Dear Mr. Moyers

The American Thinker ^ | Feb, 20, 2005 | Michael Curran

[Kitten Festival]

Dear Mr. Moyers:

I’ve been meaning to write you for quite some time, in fact, if the truth were known, I originally intended to communicate with you in 1964, when as Special Assistant to Lyndon Johnson, you approved that television ad showing a small girl picking daisy petals as a nuclear blast in the background foreshadows, not only her demise but also, the deaths of thousands. Johnson’s voice then came on to tell us, “…We must love each other or we must die.” [!]

Were you trying to set new standards for your successors in coming elections? At any rate, it worked! Johnson trounced Senator Goldwater in the presidential election of 1964, 61% to 38% and your stylized demonization of Republicans continues to this day.

Your recent column of 30 January 2005, entitled, There is no tomorrow, has finally led me to the distasteful act of communicating with someone I fear who has finally and completely lost all known semblance of reasonableness. What happened, Moyers? Was it the loss of this last national election, which finally made you come scurrying out from your pseudo-intellectual bastion of deception and pretense? From your self-imagined lofty heights you peered over the ramparts and finally saw your defeat and as so many of your kind are apt to do – you panicked, lost it – you blinked! And now, what, a final frontal assault against your sworn enemies? Have you lately been hearing General George Pickett whisper in your ear – or for that matter, any other strange voices?

[Kitten Festival]

Michael Curran is always a good read.

[dfwgator]

? At any rate, it worked! Johnson trounced Senator Goldwater in the presidential election of 1964, 61% to 38% and your stylized demonization of Republicans continues to this day.

"I was told if I voted for Goldwater we would have riots in the streets, and we would get ourselves into a long unwinnable war. I voted for Goldwater, and dang if they weren't right."