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Moyers on Media's War Pt 1 [VIDEO]

Posted by Evan Derkacz at 10:50 PM on April 29, 2007.


Bill Moyers' devastating special...
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Each day a new installment of the Bill Moyers special on how the press bought into the Bush Administration's war...

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Evan Derkacz is an AlterNet editor. He writes and edits PEEK, the blog of blogs.


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God the Divine Has No Part of This!
Posted by: Mr. Terrific on Apr 30, 2007 1:44 AM   
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The Prayers for "Guidance" from the Bush Administration were prayers not to God the Divine but Satan. This administration along with its base, the Evangelical Christians, Christian Right {Christian Wrong} as I call them, the Military Industrial Complex, Blackwater and the other contractors, along with Israel and its long standing Jewish Neo-Con, sick criminal cabal, should be put on trial for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity!

The absolute sickness around the world this administration has caused will never be forgotten nor forgiven by many of its vicitims. This administration has performed a ritual of death, a holocaust to the God of darkness, and the ramifications in Karmic debt along with the economic, military, political, and social fallout, will haunt this country for generations to come.

Mr. Terrific

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» Its right up there with.. Posted by: JoshuaLudd
Until Bill Moyers
Posted by: bradford on Apr 30, 2007 4:48 AM   
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starts addressing the radical Zionists racists who engineered this war, his analyses will be half-assed.

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The issue is journalistic ethics
Posted by: Jeanne on Apr 30, 2007 10:31 AM   
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Or, perhaps, laziness. In watching part 1, it is so clear that it was the unwillingness to go out and research the story. If two reporters from Knight Ridder were able to report the facts of the case (or lack of a case) for war on Iraq, then many others could have done it. It was a corporate/$driven media that was unwilling to investigate, when it could more easily regurgitate what they were being told to say by the Bush administration. Those of us who did not rely on the network TV sources. Those who referenced the internet and international media knew all along that the case was trumped up. Funny that all of the big-city newspapers and network TV couldn't find and would not prominently report contrary views. It was there.

Also funny (not) is George Tenet in high dudgeon over being misquoted on the "slam dunk" thing. Geez, you could have complained at the time, couldn't you? Or were you afraid of losing your job, George? Were you afraid of admitting to lying to the American people (when you didn't have the security of a $$ deal with a publisher)? Go away little boy, and take your long nose with you.

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Thank you....Please keep these coming!
Posted by: Voicedude on Apr 30, 2007 11:44 AM   
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Thank you....Please keep these coming!

And thank you, Bill Moyers!

BTW, did you notice how many times 'W' suddenly blinked when he said he prayed every day?
That's called a 'tell'.....

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One of the many dots that must be examined
Posted by: westiedogs2 on Apr 30, 2007 12:38 PM   
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Untill all the press and media report to the public full disclosure about Project for a New American Century and all that report contained, the general public will still be in the dark about how early the invasion of Iraq was planned, how that plan depended on an event termed in that report (PNAC) a 'new pearl harbor'. As that becomes general knowledge, then perhaps the public will begin to contect all the dots. And this report, although very, very good, is just one of those many dots. Bravo for PBS and Moyers for presenting what most of the media would like to hide on this dot.

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Fool me once (media) shame on you, fool me twice (media) ....
Posted by: amacd on Apr 30, 2007 12:41 PM   
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In a post-Bill-Moyers’-“Buying the War” world, average Americans might want to be more cautious of taking too seriously the elite media’s word about what the campaign intelligence on Democrat candidates really means regarding the current war in Iraq, and particularly the value of ‘strong’ and ‘aggressive’ answers about what candidates might launch on Iran.

For example, there was no more telling knee-jerk reaction in the first debate than Clinton’s immediate and aggressive jumping to say, “I would retaliate” with military force.
This macho over-reaction to bomb was her first reaction —- just like Bush.

And yet, the elite media seemed not to question or even report this remarkable aggression from Clinton ----- just like they accepted Bush’s need for an Iraq resolution in 2002, “just to show force --- not necessarily to actually GO TO WAR in the spring of ‘03”.

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Thank You for C-SPAN
Posted by: Judas_W_Bush on Apr 30, 2007 3:03 PM   
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Anybody got the Bill Krist[ol]-all-mighty on video from his appearance on C-SPAN the day after this Moyers Movie?? People called in and gave it to him. What an idiot.

Kristol said he'd love to interview or debate Moyers.

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» RE: Thank You for C-SPAN Posted by: amacd
» RE: Thank You for C-SPAN Posted by: LeftCoastProgressive
hate lives on
Posted by: abuelo on Apr 30, 2007 8:41 PM   
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doesn't take much to bring out the anti-Semites these days, does it. and they call people who believe Israel deserves their own little piece of land 'racists'. look in the mirror!
it was about 70 years ago that the worst despot of the 20h century, and perhaps of all time , decided that the Jews were the most cnvenient scapegoat to justify his hatred and bigotry. you guys must have been brushing up on your history.

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» RE: hate lives on Posted by: JinpaG
» RE: hate lives on Posted by: abuelo
That hideous irony ...
Posted by: Dunau on May 1, 2007 12:01 AM   
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The hideous irony is that Bill Moyers as well as apparently most AlterNet readers fail to recognize facts that would change significantly their understanding of the events of 9/11 and The War on Terror.

It is becoming increasingly apparent to anyone who doesn't hide from reality by dismissing the mountain of evidence, some of which is absolutely incontrovertible, showing that on 9/11 three steel frame buildings (the only three buildings ever in construction history) completely disintegrated into piles of superheated rubble, allegedly because of fires but in reality because of controlled demolition.

Yea, yea, I know ... Popular mechanics expertise ... PBS "pancaking" simulations that show those intact central columns that should've remained, but were nowhere to be found at ground zero.

Come on guys, don't let the boob tube do your thinkin' for you. I know it's a bummer, but wouldn't you rather live in a world based on real laws, like the laws of physics, or a man made fantasy word brought to you by your favorite political elites?

Use your common sense. Think.
You can get food for thought at the 911blogger site.

Peace,
Please don't completely freak out.

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» RE: That hideous irony ... Posted by: wisegalah
Thank-you Bill Moyers
Posted by: Paulita on May 1, 2007 10:43 AM   
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FINALLY!!!! THANK-YOU; BILL MOYERS!!!! Where is the democratic spirit in the US, if all of us, starting with the administration, the media and WE THE PEOPLE, swallowed this amazing lie, hook,sink and line??? Will this jolt us??? I mean, it´s Bill Moyers, not Michael Moore, who is giving us a serious look into how easy it has become to deceive us into beoming (un)witting accomplices to the Iraq war, modern history´s worst act of crimes against humanity. For shame on all of us. After this debacle, how long will it take for the rest of the world to take us seriously again? To consider us a true democracy? To acknowledge our sincerity in our defense of Human Rights? To see us for what we once stood for: a beacon to the rest of the world where honesty and liberty and equality were our guiding light? Today, these pretty words ring as just that- pretty words with no substance. And we have only ourselves to blame. So tragic we seem to have learned nothing from history, from the brave battles fought by Martin Luther Kink, Jr., Nelson Mandela, Thomas Jefferson, the French revolution, FDR... WOW! Where do we go from here? How do we get our bearings back? Certainly not from the USA. Not today, not for who knows how many years. We reap what we have sown, and the harvest that´s coming in is just rotted flesh.

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Red Brown and Blue Party comment
Posted by: redbrownandblueparty on May 1, 2007 1:07 PM   
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Moyers has done a great service to his country. I have to turn to Shakespeare for descriptions of the lying thieves who run America and their enablers in the press. They "sugar over the devil himself." But even Moyers cannot or will not touch the heart of evil revealed by the 911 truth movement. Sprinkled throughout are these lies: "...people who knocked these buildings down" (Bush); "They've attacked my country." (Rather, with tears). Imagine the revolution there would be if the truth were told. THE US DID IT LOCK STOCKS AND BARRELS (of oil). The Corporate Masters will not allow this truth to be told because it would blow their cover and bring their house of cards down. THE LIES ABOUT 911 ARE STILL BEING TOLD by Moyers and here at AlterNet. The truth is simply too radical and too threatening. If the house of lies falls, we will all go with it, and that, my friends, is death to our present way of life, and real death for many of us.

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