Actually, I'm not sure that Moyers was completely wrong in his statement. There were some serious conservative radicals who may very well have attempted to toss Kerry, based on his un-American activities in the past.
The day after the elections, O'Reilly teased the Moyers things just a little bit, and I looked for something about it and couldn't find squat. Finally, I see a little bit about it.
moyers vs. Koch is an excellent cat fight. Wasn't it Moyers who was responsible for the mushroom cloud ads put out in the 1964 campaign to smear goldwater? Apparently he is up to his old tricks. Gotta love this moyers quote -
" I thought if Kerry were to win in a tight race there would be an effort to mount a coup - that the right-wing is not going to accept that kind of results. I had in mind what happened after the voting in 2000 when Republicans dispatched Congressional staffers to Miami to mount public protests. ..."
In 2000 it was the Gore campaign that set up a phone bank in florida the morning of the election to call elderly voters and confuse them into thinking they voted for bush by mistake with the butterfly ballots. Another point is - since when does Moyers believe that 'public protests' constitute a coup? I don't recall him stating that the RNC protestors were staging a coup. Time for Bill to be sent out to pasture. Good for Koch for calling him on this.
Moyers is a partisan hack. He's the one who wrote the 1964 commercial implying tha Goldwater would blow up the world.
Koch eats lamb chops? Bastard.
MSM is freaking out.
Right before the election, our local news channel reported on Prop 71 which funded *embryonic* stem cell research and during the report they threw in "President Bush opposes stem cell research".
I called them immediately to inform them their facts were wrong and it was only the *embryonic* aspect that Bush opposed.
They flat out said I did not hear what I heard.
I asked for a transcript and they said they did not have one.... like the people on the screen just talk from memory.
Sheesh!
Good to hear this language from a Democrat.
Remember when Elizabeth Edwards was asked if she thought there would be riots after the election? Her answer, "No. Not if we win."
Knowing what a leftist he is, Moyers' comment actually sounds pretty ho-hum to me. Ever watched "NOW" on PBS??? I have trouble believing Mayor Koch was shocked...
Juliani & Koch on a 2008 ticket would frost the libs into a whole lot more then therapy. :-)
"I do know that I never used the word “military” in regard to any response to the election because I don’t think like that."
BWHAHAHAHAHA!!!! This is a gem. "I don't think like that". Humorous subtext and gives one some insight into the twisted psyche of Moyers and his ilk...
When you're done, wipe your Moyers, and remember to flush the Rather.
Defund the left, pull the taxpayer subsidy of "Public Broadcasting".
Moyers stated, "... I thought if Kerry were to win in a tight race there would be an effort to mount a coup - that the right-wing is not going to accept that kind of results. I had in mind what happened after the voting in 2000 when Republicans dispatched Congressional staffers to Miami to mount public protests. ... "
Gotta love how, when it is the Democrats or the "Jesse Jackson Brigade" bussed in to protest, it is the "voice of the American People" but when Republicans protest it is referred to as if it were something Just short of "Police State" policies. For all their talk about the First Amendment, this is even more proof that the Democrats are only in favor of the First Amendment when they are the ones behind the podium!
-PJ
Nothing new here. We conservatives have been abandoning the children, leaving our elderly to the wolves, poisoning the Earth and plotting our coups from our militia strewn basements for years. Ask Bill, Dan, Peter and Tom.
Koch is a mensch.
didn't bill moyers set his kid up to run tompaine.com?