slow-dog.entry04.03.2002: "bill moyers is an elitist moron"

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I was flipping through channels this weekend, when I came across a PBS pledge drive. Bill Moyers was on, and he was asking for money.

I approve of this. People who like PBS should give money. People who have no use for PBS, however, should not be required to give money, as they are yearly when they pay their taxes. PBS should have more pledge drives, and give me back my $2, or whatever I'm spending to keep them on the air. If they did this, I'd give the $2 to Antiques Roadshow, ensuring that future generations would be able to find out that their Victorian salt and pepper shakers said "Made in R.O.C." on the bottom, and couldn't they have checked this before they wasted my time?

What I do not approve of is Bill Moyers' elitist sanctimonious spewings about how PBS is above the fray. I don't have exactly what he said (that's why I need a Tivo), but it talked about how everything else out there catered to the lowest common denominator, and some criticism of the market. Not surprisingly, you can find lots of examples of him doing this holier-than-thou act. Apparently, Bill checks the TV lisitings every now and then and discovers things like Glutton Bowl are on and assumes that TV is a vast wastland. And Bill must not get any of the 5,000 channels with nature shows and history shows and science and technology shows and news analysis programs (and privately funded C-SPAN) that aren't PBS. Nope. It's PBS, the lone voice in the wilderness, saving Americans from ourselves. So cut Bill a check and be thankful he lets you look at him every week.

02:25 PM PST

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Bill Moyers spoke at my college graduation and he was a sanctimonious cunt then too.

Posted by Wendell Yerko @ 03/04/2002 07:53 PM PST