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Hunting for Homosexuals (Bill Moyers selective memory)
Fox News ^ | 7-21-05 | The political grapevine

Posted on 07/22/2005 6:29:06 AM PDT by Liberty Valance

An extraordinary story has emerged involving former Lyndon Johnson aide and now PBS commentator Bill Moyers. The story was told in The Wall Street Journal by retired federal appeals judge Laurence Silberman, who reports that when he was acting attorney general under President Ford a memo written by Moyers to the FBI came to light in the press. The memo, which dated from the 1964 campaign between President Johnson and Barry Goldwater, directed FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover to investigate the Goldwater campaign for evidence of homosexual activity. It came after Johnson aide Walter Jenkins had been arrested in a Washington men's room. Silberman reports that Moyers called him and claimed that the memo was a phony planted by the CIA. Silberman says he told Moyers he would investigate the matter and, if he was right, he would exonerate him publicly. At that point, Silberman says Moyers backed off saying, "I was very young. How will I ever explain this to my children." Moyers could not be reached for comment.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: billmoyers; doasisaynotasido; lbj; limousineliberals; lyingrats; mediots; moyers; rats
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To: Liberty Valance

I've listened for Moyers' response to this (Silberman outed Moyers in the WSJ a coupla days ago) and all I've heard is ....[crickets].


21 posted on 07/22/2005 6:49:03 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten (Is your problem ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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To: GVgirl

It's not so much the crime as the coverup! (This is so much fun!)


22 posted on 07/22/2005 6:49:11 AM PDT by claudiustg (Go Sharon! Go Bush!)
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To: William Creel

Every family has its black-sheep. Texans lament this fact everyday.


23 posted on 07/22/2005 6:49:27 AM PDT by Virginia Queen (Virginia Queen)
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To: Liberty Valance

bump


24 posted on 07/22/2005 6:49:31 AM PDT by Tribune7
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To: Liberty Valance

Considering that the left has recently revived this tactic, with attacks on a staff member of Rick Santorum and now, the Supreme Court nominee, John Roberts, I think that we need to keep this article bumped.


25 posted on 07/22/2005 6:51:20 AM PDT by Eva
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To: Eva
Yeah I saw that Michele Milken mentioned that one on a web site was even insinuating that his little son was gay.
26 posted on 07/22/2005 6:53:15 AM PDT by mware ("God is dead" -- Nietzsch"....... "Nope, you are"-- GOD)
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To: buffyt
So true. WE have to be PERFECT from birth.

Painfully true.

I have a daughter that is starting at Yale Law School next month (after graduating from Princeton (04))

I thold her that if she has any goals of a high government position in her future, she'd better be aware of any illegal activity going on around her at parties when cameras and digital phones could be lurking.

Am I too paramoid? Don't think so.

27 posted on 07/22/2005 6:53:30 AM PDT by DCPatriot
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To: mware

Do you mean Michelle Malkin? I'll have to check out what she was talking about.


28 posted on 07/22/2005 6:54:58 AM PDT by Eva
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To: Eva

Yes, that is her sorry for the typo.


29 posted on 07/22/2005 6:56:25 AM PDT by mware ("God is dead" -- Nietzsch"....... "Nope, you are"-- GOD)
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To: rhombus
Moyers WAS the Government at the time.

More than you know! When LBJ was having surgery or was otherwise unavailable (having tea with Doris Kearns) his word was it!

30 posted on 07/22/2005 7:02:09 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: DCPatriot

Alternatively - get your daughter a phone with a camera. Have her stockpile candid photos of all her classmates.


31 posted on 07/22/2005 7:03:59 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: river rat
Moyers -- a wasted copulation and typical leftist public tit sucker.. Semper Fi

I know you're feeling repressed rat. But you gotta fight those feelings. Let go and say what you really think. ;)

32 posted on 07/22/2005 7:29:12 AM PDT by WideGlide (That light at the end of the tunnel might be a muzzle flash.)
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To: ladyjane
"How will I ever explain this to my children."

better yet, billy-boy, explain the tens of thousands of American soldiers you sent to vietnam..."
33 posted on 07/22/2005 8:31:26 AM PDT by frankenMonkey
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To: river rat
Moyers -- a wasted copulation and typical leftist public tit sucker

And lived his life for years on the public teet, via PBS and NPR.

34 posted on 07/22/2005 8:34:59 AM PDT by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: 1stMarylandRegiment; 1Mike; 3catsanadog; ~Vor~; ~Kim4VRWC's~; A CA Guy; A Citizen Reporter; ...

For reference.

Do NOT let this get lost in the flood of Rove and Roberts articles.


35 posted on 07/22/2005 10:47:47 AM PDT by Howlin (Yesterday was my 7 year FR anniversary!)
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To: Howlin; All
MEMORIALIZED IN SONG....THIS ONE IS FUN
36 posted on 07/22/2005 10:49:36 AM PDT by doug from upland (The Hillary documentary is coming)
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To: Howlin

Thanks for the ping, when I had read the title I failed to read click on it because I thought it was about Moyers last vacation to Fire Island.


37 posted on 07/22/2005 10:49:52 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (More people have died in Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile than at Gitmo)
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To: William Creel
How did such liberal jerks such as LBJ and Moyers come out of Texas?

Texas didn't want 'em.

38 posted on 07/22/2005 10:52:30 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: Liberty Valance

I'm not sure I can read this story. Just the name Moyers makes me regurgitate.


39 posted on 07/22/2005 10:57:10 AM PDT by RushCrush (The mediocre always throw stones at the brilliant.)
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To: Howlin

Check thi out I now livid beyond words!

http://www.charmaineyoest.com/archives/2005/07/whos_homophobic.html


40 posted on 07/22/2005 11:11:02 AM PDT by defconw (ALLEN IN 08)
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