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Moyers Exits PBS With Attack on 'Right-Wing Media'
NewsMax.com ^ | 12/10/04 | Carl Limbacher

Posted on 12/10/2004 12:25:55 PM PST by kattracks

Taxpayer-supported Democrat operative Bill Moyers is showing his true colors (all blue) by tainting his exit from PBS with an attack on what he describes as "right-wing media."

"I'm going out telling the story that I think is the biggest story of our time: how the right-wing media has [sic] become a partisan propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee," the Associated Press today quoted Moyers as saying.

"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," claimed Moyers, who next week is leaving his weekly series, "Now."

Moyers failed to mention that, unlike himself, the few conservative media that do exist aren't on the American taxpayers' dole.

He also failed to mention that for decades the left-wing media establishment, ranging from PBS and NPR to the New York Times and the CBS of Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather, has been and continues to be a partisan propaganda arm of the Democratic National Committee.

Perhaps the wire story is satire, but it describes the extraordinarily biased Moyers as "a citizen-journalist" who was on "a truth-telling mission during his three decades as a TV journalist."

The story does admit that "humanist" Moyers used to be a top aide to the very liberal President Lyndon Johnson.

Moyers' liberal rants have been increasing in recent years, perhaps owing to the increasing success of the Republican Party, which now controls the White House, both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court and a majority of state legislatures and governorships.

This past Election Night, Moyers even went so far as to suggest that if Kerry won the election, the right wing might stage a coup to keep him from taking power.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billmoyers; defundpbs; defundtheleft; media; mediabias; nprpbs; pbs; pbsnpr; purebs; seeya; taxdollarsatwork; waronerror; youpayforthis
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To: taxed2death
"For the life of me I can not figure out WHY it's "ok" to be a part of....or to have Left Wing Media....yet it's NOT "ok" to be a part of, or to have Right Wing Media? "

Shoot, that's easy..... they are right and we are wrong.

41 posted on 12/10/2004 1:04:30 PM PST by drc43 (We have 4 years left to get it right)
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To: kattracks

Well, look at it this way: if it weren't for Moyers, the alternative media would probably have been decades behind where it is currently.

Moyers should absolutely be hung by the balls for what he did with that masty smear campaign against Barry Goldwater. I think it takes a lot of balls for an arrogant stuffed shirt like Moyers, who is arguably the pioneer of the politics of personal destruction, to then even dare to condemn the modern scene as nasty and uncivil.

In a way, the new media is our way of getting even with blue-blood, elitist snobs like Moyers. They thought nothing of slandering our parents, our grandparents, our home towns, our states, and our churches for the last three decades. They have barely had a decade of counter-argument and are already declining at a record pace. This is truly a testament to the intellectual impotence that now dominates the far left.

I will sorely miss having Moyers as a front-and-center poster boy for the far left. He was probably the single best reason to argue for defunding PBS that ever walked upon the earth.


42 posted on 12/10/2004 1:14:09 PM PST by AZ_Cowboy ("A Red-State Cowboy and proud of it.")
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To: kattracks

interesting--these dems always project what they do onto others.


43 posted on 12/10/2004 1:19:27 PM PST by ken21 (against the democrat plantation)
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To: kattracks
After growing up with,and having to endure watching, all the decades of the old media trying to shape public opinion,it's great to be able to witness,and be a part of, the rise of the new media.

The sun has finally shown on their leftist ways.

44 posted on 12/10/2004 1:21:39 PM PST by mdittmar (May God watch over those who serve to keep us free)
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To: kattracks

Left wingers employed by Fox:

Alan Colmes
Greta Van Sustern (husband works for Kerry 2004 campaign)
Susan Estrich
Ellis Henican
Eleanor Clift
Geraldo Rivera
David Corn
Geraldine Ferraro
Mara Liasson
Juan Williams
Mort Kondracke
Ellen Ratner
Gloria Allred
Chris Wallace
Julian Phillips
Neal Gabler
Jane Hall
Greg Hymowitz

Conservatives employed by PBS:






Conservatives employed by NPR:






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45 posted on 12/10/2004 1:29:26 PM PST by aculeus
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To: kattracks

His true colors are finally revealed. What a surprise! (sarcasm off). Bill the public saw what you were a long time ago. What a sore lefty loser!


46 posted on 12/10/2004 1:29:56 PM PST by Sprite518
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To: kattracks

Left-wing media types complaining about right-wing media is a bit like the Nazis complaining about Italian excesses in Ethopia during WWII.


47 posted on 12/10/2004 1:35:13 PM PST by CompGeek
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To: Taggart_D

I don't care what story he's telling as he's "going out," as long as he's gone.


48 posted on 12/10/2004 1:45:51 PM PST by hsalaw
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Bill Moyers, on this occasion of your retirement, I have only one thing to say:

Thank God!

49 posted on 12/10/2004 1:47:34 PM PST by StAnDeliver
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To: aculeus
Conservatives employed by PBS:
Conservatives employed by NPR:

Now, just to be fair I personally know that the the hairdresser at PBS is a Log Cabin Republican.

50 posted on 12/10/2004 1:54:26 PM PST by harrowup (Just naturally perfect and humble of course)
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To: kattracks

Who is Bill Moyers? ;)


51 posted on 12/10/2004 1:56:02 PM PST by anymouse
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To: kattracks
The story does admit that "humanist" Moyers used to be a top aide to the very liberal President Lyndon Johnson.

LBJ would be a conservative Democrat by today's standards.

52 posted on 12/10/2004 1:57:06 PM PST by Fatalis
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To: Zionist Conspirator
"PBS . . . where the United States Government and the Exxon Corporation bring you . . . The Pete Seeger Show!!!"

LOL Yes, it's the station that rails against the evil capitalism that sustains it. Very Worm Ourbouros concept.

53 posted on 12/10/2004 2:05:18 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (Air conditioners don't kill people, French snobbery toward air conditioners kills people)
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To: ken21
Communist Playbook, my friend.

Accuse your opponents of doing what you are already doing.

54 posted on 12/10/2004 2:08:02 PM PST by concretebob (but what do I know, I'm just an ignorant peasant)
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To: harrowup
Now, just to be fair I personally know that the the hairdresser at PBS is a Log Cabin Republican.

He is in my prayers.

55 posted on 12/10/2004 2:35:43 PM PST by aculeus
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To: Fintan

A mime is a terrible thing to waste.


56 posted on 12/10/2004 2:42:03 PM PST by kylaka
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To: kattracks

"We have an ideological press that's interested in the election of Republicans"

Oh really? CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN et al had a religious conversion? When?


57 posted on 12/10/2004 2:47:04 PM PST by NRA1995 (Yew jes' go and lay yore hand on a Pittsburgh Steeler fan and I think yer gonna fin'lly understand)
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To: aculeus

Wouldn't call Mort a left-winger.


58 posted on 12/10/2004 3:03:25 PM PST by RegT
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To: kattracks

the right-wing media has [sic] become a partisan propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee," the Associated Press today quoted Moyers as saying.

Moyers is a Buffoon.

Dan Rather "Light"


59 posted on 12/10/2004 4:28:52 PM PST by LtKerst (Lt Kerst)
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To: RegT
Wouldn't call Mort a left-winger.

Good point.

I've deleted him from my "saved" (for next posting) file.

60 posted on 12/10/2004 4:46:04 PM PST by aculeus
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