Bill Moyers at his Ugliest

It's no surprise to hear Bill Moyers ranting against Republicans and all things conservative in his trademark monotone low-key manner from his PBS soapbox.

His liberal haven, supported by tax dollars, provides him with a forum to articulate the Left's propaganda.

If you didn't understand English, you might think he was telling a bedtime story.

His "Mister Rogers" sweater-clad style is deceptive.

Listen to what he says and you understand that the mild-mannered Moyers is as deranged, spiteful, and downright ugly as the most angry, flailing George Bush haters in the known universe.

His latest diatribe comes at the end of tonight's Bill Moyers' Journal.

It is jaw-dropping. Stunning.

Watch Moyers verbally assassinate Karl Rove.

Transcript:

What struck me about my fellow Texan Karl Rove is that he knew how to win elections as if they were divine interventions. You may think God summoned Billy Graham to Florida on the eve of the 2000 election to endorse George W. bush just in the knick of time. But if it did happen that way, the good Lord was speaking in a Texas accent.

Karl rove figured out a long time ago that the way to take an intellectually incurious, draft averse, naughty playboy in a lifejacket with chewing tobacco in his back pocket and make him governor of Texas was to sell him as God’s anointed in a state where preachers and televangelists outnumber even oil derricks and jack rabbits.

Using church pews as precincts, Rove turned religion into a weapon of political combat, a battering ram aimed at the Devil’s minions, especially at gay people. It’s so easy, as Karl knew, to scapegoat people you outnumber. And if God is love, as rumor has it, Rove knew in politics to bet on fear and loathing.

Never mind that in stroking the basest bigotry of true believers you coarsen both politics and religion.

At the same time he was recruiting an army of the Lord for the born-again Bush, Rove was also shaking down corporations for campaign cash. Crony capitalism became a Biblical injunction. Greed and God won four elections in a row, twice in the Lone Star state and twice again in the nation at large.

But the result has been to leave Texas under the thumb of big money with huge holes ripped in its social contract, and the U.S government in shambles -- paralyzed, polarized, and mired in war, death, and corruption.

Rove himself is deeply enmeshed in some of the scandals being investigated as we speak, including those missing e-mails that could tell us who turned the Attorney General of the United States into a partisan sock puppet.

Rove is riding out of Dodge City as the posse rides in. At his press conference this week, he asked God to bless the President and the country, even as reports were circulating that he himself had confessed to friends his own agnosticism. He wished he could believe, but he can not. That kind of intellectual honesty is to be admired.

But you have to wonder how all those folks on the Christian Right must feel discovering they were used for partisan reasons by a skeptic, a secular manipulator. On his last play of the game, all Karl Rove had to offer them was a Hail Mary pass while telling himself there’s no one there to catch it.

Moyers not only mercilessly rips Rove; he assails President Bush. He calls the Attorney General a "sock puppet."

Worst of all, Moyers berates Christians as rubes, unsophisticated dolts who were had by the scheming, godless Rove.

He calls "those folks on the Christian Right" bigots, haters of gay people.

His condescension is despicable. His stereotyping is demeaning. The charges he levels against conservatives are detestable.

If Moyers is looking for bigotry, he should look in the mirror.