Recently, I posted a piece on Frank Schaeffer's recent book, "Crazy for God". It was interesting to talk to a number of friends who challenged my decision to highlight a man, who many of my evangelical friends now refer to as a traitor to the right wing causes; causes which were oringinally birthed ...

This video was created many years ago–based on Moyers’ description of the American space program, it was probably made in the early to mid 1960’s.   I had never before seen any video of Asimov (though I have read some of his writings), and I found this video (part of an episode fr...

Bill Moyers told the Washington Post he couldn't remember whether he launched investigations into White House homosexuals. But when the paper's online cousin picked a fight over the issue, the memories came flooding back. It's funny how a couple of Slate columns refresh the PBS host's memory. Jack S...

We already know that long-time FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover — himself rumored to be a fairy — spent government resources in the 1960s looking into the sexuality of Jack Valenti, then an aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson. The investigation turned up no evidence, and Valenti avoided the car...

PBS omnipresence Bill Moyers isn’t proud of his power-lusting service as a White House hatchet man for Lyndon Johnson. But he isn’t doing himself or PBS any favors by misleading reporters who are nosing around into how he helped invade the sexual privacy of the White House staff in the LBJ era. ...

I’ve followed the discussion about the Bill Moyers “scandal” (see, for example, today’s (WSJ piece “Bill Moyers’s Name Is Linked to J. Edgar Hoover’s Abuse of Office”) out of the corner of my eye for the last couple of days  and am having trouble seei...

Maybe he wasn't building dossiers for the purpose of being evil and nefarious, to blackmail and embarrass people, ruin their careers. Perhaps J. Edgar Hoover was a pioneer, wanting to get out of the FBI, and his own closet, and was setting about to launch the first Gay Dating Service. Naw! He was ju...

Long before Jack Valenti was the old guy who held up the Oscar broadcast to make a speech as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Science, he was a top aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson– and a target of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, who investigated if Valenti was a closeted &...

this is critical to a fuller understanding of just exactly what the hell is going on with these so-called "bailouts"... courtesy of information clearing house... High Noon: Geithner v. The American Oligarchs Bill Moyers interviews former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), MIT ...

On Friday night, PBS star Bill Moyers took up the question of the media’s coverage of President Obama. It was not a liberal vs. conservative debate. His panel was two left-wing bloggers: Glenn Greenwald of Salon and Jay Rosen of PressThink. Unsurprisingly, they felt the media weren’t "progr...