March 20, 2004
"Did you notice Bush and Cheney wearing the flag?" How icky!
The Media Research Center's Dis-honor Awards for the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporters of 2003 can be seen here.
My favorite, in the I Hate You #!*#! Conservatives category, is:
“I decided to put on my flag pin tonight -- first time. Until now I haven’t thought it necessary to display a little metallic icon of patriotism for everyone to see....I put it on to take it back. The flag’s been hijacked and turned into a logo – the trademark of a monopoly on patriotism. On those Sunday morning talk shows official chests appear adorned with the flag as if it is the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval and during the State of the Union did you notice Bush and Cheney wearing the flag? How come? No administration’s patriotism is ever in doubt, only its policies. And the flag bestows no immunity from error.There's lots more. Lunacies for every taste. Leslie Stahl: “How did we get to a place where much of the world thinks that George Bush is more evil than Saddam Hussein?”. Or Howell Raines: “Our greatest accomplishment as a profession is the development since World War II of a news reporting craft that is truly non-partisan, and non-ideological...“When I see flags sprouting on official lapels, I think of the time in China when I saw Mao’s Little Red Book on every official’s desk, omnipresent and unread. But more galling than anything are all those moralistic ideologues in Washington sporting the flag in their lapels while writing books and running Web sites and publishing magazines attacking dissenters as un-American....I put it on to remind myself that not every patriot thinks we should do to the people of Baghdad what bin Laden did to us.”
-- Bill Moyers on PBS’s Now, February 28, 2003.
Posted by John Weidner at March 20, 2004 06:28 AM | TrackBack
Funny, here in Florida I see flag stickers and other flag displays on such non-official things as pickup trucks, bulletin boards at local diners, and auto dealerships. I guess Moyers hates that too. He probably thinks the flag belongs solely in museums.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at March 20, 2004 08:32 AMHe probably thinks Florida should be in a museum..
Posted by: John Weidner at March 20, 2004 10:19 AMDoes Moyers even understand the implications of his words? Mao would've chopped his balls off for saying anything about the Little Red Book. In America, criticizing the flag makes you a media star.
What a sanctimonious ass.
Apropos "how did we get to a place," I would say to Ms. Stahl: "Look in the mirror, my dear."
Posted by: Alan Sullivan at March 22, 2004 05:15 AM
