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<\/A>If you do nothing else today, you must watch Bill Moyers’s fucking terrific\nspeech<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> about the accusation of liberal bias made against his old PBS show
\n“Now” and the Public Broadcasting System by right-wing government creep Kenneth Tomlinson,
\nchairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Moyers responded to the charge on Sunday
\nat the National Conference on Media Reform in St. Louis, recalling Nixon’s efforts to shut him up,
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“They’ve been after me for years now, and I suspect they will be stomping on my grave to
\nmake sure I don’t come back from the dead,” he said. In the speech, entitled “We Were Getting it
\nRight, But Not Right Wing,” he went on to say:<\/P>
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Who are they? I mean the people obsessed with control using the government
\nto threaten and intimidate; I mean the people who are hollowing out middle class security even as
\nthey enlist the sons and daughters of the working class to make sure Ahmad Chalabi winds up
\ncontrolling Iraq’s oil; I mean the people who turn faith-based initiatives into Karl Rove’s slush
\nfund; who encourage the pious to look heavenward and pray so as not to see the long arm of
\nprivilege and power picking their pockets; I mean the people who squelch free speech in an effort
\nto obliterate dissent and consolidate their orthodoxy into the official view of reality from which
\nany deviation becomes unpatriotic heresy. That’s who I mean.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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