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To: Sully- who wrote (69692)	2/21/2009 2:32:26 AM
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Oh Schadenfreude, You Capricious Sprite! Mark Hemingway The Corner There are few things more insufferable than Bill Moyers on PBS every week holding forth on how intolerant conservatives are. This is because given his history of political activities in LBJ's administration, he has no standing to do so. Moyers and J. Edgar Hoover worked together to illegally bug Martin Luther King jr. as well as leak unflattering information about political enemies to the press. Andy Ferguson wrote the definitive Bill Moyers takedown years ago, but sadly it's not online (it is collected in one of Ferguson's books). Anyway, in lieu of the main course, as an appetizer here's a very damning excerpt on Moyers from Morley Safer's autobiography. corner.nationalreview.com Well, as it turns out things are even worse than that. The Washington Post has unearthed FBI files showing that Moyers might have been a party to investigating whether Jack Valenti and any White House staff members were in the closet: <<< Even Bill Moyers, a White House aide now best known as a liberal television commentator, is described in the records as seeking information on the sexual preferences of White House staff members. Moyers said by e-mail yesterday that his memory is unclear after so many years but that he may have been simply looking for details of allegations first brought to the president by Hoover. >>> His memory is "unclear"? Moyers' defense here is severely lacking given the charges that have been leveled at him over the years. How many progressives who worship at Moyers' talk-show altar are troubled enough by this to demand he explain himself? Will Glenn Greenwald stop appearing on his show? I'm not holding my breath. Img src='http://www2.nationalreview.com/dest/2009/02/19/moyers'> corner.nationalreview.com

To: Sully- who wrote (69692)	2/21/2009 2:36:28 AM
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Watch for the Palin-Santelli 2012 Signs By Kathryn Jean Lopez The Corner I've had a case of deja vu today. I'm noticing the tone. I'm seeing the enthusiasm. And I'm digging out from the sheer volume of e-mails I've been getting today about that CNBC dude. The reaction to Rick Santelli's Chicago-trading-floor incident this morning echoes the emotional reaction my inbox had to Sarah Palin's convention speech this summer. I make no endorsements. It's just an observation. I think people are hungry for someone who is fed up with the way things are and who seem to believe in something enough to know there in an alternative worth fighting for. Some of the voices may be far from perfect, but Americans are looking for signs of the life of an alternative. And so if a representative pops up -- someone who appears to have roots and energy, folks will cheer them on in the hopes there's a candidate here. Maybe not a presidential candidate, but a leader of some sort. Someone who can offer a vision of something other than a culture of bailout. Today, Rick Santelli was that sign of life. corner.nationalreview.com