Snipe
02-23-2009, 01:28 AM
J. Edgar Moyers (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123517518496237441.html)
This post is dedicated to Fred Garvin.
One of the darker periods of modern American history was J. Edgar Hoover's long reign over the FBI, as we have learned since he died in 1972. So it is more than a historical footnote to discover new records showing that prominent public television broadcaster Bill Moyers participated in Hoover's exploits.
Under the Freedom of Information Act, the Washington Post has obtained a few of the former FBI director's secret files. According to a Thursday front-page story, Hoover was "consumed" with exposing a (nonexistent) relationship between a gay photographer and Jack Valenti, the late film industry lobbyist who was then an aide to Lyndon Johnson. Hoover's M.O. was to amass incriminating personal information as political blackmail.
But as the Post reports in passing, the dossier also reveals that Mr. Moyers -- then a special assistant to LBJ -- requested in 1964 that Hoover's G-men "investigate two other administration figures who were 'suspected as having homosexual tendencies.'"
Hell yeah for Bill Moyers! Those fags had it coming to them! That is so gay!
Oh wait! Sorry I said that. Didn't mean any of it.
Amid "bits of dirt on figures such as Martin Luther King," Judge Silberman found a 1964 memo from Mr. Moyers directing Hoover's agents to investigate Barry Goldwater's campaign staff for evidence of homosexual activity. A few weeks before, an LBJ aide named Walter Jenkins had been arrested in a men's bathroom, and Mr. Silberman wrote that Mr. Moyers and his boss evidently wanted leverage in the event Goldwater tried to use the liaison against them. (He didn't, as it happened.)
When that episode became public after Mr. Silberman testified, an irate Mr. Moyers called him and, with typical delicacy, accused him of falling for forged CIA memos. Mr. Silberman offered to study the matter and, should Mr. Moyers's allegations pan out, he would publicly exonerate him. "There was a pause on the line and then he said, 'I was very young. How will I explain this to my children?' And then he rang off."
What an ass. "How will I explain this to my children?". I would be glad to explain it to his children.
Children, your father is a bigot. Your father used political power to get the government to investigate the sexual and personal lives of taxpayers in an effort to exploit whatever they found. Your father is an jerk.
Note that people on the left "Out" people, and it is a liberal-left traditon. They paint the right as bigots, but the left has basically been in charge of the whole "Outing" industry. They have no tolerance for gays that don't hold their political views, and they will destroy them if they have a chance.
Given his public persona of an "honest broker" and a "speaker of truth to power", Bill Moyers is probably the most two faced jerk that lives in America bar none.
This post is dedicated to Fred Garvin.
One of the darker periods of modern American history was J. Edgar Hoover's long reign over the FBI, as we have learned since he died in 1972. So it is more than a historical footnote to discover new records showing that prominent public television broadcaster Bill Moyers participated in Hoover's exploits.
Under the Freedom of Information Act, the Washington Post has obtained a few of the former FBI director's secret files. According to a Thursday front-page story, Hoover was "consumed" with exposing a (nonexistent) relationship between a gay photographer and Jack Valenti, the late film industry lobbyist who was then an aide to Lyndon Johnson. Hoover's M.O. was to amass incriminating personal information as political blackmail.
But as the Post reports in passing, the dossier also reveals that Mr. Moyers -- then a special assistant to LBJ -- requested in 1964 that Hoover's G-men "investigate two other administration figures who were 'suspected as having homosexual tendencies.'"
Hell yeah for Bill Moyers! Those fags had it coming to them! That is so gay!
Oh wait! Sorry I said that. Didn't mean any of it.
Amid "bits of dirt on figures such as Martin Luther King," Judge Silberman found a 1964 memo from Mr. Moyers directing Hoover's agents to investigate Barry Goldwater's campaign staff for evidence of homosexual activity. A few weeks before, an LBJ aide named Walter Jenkins had been arrested in a men's bathroom, and Mr. Silberman wrote that Mr. Moyers and his boss evidently wanted leverage in the event Goldwater tried to use the liaison against them. (He didn't, as it happened.)
When that episode became public after Mr. Silberman testified, an irate Mr. Moyers called him and, with typical delicacy, accused him of falling for forged CIA memos. Mr. Silberman offered to study the matter and, should Mr. Moyers's allegations pan out, he would publicly exonerate him. "There was a pause on the line and then he said, 'I was very young. How will I explain this to my children?' And then he rang off."
What an ass. "How will I explain this to my children?". I would be glad to explain it to his children.
Children, your father is a bigot. Your father used political power to get the government to investigate the sexual and personal lives of taxpayers in an effort to exploit whatever they found. Your father is an jerk.
Note that people on the left "Out" people, and it is a liberal-left traditon. They paint the right as bigots, but the left has basically been in charge of the whole "Outing" industry. They have no tolerance for gays that don't hold their political views, and they will destroy them if they have a chance.
Given his public persona of an "honest broker" and a "speaker of truth to power", Bill Moyers is probably the most two faced jerk that lives in America bar none.