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2013-12-19 -Land of the Free

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Posted by badanov 2013-12-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Such a terrible thing the Constitution is, right Bill. Now if we can all be gentlemen and just agree to do away with it to impose our will without regard to being stuck with something a bunch of old white men composed over two hundred years ago (as opposed to all those successful autocracies in say, Africa or Asia that didn't depended upon the racist Enlightenment as a guide in governance)./sarc off

From the man who made his millions on the dole of the American tax payer. Certainly a captain of the Plantation House system.

Posted by P2Kontheroad 2013-12-19 09:02|| 2013-12-19 09:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Funny, after Sandyhook NRA said that they should have armed folks in schools. Recent events had a shooter and an armed guard and the event ended with minimal tragedy. Seems Moyer should be rethinking the NRA, perhaps they have a few ideas worth considering..

Posted by rjschwarz 2013-12-19 09:30|| 2013-12-19 09:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Moyers doesn't mention the government's role in gunwalking. He doesn't mention the crimes committed by the thugocracy in this country. Leave the NRA alone--they support the vets, they support our Constitution, and they support gun rights and legally armed citizens. Moyers, go find some other group to target or do a hit piece on. You could write a travel piece or something on cooking.

Posted by JohnQC 2013-12-19 10:40|| 2013-12-19 10:40|| Front Page Top

#4 If that were true you wouldn't dare say so. The fact that a coward like you feels comfortable repeating such drivel is proof positive that no one anywhere feels threatened by the NRA.

Posted by Iblis 2013-12-19 11:02|| 2013-12-19 11:02|| Front Page Top

"Armed bullies" twenty years ago last April. Wasn't stopped then, wasn't stopped with F&F either.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-12-19 11:36|| 2013-12-19 11:36|| Front Page Top

#6 The blather of a nasty hothouse liberal:

He started his journalism career at sixteen as a cub reporter at the Marshall News Messenger in Marshall, Texas. In college, he studied journalism at the North Texas State College in Denton, Texas. In 1954, then-U.S. Senator Lyndon B. Johnson employed him as a summer intern and eventually promoted him to manage Johnson's personal mail. Moyers transferred to the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, where he wrote for The Daily Texan newspaper. In 1956, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism. While in Austin, Moyers served as assistant news editor for KTBC radio and television stationsowned by Lady Bird Johnson... During Senator Johnson's unsuccessful bid for the 1960 Democratic U.S. presidential nomination, Moyers served as a top aide, and in the general campaign he acted as liaison between Democratic vice-presidential candidate Johnson and the Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy.

During the Kennedy Administration, Moyers was first appointed as associate director of public affairs for the newly created Peace Corps [and] served as Deputy Director from 1962 to 1963. When Lyndon B. Johnson took office after the Kennedy assassination, Moyers became a special assistant to Johnson [and] played a key role in organizing and supervising the 1964 Great Society legislative task forces and was a principal architect of Johnson's 1964 presidential campaign. Moyers acted as the President's informal chief of staff from October 1964 until 1966... [H]e also served as White House press secretary. After the resignation of White House Chief of Staff Walter Jenkins because of a sexual misdemeanor in the run up to the 1964 election, President Lyndon B. Johnson, alarmed that the opposition was framing the issue as a security breach, ordered Moyers to request FBI name checks on 15 members of Goldwater's staff to find "derogatory" material on their personal lives. The Church Committee stated in 1975 that "Moyers has publicly recounted his role in the incident, and his account is confirmed by FBI documents." Moyers also sought information from the FBI on the sexual preferences of White House staff members, most notably Jack Valenti. Moyers indicated his memory was unclear on why Johnson directed him to request such information, "but that he may have been simply looking for details of allegations first brought to the president by Hoover." Moyers approved the infamous "Daisy Ad" against Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential campaign.

In a 2003 interview with BuzzFlash.com, Moyers said, "The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won." He added that as "the corporate and governing elites are helping themselves to the spoils of victory," access to political power has become "who gets what and who pays for it." Meanwhile, the public has failed to react because it is, in his words, "distracted by the media circus and news has been neutered or politicized for partisan purposes... As Eric Alterman reports in his recent booka book that I'm proud to have helped make happenpart of the red meat strategy is to attack mainstream media relentlessly, knowing that if the press is effectively intimidated, either by the accusation of liberal bias or by a reporter's own mistaken belief in the charge's validity, the institutions that conservatives reverecorporate America, the military, organized religion, and their own ideological bastions of influencewill be able to escape scrutiny and increase their influence over American public life with relatively no challenge."

Posted by Pappy 2013-12-19 15:26|| 2013-12-19 15:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Moyers served as assistant news editor for KTBC radio and television stations--owned by Lady Bird Johnson...

:) Yeah Lady Bird. Lyndon was only a freelance ad salesman ya see.

Posted by Shipman 2013-12-19 16:06|| 2013-12-19 16:06|| Front Page Top

#8 Bill Moyers: NRA is an armed bully says supporter of IRS abusing president who directs spending 4 trillion per year extortion racket.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-12-19 17:46|| 2013-12-19 17:46|| Front Page Top

#9 My native state of Texas leads the country in the number of young ones killed by guns.

An interesting statistic, but what does it actually mean?

First, gun deaths is an aggregate that includes suicides, accidents and murder. For suicide, guns are matter of convenience - getting rid of guns won't change the suicide rate.

So let's look at murders, specifically the murder rate, since total murders is misleading (although nice for statistical hysteria!). 2010 data from Wikipedia (I know!) says the state with the highest gun murder rate at 16.5 per 100,000 is Washington, DC. Not Texas. But we'll give Bill a pass since DC is not really a state. Next is Louisiana at 7.7, followed by Missouri (5.4), Maryland (5.1), and South Carolina (4.5). Texas? They are at 3.2 murders per 100,000.

You might conclude that Mr. Moyers is trying to mislead you. But don't worry, it's for your own good!

And yeah, what Iblis said in #4.

Posted by SteveS 2013-12-19 19:45|| 2013-12-19 19:45|| Front Page Top

#10 Meyers is a dipshit who is deliberately misleading with that statistic. Texas is on of the largest states, so it will have more of everything. That's why people use per capita, as above. Raw number in this context are a sign of the extremely dishonest or terminally stupid (or both)

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