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Star Tribune [Minneapolis, MN] | 30 Jan 2005 Bill Moyers: There is no tomorrow One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of power in the Oval Office and in Congress. For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality. When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts. Remember James Watt, President Ronald Reagan's first secretary of the interior? My favorite online environmental journal, the ever-engaging Grist, reminded us recently of how James Watt told the U.S. Congress that protecting natural resources was unimportant in light of the imminent return of Jesus Christ. In public testimony he said, "after the last tree is felled, Christ will come back." Beltway elites snickered. The press corps didn't know what he was talking about. But James Watt was serious. [...] http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42748 WorldNetDaily | 8 Feb 2005 Bill Moyers smears ex-Reagan official James Watt says false quote used to cast him as religious nut http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id =1000797041 Editor and Publisher [NY] | 9 Feb 2005 Bill Moyers Apologizes to James Watt for Apocryphal Quote xponent While We Are On The Subject Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
