On Tuesday night's O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly revealed that Bill Moyers seems to have a faulty memory about some harsh anti-FNC comments I noted here from a Rolling Stone interview. He sent out Jesse Watters to conduct an ambush interview like the one with that left-wing troop-hating Washington Post blogger Bill Arkin. Is Bill Moyers lying on purpose to mislead us into the quagmire of watching his programs? Or is he merely incompetent at remembering his own statements? You be the judge.
O'REILLY: Moyers, who is not only a commentator but an active financial supporter of far left causes, is using me and some other people he doesn't like to promote his program. He has repeatedly bashed me and refuses to come on "The Factor" to talk with me face-to-face. So our policy now is to confront these kinds of attacks, which we did last weekend when "Factor" producer Jesse Watters caught up with Moyers in New York City.
WATTERS: Why are you attacking Bill?
MOYERS: I'm not attacking Bill.
Story Continues Below Ad ↓WATTERS: Well, didn't you give an interview where you said he was part of a slime machine and trying to discredit other journalists?
MOYERS: I didn't say that.
WATTERS: Yes, you did. You said that's a rolling stone.
MOYERS: No, I didn't say that.
O'REILLY: Echo Jesse, yes, you did, Bill. Roll the tape.
MOYERS: The Fox News, the talk radio, The Weekly Standard have not only lingered for war along with the administration, not only embraced the administration's policies because they were "conservative", including going to war, but also mounted a slime machine to discredit any journalist who dared to stand against the official view of reality.
O'REILLY: And Jesse then continued to interrogate Bill Moyers.
WATTERS: You said that Bill spews venom.
MOYERS: No, I didn't.
WATTERS: You did not say that?
MOYERS: I did not say that.
O'REILLY: Well, once again, let's go to the tape.
MOYERS: If a journalist tried to tell the truth about the intelligence of the Hannitys and the O'Reillys and the Limbaughs and the Mike Savages would come down on them and you know slander them, discredit them. So that good reporting lost its power to break through because of this, this avalanche of opposition and venom directed at them.
O'REILLY: I believe I heard the word "venom." Finally, Moyers got a bit frustrated with Jesse, saying this.
MOYERS: Bill O'Reilly does not have the courage to come on my show and answer the questions I wanted to ask him.
O'REILLY: Not true, Bill. And you know it. We consented to the interview with Moyers provided to be taped on "The Factor" set, so we'd have a copy of the conversation. Not that we don't trust you, of course. Also we asked you, Bill Moyers, to come on "The Factor" the day after the documentary aired. It was you who said no to those terms. And we have the correspondence to prove it.
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.
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Tim, did you catch the interv
April 25, 2007 - 16:55 ET by Chris NormanTim, did you catch the interview O'Reilly had with Marvin Kalb, after he ran this tape? Kalb gave some of the most disingenuous answers I've heard for a long time. He actually said he couldn't agree that George Soros was a far-left liberal, because "He didn't know the man."...
The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
- Arabian Proverb
Funny, but Kalb never has a p
April 25, 2007 - 17:43 ET by NewsbusterbrownFunny, but Kalb never has a problem knowing who the "far right" are whether or not he knows them.
He's a liar.
He had a lot of other disinge
April 25, 2007 - 17:47 ET by Chris NormanHe had a lot of other disingenuous answers. The old MSM just doesn't get the fact that their smug dismissals of leftwing bias just don't work like they used to. I was laughing at his lame attempts to get away with it...
The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
- Arabian Proverb
Kalb is as far left as the rest----
April 25, 2007 - 17:48 ET by misterbillKalb is as far left as the rest----of them. BOR gives him the same kid glove treatment he gives to that jerk-Al Sharpton.
bill,I think O'Reilly defers
April 25, 2007 - 18:19 ET by Chris Normanbill,
I think O'Reilly defers to those he feels are the elder statesmen of news - like Kalb (not Sharpton :)). Still, he was incredulous when Kalb said he couldn't say if Soros was left-wing. Michelle Malkin, who was on with Kalb, had it nailed exactly - per usual. She's getting better (and smoother) with each appearance. Now that she's been guest hosting for O'Reilly, I think she's being groomed for bigger things.
The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
- Arabian Proverb
And to think, for all the Lef
April 25, 2007 - 21:25 ET by UnsaneAnd to think, for all the Leftists who so hate Fox News, that Kalb has drawn paychecks from Fox News. Does he still work for them, I wonder?
"HAV3 TH3 BRIDG3S OF INSANITY B33N CROSS3D AND FOR3V3R R3TRACT3D???." - Meshuggah, "3ntrapm3nt", from Catch Thirty Thr33 (2005)
I see a new trend here when i
April 25, 2007 - 16:58 ET by tracheostomyI see a new trend here when it comes to journalist vs. journalist hit pieces. Confront 'em on the street and then roll the tape when they deny everything.
Love it Bill, good work.
-PJ
Typical of Moyers
April 25, 2007 - 17:04 ET by c5thenManufacture an "issue" and then deny that you manufactured anything.
In this case, he's trying to manufacture ratings for his show by manufacturing sympathy for him because of the famous "right wing conspiracy" that is out to get him. How to prove there is a group out to get him? Simple, slander a bunch of people you already don't like by saying they are out to get you and being dishonest, then when they hit back, you point to them (with a look of sad piety) and say, "see, I told you",
Moyers is a pathetic little m
April 25, 2007 - 17:18 ET by mattmMoyers is a pathetic little man. He's been a Leftist propagandist for 40+ years. He's no more a journalist than Goebbles was.
It's great to see O"Re
April 25, 2007 - 17:39 ET by radiofitz34It's great to see O"Reilly point out Moyers selective amnesia. Moyers was caught like a weasel in the hen house.
You guys just don't like Mo
April 25, 2007 - 17:59 ET by BlameTheMediaYou guys just don't like Moyers because he practices the kind of journalism that busts corrupt politicians. I suppose it's Moyers' fault that condi is going to get a subpeona. You are trying to shoot the messenger instead of facing up to the fact that this administration is more corrupt that Nixon's was, and they are being busted wide open... now that congress is finally doing it's job.
Quit blaming the journalists for reporting the facts you don't want to believe. It is small minded and a very unintellectual way to think. But, feel free to go down with the BushCo ship. Because, it is'a sinkin.
Blamer
April 25, 2007 - 18:26 ET by Cool ArrowYou must have missed the show. It was glorious. Moyers did a magnificent job of acting like Mr. Alzheimers. I think he really was making fun of people with alzheimers.
He couldn't remember a thing he's said. Unless, of course he was just making fun of senile people
Yeah, that's it. We need to call for Moyers' resignation because he did a cheap imitation of an Alzheimers victim.
No, I believe I'll start by
April 25, 2007 - 18:27 ET by BigBNo, I believe I'll start by BLAMING SMakTards like you. Stand up, pull up yer pants, and tell yer PolySci Professor to go home. The title on this thread is wrong. Moyers didn't 'Try to lie'...HE FLAT OUT LIED!!
Congress is doing it's job?? Well, if you call letting the whackbags in Iraq know they can open up a taco stand an lay low because 'WE HAVE LOST THE WAR' (thanks Harry)..well I guess you have a point..just be sure and keep yer hat on it.
Moyers hasn't been a journalist since before his love affair with LBJ....he is nothing but a communist/socialist hack that has been on the tax tit for decades. I read something the other day...$20 million accrued during his stint with the hard hitting pinnacle of investigative reporting PBS.
Then he gets caught on the street and flat out lies about, or can't even remember, what he said a week ago.
Moron...
Now, this might sting just a little bit.....
LOL! Please give us some cred
April 25, 2007 - 18:37 ET by Del DolemonteLOL! Please give us some credible examples of "corrupt politicians" whom Bill has "busted" with what you quaintly call "objective journalism".
Even the far-right-wing reference source Wiki couldn't name one politician Moyers had ever "busted"-though they do admit that in fact, while working for President Lyndon Johnson (see below), he tried to get the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover to dig up dirt on possible homosexuals in (Republican) Barry Goldwater's 1964 Presidential campaign-after one of Lyndon's staff members, Walter Jenkins, was arrested in a men's room in Washington. Moyers denied the charge, even though it was documented in Hoover's personal files which were discovered in 1974.
Long before your parents were born, Moyers started his career as a Monica Lewinsky (intern) in 1954 for one of the most corrupt Presidents in history, and then stood idly by as Lyndon, who had climbed into bed with the Halliburton firm in 1936 (5 years before Dick Cheney was even born) gave said firm all sorts of no-bid contracts during the Vietnam War, and left office many times richer than when he entered. Lyndon's widow is still on Halliburton's Board of Directors. And Bill Clinton (D-Arkansas), as President, also gave Halliburton no-bid contracts. Moyers never "busted" him, either, because he had a "D" after his name.
You want "corruption"? Moyers fits the bill exactly. As if that weren't bad enough, Bill was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1959, and taught "Christian ethics" at Baylor University for a time. I thought you southpaws didn't like such religious types?
BlametheMedia,We don't like M
April 25, 2007 - 19:10 ET by StockJockeyBlametheMedia,
We don't like Moyers because he busts corrupt politicians? I guess we missed his documentary on White Water.
Aside from the fact that we don't agree with his opinions, we don't like Moyers for a number of other reasons, including;
He uses taxpayer money to produce his programs.
He presents opinions as facts.
He doesn't have the guts or integrity to own up to his statements or to defend them with facts.
BTM, don't let this response discourage you from posting. However, since "unintellectual" is not a word, I ask you to please confine your future posts to words that are a part of the English language. It's difficult enough to understand nonsense.
footnote: Not only does he us
April 25, 2007 - 19:21 ET by kathleenirishfootnote: Not only does he use tax payer money to fund his left wing products, he makes millions doing it.
" 'Fred's Slacks' is a winner!!"
Uh-huh...
April 25, 2007 - 19:19 ET by Mr. BishopWrong again slick. Clinton's administration was more corrupt then Nixon's was, it is a provable fact. Bush's administration, you cannot prove a single thing on -- just throw out undless conspiracy theories, to which no evidence exists to back it up. The same holds true with this entire "story" on US Attorneys being fired. If you think that 8 of them being fired, is cause for scandal -- where were you when Clinton, undeniably, fired all of them? Since there is no reason that must be given for firing a person who serves at the leisure of the president, firing 8 for dereliction is considered plausible. "DiFi" was even complaining about one of the US Attorneys that were fired. She had written a letter to the DoJ (I believe it was) about incompetence, etc.
Now, if you want to continue on in this self-destructive course of action, be my guest.
"Stop global warming! Asphyxiate a liberal!" - Show us how far you're willing to go to stop "global warming"
Nixon had one scandal. Bush
April 26, 2007 - 00:56 ET by mattmNixon had one scandal. Bush has ZERO. Clinton had...count 'em:
Whitewater
Cattlegate
Nannygate
Helicoptergate
Travelgate
Gennifer Flowersgate
Filegate
Vince Fostergate
I wonder where those Whitewater billing records came fromgate
Paula Jonesgate
Federal Building campaign phone callgate
Lincoln bedroomgate
White House coffeegate
Donations from convicted drug and weapons dealersgate
Buddhist Templegate
Web Hubbell hush moneygate
Lippogate
Chinese commiegate
Let's blame Kenneth Starrgate
Zippergate/interngate
Perjury and jobs for Lewinskygate
Willeygate
Web Hubbell prison phone callgate
Selling Military Technology to the Chinese Commiesgate
Coverup for our Russian Comrades as Wellgate
Wag-the-Dog-gate
Jaunita Broaddrick gate
PBS-gate
Email-gate
Vandalgate
Lootergate
Pardongate
Haircutgate
Hillary talks with Eleanor Rooseveltgate
Burgergate
Joycelyn Elders
The Bill Clinton Tiananmen Peace Tour Vacation
The Lewinsky Speech
http://members.tripod.com/~GOPcapitalist/clinton-scandals.html
You forgot stealing furnature
April 26, 2007 - 09:30 ET by BDYou forgot stealing furnature when Bill and Hill left the Whitehouse at the end of the term.
W's
April 26, 2007 - 09:38 ET by JimboAnd how about stealing all the "W" keys off every keyboard before handing the place over to the new President? The Clinton Administration ran roughshod over the Office and treated it like they were in Cancoon on spring break.
Jimbo says - "There is a fine line between freedom of speech and treason"
On corruption
April 25, 2007 - 21:30 ET by UnsaneHow corrupt the Bush administration is? How? But then, I am asking this question of one who believes that the evil Bush administration abrogated the Bill of Rights (yet amazingly cannot prove this) and has usurped the writ of habeas corpus (and again asserts that without evidence; just wanting a reason to whine, I suppose).
Moyers despises capitalism, as he made clear in previous PBS programming. He also is horrified that the United States is led by someone who thinks that yes, maybe we should look after our interests and go on he offensive against terrorists and their sponsors, instead of sitting around like docile sheep waiting to be slaughtered.
Try a little harder next time, Blame.
"HAV3 TH3 BRIDG3S OF INSANITY B33N CROSS3D AND FOR3V3R R3TRACT3D???." - Meshuggah, "3ntrapm3nt", from Catch Thirty Thr33 (2005)
Blame, you need to blame your
April 26, 2007 - 06:54 ET by Senior ChiefBlame,
you need to blame yourself for defending Moyers and the leftoid media. Where have you been hiding? Are your ears shut to leftoids reporting? Youre right though, media people should REPORT only the facts and quit analyzing what they're reporting. You're telling us that you never, ever noticed that the media leans lefty? Wake up, Blame...
"troop-hating Washington Post
April 25, 2007 - 18:30 ET by balboa"troop-hating Washington Post blogger"?
MOYERS THE HOMOPHOBE
April 25, 2007 - 18:43 ET by Cool ArrowYeah, Moyers has always been a straight shooter
Moyers tried to have Barry Goldwater's staff investigated by the FBI for homosexual activity.
Two words Google it
from Wiki In October 1964
April 25, 2007 - 18:47 ET by Del Dolemontefrom Wiki
In October 1964 Walter Jenkins resigned from Johnson's staff after being arrested in a men's room in Washington, and Moyers became the President's informal chief of staff. According to Laurence H. Silberman—who examined J. Edgar Hoover's secret files upon their discovery in 1974— Moyers, in his capacity as chief of staff, directed Hoover to have the FBI investigate Barry Goldwater's staff to find similar evidence of homosexual activity, to be used in case Goldwater brought up Jenkins's arrest as a campaign issue. According to Silberman, Moyers at first claimed that the memo was a forgery, but then admitted to him that it was genuine.
Lessee, illegally trolling th
April 25, 2007 - 22:14 ET by dahliatraversLessee, illegally trolling through FBI files looking for dirt. Why does that ring a bell?
Oh yeah. That mysterious little episode starring the forty second president and his wife. (She's running for something, isn't she?)
They shoot them first
April 25, 2007 - 18:46 ET by w0tmThe thousands of elitist leftist demagogues and the millions of Useful Idiots who give them what power they think they have all believe they will be among the chosen ones when their brave new world comes to pass. They are so wrong. And they will be so dead. When Caesar, Napoleon, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Castro and so many other ruthless tyrants gained power, they killed those closest to them first.
Tyrants understand when those who bring them to power realize they have been lied to; they will rise up in revolt. The ultimate tyrant knows he has nothing to fear from his long-time enemies. They always knew the truth and they know they have lost.
They eliminate their "friends" first, not their enemies. It is no different today. The traitors amongst us who believe they will become the privileged elite need only look at history to see their real future. Bill Moyers may believe he will be among the privileged chosen few but he, and all like him, will be in for a most unexpected and unwanted surprise.
History repeats itself in so many, many ways I sometimes wonder if anything truly new has happened or been said in hundreds of years. That may be correct. That may be correct. That may be ---- .
How did Moyer's handle the Cl
April 25, 2007 - 19:32 ET by nicksmith112How did Moyer's handle the Clinton crew and their comments about Iraq and weapon of mass destruction or is it the usual cop out "Bush lied" nonsense.
BlametheMedia, “Quit blami
April 25, 2007 - 20:09 ET by USA4freedomBlametheMedia,
“Quit blaming the journalists for reporting the facts you don't want to believe. It is small minded and a very unintellectual way to think.”
For example: there was no reason to go to war or no tie to terrorist.
http://www.cnn.com/2...
http://www.khaleejti...
http://www.freerepub...
http://www.cnn.com/2...
http://www.msnbc.msn...
http://www.foxnews.c...
http://www.guardian....
http://www.cnn.com/A...
Or…. How the politicians that voted for the war (with the same info that Bush had) now is voting against it. Because some how Bush lied, as well as Clinton, as well as Kerry, the French, the English, .. etc…would that be a very unintellectual way to think??
Max Baucus (D-efeat, MT)
Evan Bayh D-efeat,IN)
JOE BIDEN (D-efeat, De)
John Breaux (D-efeat, La)
Maria Cantwell (D-efeat, Wa)
Jean Carnahan (D-feat, MO)
Tom Carper (D-Feat, DE)
Max Cleland (D-feat, Ga)
HILLARY CLINTON (D-feat, NY)
Tom Daschle (D-feat, SD)
Christhopher Dodd (D-feat, CT)
Byron Dorgan (D-feat, ND)
JOHN EDWARDS (D-feat, NC)
DIANNE FEINSTEIN (D- feat, Ca)
Tom Harkin (D-feat, Ia)
Fritz Hollings (D-feat, SC)
Tim Johnson (D-feat,SD)
JOHN KERRY (D-feat, MA)
Mary Landrieu (D-feat, La)
Joe Lieberman (Democrat, CT)
Blanche Lincoln (D-feat,AR)
Zell Miller (Democrat, GA)
Bill Nelson (D-feat, FL)
Ben Nelson (D-feat,NE)
HARRY REID (D-FEAT, NV)
Jay Rockefeller (D-feat, WV)
CHUCK SCHUMER (D-FEAT, NY)
Robert Torricelli (D-feat, NJ)
Patrick J. Kennedy (D-feat, RI)
PS, I don’t think that unintellectual is a word, would that be.... unintelligent.
These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc.
Ronald Reagn- 40th Anniversary of D-Day
Maybe Moyers was drunk.
April 25, 2007 - 20:51 ET by daveinbocaMaybe Moyers was drunk. He got nailed on a DUI in Vermont last year that would have been front-page above-the-fold news if a conservative newsie had got caught. But exempt Moyers skated on this and tonite moonbats writing to B O'R thought it was hurtful that Moyers was held to account for forgetting his remarks.
Moyers might also have other problems in the mental department, as he has been raving non-stop about everything since the Florida re-count---oops, that just means he's a normal PBS "journalist."
Actually it wasn't last year,
April 25, 2007 - 21:26 ET by Del DolemonteActually it wasn't last year, but in 2002:
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2002/cyb20020816.asp#5
"Bill Moyers, who regularly complains about the coziness between industry and politicians and the corporate influence on the media, attended a party for one of his interviewees which a liberal Senator also attended.
Newspaper stories on Tuesday, about the appearance in a Vermont courtroom on Monday by Bill Moyers after his arrest for drunk driving, revealed that when arrested he had just left a birthday party for television producer and liberal activist Norman Lear which was also attended by Vermont’s liberal Democratic Senator, Patrick Leahy. (Moyers pled guilty to the lesser charge of “negligent driving.”)
Back on July 5, Lear appeared on PBS’s Now with Bill Moyers and Moyers proposed to Lear: “Did your heart leap with joy last week when the federal court in California said that the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional because that phrase 'one nation, Under God' violates the separation of church and state?"
BTW, I have been watching som
April 25, 2007 - 21:17 ET by Del DolemonteBTW, I have been watching some of Moyers' latest "documentary" on PBS tonight, and it's sad. As usual, he's cherry-picking his sources (something that he is also accusing "BushCo" of doing) while ignoring any evidence that disputes his predetermined conclusion.
To give you an idea of how weak Moyers' "case" is, he's spent almost 1/4 of the 2 hour show on one man-Phil Donahue, who claims that he lost his low-rated MSNBC show because he was anti-Bush. Hilarious.
Remember, it was Clinton who said that Saddam had WMDs, and Clinton who said Iraq and al-Qaeda had a working relationship. But in Harry Reid-land, recorded history didn't start until January of 2001. Too funny!
And the fact that the SECULAR leftists here would support Moyers- a Baptist minister who used to lecture on Christian Ethics at a major university (Baylor)- shows that they're not rooted in reality. I'd love to try some of what they're smoking.
Kalb and secular socialists
April 26, 2007 - 07:57 ET by reelman46Modern liberals are secular socialists. We should all term them that and use the phrase as often as possible. I do. Also, Kalb and other aged 1960s' fossilized socialists cling to some limelight by going on Fox to say secular socialist things, deny reality, defend the indefensible and generally make reasonable people mad. I mute them. Their only value is to keep us informed about how they are not.
If Moyers Was Named Libby
April 26, 2007 - 08:26 ET by dwillmoreIf Moyers was named Libby there would be a Congressional investigation. Moyers would be found innocent of all charges, but imprisoned for pergury. That is the standard now right?
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