Bill Moyers blasting the media on Sunday Salon

Link http://www.kpfa.org/

He even said he may have to return to the anchor chair and got tremendous applause. Catch the archive or catch him live right now.

I'd love that. :D

link:

http://www.kpfa.org/cgi-bin/gen-mpegurl.m3u?server=aud-one.kpfa.org&port=8000&mount=icy_0&file=dummy.m3u

I guess they feel they have to but this is the pits.

damn!

I got it now!

There must be an overload of listeners. I plan on listening to it again - thank goodness for archives!

He's talking about how his program offered a different format. That being a full discussion of an issue, not two people shouting talking points. He told his staff to get to the truth of an issue since we were entering a difficult period after 9/11 with elusive, stateless enemies. and how the big media was all powerful. NOW puts the rest of the media to shame doing stories the MSM won't cover.

Hot damn!

Edit: "Repukes" is my word.

I am so burned!

Will the archives include these interruptions?

I was going to call and make a pledge but now I can't bring myself to do it. It's a shame to feel this way. But I can't help feeling suckered in and then clobbered. Nuts to them.

http://www.pbs.org/now/commentary/moyers19.html

Bill Moyers
on Patriotism and the Flag


I wore my flag tonight. First time. Until now I haven't thought it necessary to display a little metallic icon of patriotism for everyone to see. It was enough to vote, pay my taxes, perform my civic duties, speak my mind, and do my best to raise our kids to be good Americans.



Sometimes I would offer a small prayer of gratitude that I had been born in a country whose institutions sustained me, whose armed forces protected me, and whose ideals inspired me; I offered my heart's affections in return. It no more occurred to me to flaunt the flag on my chest than it did to pin my mother's picture on my lapel to prove her son's love. Mother knew where I stood; so does my country. I even tuck a valentine in my tax returns on April 15.

So what's this doing here? Well, I put it on to take it back. The flag's been hijacked and turned into a logo — the trademark of a monopoly on patriotism. On those Sunday morning talk shows, official chests appear adorned with the flag as if it is the good housekeeping seal of approval. During the State of the Union, did you notice Bush and Cheney wearing the flag? How come? No administration's patriotism is ever in doubt, only its policies. And the flag bestows no immunity from error. When I see flags sprouting on official lapels, I think of the time in China when I saw Mao's little red book on every official's desk, omnipresent and unread.

But more galling than anything are all those moralistic ideologues in Washington sporting the flag in their lapels while writing books and running Web sites and publishing magazines attacking dissenters as un-American. They are people whose ardor for war grows disproportionately to their distance from the fighting. They're in the same league as those swarms of corporate lobbyists wearing flags and prowling Capitol Hill for tax breaks even as they call for more spending on war.

So I put this on as a modest riposte to men with flags in their lapels who shoot missiles from the safety of Washington think tanks, or argue that sacrifice is good as long as they don't have to make it, or approve of bribing governments to join the coalition of the willing (after they first stash the cash.) I put it on to remind myself that not every patriot thinks we should do to the people of Baghdad what Bin Laden did to us. The flag belongs to the country, not to the government. And it reminds me that it's not un-American to think that war — except in self-defense — is a failure of moral imagination, political nerve, and diplomacy. Come to think of it, standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.

What do you think?

it's tonic to hear honest truth about all the bush crap being spun...i love it when he said 'the only thing the republicans hate more then liberals is the truth!...just to talk truth makes you a 'liberal'!'
wow

from here>
http://www.freepress.net/conference/

they don't have capabilities to live steam like they were hoping.
:-(

The Conference is SOLD OUT, btw!

:bounce:

Maybe eventually someone will have the full audio. But the transcript will be great to read! Moyers is so passionate. He's been around for so long - he was actually there for so much. A first hand knowledge that can't be refuted.

I just love that man, how he breaks through the BS. God bless him.

Best excuse for cloning ever.

Hey, you right-wing Baptists: this guy is the model you should be using, and not the yahoo in your Sunday pulpit.

As someone else posted above, the videos are available online at Freepress. It takes a while to download the zips. I just downloaded and opened the Quicktime of the Moyers speech. The video and sound are quite good. Here's the direct page with links to dld's on the right side. Moyers is down near the bottom. http://www.cctvcambridge.org/freepress/index.shtml

:kick:

him back on the air on a regular basis!

I like Brancacchio, but the idea of getting Moyers back...

He needs to either burn down PBS headquarters, or stop talking this way.

(Just kidding, dammit!)