Bill Moyers: What a Contemptible, Self-Righteous Lying Gasbag

He seems to be himself everything he accuses his political enemies of being.

Last week, Strib ran a despicable column, Jan. 30, by Bill Moyers — a rehash of his acceptance speech upon receiving Harvard Medical School's Global Environment Citizen Award, Dec. 1, 2004. (Strib requires registration after reading one part, so you might just want to read the acceptance speech.)

According to Moyers' hideously warped perceptions, the federal government is effectively controlled by supine cretins doing the will of right-wing fundamentalistic Christian fanatics who would like to see the environment destroyed to hasten the Parousia.

No kidding, Faithful Reader.

Moyers casually relates the following:

.... Remember James Watt, President Reagan's first Secretary of the Interior? My favorite online environmental journal, the ever engaging Grist, reminded us recently of how James Watt told the U.S. Congress that protecting natural resources was unimportant in light of the imminent return of Jesus Christ. In public testimony he said, "after the last tree is felled, Christ will come back." ....

As soon as I read that, I said to myself, Lie. You don't have to know very much about American politics & media (or am I repeating myself?) to know that if James Watt had ever said any such thing, everybody would have known about it two decades ago, and nobody would have been allowed to forget about it in the meantime.

For a moment, I thought about digging up the testimony. But, the Congressional Record that far back is not on line (yet).

Today, Power Line blogs the truth about Moyers' cavalier lies about Moyers and about Zell Miller.

It's appalling that such a paranoid, self-righteous, lying, hypocritical little demagogue like Bill Moyers was financed for so many years by tax dollars.

I want a refund.

[Follow-up: Re: What a Contemptible, Self-Righteous Lying Gasbag.]

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 02/07/05 07:35:21 PM
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