others" are then in the "middle" or the "center"?
I'm not sure I understand your question. Please clarify and I'll try again.
Also, as Hillary Clinton is a self proclaimed "progressive", is she lying?
I think she no doubt holds some views which may be fairly labeled "progressive", but I believe it would currently me more accurate to describe her as center/left. As the term is presently understood, "progressive", imo, would place her somewhat farther left than her evolved political philosophy would generally warrant.
I don't think she was lying when she self-described as progressive. I would call it campaign puffery pandering to a particular audience.
Jer
Hillary Clinton Not Center-Left
Submitted by stratman on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 4:37pm.
Dammit, Jer. Just when I was trying to turn over a new leaf and make nice with you, you have to say something so farcical that it requires correction.
Hillary Clinton is not center-left. She has not seen center-left since Wellesley College when she crossed over from Republican Goldwater girl to Radical Leftist Saul Alinsky-ite.
Anyone characterizing Clinton as center-left is either a radical leftist whose bias colorizes their opinion, ignorant of her positions altogether, or engaging in wishful thinking. If claiming her as currently center-left, in part or whole, because of statements made while Secretary of State is to ignore the fact that her true opinions are not necessarily expressed while a representative of Obama. Clinton is not center-left.
These are not just my opinions on Clinton's politics. Her actions characterize her ideology. (scroll to bottom for graphic)
One last additional point, one not aimed at Jer specifically. Constitutionalists, AKA Originalists, are the middle/center of American politics. Conservatives and Libertarians are general groupings that may be identified as Constitutionalists. Liberalism, with its ever radicalizing Left, has successfully waged a disinformation propaganda campaign of invented polarization and moving goal posts, which needs to be beaten back into its hiding place under a rock Marx once crapped by. As happens cyclically, some Americans, including SCOTUS (Dred Scott), need to be reminded what is and isn't so about our founding and the Constitution.
Those that think the Constitution is "living" are not centrists and never could be. In fact, they are by definition radicals. If the Constitution may be changed or interpreted capriciously by those currently in power, without express consent of two-thirds of the governed via their representatives, then we are governed, at best, by a soft tyranny.
Okay, strat...
Submitted by Jer on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 6:17pm.
I believed she, while still on the "left", had moved a bit more toward the center as a presidential candidate and now as Secretary of State, but I won't quibble with you over the degree of her liberalism.
Of course, I also expect you to hereinafter refer to George W. Bush as a hard-core conservative.
Jer
Colorful Conventions
Submitted by stratman on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 7:43pm.
Hard core is for pornography and drill sergeants.
To demonstrate the weakness of the naming conventions used by On The Issues, Bernie Sanders is listed as a "hard-core Liberal". LOL. There is no category for Socialist.
Hillary moved away from Alinsky, at least publicly, so she shed some of her radicalization. She remains a committed Progressive (early 20th Century meaning of Progressive, not the contrived defanged lie passed off today) who, like most, is not pure in a specific ideology but a weighted blend.
Bush was a Conservative who adhered to the Constitution... for the most part. He was never serially radical like Hillary. His decision in the beginning of the financial mess to dump capitalism and free markets in order to "save" them was gibberish. His brand of "Compassionate Conservatism" certainly ground up against the Constitution with Medicare Part D. His illegal alien ideas were nice but destructive for the Republic. SCOTUS during his presidency had a major malfunction with KELO V. NEW LONDON, though not the fault of Bush.
Unlike the current CiC, Bush obtained Congressional approval for military action against despotic regimes. Bush followed the Constitution. This places Bush as primarily Centrist, not extreme Right or Left, per my previous post. Because a president is not an autocrat, they may bend in their ideology in the form of compromises. Bush's OK on utilizing the already in place Stem Cell Lines is an example of compromise. I'd bet dollars to doughnuts he personally wanted no stem cell research at all.
If we are to strictly use On The Issues naming convention then I have no other choice than to cal Bush a "hard-core Conservative" and Hillary Clinton a "hard-core Liberal", though Bush is more a Centrist based on adherence to the Constitution than Clinton will ever be again.
1) Moyers, the reason you
Submitted by Van Halen on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 2:37am.
1) Bill Moyers: No one I know thinks there's any bias!
2) I don't care anymore whether it's biased to the Left or to the Right. The taxpayers don't need to be paying for it. It needs to be defunded. NOW.
Moyers always remindes me of
Submitted by USA4freedom on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 4:26am.
Moyers always remindes me of the old drunk that sits in the corner of the bar and bitches about everything, and knows all. You only make the mistake of sitting next to him only once.
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, the Republican party.
Moyers has had his
Submitted by celator on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 9:49am.
Moyers has had his experiences as a drunk. Here's one example from an AP story, when AP was still a news gathering organization:
http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/2629/2016642.html
If NPR isn't Institutionally
Submitted by Jack Bauer on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 6:44am.
If NPR isn't Institutionally Leftist then WHY do self-proclaimed LIBERALS and LEFTISTS spend so much time and effort DEFENDING it and claiming it's independent.
The subtext being that it is fair to conservatives.
There is a parallel. The BBC in the UK. Another Institutionally Leftist institution (force funded by a TV poll tax).
British Conservatives have long since claimed that it is brazenly leftist -- while leftists get very upset and call it "independent."
No one invests that much emotional energy defeding an organization that doesn't support them.
All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
Just asking
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 6:53am.
I wonder if Pacifica Radio ever asked the 'hard questions' of GE, who pays no corporate taxes and just happens to have a man (or two) at the White House.
Moyers just thinks all
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 7:31am.
Moyers just thinks all fair-minded and independent people think like he does. Everyone else is influenced by right-wing bias.
This is what made my jaw drop:
To charge otherwise is a phony gambit aimed at nothing less than quashing the public's access to non-ideological journalism, narrowing viewpoints to all but one.
Does Bill Moyers seriously believe that without NPR, the liberal/progressive viewpoint would NOT be heard???
Liberalism-
Submitted by johnsonl on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 8:14am.
is truly a mental disorder. No sense of reality whatsoever.
Perfectly penned!
Submitted by merly1 on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 9:40am.
Your succinct comment nails it....................libs have an unhealthy dose of cognitive dissonance
for good measure as well.
Moyers lives in a parlllel universe...
Submitted by thescoots on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 9:27am.
His world view works this way....".I've covered every square inch of this oak forest and I cannot find one single pine cone anywhere....Therefore....pine cones do not exist..." Its not necessary for the rationale of liberals to make sense, nor involve validity....Their words alone are sufficient to satisfy the threshold of their peers..who are the arbiters and messengers of the mainstream media. Their agreement with one another involves numbers...which trump facts. Two wrongs are better than one right, because two is greater than one. Liberalism is a disease of the mind.
Moyers and 1984
Submitted by FaulknerFan on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 9:45am.
Moyers and his ilk live in a truly 1984 parallel universe where truth is lies and lies are truth. I can't believe that Moyers really believes this garbage about no left bias on NPR, so I guess they are so committed to the rightness of their cause that the ends justify the means, no matter how bizarre. I know some otherwise intelligent people like that. It's also the mindset that allows a man like Stalin to exist and say that one death is a tragedy but a thousand is a statistic. Right now, the only thing that is saving this country is the still existing, though now also under severe attack by the left, separation of powers and ability of the people to vote and the elections be at least somewhat fair. The existence of some strong people of true principle like Scott Walker and Chris Christie also are reason for hope. But history tells us what horrors await if lunatics like Moyers get their way and these last barriers, truly sacred gifts from our founders, are torn down or invalidated.
Got it all wrong
Submitted by Dave81 on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 9:45am.
"...and James O'Keefe, including the use of their techniques as well as content..." Um, I seem to remember a few days after James O'Keefe's video sting was released and Rob Schiller was fired that NPR released their own undercover video sting of US border agents along the Canada border and how they profile Muslims (a failed video sting I might add). BUSTED!
People seem to be under the impression that "just reporting facts" is independent and non-biased. While I agree that NPR probably does a better job of sticking to facts than most news programs, WHICH FACTS you chose to report completely reveal your bias. Only having liberal guests on the show to argue on side of an argument reveals your bias. The stories you decide to cover and consequently don't cover reveals your bias. The choice of words you use (ex. "abortion rights opponents") reveals your bias. So stop arguing that just because Click and Clack aren't openly pushing for Socialism, NPR somehow isn't biased.
Night, night
Submitted by fatboy on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 9:46am.
I think it's time to put him to sleep and alleviate his pain.
not one
Submitted by Straight8 on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 10:22am.
Mr. Moyers is obviously the monkey in the middle.
Straight8
In Moyers' world....
Submitted by Ashrak on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 10:34am.
..."gun control" must be a conservative idea.
To what depths will the foolishness descend?
What's so funny is the people
Submitted by ds7 on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 10:41am.
What's so funny is the people at ABC, AP, CBS, CNN, HBO, HLN, Hollywood movies, MSNBC, NBC, Newsweek, New York magazine, NPR, PBS, Reuters, Showtime, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles, the Miami Herald, the New York Times, the New Yorker, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post, Time magazine, and USA Today don't realize that any "thinking american" has already tuned them out.
The influence of FOX news trumps all of them...and they can't stand it.
Hey Bill?
Submitted by Patriot II on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 10:55am.
Early sinelity or alzheimers?
(Jams fingers into ears)
Submitted by Slyrr on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 11:15am.
'La la la - can't hear you! La la la no bias! La la la we're not liberal democrats! La la la give us taxpayer money!'
Bill Moyers: the poster boy for liberal arrogance/paranoia
Submitted by Mary Louise Turner on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 11:25am.
If you want any further proof that Washington liberals are arrogant and paranoid, look no further than this pathetic old clown and his laughable remarks about how perfect NPR is.
Lies like these should be
Submitted by Bull Moose Prog... on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 11:26am.
Lies like these should be used by the Republicans and played over and over again. Nothing like hearing a hard leftist claim they're to the center to make "Indepents" get involved and vote with the Republicans.
Bill Moyers' own Liberalism
Submitted by JohnK on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 2:50pm.
All you have to do is go to -
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1047657/posts
and search for "Moyers" to see a long list of his own highly liberal pronouncements.
Bill isn't a reporter
Submitted by TheHistorian on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 2:37pm.
He is an "analyst".
Dennis Prager
No, not a one...
Submitted by Dave81 on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 3:46pm.
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/03/26/krauthammer-ba...
"Not a one", is correct
Submitted by TheHistorian on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 2:36pm.
If you listen to a day's programming on NPR (get out your duct tape for your head, because it's gonna explode), you will hear "Not a one" with a liberal view. Try ALL, or maybe one, that has a conservative view of anything.
Bill, when was the last time I heard a FACT on NPR? I get interpretation by something being up by 10 percent, but is that from 0.1% to 0.11%, or from 90% to 99%? NPR is always afraid to provide the data for fear that they will a) bore the liberal listener, or b) show how little following their ideas really have.
Dennis Prager
NPR Seldom as Far Left as Joe Stalin
Submitted by Avitar on Sat, 03/26/2011 - 11:48pm.
There are leftist/progressives who don't consider Joe Stalin as far enough left to be a "Liberal." Bill Moyers maybe one of them. He may consider Liberalism to start with Pol Pot and go left from their.
Then there are the Left's PR firms that just disown everything that the public gets wise to.
Obama & Jeremiah Wrights Black Racist "Church"
Submitted by sheik yermami on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 12:23am.
Sounds like Willie Clitman's "I never had sex with that woman". Or "yes, but I didn't inhale".
And the Obamessiah sat in Jeremiah Wright's black racist "church" for 20 years listening to his hateful rants, yet never heard a word.
Nah, the Manchurian Moonbat was never held to account.
Open the records! Show us what he's got to hide.
We can start right with his non existent birth certificate.
Moyers is lost
Submitted by Truestar on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 7:51am.
Bernard Goldberg is perhaps the enlightened version of someone like Moyers. They're both approximately the same age.Goldberg has essentially maintained his cred as a journalist (he still works for HBO), but he's also effectively exposed the incessant liberal bias in the media.I would suggest Mr. Goldberg is a man who has evolved as a human being, and journalist, while Mr. Moyers practices the exact opposite of what Liberalism is purported to be---he's become intolerant, and ignorant. Something any self respecting, objective, journalist should never become. Moyers is really old, but so is Goldberg. Mr.Moyers has no excuse. He's a lib slanted journalist, end of story.
Hear no evil?
Submitted by aposematic on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 9:39am.
Apparently Moyers has never listened to any of his own shows, let alone any other of NPR "so called" journalist's' leftest rants and promotion of the DNC's talking points; or he is just another leftist liar. Which is it Mr. Moyers?
All You Need To Know
Submitted by Increase Mather on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 10:02am.
All you need to know about Moyers was that as Johnson's aid, he and Arlen Specter did all in their power to cover up the murder of JFK.
Some time he will answer to God for that.
I suppose when you suffer dementia like Bill
Submitted by redright88 on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 10:14am.
he can legally say stuff like that.
Then again...Bill has no recollection of soiling his Depends last night either.
Darkness can never understand
Submitted by Thoreau on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 4:45pm.
Darkness can never understand the light. His contorted soul wouldn't know Rights from hamburger.
I don't think he's lying,
Submitted by CrazyHungarian on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 7:21pm.
I don't think he's lying, what he believes to be true is simply wrong. It's simply amazing that these self-called journalists are so out of touch of the American public that they think that their isolated little liberal thinking circle of friends are "center" and anything less leftist is hard core right, therefore they actually think that the real center is "hard core conservative".
If what Moyers said is true, then it can only mean one...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 10:45am.
thing. All of the NPR reporters are not only 'dumb', they are 'deaf' as well!
Moyers is a classic Leftist.
Submitted by JLin on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 10:45am.
For NPR to be "liberal" in Moyer's opinion, they would have to advocate for gulags and forced sterilization of non-Democrat party members. Empty headed man.
Oh, please
Submitted by HockeyKid on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 11:32am.
MRC, please, please put together a set of clips of NPR droids expounding exactly the viewpoints that Moyers and friend have never heard. He put the ball right on the tee--please crush it!
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Either Moyers suffers from
Submitted by Beukeboom on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 11:55am.
Either Moyers suffers from halucinatory delusions or is lying through his teeth. I contend it's the latter.