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THANK YOU, Bill Moyers, this needed to be said

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the foremost political commentator of this age has dared speak the obvious. so much for that liberal media, unwilling to ask its own the tough questions:
Moyers: Obama ‘should know better’ than to ignore poverty | The Raw Story
Journalist Bill Moyers expressed concern in a video essay published Friday over President Barack Obama, a former community organizer, and his lack of devotion to poverty since he’s entered the Oval Office.“It’s just astonishing to us how long this campaign has gone on with no discussion of what’s happening to poor people,” Moyers said. “Official Washington continues to see poverty with tunnel vision — ‘out of sight, out of mind.’”
He said this critique is not just of fat-cat Republicans and their disproportionate attention to millionaires and billionaires. Obama himself is just as guilty, even though he of all people, “should know better.” ...
“Oddly, though, for all his rhetorical skills, Obama hasn’t made a single speech devoted to poverty since he moved into the White House,” Moyers pointed out. “In the last three years, only $40 million have been spent with another $60 million scheduled for local community grants.” ...
 
While I have issue with your description of Moyers..."the foremost LIBERAL political commentator" would be more accurate...his criticism of Obama is not indicative of the general liberal media. He's willing to state that Obama is not liberal enough. The general liberal media isn't.
 
While I have issue with your description of Moyers..."the foremost LIBERAL political commentator" would be more accurate...his criticism of Obama is not indicative of the general liberal media. He's willing to state that Obama is not liberal enough. The general liberal media isn't.

Anyone who isn't on FOX is classified as a liberal....not true. Get over it!
 
Anyone who isn't on FOX is classified as a liberal....not true. Get over it!

If you are talking about me, Debra, then you couldn't be more wrong.

I don't watch Fox...never have. I HAVE watched Moyers...many times...during his NPR days. I most definitely know he is more of a liberal than the liberal-biased mainstream media.
 
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