My Heroes in the Media
There are a few shining lights that have somehow survived the screeching howl that is typical media news. The brightest lights in the media these days are Bill Moyers and Heith Olbermann.
I watched Bill Moyers’ PBS Special about Jack Abramoff and the corruption of lobbyists and members of Congress. It was chilling to those of us who respect the Constitution. Catch the reruns if you can.
In a related article, Lincoln Weeps, Moyers says:
“Once upon a time the House of Representatives was known as "the people's house." No more. It belongs to K Street now. That's the address of the lobbyists who swarm all over Capitol Hill. There are 65 lobbyists for every member of Congress. They spend $200 million per month wining, dining and seducing federal officials. Per month!”
Meanwhile Keith Olbermann is continuing to speak the truth to the man sitting in our White House. Keith questions how we can accept so many lies from our President and his administration in A Special Comment About Lying.
Read it Here.
Or Watch it Here.
“Mr. President, these new lies go to the heart of what it is that you truly wish to preserve.
It is not our freedom, nor our country—your actions against the Constitution give irrefutable proof of that.
You want to preserve a political party’s power. And obviously you’ll sell this country out, to do it.
These are lies about the Democrats -- piled atop lies about Iraq -- which were piled atop lies about your preparations for al Qaida.
To you, perhaps, they feel like the weight of a million centuries -- as crushing, as immovable.
They are not.
If you add more lies to them, you cannot free yourself, and us, from them.
But if you stop -- if you stop fabricating quotes, and building straw-men, and inspiring those around you to do the same -- you may yet liberate yourself and this nation.
Please, sir, do not throw this country’s principles away because your lies have made it such that you can no longer differentiate between the terrorists and the critics."
I watched Bill Moyers’ PBS Special about Jack Abramoff and the corruption of lobbyists and members of Congress. It was chilling to those of us who respect the Constitution. Catch the reruns if you can.
In a related article, Lincoln Weeps, Moyers says:
“Once upon a time the House of Representatives was known as "the people's house." No more. It belongs to K Street now. That's the address of the lobbyists who swarm all over Capitol Hill. There are 65 lobbyists for every member of Congress. They spend $200 million per month wining, dining and seducing federal officials. Per month!”
Meanwhile Keith Olbermann is continuing to speak the truth to the man sitting in our White House. Keith questions how we can accept so many lies from our President and his administration in A Special Comment About Lying.
Read it Here.
Or Watch it Here.
“Mr. President, these new lies go to the heart of what it is that you truly wish to preserve.
It is not our freedom, nor our country—your actions against the Constitution give irrefutable proof of that.
You want to preserve a political party’s power. And obviously you’ll sell this country out, to do it.
These are lies about the Democrats -- piled atop lies about Iraq -- which were piled atop lies about your preparations for al Qaida.
To you, perhaps, they feel like the weight of a million centuries -- as crushing, as immovable.
They are not.
If you add more lies to them, you cannot free yourself, and us, from them.
But if you stop -- if you stop fabricating quotes, and building straw-men, and inspiring those around you to do the same -- you may yet liberate yourself and this nation.
Please, sir, do not throw this country’s principles away because your lies have made it such that you can no longer differentiate between the terrorists and the critics."
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