Bill Moyers: Rage on the Radio, the Shock Jocks Rory O'Connor Has
Warned Us About

Posted by ZP Heller, Bill Moyers Journal at 6:00 AM on September 14,
2008.

Watch just how damaging right-wing hate speech can be.

Friday's episode of Bill Moyers Journal examined the violent damage
caused by the vitriolic rhetoric of shock jocks, conservative radio
talkers like Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Michael
Savage. Correspondent Rick Karr interviewed Rory O'Connor, author of
Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio. They focused on how
right-wing hate speech has fueled the imigration debate in our
country, and, more recently, how it directly contributed to the tragic
shooting at the Unitarian Universalist church in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Watch Moyers' interview with O' Connor here:

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/98725/

And Rory O'Connor's book is available at AlterNet Books.

ZP Heller is the editorial director of Brave New Films. He has written
for The American Prospect, AlterNet, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and
The Huffington Post, covering everything from politics to pop culture.

Zaroc Stone wrote:

Bill FAR LEFT media Moyers?

LOLOLOL!!!!!

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:20:07 -0600, tumbler wrote:

Coming from a right wing puke. If not for the damage they do to America,
that might be funny. Praise God for Liberals, the antidote to conservative
liars.

Zaroc Stone wrote:

Coming from reality:

http://www.willisms.com/archives/2005/05/bill_moyers_com.html

Journalist and fellow University of Texas alumnus Bill Moyers has been
the subject of controversy in recent weeks, after The New York Times
reported (via Cao's Blog) that the chairman of the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting criticized PBS for being too liberal:

Without the knowledge of his board, the chairman, Kenneth Y. Tomlinson,
contracted last year with an outside consultant to keep track of the
guests’ political leanings on one program, “Now With Bill Moyers.”

On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:45:31 -0600, tumbler wrote:

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Neocon

Zaroc Stone wrote:

Nah, let's examine Moyers:

http://www.willisms.com/archives/2005/05/bill_moyers_com.html

Continuing, here's where Moyers' speech got interesting: