This will give you an idea of how Moyers functioned as a leftwing tool.
Moyers has always been more commentator than journalist, more concerned with persuading his audience than with reporting facts objectively. As Howard Kurtz, media reporter for the Washington Post and host of Reliable Sources on CNN, wrote of one Moyers “documentary” attacking the chemical industry: “Unlike the most routine news story, the 90-minute documentary includes not a single comment from the industry under fire.” Even Moyers’ programs dealing with religion and culture seem designed to undermine traditional Western values and beliefs. His guests over the years have been disproportionately from the left, including radicals such as Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Carlos Fuentes, and Cornel West.
Moyers announced in February 2004 that he would retire after the November elections. By that time, as many as 30 PBS affiliates had ceased airing Moyers’ partisan show Now during pledge drives, partly because its blatant bias alienated many potential contributors. Now had also become an ethical embarrassment because Moyers, as of 2003, had used his taxpayer-subsidized PBS show to promote guests from at least 16 leftist organizations that had gotten at least $4.8 million in grants from the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy. Moyers had neglected to inform his audience of this conflict of interest involving an organization of which he was President and from which he personally pocketed $200,000 per year.
Said Moyers in 2004: “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. 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 is the American people.”
In the wake of the 9-11 terrorist attacks, Moyers said the following: “Not just religious true believers threaten our democracy. It’s true believers in the God of the market who would leave us to the ruthless forces of unfettered monopolistic capital where even the laws of the jungle break down. And they’re counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. While you’re standing at attention with your hand over your heart pledging allegiance to the flag, they’re picking your pocket.”
In a speech titled “The Progressive Story of America,” Moyers told the 2003 “Take Back America” conference of the Campaign for America’s Future: “Conservatives — or better, pro-corporate apologists — hijacked the vocabulary of Jeffersonian liberalism and turned words like ‘progress,’ ‘opportunity,’ and ‘individualism’ into tools for making the plunder of America sound like divine right.” “Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was hijacked, too,” Moyers continued, “so that conservative politicians, judges, and publicists promoted, as if it were, the natural order, the notion that progress resulted from the elimination of the weak and the ‘survival of the fittest.’ This ‘degenerate and unlovely age,’ as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove — the reputed brain of George W. Bush — as the seminal age of inspiration for the politics and governance of America today.”
……..In early February 2012, Moyers, on his Friday night PBS program, defended community-organizing icon Saul Alinsky from Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s recent attacks…..
The “right-wing media has become a partisan propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee” schtick is especially galling given that he and his fellow leftwing Progs deliver communist propaganda on a silver platter.
His despicable comment about 9/11 is a projection of his abject hate for America and a sick attempt at moral equivalency. It wasn’t Islamic extremists who murdered almost 3000 people on American soil, it was all religion.
On 5 November, 2024, 77 million voters decided to “Take Back America” and get this country on track. Trump’s success must have driven Moyers to distraction.
Good riddance.