[upbeat5]

The Libs continue to plot their strategy out of the same playbook they have used for years.

[JeeperFreeper]

Moyers worked for LBJ. His experience there undoubtedly leads him to expect great corruption.

[international american]

9.68% of Americans never heard of Halliburton, and the rest don't give a rats ass:) Go DNC and MSM go....idiots.

[hinckley buzzard]

"That means more Halliburton-type coverage designed to convince the public that the Bush administration has sold out to the big corporations."

Yeah, we saw how effective that gambit was. Maybe they can follow Carvile's advice "Enron 'em to death." That worked great too.

Let 'em waste their time, GW is an honest man and will be right there with them if they find anything.

[Oblongata]

"So this is the game plan—to depict the Republicans as being in bed with corrupt business practices, in order to discredit them and bring the Democrats back into power. That means more Halliburton-type coverage designed to convince the public that the Bush administration has sold out to the big corporations."

So how exactly is that different than what the media has been doing for the last 4 years anyway?

[Senator Goldwater]

Hey Moyers--

How about we investigate the corruption of State and Big Business like the NPR's relationship with every lunatic left-wing production company, like the one run by you and your son?

[MNJohnnie]

"that President Bush was able to barely win re-election"


52-48% is NOT "barely win re-election"

[Mr. Mojo]

His [Bill Moyers] point was that the Bush administration is an insidious combination of Big Business and Big Government.

Since when has Moyers ever had an aversion to the latter?

[tjg]

This will only play to the democratic base though. Even if they could find a real corruption scandal, they sort of indemnified future corruption with the blind support of the Clintons corruption.

[Steely Tom]

Any corruption stories will run up against the pajamahadeen.

Note to MSM: you aren't Dick Nixon's media.

(steely)

[kimosabe31]

What's new?? Right now, the only downside for libs is losing elections. Personally I am sick of seeing them pull every dirty stunt in their playbook and walking away when it's exposed as fraudulent. Their needs to be a serious downside for these bastards...some serious pain. Suggestions please.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

The libs' "reasoning" goes something like this:

Bush and his neocon cronies decided to go to war with Iraq in order to enrich themselves, primarily by getting bogus contracts for Halliburton, where Cheney used to preside.

The fact that Bush would jeopardize his re-election possibilities merely to make his wealthy buddies even wealthier doesn't pass a basic test of common sense. The libs are always ready to assign conspiratorial reasons to republicans, but they are willing to let slide the Clinton pardon of Marc Rich (one of a million examples), which, apparently, Bill did out of the goodness of his heart and pure compassion.

[Cicero]

Speaking of Fox, a lot of Freepers thought they got a bit wobbly at the end, and that even Brit Hume was going over to the dark side.

In the 1990s, The supermarket tabloids helped expose the clinton scandals, but then the clintonoids bought them all up. We can't necessarily count on that not happening again. The internet is more promising, at least until they figure out how to censor it. But we won't be safe as long as, contrary to Bill Moyers, most of the really big, corrupt money is backing the Democrats and the MSM.

All three billionaires who got heavily involved in 2004 were Democrats.

[Rex Anderson]

The corruption uncovered in Fannie Mae should make Enron look like child's play.... With big-name Dems headed for jail. Hopefully.

[American_4_Ever]

Can anyone tell me how FOX News is conservative!? Sean is cool but FOX is now centrist just to get more ratings.

[OldFriend]

That ought to make the mid term elections all the sweeter.

Clean out the rest of the vipers.

[Soul Seeker]

this is the game plan—to depict the Republicans as being in bed with corrupt business practices, in order to discredit them and bring the Democrats back into power. That means more Halliburton-type coverage designed to convince the public that the Bush administration has sold out to the big corporations.

And here I thought the Dems would offer a challenge the next four years! Halliburton? ROFL!

[NetValue]

"Moyers declared that, 'I think the next four years are going to be a bonanza for investigative journalism.'"

You betcha Bill. Please start your investigations in Baltimore's School System followed by the Teachers' Union's use of member funds. If you do, they'll respect you in the morning.

[StJacques]

I always love to note how liberal intellectuals like Moyers love to draw what they believe to be erudite historical parallels to current events and, in the process, demonstrate that they do not even know the facts of history, much less how to form a sound interpretation.

This is a Moyers quote from the linked article:

". . . During the late 1800s and early 1900s, said Moyers, 'the relationship between business and government created more corruption that actually renewed the Progressive Party and brought the Democrats to power. . . .'"

Well ok, the relationship between business and government did create significant corruption in the late 1800s and early 1900s. But what is this claim that this development "actually renewed the Progressive Party"? The Progressive Party was formed -- that means it was "born" -- in 1912 when Theodore Roosevelt lost his bid for the Republican nomination to William Howard Taft and organized a new political party out of disaffected members of Robert La Follette's National Progressive Republican League who were equally disappointed that La Follette had not done well either, though there were some health concerns involved there. In that election of 1912 the Democrats did come to power as Wilson won the presidency. What was there to "renew"?

[dansangel]

President Bush was able to barely win re-election.

:::blink:::blink:::

A three and a half million-vote advantage is "barely?"

[Search4Truth]

Fear the pajamahadeen, all corrupters of truth.