Moyers: GOP Uses Religion As Cover-Up

You remember Bill Moyers, right? The leftwinger who had to retract an outrageous anti-Christian statement regarding former Interior Secretary James Watt? I think he might have been a broadcast journalist too, but I'm not sure. Well, he's at it again, writing in Salon.

Hold on. This paragraph, explaining just who it is that has the audacity to question the Left's hold on mainstream media, is quite a roller coaster:

Who are they? I mean the people obsessed with control using the government to intimidate; I mean the people who are hollowing out middle-class security even as they enlist the sons and daughters of the working class to make sure Ahmad Chalabi winds up controlling Iraq's oil; I mean the people who turn faith-based initiatives into Karl Rove's slush fund, who encourage the pious to look heavenward and pray so as not to see the long arm of privilege and power picking their pockets; I mean the people who squelch free speech in an effort to obliterate dissent and consolidate their orthodoxy into the official view of reality from which any deviation becomes unpatriotic heresy. That's who I mean.

To Moyers, religion is still the opiate of the people, and his rights are still being infringed, even though he's free to dribble whatever he wants to dribble whenever he wants to. Later in his speech (given to the Conference for Media Reform and rebroadcast on an impatient little show called "Democracy Now!" which is aired by people who seem to have overlooked the fact that they should call their show "Democracy Since 1776!"), he seems to zero in on the result of the dominating leftwing bias in the media:

Hear me: An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda, is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions, and be skeptical. And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, so that kind of orthodoxy can kill us, too.

But no. Amazingly, he seems to be refering to what Fox News, pulpits and any news source other than Bill Moyers on PBS. Amazingly, I'm sure the speech got enthusiastic applause.