Bill Moyers is certainly the worst thing ever to hit the airwaves. He uses taxpayer money to finance his biased, leftwing rants. He's also a chickensh__ - on his series about the media supposedly supporting the war in iraq (ridiculous and dismissable out of hand) he only invited on the series other like-minded lefties - it was appeasers talking to appeasers. Likewise, just like Hillary, he has never accepted a standing invitation to debate Bill O'Reilly. Like Radio Moscow in the soviet era, he uses government money to finance a leftwing monologue, scared to death to expose his ideas to the challenge of free debate.

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No one is suggesting that anyone on that show be on this list though.

Jon Stewart (by his own admission) is not a journalist. He's a comedian.

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For the record:

Is BILL MOYERS JOURNAL funded by taxpayer money?

Bill Moyers raised all the money to produce "Buying the War" and BILL MOYERS JOURNAL from the funders listed in the opening and close of the broadcasts. Neither CPB nor PBS contributed to these productions.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/faq.html

You're free of course to complain that the CPB and PBS would broadcast his series, even though they were not involved in producing it. I'll leave it to you to decide whether that viewpoint supports the notion of expanding the range of viewpoints available in the media.

As far as the other points are concerned, considering Mr. O'Reilly's longstanding problem with accuracy, I would not expect him to "debate" Mr. O'Reilly anymore than I would expect him to "debate" you, Jake.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/12.0...rs.oreilly.htm

And as far as "Buying the War" is concerned, your characterization is, to say the least, not accurate. However, no need to take my word for it. The entire documentary is available online free of charge.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html

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The corporation for public broadcasting receives hundreds of millions of dollars in tax money. Moyers may have produced his own agitprop, but broadcasting is not free, tax money was indeed used to dump moyers propaganda into american living rooms. The liberal cant that "O'Reilly lies" is no reason to fear a debate - it is all the more reason to engage in debate to expose the lies. Obviously, it's a lame excuse. The "range of ideas" notion of PBS is BS - PBS is overwhelmingly liberal. It's as I said - libs get away with propaganda ONLY when they have a monopoly forum and taxpayers are paying the bill - just like lib university professors who turn their classrooms into lib political pulpits. Where was the pro-war equivalent to Moyer's propaganda? There wasn't any.

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Before the Libby trial, I would have said Tim Russert. But I lost respect for him when he fudged on his testimony---LIED----because it would have helped Lewis Libby.

It was in an FBI agent's notes that in his interview with Russert......that Russert told him he "may have" discussed Wilson's wife with Libby. On the stand, however, when asked, he said he didn't believe he ever said that to the FBI agent.

Why would the FBI agent have it in his notes? He wouldn't----unless Russert actually said it.

So Tim gets a thumbs down from me ever since. Don't totally trust him anymore as being the non-partisan objective person I believed he was. So, I voted for Chris Wallace-----with Brit Hume as second choice. Many on your lists I don't consider "newsmen."

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Stephen Colbert...He's funny.

I was tempted to check "None of them. They're all slaves to the Jews.", though.

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Jon Stewart, most definately.

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"In Soviet Russia, statement quotes YOU!!"

Yet those two halfhour daily "comedy" news shows (DailyShow & ColbertReport.. which isn't even a daily, since they only produce it mon-thurs) are watched by millions all over the world, visited by major politicians, segments are regularly shown by the all the networks, have won multiple Peabody and Emmy Awards, and now even imitated by the 24/7 "real" news networks.

To me that sounds like respect for a show that disseminates news to the people.





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As a for instance, the DailyShow's interview with Musharraf was one of the best I saw during the Paki PM's visit to the USA.

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lol opps... Pervez is a dictator, not a PM. heheh.. nice guy though.

Rush Limbaugh....

Sweeeeet deal... Two of my favorite newsguys; Colbert to be Tim's guest this sunday's Meet The Press.





edit whoops, in my previous post above, I meant to say "disseminate" instead of decimate.. heh oopps. Could a mod edit that. porfavors.