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On Dec. 1, Harvard University’s Center for Health and the Global Environment gave its “Global Environmental Citizen Award” to the longtime liberal journalist Bill Moyers. Accepting the award from the actress Meryl Streep — she praised Moyers’s “resourceful, intrepid reportage,” and he praised her “special kind of courage” and declared himself “in the front row of [her] fan club” — Moyers devoted his speech to the dangers that Christian fundamentalists allegedly pose to the environment. “Remember James Watt, President Reagan’s first secretary of the interior?” Moyers said. “My favorite online environmental journal, the ever-engaging Grist, reminded us recently of how...

NEW YORK Bill Moyers has apologized to former U.S. Interior Secretary James Watt for referencing a quote, which has been wrongly attributed to Watt for years, during a speech Moyers gave last December upon receiving an award from Harvard Medical School. The text of the speech has since appeared in several newspapers and on numerous Web sites. "I said I had made a mistake in quoting him without checking with him," Moyers told E&P today. "I should have done my homework." Moyers, a well-known journalist and recently departed host of NOW on PBS, said he phoned Watt yesterday and faxed...

Former Secretary of the Interior James Watt says commentator Bill Moyers smeared him by falsely claiming he was a religious nut who told the U.S. Congress that protecting the environment was not important because Jesus would come back soon. Watt, who served under President Reagan, has asked Moyers to apologize for his assertions in a speech published Jan. 30 as an op-ed piece in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Commenting on President Bush after receiving an environmental award from Harvard Medical School, Moyers said the administration's environmental policies are "based on theology" and therefore "delusional." Moyers said: Remember James Watt, President...

One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of power in the Oval Office and in Congress. For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality. When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the...

The following is from an email I received yesterday. I assume that I received it because of my web site.Oh, well . . . Whatever. Not One Dime Day - Jan 20, 2005From: Bill Moyers Since our religious leaders will not speak out against the war in Iraq, since our political leaders don't have the moral courage to oppose it, Inauguration Day, Thursday, January 20th, 2005 is "Not One Damn Dime Day" in America. On "Not One Damn Dime Day," those who oppose what is happening in our name in Iraq can speak up with a 24-hour national boycott of...

Clinton Judge Emasculates Law Enforcement Agencies as Communist and Anarchist groups Plan Disruptions of Inaugural; Colombian Terrorists Target Bush for Death By Special Reports | January 18, 2005 Rulings by a Clinton-appointed federal judge, Gladys Kessler, have given unprecedented access to protesters to the inaugural parade route so that their "civil rights" may be protected. While the Washington Post and other Bush-bashing media are focusing on the cost of the January 20 Inauguration, a much more serious issue has emerged. Communist and anarchist groups may be planning to disrupt the inaugural and possibly commit violence. One organization sympathetic to a...

WASHINGTON -- The new year dawns dank and melancholy, at least for me. Shuffling off the nation's center stage are my favorite sanctimonious hinds, Dan Rather and Bill Moyers. Both have been burning incense before their own graven mugs for years. Soon both will exalt themselves in solitude. Moyers was a gifted understudy of his old boss, Lyndon Johnson, and though he affected piety wherever he went, there was always a whiff of the thug about his person. How well I recall the revelations of the journalist, Andrew Ferguson, demonstrating that while an independent contractor of PBS the Rev. Moyers...

The shrill denunciations have abated. Jane Smiley's public tantrum, her indictment of 60,000,000 of her countrymen for the crime of electing George W. Bush is largely forgotten. The Reverend Jesse Jackson, the Clinton family counselor called to active duty during Monica-gate was able to rally only about 400 souls to protest Mr. Bush's certification by the Electoral College. Senator Barbara Boxer's outpouring of tears at the same event was more ceremonial than effective. Still, the Left hasn't recovered from its defeat last November following their defeats in November two and four years ago. Small wonder, since the usual excuses availeth...

""I'm going out telling the story that I think is the biggest story of our time: how the right-wing media has become a partisan propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee," Moyers said...One example of typically good journalism on "Now" not long ago: an in-depth look at the record of President Bush's nominee for secretary of state, Condoleeza Rice, who in her post as national security adviser "dreadfully misjudged the terrorist threat leading up to 9/11, and then misled America and the world about the case for invading Iraq," Moyers concluded."

Bill Moyers' biggest news story of our time http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | By now, many who follow media events have heard the latest rant from PBS host Bill Moyers regarding his retirement plans. The former newsman and Democratic operative says he will spend the final chapter of his life reporting on the biggest news story of our time. So what does Moyers consider the monumental event that changed Western Civilization and the world? Is it the September 11 terror attacks? The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? The Islamic extremists' worldwide war of terror? Not even close. Moyers is telling Americans on the...

Bill Moyers, the former aide to the late President Johnson and a well known liberal fixture on public broadcasting where he hosted his "Now" program, devoted his final program Friday night to an intemperate blast at the alleged the dominance of "right-wing ranting in TV and radio" according to the Washington Post's TV critic Tom Shales. Though Moyers claimed on election night that some Bush supporters might undertake a coup if Kerry was election, Shales claimed the liberal pundit "has always taken the high road." No doubt one liberal would think highly of another who spent his last tax funded...

NOW with Bill Moyershttp://www.pbs.org/now/politics/fairness.html            The website took Sinclair Broadcast Group to task for offering to air STOLEN HONOR.  Moyers didn’t challenge the truth of the story, just that the story was being offered by a Bush supporter. As if that makes the story false. Neither did Moyers honestly report on how the DNC and high ranking memembers of the democratic party threatened Sinclair with retaliation. Moyers didn’t mention that Sinclair was told that it better hope the democrats don’t get elected.The liberal media continues to accuse conservative news outlets of bias and lying which is truly the pot calling...

Taxpayer-supported Democrat operative Bill Moyers is showing his true colors (all blue) by tainting his exit from PBS with an attack on what he describes as "right-wing media." "I'm going out telling the story that I think is the biggest story of our time: how the right-wing media has [sic] become a partisan propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee," the Associated Press today quoted Moyers as saying. "We have an ideological press that's interested in the election of Republicans, and a mainstream press that's interested in the bottom line. Therefore, we don't have a vigilant, independent press whose interest...

Bill Moyers Retires, Fails to Leave Void (2004-12-09) -- Bill Moyers, whose journalistic reports on PBS have been missed by most Americans for 30 years, retires this month but fails to leave the customary void, according to a journalism expert. "Normally when a veteran newsman leaves, there is that sense of loss," said an unnamed professor at the Columbia School of Journalism, "but all of our metrics indicate that Americans are unlikely to note the absence of Bill Moyers, let alone struggle to reach emotional closure." A spokesman for Mr. Moyers suggested that, during his three decades of low visibility,...

NEW YORK -- "I was just in the editing room, working on the last piece," Bill Moyers says. "I thought: `I've done this so many times, and each one is as difficult as the last one.' Maybe finally I've broken the habit." It hasn't been so much a habit for Moyers as a truth-telling mission during his three decades as a TV journalist. But come next week, he will sign off from "Now," the weekly PBS newsmagazine he began in 2002, as, at age 70, he retires from television. "I'm going out telling the story that I think is the...

It's true—Fox News is a response to the overwhelming liberal media bias. It is a tribute to the rise of the "new media," including Fox News Channel, conservative talk radio, bloggers and Internet sites, that President Bush was able to barely win re-election. The old media, which we have labeled as the Big Media, are not so big anymore. They have clearly lost some of their ability to manipulate the minds of the American people. Despite having been exposed as a tool of the Kerry campaign, the CBS "60 Minutes" show still draws huge numbers. It attracted 17.6 million viewers...

Shocked by Bill Moyers' 'Coup' Comment and Radical Media Edward I. Koch Thursday, Nov. 18, 2004 On election night, I, like millions of others, was watching television and listening to the observations of political commentators. Most pundits were saying that exit polls across the nation were predicting a John Kerry win. On Channel 13 (PBS), I heard Bill Moyers say that there were Bush supporters on the right who would resort to a coup if Kerry won. I was shocked that Moyers would make such a statement. The next day I called Channel 13 to ask for a transcript or...

<p>In 1984, Walter Mondale's running mate was Rep. Geraldine Ferraro, a Catholic woman from New York. Ronald Reagan carried Catholics, women, New York -- and even Ferraro's district. Vice presidential nominees rarely sway this or that national demographic group. However, a running mate should help carry his or her state. But last week Bush carried North Carolina, getting 295,026 more votes than in 2000, and carried John Edwards' home county, as he did four years ago. Edwards was supposed to cut Bush's appeal in rural America. He did not.</p>

Read this CAREFULLY. MOYERS: Let's take a specific that is in the report and sees what it says about accountability. Look at the video of those hijackers going through the security at Dulles Airport. The commission is very specific about this. Now, the report says that screener, who's not identified by name, should have reconciled or resolved why the detector went off. But the screener never did. It names no name. Surely, though, above the screener was a supervisor. Above the supervisor was a manager. Above the manager was a CEO. Above the CEO was, you know? You never find...

I couldn't sleep so I flipped the TV on about an hour ago. Normally I don't watch PBS but channel 2 comes on when I turn the TV on and they were showing the newly released video of the Dulles Airport hijackers on 9/11. I need the transcript of what came next. I just went to PBS.org and they had a transcript of Moyers interviewing this Kevin Phillips guy from a few months ago but they didn't have tonight's transcript. They were much more than implying that President Bush arranged so that the hijackers were let through. I've heard liberals...