"You can't keep asking young people to die for a lie," he said this morning on Democracy Now!, where he talked about his return to public television with a new weekly series called "Bill Moyers Journal." (Have a .
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The first program in the series, debuts tonight. it as "a methodical, devastating, pull-no-punches recap of mainstream journalism's collective failure to challenge the Bush administration [a k a the ] in the run-up to the Iraq war."
He quotes Moyers as saying, "The press has yet to come to terms with its role in enabling the Bush administration [again, a k a the ] to go to war on false pretenses.
" Which from yesterday's item, dontcha think?
about the program: "Perhaps the truth shall eventually set you free, but first it might make you very, very depressed." He calls tonight's program "one of the most gripping and important pieces of broadcast journalism so far this year.
" He also notes, "It's always depressing to learn that you've been had, but incalculably more so when the deception has resulted in thousands of Americans dying in the Iraq war effort."
(Gee, Tom, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of dead, dying, and displaced Iraqis. You forgot them.
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Meanwhile, here's something else Moyers said this morning on Democracy Now! (not that you haven't heard this before either): "Let's just face it, democracy has become a racket when it comes to politics and the media. .
.. This is contempt -- contempt for democracy and freedom.
We cannot rightly claim to have a democracy as long as money is sovereign. ..
. There is a cancer eating at the heart of democracy, and it's money in politics."
Finally, congratulations to Sen.
Harry Reid for calling Huha's vice president by the right moniker.
I've never really decided how best to refer to the vice president. I've called him everything from the chief crony, Assistant Maximum Leader and the oily conman to the wayward shooter, Cheney Boy and Mr.
Sourpuss. But this settles it. Henceforth he will be called Attack Dog.
Posted by jherman at April 25, 2007 10:04 AM
The agenda is just what it says: arts, media culture delivered with attitude. Or as Rock Hudson once said: "Man is the only animal clever enough to build the Empire State Building and stupid enough to jump off it." I'm the author of the biography of Hollywood director William Wyler.
Putnam published it in . I've also co-written experimental fiction, with Carl Weissner and Jurgen Ploog (with a "tickertape" intro by William S. Burroughs).
Writing of mine has appeared in "little magazines," among them VDRSVP, Ricochet, Unmuzzled Ox, San Francisco Earthquake and John Bryan's Notes From Underground, as well as in Partisan Review, The New York Times Book Review, Trans-Atlantik and The Journal of Film History. When not listening to Bach or Cuban jazz pianist Chucho Valdes, or dancing to salsa, I like to play jazz piano -- but only in the privacy of my own mind.
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