Bill Moyers and Charlie Rose

Bill Moyers really bugs me.

I think it's his rank hypocrisy.

Talking with Charlie Rose, Moyers blathered about his days in politics and applied his experiences to today.

Moyers plays the role of a wise elder, a man of flawless character. He wallows in being a god among the lib media elite.

I don't know why libs are so willing to overlook the real Moyers. I don't get why they forgive him when they are so rigid and unforgiving when it comes to the actions, real or imagined, of conservatives.

Rose and Moyers talked about JFK and Lyndon Johnson. Moyers compared Barack Obama to JFK. No surprise there.

He brought up the Cuban Missile Crisis and how the inexperienced JFK masterfully handled it, suggesting that Obama's intuition is all the experience he would need to be president. (God help us.)

Nuclear annihilation reminds me of Moyers giving the green light to the "Daisy Ad," a political ad so despicable that it only aired once.

What integrity!

Moyers talking about the great patriot Jeremiah Wright made me sick. He acted as an apologist for Wright. It was nauseating.

Moyers loved it when Rose cited an article from Salon.

Rather than mellowing with age, Moyers, now 68, has arguably become the lone radical on television, openly challenging our national failure to confront fundamental issues of class, money and power. On his current magazine-style show, "NOW With Bill Moyers" (which airs Friday nights on PBS), he has the same shock of schoolboy hair -- now completely white -- and the same air of polite, bespectacled concern as ever. He still looks and sounds like the über-square Texas divinity student and ordained Baptist minister he once was.

What tripe!

It's not surprising that Rose didn't question Moyers about his abuse of power while serving in Johnson's administration.

From "The Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans, Book Two, Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Government Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, United States Senate Together with Additional Supplemental and Separate Views, April 26, 1976":

Under the Johnson administration, the FBI was used to gather and report political intelligence on the administration's partisan opponents in the last days of the '64 and '68 presidential election campaigns. In the closing days of the '64 campaign, presidential aide Bill Moyers asked the FBI to conduct name checks on all persons employed in Senator Goldwater's Senate office and information on two staff members was reported to the White House.

And Moyers complains about the Bush Administration's abuse of power!

When Moyers was yapping about the Dem messiah Obama, he didn't mention that he was in on the investigation into Martin Luther King, Jr. He didn't talk about bugging the great civil rights leader.

The Johnson Administration's willingness to permit the FBI to continue its investigation of Dr. King also appears to have involved political considerations. Bill Moyers, President Johnson's assistant, testified that sometime around the spring of 1965 President Johnson "seemed satisfied that these allegations about Martin Luther King were not founded." Yet President Johnson did not order the investigation terminated. When asked the reason, Moyers explained that President Johnson:

was very concerned that his embracing the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King personally would not backfire politically. He didn't want to have a southern racist Senator produce something that would be politically embarassing to the President and to the civil rights movement. We had lots of conversations about that.... Johnson, as everybody knows, bordered on paranoia about his enemies or about being trapped by other people's activities over which he had no responsibility.

Intelligence reports submitted by the Bureau to the White House and the Justice Department contained considerable intelligence of potential political value to the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. The Attorneys General were informed of meetings between Dr. King and his advisers, including the details of advice that Dr. King received, the strategies of the civil rights movement, and the attitude, of civil rights leaders toward the Administrations and their policies.

Knowing this truth, it was hard to hear the hypocritical Moyers hawk his new book, Moyers on Democracy.

He doesn't acknowledge the reality of his role in our history. Not pretty.

He lives a lie. It's ugly.