In a blog at The Huffington Post, PBS omnipresence Bill Moyers displayed the crackling synapses of the liberal mind. He quickly zig-zagged from Queen Elizabeth being greeted at the White House to Prince Harry going to Iraq (the poor, deluded sitting duck) to pampered plutocrats who received tax cuts in a time of war. "War should be the great equalizer...Instead, mostly folks from the working class and professional soldiers are doing the dying in Iraq, while the rich spend their tax cuts."
I do hope multi-millionaire Moyers channeled the tax savings from his government-TV gains back into the federal Treasury. ("Dear IRS: I will show the fortitude our president lacks. Here is my entire tax cut returned to where it belongs, in the government's superbly efficient hands.") Here's how his logic unfolded in greater detail:
I couldn't help but think of Prince Harry, the Queen's grandson, who is headed for Iraq with a cavalry regiment, even though he's a conspicuous target for assassination or kidnapping. There's angst in official circles that other members of his regiment will be put at graver risk because of his celebrity. So guess what his comrades -- his fellow soldiers -- are doing? Rather than petition the Queen to keep the young man home, they have gotten shirts printed up with the words across them: "I'm Harry." Marvelous, no? The commoners and the Prince are in this together: one for all and all for one.
What a notion -- that war should be the great equalizer, that no one's son or daughter is privileged from duty or danger. You have to wonder how the last four years might have been different if only our President had asked sacrifice from everyone. Instead, mostly folks from the working class and professional soldiers are doing the dying in Iraq, while the rich spend their tax cuts. War on the cheap, except for those fighting it.
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center
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Aren't revenues WAY up???Oh,
May 11, 2007 - 14:08 ET by mattmAren't revenues WAY up???
Oh, yeah, I forgot...facts don't matter to pathological leftists like Bill the Scaremonger Moyers.
Bill, who did you vote for
May 11, 2007 - 14:28 ET by JDWBill, who did you vote for in 04?
JDW
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Leave it to a liberal, hypocr
May 11, 2007 - 14:37 ET by BeowulfLeave it to a liberal, hypocritical moron like Moyers (Moyers - Moron; sound vaguely similiar?) to disparage the comraderie of military service. He feels that Prince Harry's regiment should petition the Queen to keep him home rather than laud the soldiers for standing up for and protecting one of their own. Moyers is such a typical far-left simpleton, who has never served in uniform, never experienced what the term "Brothers in Arms" means, never felt the confidence of mutual protection from harm that military members experience.
The rest of his statements don't even deserve rebuttal. They are hypocritical tripe so expected of the elitist he has become...
The Closed Mind Erects Strong Barriers
Orwell couldn't have come up
May 11, 2007 - 16:33 ET by zfOrwell couldn't have come up with a more tortured use of language. Sheesh, talk about meandering thought patterns.
Tax cuts? What a bunch of hyp
May 11, 2007 - 18:14 ET by ThisnThatTax cuts? What a bunch of hyprocrits. I just heard a report that April 2007 tax revenues were the highest in history. And this is after Pres Bush's tax cuts. As every knowledgeable economist knows, there's a point at which tax cuts maximize tax revenue. If you increase taxes above this point, people will not want to earn taxable income. If you decrease taxes below this point, then taxes will decrease. We may actually be close to the optimum overall tax point.
I say overall, because taxes are clearly skewed towards the wealthy, so much so that millions of people are not paying in. But still, libs like Moyers are too stupid/biased to recognize a good thing. They will continue to ignore facts just to be able to spout their socalist positions.
Keep in mind
May 11, 2007 - 18:17 ET by Mr. BishopAlso, keep in mind, human nature. Human nature tends to try and maximize results, while minimizing effort. If a person spends more to try and get out of paying taxes, then they would actually pay, they tend to just pay and get it out of the way. If a person would actually save money paying someone else to get out of paying taxes, they will go that route instead. The bottom line result is -- if the tax rates are lower, they will pay to get it out of the way. If the tax rate is higher, they will pay someone to minimize the amount to pay, as they will pay less all around.
"Stop global warming! Asphyxiate a liberal!" - Show us how far you're willing to go to stop "global warming"
Dude... lighten up..
"while the rich spend
May 11, 2007 - 19:32 ET by ckc1227"while the rich spend their tax cuts."
Oh the horror. People of wealth(and I'm not one, btw) being allowed to spend THEIR OWN money. That's just not right.
Moyers and other economically illiterate incorrectly see tax cuts as a giveaway. They aren't. Stealing my car and giving it back to me isn't a giveway, or a reward. Stealing my car and giving it to the lazy-ass down the street, much like taxes, is a giveaway.
His what Moyers thinks of the
May 12, 2007 - 01:58 ET by jdhawkHis what Moyers thinks of the drive by media:
. . . in December 2004, the AP News Service quoted Moyers, "I'm going out telling the story that I think is the biggest story of our time: 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."
Yeah, right Moyers. That's as accurate as anything you spew.
Moyers has been the president of Schumann Center for Media and Democracy for decades. He doesn't see his liberal activism through this foundation as in any way a conflict of interest in providing "objective" news and commentary at PBS.
The Schuman Center funds the who's who of liberal think tanks and causes. Here is a run down: The foundation reported 2001 assets of $60,963,043 and expenditures of $5,096,495. Recipients of recurring Schumann Foundation grants during the 1990s, ranging from under $100,000 to more than $5 million annually, include the Tides Foundation and Tides Center, Environmental Working Group, Union of Concerned Scientists, Natural Resources Defense Council, Western Organization of Resource Councils, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, and the Center for Media and Democracy. The campaign finance reform advocacy organization,Public Campaign received over $1 million for its work in 2006.
A question
May 12, 2007 - 06:21 ET by goldenthroatWhy does Bill Moyers always appear like he has a severe case of indigestion?
Never dance on an empty stomach unless it's a liberal.
Why can't Mr. Moyers donate t
May 12, 2007 - 10:10 ET by UnsaneWhy can't Mr. Moyers donate to charity if he feels so damn guilty about his own wealth, rather than insist the government steal from me and others???
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