Turns out he was right, and that Poor Black Woman was Oprah Winfrey. And Oprah ate his lunch in every TV market in America. And Donahue refused to be photographed with her. Hah!

Instead of asking why she let her children believe such nonsense, he just gave his patented shrug and smirk that says, “Whaddya gonna do? It’s a shame.” I knew then his show was doomed.

P from P - an exceptional observation. If it ever comes back around to you in conversation, it will be because I started using it.

Aw, c’mon, Clazy. You can be cruder than that!

THE PRESIDENT: April. Did you have a question, or did I call upon you cold?

Q Oh, I have a question. (Laughter.)

THE PRESIDENT: Okay. I’m sure you do have a question.

Q Mr. President, as the nation is at odds over war, with many organizations like the Congressional Black Caucus pushing for continued diplomacy through the U.N., how is your faith guiding you? And what should you tell America - well, what should America do, collectively, as you instructed before 9/11? Should it be “pray?” Because you’re saying, let’s continue the war on terror.

“I think they’ve admitted that things were a little unpleasant in SE Asia for some months after “liberation”. Fortunately….”

…it was about then that, purely coincidentally, the media rediscovered the Nazi Holocaust and were too busy with it, for the next ten years or so, to pay much attention to ongoing butcheries. “Never again,” it turned out, was the perfect chant to drown out the screaming.

Shales: “Exhibit A — the first event recalled in this report — is a news conference by President Bush on March 6, 2003, which Moyers says is two weeks before Bush ‘will order America to war.’The press conference was a sham, with Bush calling only on ‘friendly’ reporters who’d ask friendly questions. The corker was this scorching investigative query: ‘Mr. President, how is your faith guiding you?’”

We may as well save on terminology and call this Exhibit A in the case to prove Moyers is a propagandist and Shales is a lazy fool. I looked up the press conference and found that the first five questions consisted of such friendly prompts as:

–”What harm would it do to give Saddam a final ultimatum?” (Ron Fournier)
–”If North Korea restarts their plutonium plant, will that change your thinking about how to handle this crisis, or are you resigned to North Korea becoming a nuclear power?” (Steve, no last name)
–”If all these nations, all of them our normal allies, have access to the same intelligence information, why is it that they are reluctant to think that the threat is so real, so imminent that we need to move to the brink of war now?” (Dick, no last name)
–”During the recent demonstrations, many of the protestors suggested that the U.S. was a threat to peace, which prompted you to wonder out loud why they didn’t see Saddam Hussein as a threat to peace. I wonder why you think so many people around the world take a different view of the threat that Saddam Hussein poses than you and your allies.” (Jim Angle)
–”How would - sir, how would you answer your critics who say that they think this is somehow personal? As Senator Kennedy put it tonight, he said your fixation with Saddam Hussein is making the world a more dangerous place.” (John King)

Moyers is a liar, and if I may be so crude, Tom Shales licks his boot.

I think they’ve admitted that things were a little unpleasant in SE Asia for some months after “liberation”. Fortunately for the sake of their heads not exploding, they have Noam Chomsky to blame everything on the United States.

ahem, Bruce, did you notice the initials of the person who posted this? I would guess that Phil Donahue did not actually post it, just someone using his initials to mock him.

Astonishing comment. Simply astonishing.
Do you actually know the definition of the word “hero”? Could you please illustrate ANY way Donohue would come remotely close to the definition?

I don’t think you can. I don’t thing ANYONE can - for there IS no way.