The thing about war is that once it’s triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.
BILL MOYERSI’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
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Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House – as Brutus loved Caesar.
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The delusional is no longer marginal.
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The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch’s empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back.
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A people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical. And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind of orthodoxy can kill us, too.
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Democracy doesn’t begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls ‘The Patriot’s Dream.
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What’s right and good doesn’t come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it – as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
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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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I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.
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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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I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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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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…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias.
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News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.
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