Even at coercively funded PBS, no one crawls with their belly lower to
the ground than moonbat propagandist Bill Moyers, the utterly unhinged
liberal twit who as noted earlier has furtively raked in over $20
million of taxpayer money through the malignancy known as public
broadcasting. Moyers was a top thug in the same LBJ administration
that featured anti-American gadfly Ramsey Clark as Attorney General,
orchestrating the disgraceful 1964 campaign against Barry Goldwater.
The Wall Street Journal highlights some new revelations regarding his
relationship with J. Edgar Hoover in those days:
Under the Freedom of Information Act, the Washington Post has
obtained a few of the former FBI director's secret files. According to
a Thursday front-page story, Hoover was "consumed" with exposing a
(nonexistent) relationship between a gay photographer and Jack
Valenti, the late film industry lobbyist who was then an aide to
Lyndon Johnson. Hoover's M.O. was to amass incriminating personal
information as political blackmail.
But as the Post reports in passing, the dossier also reveals that
Mr. Moyers — then a special assistant to LBJ — requested in 1964 that
Hoover's G-men "investigate two other administration figures who were
'suspected as having homosexual tendencies.'"
This isn't the first time Mr. Moyers's name has come up in
connection with Hoover's abuse of office. When Laurence Silberman, now
a federal appeals judge, was acting Attorney General in 1975, he was
obliged to read Hoover's secret files in their entirety in preparation
for testimony before Congress — and as far as we know remains one of
the only living officials to have done so. "It was the single worst
experience of my long governmental service," he wrote in these pages
in 2005.
Amid "bits of dirt on figures such as Martin Luther King," Judge
Silberman found a 1964 memo from Mr. Moyers directing Hoover's agents
to investigate Barry Goldwater's campaign staff for evidence of
homosexual activity. A few weeks before, an LBJ aide named Walter
Jenkins had been arrested in a men's bathroom, and Mr. Silberman wrote
that Mr. Moyers and his boss evidently wanted leverage in the event
Goldwater tried to use the liaison against them. (He didn't, as it
happened.)
Once again we see that right vs. left is really more a matter of high
vs. low. The WSJ further notes:
Memories are short in Washington, and Mr. Moyers has gone on to
promote himself as a political moralist, routinely sermonizing about
what he claims are abuses of power by his ideological enemies. Since
9/11, he has been particularly intense in criticizing President Bush
for his antiterror policies, such as warrantless wiretapping against
al Qaeda.
Yet the historical record suggests that when Mr. Moyers was in a
position of actual power, he was complicit in FBI dirt-digging against
U.S. citizens solely for political purposes.
A devastating argument against socialized media can be made in two
words: Bill Moyers.
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