Who was that moron on The News Hour re: CPB?

[AspenRose]

Did anyone else see that idiot from The American Spectator whining about Bill Moyers and the "liberal playhouse" of PBS and NPR?

I wanted to throw something at the TV.:grr: :argh: :nuke: :grr:

[LSparkle]

1. Whoa -- I'll make sure to catch it at 7PM PST

Talk about gall -- going on the NewsHour and complaining about Moyers and PBS? WTF????

[AspenRose]

3. He went on and on about how biased PBS was

The rebuttal came from a public broadcaster in Kansas City who said how could CPB be biased towards liberals when William F. Buckley hosted Firing Line for who-knows-how-many years....and mentioned Tucker Carlson's show and the Wall Street Journal show. The Conservative Idiot (tm) said it was "tokenism."

He wouldn't let up on Bill Moyers and "Postcards from Buster" because of the lesbian couple in Vermont episode. The guy from Kansas City said he didn't think that was a liberal vs. conservative issue anyway (the lesbian couple).

And what the hell about McLaughlin Group?

That asshat (sorry, I'm just upset at this idiot) also said that the liberals were going to fall in the hole they were apparently digging for the current (conservative) CPB head.

[LSparkle]

5. Absolutely! I'd forgotten about "Firing Line" too ...

Is (F)Tucker Carlson's show still on? If it is, talk about overexposed -- PBS, MSNBC ... the only network he's not on is the one he belongs on (Faux).

Plenty of weekend shows have very balanced panels ("To The Contrary", "Tony Brown's Journal", etc.) -- these people have a persecution complex if they see PBS as being in league against them.

[AspenRose]

11. Tucker's show was axed after one season

He's going to MSNBC now.

[cornermouse]

2. I did.

He was trying very hard to make "liberal" a dirty word.

The Kansas City guy kept pointing out that Moyers has retired, but it didn't appear to register.

Oh yeah, and then there was the part about our "extremely popular president"... And I kept thinking about his current poll numbers.

[AspenRose]

7. Oh, I KNOW!!! That "mandate" thinking

51% is NOT a mandate, moron!!!!

[TomClash]

4. Imagine saying

that the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board is mildly conservative??

Another R. Emmett Tyrell right-wing fool trying to push the country further to the right.

If this country goes further to the right there will be armed insurrection.

[WhoWantsToBeOccupied]

6. He ironically said no one watches PBS. So why appear on The News Hour?

[AspenRose]

8. PBS is a "liberal playhouse." That's why they've allowed an

idiot from the American Spectator air time.

The irony isn't lost on me, I assure you.

[joemurphy]

10. Consie attack on Public Broadcasting

"The American Spectator is a right-wing monthly magazine that specializes in publishing sensational "exposés" and scandals involving Democratic politicians. It was created and it is financed by Richard Mellon Scaife, the billionaire and "godfather" of funding most of the right-wing apparatus.

The American Spectator was a key player in the kind of reporting that influenced the investigations and eventual impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton. Some of these stories were later demonstrated to be false."

George Neumayr, I think is a managing editor.

[AspenRose]

12. Didn't David Brock used to work for them?

I hope he goes medieval on their ass....

[joemurphy]

13. The American Spectator and David Brock

Yup.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

David Brock was a prominent conservative journalist of the 1990s, but in 1998 he converted to liberalism and now works to dismantle the conservative media "machine" of which he was once a part. He tells his personal story in his memoir Blinded by the Right and describes how it operates in The Republican Noise Machine. His work on the latter book led him to found Media Matters for America, a non-profit and self-described "progressive" organization dedicated to systematically debunking conservative misinformation on the Internet and television.

[biscotti]

9. He was absolutely obnoxious

I looked him up, George Neumayr Executive Editor of American Spectator (ECK!). He sounded so childish in his reasoning.