Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
BILL MOYERSThe fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it’s changing the conversation.
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There’s hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.
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News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That’s why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you.
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The President may not be listening, but the Senate is, and the public won this round. The House has a similar resolution under consideration.
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Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band of predators ever did more to demean and despoil the democracy on whose carcass they feed.
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They’re counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They’re counting on you to be standing at attention with your hand over your heart, pledging allegiance to the flag, while they pick your pocket!
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I’m angry at what’s happening to America and angry with myself that I can’t do more. I would be miserable if I couldn’t bear witness.
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I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
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Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.
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I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit.
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The delusional is no longer marginal.
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We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it’s no longer an eagle and it’s going to crash.
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We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own stories of our peoples.
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In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a “war on terror” – exactly what, pray tell, is that?
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