{"id":421,"date":"2007-04-26T11:27:04","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T18:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=421"},"modified":"2008-10-01T10:30:14","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T17:30:14","slug":"the-assault-on-bill-moyers-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"The Assault On Bill Moyers Has Begun."},"content":{"rendered":"

The PBS debut of Bill Moyers Journal’s “Buying the War”<\/a>, has provoked the media’s preeminent bully into a veritable frenzy. We can almost certainly expect Bill O’Reilly to air a post-broadcast rant on the dangers of the secular-progressive, far-left, presentation of committed left-wing loony, Moyers, because nothing is more terrifying to O’Reilly and his ilk than the truth. <\/p>\n

And, as we know, the truth has a well known left-wing bias (h\/t Colbert).<\/p>\n

But in fact, Bill didn’t even wait for the program to air. Borrowing from Bush’s playbook, Bill O’Reilly has been attacking preemptively<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Bill Moyers. Wednesday night, he’s going to take a big shot at the press on PBS. We know he’s in bed with Soros.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The absurdity of that non-sequitor illustrates just how unhinged O’Reilly has become. He sees enemies around every corner, probably trying to pollute our precious bodily fluids.
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More from O’Reilly<\/a>:<\/p>\n

…and Bill Moyers at PBS. – In fact, as president of the Shoeman [sic] Center Foundation, Moyers oversaw at least a $500,000 transfer of money to Media Matters.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, that is a lie that Bill had to acknowledge the following night – although without troubling himself to apologize.<\/p>\n


\nAnd there’s this:<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Tomorrow, PBS will broadcast a documentary by committed leftist Bill Moyers<\/strong> that charges the American media, especially the conservative media, gleefully embraced war with Iraq and smeared anyone who disagreed with the action.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moyers takes a special pride in denigrating FOX News and talk radio in his presentation. Now I supported the action against Saddam because the Secretary of State Colin Powell, former Secretary of Defense under Bill Clinton, William Cohen, the CIA, British intelligence, and a variety of other intelligence agencies all told me Saddam was making dangerous weapons in violation of the first Gulf War cease-fire. We did our own original reporting here.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Now I based my decision on the best available information, not on any ideological belief. I was wrong in my assessment, as was everybody else. But it was an honest mistake.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

O’Reilly is just admitting that he is dolt – believing the same lies from the same administration shills, then asserting that that was a demonstration of “original reporting.”<\/em> How is swallowing propaganda from government lackeys even remotely connected to journalism? And his contention that everyone believed the same thing ignores the millions of people worldwide who took to the streets to defiantly object to the lies and the policy that was supported by those lies. Finally, he issues a disingenuous mea culpa that hardly makes up for all the death and misery that ensued as a consequence of his “honest mistake”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But I think I know what’s stuck in Bill’s craw. A couple of years ago, Bill exposed the festering wound<\/a> that has become an infected mass of puss and bile:<\/p>\n

…he [Moyers] wins another big award announced today. A Polk Award. So he got a Peabody and a Polk. They just love him.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do you think Bill-O is just a bit jealous? He had to lie about getting a Peabody, then lied again saying that he won Polk (for a program that he had left two years earlier). The envy is palpable, and has been stewing for years.<\/p>\n

Keeping things in perspective it must be noted that clear majorities of the American people will agree with Moyers that the press was pathetically inadequate and criminally negligent, in the run-up to the war in Iraq. But just to be on the safe side, we should let Moyers and PBS know that there is an appreciation for courageous, responsible journalism, and we will vote with our dollars, our eyeballs, and our hearts, to ensure that there is more of it. Send your thoughts here:<\/p>\n

Bill Moyers Journal: Feedback<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The PBS debut of Bill Moyers Journal’s “Buying the War”, has provoked the media’s preeminent bully into a veritable frenzy. We can almost certainly expect Bill O’Reilly to air a post-broadcast rant on the dangers of the secular-progressive, far-left, presentation of committed left-wing loony, Moyers, because nothing is more terrifying to O’Reilly and his ilk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-6N","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":561,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=561","url_meta":{"origin":421,"position":0},"title":"Bill Moyers On Karl Rove","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/17\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"It is becoming predictably routine that every time Bill Moyers speaks he produces a classic oration of eloquence and reason. 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