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Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Misleading Poll Question Doesn't Stop Respondents from Favoring AZ Immigration Law

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Obama the Pragmatist, Tea Party on 'Far Right'

Jackie Calmes says Obama "supporters" calls him a "pragmatist" - but so does the New York Times. She also puts the Tea Party movement on the "far right."

The Times Salutes Bill Moyers, Hard-Left 'Lion of PBS,' Finds Few Critics
The paper's usual labeling imbalance was on display in how it treated left-wing vs right-wing critics of PBS.

Misleading Poll Question Doesn't Stop Respondents from Favoring AZ Immigration Law
The Times initially spun a 60%-36% pro-enforcement gap as a "slim margin." And the law doesn't give “gives police the power to question anyone they suspect is in the country illegally,” as the misleading NYT/CBS News poll question claims, but requires reasonable suspicion of such by a policeman, coupled with a “lawful stop, detention or arrest.”




Obama the Pragmatist, Tea Party on 'Far Right'

Reporter Jackie Calmes claimed in Tuesday's Obama-pitying “For Obama, A Nonstop Juggling Act” that his “supporters” call him a pragmatist. So does that make Times reporters Obama supporters as well? And is the Tea Party really “far right”?

By his own reckoning, Mr. Obama has always been hard to peg ideologically. His Republican opponents charge that he is masking a left-wing agenda in centrist-sounding words.
His supporters, including those who work for him, say he is a pragmatist whose instincts are genuinely centrist, both as a matter of politics and style.

The Times also constantly sells its readers on the idea that the big-spending, socially liberal Obama is some kind of moderate “pragmatist.”

Calmes continued the questionable labeling:

And just as Mr. Obama has ratcheted up his own populist attacks against corporate self-interest and Wall Street’s return to business as usual, so did Roosevelt become more vocally populist as re-election neared and he faced demagogic opposition. That included the likes of Senator Huey Long of Louisiana, the radio broadcaster Father Charles Coughlin and a domestic Communist Party making inroads on the left, much like the Tea Party movement today on the far right.

Jonah Goldberg, author of “Liberal Fascism,” will appreciate a journalist accurately placing Coughlin on the left. But is the Tea Party really deserve the unflattering “far right” imprimatur? The Times rarely if ever uses the term “far left” to describe a slice of the American electorate.

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The Times Salutes Bill Moyers, Hard-Left 'Lion of PBS,' Finds Few Critics

Two Times stories related to the (perhaps temporary) retirement of PBS's left-wing sage Bill Moyers both soft-pedaled the host's weekly attacks on business and government issued from his money-lined, taxpayer-funded PBS perch.

Elizabeth Jensen's contribution to the Sunday Arts page asked a question perhaps only the Times' liberal readership is asking: “How, Exactly, Do You Follow Bill Moyers?

Jensen focused on left-wing complaints about Newsweek editor Jon Meachem, the host of the program replacing Moyers' “Now on PBS,” without ever delving into conservative complaints about Moyers and his history of neo-Marxist rhetoric delivered in a jus'-folks Texas accent. Moyers was merely called “the lion of PBS.” Not even the “liberal lion.”

While Meachem's left-wing critics from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting were merely termed an “advocacy group” by Jensen, she found that Meachem was also a “frequent target of conservatives, who decry what they say are Newsweek's 'liberal' leanings.”

Jensen forwarded complaints from unlabeled left-wingers:

“Need to Know,” which will tape at a new studio at Lincoln Center, arrives to plenty of apprehension from PBS viewers, thousands of whom, riled up by the advocacy group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, have already protested. Their fear: the new hourlong show will fail to live up to the programs it is replacing: “Bill Moyers Journal” and “Now on PBS,” which ran a combined 90 minutes. Mr. Moyers, the lion of PBS, wanted, at 75, to step back from the grind of a weekly show, and was set to sign off on Friday, promising to return with specials. “Now” was cancelled.

In a March 25 online column Michael Getler, the PBS ombudsman, called the new program “a pretty big gamble for PBS” given the “fear, as expressed by many viewers in recent months, that PBS may be pulling in its horns and shying away from controversy.” One letter writer said, “I have the distinct impression that PBS is moving towards kinder, gentler documentary programming so as to avoid offending the powerful and upsetting the political right.” Another complained of Mr. Meacham’s “right-of-center stance on world events,” as evidenced in Newsweek, of which he is the editor.

Mr. Meacham, the winner of a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for his biography “American Lion: Andrew Jackson and the White House,” dismissed talk of his supposed partisan leanings: “I’m a journalist and a biographer who calls them as I see them.” Mr. Meacham, who is a regular on MSNBC -- where he mostly stays out of the fray when the partisan shouting gets too intense -- is a frequent target of conservatives, who decry what they say are Newsweek’s “liberal” leanings.

Media reporter Brian Stelter briefly acknowledged the conservative beef with Moyers, but fell down on the labeling front in his Monday Arts page story.

Mr. Moyers has long been a controversial figure. In a column in the May 10 issue of The Nation, the media columnist Eric Alterman called Mr. Moyers the “last unapologetic liberal anywhere in broadcast television.” Conservative critics have long accused Mr. Moyers and his programs of being one-sided.

Again the Times skimped on the “liberal” label. While Stelter couldn't spare a “liberal” or “left-wing” label for the hard-left Nation magazine, he managed to uncover unidentified “conservative critics”of Moyers.

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Misleading Poll Question Doesn't Stop Respondents from Favoring AZ Immigration Law

The latest New York Times/CBS News poll focused on Arizona's tough new anti-illegal immigration law, summarized in a story by Randal Archibold and Megan Thee-Brenan that only made the top of the National section, not the usual front-page placement for a poll story.

At least the print headline was strong: “Poll Finds Serious Concern Among Americans About Immigration.” Here's the lead, slanted toward the protesters point of view:

The overwhelming majority of Americans think the country’s immigration policies need to be seriously overhauled. And despite protests against Arizona’s stringent new immigration enforcement law, a majority of Americans support it, even though they say it may lead to racial profiling.

When the poll was first posted at nytimes.com Monday evening, a teaser headline claimed that only a “slim majority” favored the immigration law, but that was misleading if technically accurate. There was nothing “slim” about the actual results.

51% say the law "is about right,” while only 36% said it “goes too far,” while another 9% said it “doesn’t go far enough.” In other words, 60% agree with the thrust of the law, with only 36% thinking it goes too far. (The “slim” modifier was dropped from Tuesday's print edition.)

Not even the liberal slant of the question posed by the Times and CBS stopped the public from showing strong support for Arizona's law. (There's a .PDF version of the poll here.)

Here's question 67:
67. As you may know, the state of Arizona recently passed a law that gives police the power to question anyone they suspect is in the country illegally, requires people to produce documents verifying their status if asked, and allows officers to detain anyone who cannot do so. Do you think this law goes too far, doesn’t go far enough, or is about right?

Actually, the law doesn't give “gives police the power to question anyone they suspect is in the country illegally.” It requires reasonable suspicion of such by a policeman, coupled with a “lawful stop, detention or arrest.” Even then, people favored tougher enforcement by a substantial margin. One can't help but suspect the poll would have gotten front-page play if the numbers had been reversed.

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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

The many faces of Bill Moyers

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November 23, 2009 by Kevin Dayhoff

It’s a great day in American, “Bill Moyers is leaving weekly television.”

Yes, that’s right, Mr. Moyers, the liberal hypocritical smug Prince of thug-journalism who raised concepts such as situational ethics and moral relativism to a high art form, will be leaving public television on April 30, 2010, according to a recent item in the New York Times by Elizabeth Jensen in her “Media Decoder” column.

“Mr. Moyers said he had been planning for some time to retire the program on Dec. 25, but was asked by PBS to raise the funds to continue through April, which he did,” writes Ms. Jensen.

The “program” to which she is referring is “Bill Moyers Journal,” which began in April 2007. It is a weekly no-holds-barred advocacy program on the Public Broadcasting System for the liberal agenda in America.

According to Ms. Jensen, Mr. Moyers said, that his program has recently been having a “good run of it … so I feel it’s time.” He said he was not quitting television work, although he has no new projects planned.

No word as to whether or not he will be taking a position in the administration of Venezuelan President Hug Chavez, although Mr. Moyers is well qualified to work with heads of state.

Our younger readers may not be aware that Mr. Moyers, who was born on June 5, 1934, first distinguished himself on the national stage as the White House press secretary for President Lyndon Baines Johnson from 1965 to 1967.

Mr. Moyers and President Johnson shared a long history of working together. Mr. Moyers had interned for then-Senator Johnson. In addition to several positions as a print media journalist for several newspapers in Texas, he also worked in the mid-1950s at KTBC radio and television stations, which were owned by Lady Bird Johnson.

It is ironic to note that Mr. Moyers is an ordained minister; when one considers the course, blunt, if not profane behavior that historians have characterized President Johnson’s rise and maintenance of power.

Mr. Moyers first came to Washington to work in the administration of President Kennedy in various capacities in the newly formed Peace Corps.

In an April 3, 1966 article in the New York Times by Patrick Anderson, “No. 2 Texan in the White House,” Mr. Moyers explained his relationship with President Johnson as “I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.”

His quote from 1966 may have been the only hint at humanity he may have ever had in a career that has witnessed him, in his later years, become unbearably preachy, condescending, boorish, and blinded by his politically ideology, which has tarnished his conflicted and complicated legacy.

For every mean-spirited thing I have to say about Mr. Moyers, I have a half-dozen much nastier remarks for which I was held back by my shriveled but nevertheless functional sense of decency.

In a much-touted dust-up between Mr. Moyers and Fox News Channel personality, Bill O’Reilly in April 2007; Mr. O’Reilly may have said it best:

“I do know that Moyers has, for years, been heavily involved with people like George Soros and the far left. Yet PBS is paying him to produce documentaries that are purported to be "objective." Bill Moyers is not objective, has a problem with the truth, and should no longer be receiving taxpayer money. And that is the truth.”

This after Fox News aired a tape in which Mr. Moyers said: “The FOX News, the talk radio, The Weekly Standard have not only mongered for war along with the administration, not only embraced the administration's policies because they were "conservative", including going to war, but also mounted a slime machine to discredit any journalist who dared to stand against the official view of reality.”

Of course, since President Obama has taken office and has continued the war efforts, for which Mr. Moyers was so critical during the Bush Administration years – now Mr. Moyers seems to have forgotten that we remain at war.

This, in spite of campaign promises from President Obama that once in office, he would withdrawal American troops out of Iraq quickly and re-invent our efforts in Afghanistan.

Funny how that works.

On March 9, 2009, Bernie Goldberg said in an interview with Mr. O’Reilly about Mr. Goldberg’s book, “A Slobbering Love Affair,” that Mr. Moyers is among the top five “five worst offenders in the mainstream media.”

“No. 4 is Bill Moyers because he represents the most elite wing of the most liberal elite media. Bill Moyers is a true believer who these days is posing as a journalist. He's very civil and highbrow to an extent, but also despises conservatives.

“During the Bush administration, he said that the right-wing wrecking crews in government, right-wing wrecking crews were deliberately, intentionally, trying to destroy the United States of America. Really, Bill? I mean, right wing wrecking crews and the government are deliberately trying to destroy America? And he's on PBS.”

Fortunately for America, Mr. Moyers days on PBS are numbered.

Good riddance. Don’t let the door hit you on the behind as you are leaving.

Perhaps the only thing that might be as equally good for American would be if Katie Couric would also retire. We can only wish.

Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster. E-mail him at kevindayhoff AT gmail.com.

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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Merry Christmas weeks early Bill Moyers Retiring From Weekly Television


Bill Moyers Retiring From Weekly Television

November 21, 2009 by Kevin Dayhoff

Merry Christmas weeks early. It’s a great day in American, “Bill Moyers is leaving weekly television.”

One of the best things about him leaving television is that his departure is scheduled to take place in just a few weeks. Yes, that’s right, Mr. Moyers, the hypocritical smug Prince of thug-journalism who raised concepts such as situational ethics and moral relativism to a high art form, will be leaving public television this Christmas.

Merry Christmas America. His last day ought to be declared a national day of celebration.

I guess with a Democratic administration in power; there is no need for him to continue leach off of taxpayer dollars and bash the Republicans and act-out on Bush Derangement Syndrome on the so-called politically-neutral Public Broadcasting System.

According to a Huffington Post news brief, “The New York Times' Elizabeth Jensen reports that the PBS newscaster is retiring from his Friday night program, ‘Bill Moyers Journal,’ on April 30, 2010. ‘Bill Moyers Journal’ launched in April 2007.”

And what journey onto hell his “Journal” was.

"I am 75 years old," Moyers told Jensen. "I feel it's time."

It’s really about time. It was “time” before he even began the program.

Good riddance. Don’t let the door hit you on the ass as you are leaving.


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Friday, March 13, 2009

Transcript - Bill Moyers Interviews Karen Armstrong


Transcript - Bill Moyers Interviews Karen Armstrong

March 13, 2009

This is the transcript of the March 1, 2002 Bill Moyers’ interview with ecclesiastical scholar Karen Armstrong.

If you can get past Mr. Moyers’ preachy, whining, supercilious, manipulative and hyper-politicized approach to what should remain in the domain of intellectual; you will find Ms. Armstrong is extraordinarily knowledgeable in the study of comparative religions – especially the three religions of Abraham - and delightfully articulate.

I wish that the interviewer had been Charlie Rose… / Kevin Dayhoff

Transcript - Bill Moyers Interviews Karen Armstrong

March 1, 2002

BILL MOYERS: She was a spark plug in my PBS series on Genesis, her books are best sellers, "The History of God", "The Battle for God", "Jerusalem". She's written a biography of Buddha, and a short history of Islam. Soon we'll have her new memoir of her life after the convent where she spent seven years as a nun. Joining me now is one of the world's foremost students of religion, Karen Armstrong. Thank you.

KAREN ARMSTRONG: Thank you Bill.

BILL MOYERS: If you were God, would you do away with religion?

ARMSTRONG: Well, there are some forms of religion that must make God weep. ...


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