Re: Bill Moyers: There is no tomorrow [Update}

maru Wed, 09 Feb 2005 19:58:40 -0800

"Since you must have known such a statement would not have been made and you refused or failed to do any primary research on this supposed quote, what was your motive in printing sSince you must have known such a statement would not have been made and you refused or failed to do any primary research on this supposed quote, what was your motive in printing such a damnable lie?" -from the first article.

You know what they say about lies, damnable lies, and statistics. We've had entirely too much of the latter, so it seems rather appropriate now to get some of the former. And knowing the story is false is a little heartening.

~Maru

Robert G. Seeberger wrote:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5211218.html

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

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