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December 10, 2006
Liberals behaving badly
I've always thought that a significant portion of the America-hating, Western civilization-loathing, left-wing chorus is comprised of people dealing with significant levels of guilt arising from their own misdeeds.
Consider, for instance, "journalist" Bill Moyers.
He's a constant presence on PBS, using dollars gleaned from taxpayers and liberal foundations to produce a seemingly endless series of shows lauding the glory of the Fourth Estate, the perfidy of conservatives, and the poisonous effect capitalism -- and American patriotism -- has had on this nation, and the world.
As you may have guessed, I believe Billy Boy has issues, and doth protest too much.
A couple of paragraphs from an interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal gives some insight into the hypocrisy at the root of Moyers' Ameri-phobic tendencies.
Only a few weeks before the 1964 election, a powerful presidential assistant, Walter Jenkins, was arrested in a men's room in Washington. Evidently, the president was concerned that Barry Goldwater would use that against him in the election. Another assistant, Bill Moyers, was tasked to direct Hoover to do an investigation of Goldwater's staff to find similar evidence of homosexual activity. Mr. Moyers' memo to the FBI was in one of the files.
When the press reported this, I received a call in my office from Mr. Moyers. Several of my assistants were with me. He was outraged; he claimed that this was another example of the Bureau salting its files with phony CIA memos. I was taken aback. I offered to conduct an investigation, which if his contention was correct, would lead me to publicly exonerate him. There was a pause on the line and then he said, "I was very young. How will I explain this to my children?" And then he rang off. I thought to myself that a number of the Watergate figures, some of whom the department was prosecuting, were very young, too.
It's too delicious, really. The stalwart defender of civil rights and civil liberties, the Grand Poobah of PBS Pledge Week, conspiring with the closeted Hoover to catch a Republican staffer engaging in some light-loafered slap & tickle, so that LBJ could use blackmail to cover-up a political pal's public pissoir peccadilloes.
Bill, you were so right. What do your children think? They must be so very proud.
Posted by Mike Lief at December 10, 2006 10:26 PM
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Ah, Barry Goldwater... he's going to do such good things in the future: Exume Goldwater '08.
Posted by: Exhume Goldwater at December 11, 2006 01:41 PM