[SergeiRachmaninov]

Bill Moyers made perhaps the most infuriating remark I have ever heard on television. It surely was not the worst thing ever said, but he said it from the grandeur of a CBS "analyst's" chair, back when the big networks still mattered.

It was an election night, a presidential off year, perhaps 1990. The very earliest results had trickled in. They were from Georgia and Kentucky, and they were trending Republican.

Moyers came on -- it was about 7:35 p.m., I checked my watch for the historical record -- and he said, "When you see the South voting Republican like this...that's racism."

(A few weeks later I called into the old Larry King overnight radio show and reported this, much as I have here without much comment. King said, "Are ~you~ a racist, sir?.")

There is no possible takedown of the MSM that could be brutal enough to satisfy me.

(Now I am going to read the article.)

[SergeiRachmaninov]

VICTOR GOLD: Because the impact of the sound bite mentality, the appealing to the base, which you find in both parties.

The problem with "sound biting" is that it is often done dishonestly, ripping a few words out of context.

But other times, you are able to glimpse the reality only in someone's thoughtless phrase: "We're gonna tell the bigots to just shewtUP!"

Let's keep the sound bites.

[Atchafalaya]

May your dream come true sir.

[teeman8r]

is rachmaninov russian for “racist man”?

i think it is.

where is moderator on this one?/ sarcasm

teeman