J. Edgar Moyers
The biggest hypocrite in America.
Andrew Ferguson
The most surprising thing about the recent revelations concerning Bill Moyers is that anyone should be surprised. For those of us who care--and those of us who care, care deeply--detailed accounts of Moyers's career as a political bottom-feeder have been publicly available since the mid-1970s. ...
Another trait of his, one he shared with many veterans of the Johnson White House, was a deep antagonism to Bill Moyers, who had also served Johnson as an aide/confidant/sycophant. (Johnson required his staff to multitask.) The FBI memos that the Post uncovered give a hint why Moyers's former colleagues disliked him so. "Even Bill Moyers," the Post reporter writes, "is described in the records as seeking information on the sexual preferences of White House staff members." Even Bill Moyers! Forty years of bogus reputation-building prop up that even. Valenti knew better. When he was in government, seeking information about sexual preferences was the kind of thing Moyers did.
In 1976, a Senate committee, forever after known as the Church Committee, released reams of documents recounting the unseemly behavior of American intelligence agencies during the 1950s and 1960s. Several of the documents involved Moyers, who by the mid-1970s had already climbed into his PBS pulpit and assumed the role of national scold, thrashing, for example, the Nixon administration for its abuse of governmental power--just as he would later vilify the Reagan administration, during the Iran-contra scandal.
The Church documents detailed the government's notorious campaign against Martin Luther King Jr.--a series of wiretaps and other surveillance, covering King from his home to his hotel rooms, which began under President Kennedy and accelerated under Johnson. Hoover routinely forwarded the results, including accounts of King's sexual activities, to the Johnson White House, and on at least one occasion Moyers forwarded a Hoover report on King throughout the executive branch. ...
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