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When will we read the obituary of public television?
May his Memory be Eternal!
He was dead to me a long time ago.
This is one of those days that I will always remember where I was and what I was doing when I heard the news that.......ehhhhhh.....what were we talking about again?
He had a fine speaking voice.
That’s about as far as I can go
Not missed.
Nope, not at all.
That he was the mouthpiece for the weasel LBJ is all you need to know.
Someday we might know the CIA backgrounds of some of these “journalists.”
Ordained Baptist clergy who soiled himself in the Johnson Administration (Lyndon not Mike).
Identified with the LBJ Mafia later a repentant PBS proclaimer of self-righteous liberalism but still later an alcoholic working on recovery.
He had a life story.
R! I! P!!!
I liked Moyers back in the 1970s. He had a folksy delivery and a laid back vibe, no doubt a heritage of his upbringing in Marshall, Texas.
Over time he mutated into one of the most vile, hate-filled and ignorant commentators in the media. Kind of like a slightly subdued Keith Olbermann.
Rest in peace, Bill.
Fixed it.
Didn’t agree with him but definitely a memorable fixture of pre-Internet 80’s political media along with the McLaughlin Group, McNeil-Lehrer Report, Firing Line etc.
Unfortunately if he’s with his former boss right now, the heat’s a little more intense than he grew up with in Texas.
I recall Moyers somewhat. I don’t know if he was a hard L Liberal like Cronkite or not. His tenure was before I began really paying attention to each individual talking head.
Dan Rathers, I do know about, as he tended to make news more often.
A “secular evangelist”. That’s perfect.
Moyers was ordained in 1954. During the academic year 1956–1957, he studied “issues of church and state” at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland as a Rotary International Fellow. In 1959, he completed a Master of Divinity degree at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Full disclosure: He went to my family’s church. The church that gave me my first Bible. The church that buried my grandparents and my parents. I’ve heard him speak.
But there are no secular evangelists because there is no secular evangelion, no secular gospel.
And my family’s church like so many other “mainline” churches, is vanishing because secularism and the gospel of our Lord are opposed to each other, are in fact in a life or death struggle.
RIP Billy Don Moyers.
They say you shouldn’t speak I’ll of the dead… so I won’t.
Wasn’t he behind the daisy ad against Goldwater?
Great news, made my day.
Only the good die young, 91