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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.

Bill Moyers

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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Honest Journalist Politician
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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Angry Bears Country
What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths – half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.
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Informed Opinion Perhaps Political
We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.
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Fire House Years
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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Ignorance Party Political
Yet 91 percent think it’s “not likely” that its influence will be lessened. Think about that: People know what’s right to do yet don’t think it can or will be done.
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Done Lessened Right Think
Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
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Done Fun Television
Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it’s time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
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Freedom Hands Writing
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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First Firsts Monopoly Time
Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table.
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Charity Commitment Justice
Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers of persuasion. One thing’s for sure – he misunderstood the nature of his adversaries.
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Believe Thinking Winning
Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Media Political Protection
Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
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Country Government Mean
I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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Believe Speak War
The Interfaith Alliance has to become an ongoing sustaining and powerful movement whose interest is to prove that religion has a healing side as well as a killing side, and that democracy is the consequence of conscience
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God Healing Powerful
I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined … .
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Approach Joined Journalism Strong

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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