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Monday, February 07, 2005

Don't Confuse Them With The Facts 

It's hard to break old habits. The left is learning that lesson, or maybe not. Bill Moyers should have a chat with Dan Rather about that great tradition of left-wing journalism: making stuff up.

The latest victim is James Watt, once President Reagan's Interior Secretary. If you remember him, you remember that he drove the Democrats crazy and there was virtually nothing bad you could say about him that wouldn't be believed.

According to Power Line the Minneapolis Star Tribune published as an op-ed a speech by Bill Moyers portraying the administration as a crowd of religious lunatics whose every policy is designed to bring on the apocalypse. Really.

Moyers finds a sinister trail leading back twenty years:
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."

You will not be surprised to learn that the testimony Moyers references shows Watt's meaning to be the exact opposite of what Moyer's attributes to him. Clearly. Unambiguously.

From the classic canard about catsup as vegetable to the recent outbreak of plastic turkeys, the left has gotten lazy because the mainstream media accepts these notions uncritically.

Bill? Dan? Ask not for whom the blog tolls. It tolls for your ass.
Posted by: Sluggo / 2:22 PM
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