If he was still active, he’d be one of the people whose funding got cut off by DOGE.
2 thoughts on “The Late Bill Moyers”
If there is such a thing as a secular Elmer Gantry I think the moniker would fit, otherwise, the one thing I was always sure of Bill Moyers was little, if any, conviction about anything; religious, moral or otherwise. Of course he could ‘portray’ outrage, whether or not he believed in it. But a mesmerizing speaker? No. More like a Lowell Thomas narrator…
I wouldn’t ding him on the Joseph Campbell series. I enjoyed that immensely. Would have been better if not produced on the taxpayer’s dime. Same could be said for Ken Burns’ productions (The Civil War, The Vietnam War, Empire of the Air (another one of my favorites), etc.).
That he subsequently profited from follow-on sales of video cassettes, books and whatever. Well grift is as grift does. A lot of people do that. Should the government have clawed that back due to the fact that they funded some of it? Well maybe, but we’re on slippery slopes there. I’d rather think not.
Like Dan Rather, I always took Moyer’s political advice with a grain of salt the size of a railroad hopper car. The fact that he was heavily involved in the Johnson Administration wasn’t a plus…
The Democratic Party has left Moyer’s morality in the dust.
To them he’d be considered a white supremacist, capitalist stooge.
If there is such a thing as a secular Elmer Gantry I think the moniker would fit, otherwise, the one thing I was always sure of Bill Moyers was little, if any, conviction about anything; religious, moral or otherwise. Of course he could ‘portray’ outrage, whether or not he believed in it. But a mesmerizing speaker? No. More like a Lowell Thomas narrator…
I wouldn’t ding him on the Joseph Campbell series. I enjoyed that immensely. Would have been better if not produced on the taxpayer’s dime. Same could be said for Ken Burns’ productions (The Civil War, The Vietnam War, Empire of the Air (another one of my favorites), etc.).
That he subsequently profited from follow-on sales of video cassettes, books and whatever. Well grift is as grift does. A lot of people do that. Should the government have clawed that back due to the fact that they funded some of it? Well maybe, but we’re on slippery slopes there. I’d rather think not.
Like Dan Rather, I always took Moyer’s political advice with a grain of salt the size of a railroad hopper car. The fact that he was heavily involved in the Johnson Administration wasn’t a plus…
The Democratic Party has left Moyer’s morality in the dust.
To them he’d be considered a white supremacist, capitalist stooge.
If he was still active, he’d be one of the people whose funding got cut off by DOGE.
Without a doubt…