LEFT-WING P.B.S. BIAS?
by Ann Coulter
May 25, 2005
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Bill Moyers, the lamented, demented former host of the PBS program "Now
With
Bill Moyers," referred to the American-led war in Iraq as doing "to the
people of Baghdad what bin Laden did to us."
He called American flag pins "a little metallic icon of patriotism"
comparable to Mao's Little Red Book being displayed on every Communist
Party
official's desk in China. This is silly. The metallic icons of
patriotism
that Mao used to keep the masses in line were considerably longer and
sharper, and were usually applied to the back by a fellow "comrade."
Moyers denounced Condoleezza Rice for her ineptness in not preventing
the
9/11 attack, despite a clearly worded memo stating: "Bin Laden
determined to
attack the United States." In other breaking news: Waitress in L.A.
Determined to Become Actress. As Condi said, "I don't think you,
frankly,
had to have that report to know that bin Laden would like to attack the
United States."
In his lengthy diatribe against Rice, Moyers said she had cried wolf,
intentionally misleading "America and the world about the case for
invading
Iraq." Apparently Rice had said Iraq was "a part of the war on terror"
on
the grounds that Saddam was: (1) supporting terrorists, (2) a weapons
of
mass destruction threat and (3) "a tremendous barrier to change in the
Middle East."
But as regular viewers of PBS know, in fact, we invaded Iraq for oil.
Yes, precisely. That's why U.S. forces seized Iraq's oil fields right
after
Baghdad fell, confiscated their vast oil reserves, and now we can buy
all
the gasoline we want here at home for just pennies a gallon any time we
want. Sorry, we what? Folks, my switchboard is completely lit up and
this
isn't even a radio show.
Moyers responded to the 2002 midterm elections in which Republicans
bucked
history by gaining seats in both the House and the Senate by warning
Americans of the coming Rapture: "(I)f you like God in government, get
ready
for the Rapture." As Moyers described the horror that was to come:
"That
agenda includes the power of the state to force pregnant women to
surrender
control over their own lives."
I'm pretty sure even the harshest anti-abortion laws would only prevent
a
woman from killing her baby, not send her to a slave labor camp. But
with
his broadcast career crashing down around him, Moyers took a brave
stand
against the internment of pregnant women.
Moyers also said the agenda of the coming theocracy "includes using the
taxing power to transfer wealth from working people to the rich." (And
we'd
appreciate it if you poor people would fold the bills a little more
neatly
before mailing them in next time.)
As the extra little cherry on top, all Moyers' nut conspiracy theories
were
being broadcast on PBS, subsidized by the U.S. taxpayer. Not only that,
but
Moyers takes a cut of every video of his show sold, and he has family
members on the payroll. Let's see now: a corrupt, partisan demagogue
and his
family caught feeding at the taxpayers' trough. Let's just hope he
never
took a free golfing trip to Scotland!
When Ken Tomlinson, chair of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting,
suggested that PBS was maybe a smidgen left of center, Moyers began his
lengthy public nervous breakdown. Already well-known as an insufferable
jerk, it turns out Moyers is also a crazy megalomaniac, too.
In a recent speech to the the National Conference on Media Reform - a
conference dedicated to increasing liberal representation in the media
from
94.6 percent to 99.8 percent - Moyers responded to his critics by
reading
from his fan mail, reading favorable news articles about himself, and
comparing himself to Jesus Christ or, as he put it, "one of our boys."
If it
were possible that he actually believed in God, PBS would be doing a
special
report on Moyers after a remark like that.
He said his critics were "obsessed with control, using the government
to
threaten and intimidate" - almost as control-obsessed as 45 senators
trying
to tell 55 senators which judicial nominees are acceptable. The threat
is:
Provide balanced programming or stop expecting subsidies from the U.S.
taxpayer.
Moyers also noted that his critics were the ones behind the bin
Laden-like
attack on Iraq in order "to make sure Ahmed Chalabi winds up
controlling
Iraq's oil." (And that's why gasoline is so cheap!) Yep, it's all right
there on the Project for a New American Century's agenda: (1) invade
Iraq,
(2) somehow get Bill Moyers' PBS show canceled, (3) invade Syria, (4)
invade
Iran ...
Moyers has clearly reached the next-to-last stage of the megalomaniac's
life
cycle: the persecution complex. We'll know Moyers has reached end-stage
megalomania when he begins to exhibit an inordinate fear of germs.
According to Moyers, the reason these right-wing radicals focused on
him
despite the fan mail he gets - to say nothing of favorable write-ups in
the
mainstream media - is that he "didn't play by the conventional rules of
Beltway journalism." (That and the giant piece of tinfoil on his head.)
These contemptible "rules of Beltway journalism" apparently consist of
reporters completely ignoring important conspiracy theories regularly
featured on Moyers' program and instead functioning as "government
stenographers" - as Moyers called one reporter for The New York Times,
no
less.
Moyers did live by one rule of old-media journalism: He believed he
should
not need viewers to have a TV show. During fund-raising drives, scores
of
local PBS affiliates would drop Moyers' program for fear of driving
away
donors. Let me say that I personally believe this was a mistake.
Moyers'
show was the one PBS program that made the pledge drives seem
interesting.
But the absence of an audience is no concern for liberals. After all,
Air
America is still on air. How about making George Soros pay Moyers'
salary?
Then at least he'd have a little less money to spend on wrecking the
country. Hey - maybe that's what Moyers meant about the Republican
government transferring money from working people to the rich.
--
I am too often shocked by the vitriolic repulsion many people feel for
our
leader and America in general, especially because the loathing is often
poorly informed. I've met people on this campus who see America as the
worst
human rights abuser in the world (unlike the angelic paradise of
Cambodia)
and people who sway liberal not because they actually know anything
about
issues but because it's popular.
Liberalism has to be more than a college fad or a collection of
loudmouths
whose idiotic comments stir headlines. The rabid dislike some people
feel
for a man they've never even met makes me ashamed to be a Democrat.
-- Jennifer McBride, Liberal Democrat
Oregon Daily Emerald (U. Oregon)
05/25/2005
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