February 21, 2009
The Moribund Moyers
Will the latest revelations that liberal saint and icon Bill Moyers assisted the FBI and his own boss LBJ in outing homosexuals both in the opposition party and his own administration finally force PBS and the like to send this hypocrital, sanctimonious twit to the knacker's yard? I've spent decades watching this bilious, nattering scold take conservatives to task for their alleged misdeeds from his lofty little perch. Then observe him preen and bathe, and sharpen his beak upon the cuttlebone.
The Washington Post unearthed the latest on Moyers, exposing FBI files that proved Moyers assisted the FBI in determining the sexual orientation of fellow administration official Jack Valenti, he of the perpetual Oscars tan as long-time head of the MPAA. There is more on Moyers, however.
Andrew Ferguson wrote the ultimate expose of Moyers in 1996, laying the scoundrel to waste, yet still his fellow travelers practically deify this pompous jerk. Even Morley Safer, veteran newsman, and possessor of three spectacular forehead to nose bridge crevasses, had this to say about Moyers in his autobiography:
"I find it hard to believe that Bill Moyers would engage in character assassination over one evening news broadcast — even given the political imperatives of the moment. But I confess, I find it harder not to believe it.His part in Lyndon Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover's bugging of Martin Luther King's private life, the leaks to the press and diplomatic corps, the surveillance of civil rights groups at the 1964 Democratic Convention, and his request for damaging information from Hoover on members of the Goldwater campaign suggest he was not only a good soldier but a gleeful retainer feeding the appetites of Lyndon Johnson.
It's all too confusing. Bill Moyers, the sometimes overly pious public defender of liberal virtue, the First Amendment, and the rights of miniorities playing the role of Iago."
Safer was upset, of course, because not only did Moyers assist in investigating Martin Luther King, Plaigarist, he also exposed Safer as the communist he was at the time.
Even better in denouncing the perfidious nature of Moyers is Larry Silberman in a Wall Street Journal editorial:
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.
An amusing aside: not long after the Walter Jenkins fiasco the Senator regaled us boys with the story. He also warned us to stay away from public parks, "because queers will walk around with their dicks out, boys, hoping to catch a prize, just like I'd troll for a goddamn mackerel!" Which led me later that year to draw a man with an exposed penis on my brother's Christmas gift name tag, with the caption "I'm trolling for Jenk!"
See? I told you that story was amusing.
So why, after all of these revelations, does Moyers continue to enjoy praise instead of censure from his liberal colleagues? I believe the answer lies in the very nature of the liberal mindset. They are a win-at-all-costs breed, bereft of those social values they so mock in conservatives. This is why they are so much more prone to cheat in all aspects of life, from voter fraud to tax evasion to abusing the public dole. In sports parlance they are the point-shavers, the golf ball nudgers, the steroid takers.
The liberal casts himself as a moralist, and the conservative as a hypocrite, precisely because it is easier for a liberal to avoid the shame of being a deadbeat dad, or unwed mother, or thief of others' income, or copulater of animals and small children. Instead of performing the heavy lifting of dragging themselves out of the gutter, they simply find like-minded failures who are only too happy to empathize with them. And if one finds enough empathizers of one's asocial behavior, one ultimately creates a quorum, a plurality, a majority.
I shall peruse the ever-strident braying of the liberalati, and see if any of them, finally, denounce Moyers for the shallow, canting, self-righteous ass he is, and has always been. And discover in the process if any of them, at long last, has any shame at all.
Author's note: some language may have been changed to assuage the easily aggrieved.
He owes his success to his accent. I believe that liberals think that when they find one of their own in possession of a twang of any sort, he must be paraded through the streets, to show that they are not the elitists they know themselves to be. No, they are of the common folk too...
Witness also, Bob Schieffer.
Posted by: rob sama at February 21, 2009 9:19 PMTuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez,
Fuck Moyers.
Regards,
Blondie
Posted by: Strange. Love. at February 21, 2009 9:56 PMHe's got doll's eyes...
He's always creeped me out, and now I know I had good reason.
Posted by: Joan of Argghh! at February 22, 2009 7:55 AMI stopped reading in the middle of the third line.
Posted by: Erin O'Brien at February 22, 2009 8:14 AMWell, I wish I could say it better, but I can't.
Knocked the back out of it again, you did.
Posted by: Sam at February 22, 2009 8:19 AMThat made it awfully difficult scrolling all the way down to the comments link, didn't it, Erin? Stumble over any inconvenient facts on the way down?
Posted by: Velociman at February 22, 2009 9:09 AMI have an old friend that sent me a rant based on some Moyers Pee-BS blather recently. I sent this guy a curt e-mail informing him that Moyers is a big time Jew hater.
In the immortal words of Woody Hayes, after pasting a reporter that severly needed it, "That'll shut you up, ya sonofabitch
Posted by: Cappy at February 22, 2009 10:13 AMI don't follow Moyers, am perhaps not as well read as I should be. He is 75? Will read this in full later. For now, I'm off to make breakfast for the fam.
If any of you needed an additional reason to hate me, know that I only eat the center of my cinnamon roll. How's that for evil?
Posted by: Erin O'Brien at February 22, 2009 10:34 AMErin, adults usually don't brag about their character flaws.
Velocigerdankus, I've never understood the Leftard Idolization Process. They venerate the downright strangest people. Moyers, for instance. Obama. Osama.
I don't get it.
Posted by: Randy Rager at February 22, 2009 10:37 AMl'affaire Jenkins never really received the attention that I feel it should. I'd write a book about it, but almost all of the principals are dead and therefore difficult to interview. Also, I'm exceptionally lazy.
But there's a truly great part of the story that rarely gets told.
You see, Jenkins was in the Air Force Reserve at the time. Once his rampant cocksuckery was exposed to the world, some tool at the RNC demanded that Walt's commanding officer be brought out on the carpert for his subordinate's homosexery.
Small problem. Jenkins' commanding officer was .... Air Force Reserve General Barry Goldwater. If you're looking for a reason that the story sank as it did, that's as good a one as you're likely to find.
As for Morley Safer, he's a Canadian, and God knows that you can't trust those people.
Listening to Bill Moyers pontificate is akin to Mary Jo Kopechne listening to Teddy Kennedy giving swimming lessons.
sarcasm off :-(
Posted by: WolfDog at February 22, 2009 12:14 PMRead the post. I take it you won't be sending this Moyers guy a Christmas card.
"If any of you needed an additional reason to hate me, "
Erin, you labor under the misapprehension that we think of you at all.
Posted by: og at February 23, 2009 7:52 AMI'd be real surprised of Moyer even believes in Christmas.
Posted by: Chris H at February 24, 2009 1:55 AMI'd be real surprised if Moyer even believes in Christmas.
Posted by: Chris H at February 24, 2009 1:55 AMHe believes. He thinks it's his birthday.
Posted by: Velociman at February 24, 2009 7:22 AMVman, looonnnnnggggggg-ass post. All you had to do was post a link to this:
Says it all REAL quick.
Posted by: libsarenavelint at February 24, 2009 12:29 PMLibs, some of have an attention span longer than our penises. Try this: Change the channel with the buttons on the TV for a week. You need to calm the fuck down.
Posted by: og at February 24, 2009 1:54 PMOg, maybe you should try getting in touch with your feminine side.
Fly, little inner ogie bird, be free!
Posted by: Erin O'Brien at February 24, 2009 3:46 PMWe like Og just the way he is thank ya very much.
Seriously, I want to know why you aren't writing a syndicated column making buckets of money.... are people stupid? Don't answer that ;)
Posted by: Jackie at February 24, 2009 5:21 PMA couple of reasons, Jackie:
1) you aren't paying me to, and
2) I drop the fuck bomb too much
Posted by: Velociman at February 24, 2009 5:24 PMFuck I hate it when that happens.
Fuck it just happened again.
Vman's like reading George Will only with a little excitement thrown in.
Erin? My feminine side is a freight train. But at least it doesn't rub it's gooey cooch on the kitchen chairs or post pictures of itself on the internet.
Posted by: og at February 24, 2009 6:43 PMActually Wizard of Og, I like to think of it as my dazzling ruby.
But while we're on the subject of genitalia, tell me, why do you suppose so many otherwise heterosexual men enjoy the pleasures of she-males? I've always been curious about that.
Posted by: Erin O'Brien at February 26, 2009 11:02 AMI suspect it's because they've met you, Erin.
Posted by: og at February 26, 2009 7:03 PM