I just stumbled across the datum that Bill Moyers died yesterday. He was one of President Lyndon Johnson's most vicious henchman, a Democrat hatchet man who later completely reinvented himself as a thoughtful expositor of culture and history, gassing on in the kind of soft tones normally used by Southern Baptist ministers at tea parties attended by elderly believers, but insidiously preaching a gospel of knee-jerk liberalism. His intellectual fraudulence was bad enough, but what really grated was his habit of slathering sanctimonious icing over his every notion, observation and criticism. And he did all of this at the taxpayers' expense, from his perch at PBS, which he helped to create.
Oh, yes. RIP, of course.
I remember him for a connection to Joseph Campbell, but I didn't know about the political side before he went all cultural.
ReplyDeletePS: I hate to quote Wikipedia twice in a week, but according to that wholly reliable repository of fact his full name was Billy Don Moyers. Can't get much more Southern Baptist than that.
The main thing I remember about him was his speaking voice. It was memorable, but I don't remember what he said, just what it sounded like when he said it.
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