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Posted: May 25, 2005
© 2005 Ann Coulter
Bill Moyers, the lamented, demented former host of the PBS program “Now With Bill Moyers,” referred to the American-led war in Iraq as doing “to the people of Baghdad what bin Laden did to us.”
He called American flag pins “a little metallic icon of patriotism” comparable to Mao’s Little Red Book being displayed on every Communist Party official’s desk in China. This is silly. The metallic icons of patriotism that Mao used to keep the masses in line were considerably longer and sharper, and were usually applied to the back by a fellow “comrade.”
Moyers denounced Condoleezza Rice for her ineptness in not preventing the 9-11 attack, despite a clearly worded memo stating: “Bin Laden determined to attack the United States.” In other breaking news: Waitress in L.A. Determined to Become Actress. As Condi said, “I don’t think you, frankly, had to have that report to know that bin Laden would like to attack the United States.”
In his lengthy diatribe against Rice, Moyers said she had cried wolf, intentionally misleading “America and the world about the case for invading Iraq.” Apparently Rice had said Iraq was “a part of the war on terror” on the grounds that Saddam was: (1) supporting terrorists, (2) a weapons of mass destruction threat and (3) “a tremendous barrier to change in the Middle East.”
But as regular viewers of PBS know, in fact, we invaded Iraq for oil.
Yes, precisely. That’s why U.S. forces seized Iraq’s oil fields right after Baghdad fell, confiscated their vast oil reserves, and now we can buy all the gasoline we want here at home for just pennies a gallon any time we want. Sorry, we what? Folks, my switchboard is completely lit up and this isn’t even a radio show.
Moyers responded to the 2002 midterm elections in which Republicans bucked history by gaining seats in both the House and the Senate by warning Americans of the coming Rapture: “*f you like God in government, get ready for the Rapture.” As Moyers described the horror that was to come: “That agenda includes the power of the state to force pregnant women to surrender control over their own lives.”
I’m pretty sure even the harshest anti-abortion laws would only prevent a woman from killing her baby, not send her to a slave labor camp. But with his broadcast career crashing down around him, Moyers took a brave stand against the internment of pregnant women.
Full riff*
© 2005 Ann Coulter
Bill Moyers, the lamented, demented former host of the PBS program “Now With Bill Moyers,” referred to the American-led war in Iraq as doing “to the people of Baghdad what bin Laden did to us.”
He called American flag pins “a little metallic icon of patriotism” comparable to Mao’s Little Red Book being displayed on every Communist Party official’s desk in China. This is silly. The metallic icons of patriotism that Mao used to keep the masses in line were considerably longer and sharper, and were usually applied to the back by a fellow “comrade.”
Moyers denounced Condoleezza Rice for her ineptness in not preventing the 9-11 attack, despite a clearly worded memo stating: “Bin Laden determined to attack the United States.” In other breaking news: Waitress in L.A. Determined to Become Actress. As Condi said, “I don’t think you, frankly, had to have that report to know that bin Laden would like to attack the United States.”
In his lengthy diatribe against Rice, Moyers said she had cried wolf, intentionally misleading “America and the world about the case for invading Iraq.” Apparently Rice had said Iraq was “a part of the war on terror” on the grounds that Saddam was: (1) supporting terrorists, (2) a weapons of mass destruction threat and (3) “a tremendous barrier to change in the Middle East.”
But as regular viewers of PBS know, in fact, we invaded Iraq for oil.
Yes, precisely. That’s why U.S. forces seized Iraq’s oil fields right after Baghdad fell, confiscated their vast oil reserves, and now we can buy all the gasoline we want here at home for just pennies a gallon any time we want. Sorry, we what? Folks, my switchboard is completely lit up and this isn’t even a radio show.
Moyers responded to the 2002 midterm elections in which Republicans bucked history by gaining seats in both the House and the Senate by warning Americans of the coming Rapture: “*f you like God in government, get ready for the Rapture.” As Moyers described the horror that was to come: “That agenda includes the power of the state to force pregnant women to surrender control over their own lives.”
I’m pretty sure even the harshest anti-abortion laws would only prevent a woman from killing her baby, not send her to a slave labor camp. But with his broadcast career crashing down around him, Moyers took a brave stand against the internment of pregnant women.
Full riff*
And I love her books too !
) but the conservative equivalent seems to be a source of ridicule. Hmmm.