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Missile Defense | Terry Moran | Bill Moyers

Missile Defense
CBS anchor Dan Rather took a highly skeptical approach to missile defense. “The thing,” as he called it, may never work. Rather also cited critics’ concerns that it was “a kind of relief act or corporate welfare for defense contractors.”
(CyberAlert, December 18, 2002)

“Exposing Williams’ Anti-Missile Defense Bias.” A Media Reality Check detailed future NBC anchor Brian Williams many anti-missile defense comments.
(Media Reality Check, December 18, 2002)

 

Terry Moran
Moran delivered the negative spin on an ABC News/Washington Post poll, with the ominous warning that “the public has deep concerns about some aspects of Mr. Bush’s leadership.”
(CyberAlert, October 15, 2003)

Moran was one of the journalists quoted by the American Journalism Review in its cover story, “Are the News Media Soft on Bush? The ABC correspondent insisted that the coverage of President Clinton “was way over the top, excessive scandal-mongering, pointless.”
(CyberAlert, October 15, 2003)

Moran joined other network reporters in complaining about President Bush’s decision to bypass the national media and talk directly with local affiliates.
(CyberAlert, October 14, 2003)

As the networks jumped into full scandal mode over news that the Justice Department had launched an investigation into “leakgate,” Moran joined in the hype.
(CyberAlert, September 30, 2003)

After President Bush’s Sunday night address to the nation, Moran employed a pejorative term in characterizing his plan as “imposing” a “kind of Pax-Americana on the Muslim Middle East.”
(CyberAlert, September 8, 2003)

Moran found a supposed victim to promote the liberal agenda about how the poor are unfairly left out of the $400 increase in the child credit for taxpayers.
(CyberAlert, July 25, 2003)

When U.S. troops managed to kill Uday and Qusay Hussein, Moran worried over whether President Bush felt “bound” by the Geneva Convention rule that the dead are “honorably interred...according to the rites of the religion to which they belong.”
(CyberAlert, July 24, 2003)

Moran proposed that Ari Fleischer agree with his assessment of President Bush’s decision to not include parents at lower income levels in the increase from $600 to $1000 in the child tax credit, because they do not pay taxes: “I just want to make sure that you are saying that the White House agreed to make the choice to leave these children behind.”
(CyberAlert, May 30, 2003)
(Media Reality Check, May 30, 2003)
(Notable Quotables, June 9, 2003)

Moran delivered this lecture to Ari Fleischer: “Is the President troubled at all that members of his own political party, at a time of war, days after Americans were killed in a terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia, would have the gall to use federal resources designed to protect the country against terrorists in order to pursue partisan political objectives?”
(CyberAlert, May 19, 2003)

After President Bush’s landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln, Moran fretted that “some people” are “concerned” that Bush may have “dissolved or weakened the distinction between civilian control of the military” by “adopting military regalia at the end of a war.”
(CyberAlert, May 8, 2003)
(CyberAlert, May 8, 2003)
(Notable Quotables, May 26, 2003)

During ABC’s reports on the failing U.S. economy faced by U.S. sailors returning from Iraq, Moran focused on parts of an ABC News/Washington Post poll that matched liberal class warfare themes.
(CyberAlert, May 5, 2003)

At a CENTCOM press briefing, Moran argued that Iraqis who make use of terrorist tactics against U.S. troops in the war “believe they are acting as patriots defending their country from an invasion.”
(CyberAlert, March 31, 2003)
(Notable Quotables, April 14, 2003)

Acknowledging that Iraq was setting mines in the harbor, preventing civilian aid from being delivered, was “a wicked thing to do,” Moran nonetheless held Bush administration policy culpable for the plight of the people in Basra.
(CyberAlert, March 26, 2003)

Moran expressed to Ari Fleischer his worry that the U.S. bombing will kill civilians and if they survive that they'll die of starvation, wanting Fleischer to tell him if he’s heard President Bush “talk about this other responsibility which may weigh on him heavily today, and that is for the death of innocents, for Iraqi moms and dads and children who may, despite our best efforts, be killed?”
(CyberAlert, March 22, 2003)
(Notable Quotables, March 31, 2003)

When Peter Jennings prodded Moran to elaborate on how “this coalition of the willing” is “very different” from “the coalition of the participants,” a baffled Moran wondered, “what will the United States do in big security issues going forward now that the United States has left the United Nations to do this?”
(CyberAlert, March 21, 2003)

Moran adopted the ludicrous “rushing to war” verbiage as he warned that a stubborn President Bush “is not now willing to budge from the March 17th deadline despite claims from leaders around the world,” and after blaming Bush at the presidential press conference for how “so many governments and peoples around the world now not only disagree with you very strongly but see the U.S. under your leadership as an arrogant power,” complained that Bush was not “sufficiently challenged” by reporters there.
(CyberAlert, March 13, 2003)
(CyberAlert, March 13, 2003)

In the final days before the beginning of the war with Iraq, Moran continued to characterize the Bush administration position as “hardline” and fretted about “another sign of another possible setback” – the ambassador from Cameroon would not be coming to the White House.
(CyberAlert, March 12, 2003)

At President Bush’s evening press conference, Moran encapsulated the attitude brought to bear every night by ABC News, which presumed Bush's approach had “drawn millions or ordinary citizens...into the streets in anti-war protests” and made the U.S. “an arrogant power.”
(CyberAlert, March 7, 2003)
(Notable Quotables, March 17, 2003)

Moran complained that the Pope's envoy, Cardinal Pio Laghi, was “prevented...from speaking at the White House” after he met with President Bush to urge that Bush do all he can to prevent war.
(CyberAlert, March 6, 2003)

Moran lamented how “there's nothing that the current Iraqi regime could do in the way of disarmament to avoid war” and warned that the Bush administration's “hard line could complicate some of the diplomacy at the United Nations,” after repeatedly pressing Ari Fleischer earlier in the day about how Iraq destroying a few missiles is “substantive” and “real disarmament.”
(CyberAlert, March 4, 2003)
(CyberAlert, March 4, 2003)
(Notable Quotables, March 17, 2003)

Moran charged that it was the Bush administration's “hard line” that “contributed to what diplomats said was an unusually bitter debate that yielded no consensus and left smaller nations feeling intense pressure from both the U.S. and France.”
(CyberAlert, February 28, 2003)

Moran lectured Ari Fleischer about how the Bush team's rhetoric drove France against the U.S., arguing that the administration’s rhetoric of “‘you’re with us or you’re against us,’ kind of dismissive superiority to some of the oldest American allies is contributing to the problems in forging a common front against Iraq.”
(CyberAlert, February 20, 2003)
(Notable Quotables, March 3, 2003)

Peter Jennings’s hostility toward President Bush's Iraq policy became so obvious that at a White House press briefing, when Moran asked about Saddam Hussein's “arsenal of germs and chemicals” getting into the hands of terrorists, Ari Fleischer wondered: “Does this mean that ABC News is acknowledging that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction?”
(CyberAlert, February 13, 2003)

As substitute anchor, Moran highlighted the anti-war protests across the country and Damascus, Syria, in a “peace march” whitewash, ignoring the true motivations of the participants.
(CyberAlert, January 20, 2003)
(CyberAlert, January 20, 2003)

Moran jumped on the bandwagon to advance the liberal spin that the Bush tax cuts would unfairly benefit the rich, concluding that if Bush gets his way, we all lose.
(CyberAlert, January 7, 2003)
(Media Reality Check, January 27, 2003)

Following Helen Thomas’s lead at a press conference, Moran wondered if attacking Iraq “would generate a tremendous amount of anger and hatred at the United States, and out of that you’d essentially be creating many new terrorists who would want to kill Americans.”
(CyberAlert, November 8, 2002)

Moran tried to steer President Bush away from pursuing conservative policies, claiming that the last time Bush had a majority in the Senate he lost it because “he pushed a conservative agenda...that ended up alienating Vermont Republican Senator Jim Jeffords,” and warned that President Bush doesn’t just want to use his Senate majority to get “conservative” judges confirmed, “he wants to stock the federal judiciary with strongly conservative judges” and “deeply conservative” ones.
(CyberAlert, November 7, 2002)
(CyberAlert, November 7, 2002)
(Notable Quotables, November 25, 2002)

Just after the Pentagon ceremony on the first anniversary of 9/11, Moran denigrated President Bush’s tax cut as being “frankly, cooked up during the heat of a political campaign.”
(CyberAlert, September 17, 2002)

Moran hyped the significance of a “sharp rebuke” of President Bush’s Iraq policy “from a close ally” – Canada.
(CyberAlert, August 21, 2002)
(Media Reality Check, September 3, 2002)
(Notable Quotables, September 2, 2002)

After President Bush’s economic forum in Waco, Texas, Moran ignored conservative concerns about President Bush’s lack of policy initiatives.
(CyberAlert, August 14, 2002)

Moran joined other network reporters in cheering how the Bush administration had “acknowledged” and “conceded” that global warming is real and being fueled by industry, without any mention of scientists who thought Bush’s new position to be baseless.
(CyberAlert, June 4, 2002)
(Media Reality Check, June 4, 2002)

Moran hyped anti-Bush protests and feelings in Europe, stressing that it “is exceptional since Berlin has hailed and cheered so many American presidents in the past” and “ordinary Europeans are fearful of Mr. Bush’s leadership in the war.”
(CyberAlert, May 23, 2002)

Moran claimed President Bush “took a hard rhetorical line on Fidel Castro, hurling insults at the Cuban leader.” The insult? Bush referring to Castro as “a relic from another era who has turned a beautiful island into a prison.”
(CyberAlert, May 21, 2002)
(Notable Quotables, May 27, 2002)

As reporters lined up to question what President Bush knew and when he knew it before September 11th, Moran joined in the hype.
(CyberAlert, May 17, 2002)
(CyberAlert, May 17, 2002)

Moran smeared House Majority Leader Dick Armey saying that he had called for the West Bank to be “ethnically cleansed” of Palestinians.
(CyberAlert, May 3, 2002)
(Notable Quotables, May 13, 2002)

Moran charged that President Bush has “embraced...with relish” the same Clinton-Gore fund-raising tactics he blasted as “scandalous” during the campaign, by headlining fund-raisers coordinated to occur during official trips paid for by taxpayers.
(CyberAlert, April 25, 2002)
(Notable Quotables, May 13, 2002)

Joining forces with Helen Thomas, Moran demanded to know how President Bush could possibly consider Ariel Sharon to be “a man of peace.”
(CyberAlert, April 12, 2002)

When an ABC News poll found that a mere 23 percent of people in Muslim nations believe Arabs carried out the September 11th attacks and three-fourths don’t see the U.S. response as morally justified, Moran highlighted how “many Arab-Americans say it’s not just perceptions at issue but U.S. policies, especially in the Middle East,” allowing a representative of the Council on American-Islamic Relations to denounce U.S. support for Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East.
(CyberAlert, February 28, 2002)
(Media Reality Check, March 21, 2002)
(Notable Quotables, March 18, 2002)

Following President Bush’s labeling of North Korea as part of the “Axis of Evil,” Moran admonished, “Former Clinton administration officials, who negotiated a successful deal to stop North Korea’s development of nuclear material, say Mr. Bush’s approach is far too militaristic.”
(CyberAlert, February 20, 2002)

Moran joined in the continual stewing over President Bush’s use of the term “Axis of Evil,” insisting that his speech in Tokyo was an effort to calm jittery nerves in Asia and dispel images of Mr. Bush as a dangerous warmonger.”
(CyberAlert, February 19, 2002)
(Notable Quotables, March 4, 2002)

Moran could only convey the liberal arguments against President Bush’s plan to combat global warming, ignoring conservative viewpoints.
(CyberAlert, February 15, 2002)

Moran actually tagged Democrats as “nasty,” as they charged that “the administration is doing to the federal budget what Enron did to its books.”
(CyberAlert, February 5, 2002)

While Peter Jennings acknowledged that Bush has the highest approval rating for any President since 1945 after a year in office, Moran stressed how “barely over half of Americans, 52 percent, are prepared to say the administration acted ‘properly’ in its dealings with Enron,” and found it “startling” that “61 percent now say they think Mr. Bush understands the problems of people like them.”
(CyberAlert, January 29, 2002)

 

Bill Moyers
A Media Reality Check noted that Moyers had not informed his audience of sources who were recipients of a Moyers-led foundation.
(Media Reality Check, June 3, 2003)

The Weekly Standard delivered an expose on Moyers’ hidden conflicts, noting that Moyers has continually violated his promise to disclose when his interviewees are the recipients of his foundation’s grants.
(CyberAlert, June 2, 2003)

The PBS host claimed 11 million children whose families make just above minimum wage were eliminated from the child tax credit by Republicans “behind closed doors.” 
(CyberAlert, June 2, 2003)

Moyers aired an eighteen-minute story, claiming there was a conspiratorial assault on abortion rights. The conspiracy was a “stealth strategy” involving “anti-choice” people, who wanted to “make the fetus the equivalent of people” he added. 
(CyberAlert, May 20, 2003)

Vice President Cheney was the “poster boy” for the “military-industrial complex,” according to Moyers. Cheney and others “call for war with all the ferocity of non-combatants and then turn around and feed on the corpse of war.”
(CyberAlert, April 21, 2003)

The MRC awarded Moyers Quote of the Year at the Dishonor Awards. See the video and read the quote.
(MRC 2003 DisHonors Awards)

The former Johnson aide wore a flag lapel pin on NOW and compared President Bush’s and Vice President Cheney’s wearing of the flag to Chairman Mao’s little Red Book.
(CyberAlert, March 3, 2003)

The MRC’s Best of Notable Quotables 2002 featured the “Bill Moyers (Subsidized) Sanctimony Award” to honor some of the PBS pontificator’s “finest” anti-conservative screeds. 
(Best Notable Quotables of 2002)

Moyers’ rant about the Republican-dominated federal government after the 2002 Congressional elections won the MRC’s 2002 Quote of the Year.
(Best Notable Quotables of 2002)

Moyers rant from his weekly PBS show NOW on the Republican victory in the midterm elections. “The entire federal government...is united behind a right-wing agenda for which George W. Bush believes he now has a mandate,” and that that agenda included limiting abortion, cutting taxes for rich people, and eliminating the EPA, according to Moyers.
(Notable Quotables, November 25, 2002)

Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift defended Moyers statement. Clift declared: “I think Bill Moyers is taking the Republicans at their word.”
(CyberAlert, November 14, 2002)

The Moyers post-Congressional election “right-wing agenda” quote as originally reported in CyberAlert.
(CyberAlert, November 11, 2002)

The TV grid in USA Today summarized Moyers PBS show: “NOW with Bill Moyers: Corporate greed; fraud; capitalism.”
(CyberAlert, September 30, 2002)

PBS’s Trade Secrets: A Moyers Report, won the “Investigative journalism (long form)” award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 2002. The piece was on the chemical industry and Moyers interviewed no industry spokesmen for the report.
(CyberAlert, September 13, 2002)

Moyers claimed fossil fuels caused global warming and that the Bush administration didn’t care. “The people running the government seem not to care about these things,” he claimed. “Not surprising, since it's industry that's running the government.” 
(CyberAlert, August 16, 2002)

Newspaper stories about Moyers’ appearance in a Vermont courtroom after his arrest for drunk driving, revealed that when arrested he had just left a birthday party for television producer and liberal activist Norman Lear. 
(CyberAlert, August 16, 2002)

The Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes discovered Moyers brought guests onto his show from groups that his foundation funds.
(CyberAlert, August 2, 2002)

The Bennington (Vt.) Banner reported Moyers had been charged with driving under the influence. A roadside breath test showed Moyers' blood-alcohol content to be .10 and the PBS host said he intended to contest the charge.
(CyberAlert, August 5, 2002)

Moyers charged that the Bush administration’s environmental policy was a result of the energy industry using its influence to get what the big corporations wanted. He then allowed the National Resource Defense Council to rail against “special favors for special interests.” 
(CyberAlert, April 4, 2002)

Moyers declared that the “right-wingers” of the Heritage Foundation teamed up with “deep pocket bankers” to stop the United States from cracking down on sources of dirty money for terrorists. 
(Notable Quotables, March 4, 2002)

The PBS host contested Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes cover story on him and the Weekly Standard posted a rejoinder from Hayes.
(CyberAlert, February 22, 2002)

The Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes documented that Moyers "has directed funding to numerous media outlets on the left: the Washington Monthly, Nation, Mother Jones, In These Times and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. 
(CyberAlert, February 19, 2002)

"It concerns me more that Kenneth Lay is meeting secretly with the Vice President than it concerned me that President Clinton was meeting secretly with Monica Lewinsky," the former Johnson aide declared on NOW.
(CyberAlert, February 15, 2002)

The Bush administration and the fossil fuel interests that “bought” it are destroying the beauty and health of the environment, the PBS host claimed.
(Notable Quotables, February 4, 2002)

Moyers used the debut of his new weekly news program NOW to deliver a liberal lecture about how "America’s richest and most polluting companies" are "sitting pretty" thanks to the Bush administration.
(CyberAlert, January 21, 2002)

PBS announced that a new Moyers show, NOW, would launch on Jan. 18, 2002. “We believe this will be the best night of public affairs television,” PBS President and CEO Pat Mitchell said in USA Today.
(CyberAlert, January 9, 2002)

An excerpt of how PBS previewed Bill Moyers Reports: Earth on Edge: [The program] probes two of the most critical questions of the new century: Will Earth continue to have the capacity to support the human species and civilization? Moreover, what can we do to protect our life-support system-the natural environment?"
(CyberAlert, June 19, 2001)

Moyers’ Trade Secrets claimed that children and others are imperiled by a reckless chemical industry. But Moyers failed to include the views of any representative from the very industry whose reputation he had impugned with documents obtained by trial lawyers.
(Media Reality Check, March 27, 2001)

The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz revealed that the Moyers special on the evils of the chemical industry would not include opinions from any chemical industry representative. Moyers explained that he wanted the “secret” and “confidential documents” to be the story and for the industry to “respond as a whole.”
(CyberAlert, March 26, 2001)

The July 11, 2000 MagazineWatch noted that U.S. News failed to acknowledge that Moyers helped fund, through a foundation he controls, a book that dug up dirt on Rudy Giuliani.
(MagazineWatch, July 11, 2000)

 


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