November 11, 2002
THE POWER OF MYTH:
Election 2002 (Bill Moyers, 11.08.02)[F]or the first time in the memory of anyone alive, the entire federal government — the Congress, the Executive, the Judiciary — is united behind a right-wing agenda for which George W. Bush believes he now has a mandate.That mandate includes the power of the state to force pregnant women to give up control over their own lives.
It includes using the taxing power to transfer wealth from working people to the rich.
It includes giving corporations a free hand to eviscerate the environment and control the regulatory agencies meant to hold them accountable.
And it includes secrecy on a scale you cannot imagine. Above all, it means judges with a political agenda appointed for life. If you liked the Supreme Court that put George W. Bush in the White House, you will swoon over what's coming.
And if you like God in government, get ready for the Rapture.
Well, actually, it's the first time in 19 months, but we all remember how scary that period from January through April 2001 was--freakin' apocalyptic!
Posted by Orrin Judd at November 11, 2002 6:18 PM
I just went to PBS to read the article. I checked the comment boards and there were over 20 pages of comments. In the first 3 or 4 pages, I saw 2 favorable and the rest were slamming & fisking Moyers. Somebody on NRO (Jonah?) wrote that Moyers was so absurd he could not be parodied. Yes, indeed.
Posted by: Kimmon Johnson at November 11, 2002 7:56 PMSome guy at Salon called him a "gullible middlebrow."
Actually, I am old enough to remember when he was held up as one of the fine examples of the intellectualism of the Kennedy set.
I pay him no mind, but every now and again I see a clip of him in way over his head on a variety of subjects. Moyers under a tree at the Earth Summit was, indeed, beyond parody.