Limbaugh Vs. Moyers

Bill Moyers says that journalists have a responsibility to question those in power.

Rush Limbaugh, speaking for the economic and political elites that currently occupy positions of authority, responds by charging that Moyers is "insane."

A debate has opened regarding the role of reporting in George W. Bush's America. But this debate is about a great deal more than one president or one moment in history. At the most fundamental level, it is about whether the American experiment as imagined by the most visionary of its founders can long endure.

Moyers set the stage at the National Conference for Media Reform last week, where he delivered a call for the redemption of American journalism. Though he was appearing less than a week after it had been revealed that the Bush administration ally who chairs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting had waged a secret campaign to drive him off the air, the former host of PBS's "NOW" program was calm and collected. The winner of thirty Emmy Awards reflected upon his own work and that of his colleagues on "NOW." But his real purpose was to defend the craft of journalism against the battering it has taken from those who believe reporters should be little more than stenographers to power. At a time when too many prominent journalists have accepted the diminished standards that their critics would impose upon them, Moyers raged against the dying of the light -- not so much for himself as for the Republic that will not stand without a free, skeptical and courageous press.


Link: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/05/24/opinion/main697531.shtml


Keith’s Barbeque Central

Rush vs Moyers is the all-time worst apples-oranges comparison.

Limbaugh folds like the proverbial card table whenever he's actually challenged in person- he'll continue to huff and puff to the dittoheads, but you'll note he never heads off to actually debate any one of any stature with an opposing viewpoint.

This debate (if it were to happen) would be the intellectual equivalent of the New England Patriots vs. the Ipswich Junior High flag football team.

Moyers is great. Limbaugh is a feeble putz.

Isnt that what his entire radio show was based on during the 90's?

authoritarian, therefore being anti-Clinton was being anti-anti-authoritarian. True authority derives from god, not from the voters.

bashed him hard.

Those paragraphs are excellently written.

Rush as the evil sycophant that he is. And I don't use the word evil lightly, but Rush deserves it.

as opposing the AG of Kansas in his Planned parenthood fishing expedition then?

After all, he says it's not just about him, but all patient privacy.

to actually engage in an open, honest debate and he becomes a confused, blithering idiot. I still have the 1991 Nightline where Rush tried to debate Gore on the environment. Rush didn't stand a chance against Gore.

I wonder if they will give Rush a furlough to go debate Moyers?