Sunday, May 29, 2005
Bill Moyers: Still 'Nipping at the Whine
Excerpts from his "Whine" speech:
"Who are they? I mean the people obsessed with control, using the government to threaten and intimidate. I mean the people who are hollowing out middle-class security even as they enlist the sons and daughters of the working class in a war to make sure Ahmed Chalabi winds up controlling Iraq's oil. I mean the people who turn faith-based initiatives into a slush fund and who encourage the pious to look heavenward and pray so as not to see the long arm of privilege and power picking their pockets. I mean the people who squelch free speech in an effort to obliterate dissent and consolidate their orthodoxy into the official view of reality from which any deviation becomes unpatriotic heresy."
"Take the example (also cited by Mermin) of Charles J. Hanley. Hanley is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Associated Press, whose fall 2003 story on the torture of Iraqis in American prisons-before a U.S. Army report and photographs documenting the abuse surfaced-was ignored by major American newspapers. Hanley attributes this lack of interest to the fact that it was not an officially sanctioned story that begins with a handout from an official source.'"
"I always knew Nixon would be back. I just didn't know this time he would be the chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting."
"We're big kids; we can handle controversy and diversity, whether it's political or religious points of view or two loving lesbian moms and their kids, visited by a cartoon rabbit."
Bill, I liked you better as a "Winer" and not a "Whiner." Will that be white, red, burgundy, or perhaps a nice merlot?
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