Comments on: Don’t Get Fooled Again

by: gloria leonard

Wed, 28 Sep 2005 17:14:32 +0000

A breath of fresh air will enter when that radical Bill Moyers is removed. Anyone who thinks he is anything but a radical, totally out of the mainstream, is either lying to himself as well as others, or is out of the mainstream himself.

I may finally be able to listen to the programs involved and feel I am listening to something fair and balanced. It’s about time!!!!

by: Richard Silverstein

Wed, 28 Sep 2005 06:57:28 +0000

Recently, KQED & WNYC refused to accept sponsorship ads from the dovish Israeli organization, New Israel Fund (see the link to my post on the affair). THey used the preposterous excuse that NIF’s sponsorship involved “advocacy” which supposedly they didn’t allow.

At the time, I wondered whether Halpern’s influence was being felt even then & that stations were already feeling “under the gun” to adhere to a more conservative approach even when it came to running sponsor ads.

It’s already hard to find good journalism about the ME conflict (just as it’s difficult to find good progressive blogging about it as well), so it makes me heartsick that we might lose the exclnt. coverage that NPR has provided of the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

by: Echo

Tue, 27 Sep 2005 18:16:17 +0000

Gee, still think Bush’s appointees are so fabulous? It’s still cronyism at its worst. Pity that it’s not Bush or his cronys suffer from their inability to do the jobs appointed to them, they simply have no background outside of friendship/contributions to Bush’s campaign.

by: Mira

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 10:10:58 +0000

Neo-con’s are sooooo long winded. Bush has the house and senate but they seem so angry, what is with the greasy karma? Bush’s admin is like every other republican administration, Bogged down war, huge debt, working poor, low approval ratings, it feels like the 80’s again, we even have a drug epidemic (meth) for Laura Bush to “just say no” to.

by: RGL

Wed, 20 Jul 2005 13:23:50 +0000

It has become standard tactic for the Democrats to cry wolf now that President Bush has the chance to appoint his own people to various commissions. The same hypocrisy was heard when the composition of the Civil Rights Commission changed, long a partisan ally of the Democrats until Bush won his second term.

What is wrong with achieving balance in programs paid for by public taxes? Moyers, as the press secretary of Lyndon Johnson, has been a partisan Democrat all his life and that was evident during his tenure at PBS. The WSJ editorial board is one of the best in the nation and it would be nice for Americans to hear its viewpoints on issues.

Let Tomlinson do his job and don’t castigate him, along with his potential successor, with the kind of partisan sniping that the Dems routinely use to demonize the president’s appointees. Americans have rejected that kind of vitriol.