Name one politician or journalist or person of faith, for that matter, who has not fallen and come short of the glory of the Lord. If you cannot forgive, as Jesus does (and I am not at all tied to any organized religion), and take the good with the
bad, perhaps you are not in touch with realities of the human condition.

Had one friend recently disavow Hillary; Hill has sinned; she took money from ACORN when running for NY senator. So my friend adds the SOS to a long list of people she no longer trusts. The list grows and grows. Soon, she will no longer vote.
I have come close to that position and then realized how counterproductive it is.

If you feel strongly about Bill Moyers, write him at PBS and vent; I did over the immigration issue.
I felt better and maybe my rant reached his ears; maybe he thought about it. That is what democracy tends to nurture–it leads us to improve quality of life, not fester in our own bile.

Bill Bennett has writen a whole book on our moral lapses (”The Death of Outrage” if memory serves), in which he quotes and requotes parables on what we, as a nation, should do to improve our ethics.
He blamed American decadence on liberal drift.

He, on the other hand, was exposed as a gambling addict, with all those perks high rollers are afforded in places where the rich are greeted and indulged. Some see excessive gambling as a sin; others as a character flaw. All in the eye of the beholder. His radio audience rarely calls him on misjudgement. Perhaps they are more tolerant than liberal bleeding hearts…speaking of hypocrisy.

Let him without sin cast the first stone. I wouldn’t assume that role, myself. We can dredge up skeletons till the cows come home and in doing so, lose what few illusions we have left. Perhaps they offer a thin veil of protection between hope and dispair. (I am not alluding to an Obama definition.)

All issues are political and all events connected in a chain of forward motion. There are degrees of crime. We separate them into classes and mete out sentences accordingly. Bill Moyers is hardly a venal criminal. (But I can name many who are still in positions of power.)

Contrary to everything we were taught in school, McCarthy was correct about the communist spies in our government. Don’t believe me? You shouldn’t. Check it out for yourself.

Have you heard about the Venona Project? If not, ask yourself why not?

http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Exposing-Espionage-Americas-Traitors/dp/0895262258/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235527147&sr=1-2

This was not a smear piece anymore than any revelations abt major journalists in this country not doing their job well is, or to highlight some of their previous (egregious) actions.

Yes, it was a messy time, but not everyone stooped to the level Moyers did. Are you not putting Moyers on a pedestal yourself with the level of discourse in which you are arguing that Moyers is being “smeared”? Am I to understand that because he is not a “saint” that he does not have to be held accountable for his actions?

Moyers has demonstrated this past election cycle that he is not above reproach.

Eww.

I worked for Harold Ford in his Senate race. Whoo-ee.

I was a precinct chair for the Democratic Party for years.

Sigh~

I feel such shame now.

Riddle me this, Batman:

Where has Moyers compromised his journalistic integrity? Do you even know what that means?

Do tell.

Moyers hasn’t compromised his journalistic ethics in the least. In point of fact, he’s being judged here on the basis of personal failures while he was a political appointee in the White House.
The two are very different things.

Is there anyone here who has nothing in their past they’d rather not have dredged up and thrust into the public spotlight 40 years later?

If your father fell in love with another woman–his soul-mate, the woman of his dreams–while his wife– your mother, a woman you loved dearly–was dying of cancer, but then your father stayed with her and took care of her until she died, would you never speak to him again?

There are no saints. There are only human beings. Moyers is a journalist–an exceptionally fine one. To see him being judged on absolutist terms–because those who judge him placed him on a pedestal themselves–is truly pathetic.

Journalists are human beings. Some of them are bad husbands, absentee fathers, religious zealots, and hypocrites. Some of them are rotten journalists.

Stop putting them on pedestals of the week. Judge them as journalists; hold them to a high standard as a journalist serving the public. The only thing they owe you is high ethical journalism.

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