Bill Moyers, has assembled a 90 minutes video summarizing the lies told by the Bush administration to sell the Iraq war to the American people. It will be aired on PBS from 9 to 10.30 on April 25. Moyer’s, clips shows many media reporters to be willing accomplices. Among the guilty are the Weekly Standard, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, William Safire and Judith Miller of the New York Times and George Will of Newsweek.
Even Oprah does not escape criticism. Video clips show her silencing a caller who challenges some of the pro-war assertions of her guests. Moyer’s reserves special criticism of Murdoch’s Fox News, who offered the most toxic soup of propaganda to deceive the American people. Dan Rather, who expressed excitement of large scale bombing (‘shock and awe’) of Baghdad during the onset of the war, Peter Beinart and the then Chairman and CEO of CNN, Walter Isaacson all get a resounding failing grade. Conversely, Bob Simon of “60 Minutes” and Landsay of Knight Ridder both receive passing grades. Tim Russet of ‘Meet the Press’ also gets a failing grade for not challenging the Administration’s outrageous assertions.
Video clips of Hillary Clinton and John Kerry are both shown to be enthusiastic supporters of Bush’s war of deception. Conversely, Moyers replays clips of speeches made by Senators Robert Byrd and Ted Kennedy who attempted to pierce the administration’s web of deception but were unfortunately drowned out by the war hawks
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