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Bill Moyers's Filthy Lucre "Journalism ethics" is to many I people a mysterious intellectual „J discipline, riddled with spe-ciousness and ad hoc-ery, but every once in a while a transgression...
...Then there was "Washington's Other Scandal," a Frontline special in which Moyers announced that "the arms race in campaign money is undermining the very soul of our democracy...
...And how did The Scrapbook learn about this visit...
...Fake Tocqueville, the Sequel_ This is getting pathological...
...Needless to say, Moyers never discloses to his viewers that his "sources" are in effect on his payroll...
...And when it entangles a moral paragon like Bill Moyers, it is all the more delicious...
...House of Representatives, which is apparently prepared to welcome in its halls anti-democratic lobbying by officials of the world's largest and most powerful tyranny...
...It seems that the delegation's unofficial hosts—a group of Beijing apologists in Congress led by Republican representative Donald Manzullo, who fashion themselves the "U.S.-China InterParliamentary Exchange Group"— Scrapbook originally intended to keep the whole thing totally quiet...
...7, Dole aide Tony Fabrizio said of McCain, "Someone suggested that to know John is to dislike John...
...House of Representatives' Cannon Office Building...
...The cat thus out of the bag, the head of the Chinese NPC delegation then felt free to tell the AP why he was really in the nation's capital: not for some dopey photo exhibit, but to urge defeat of the Taiwan Security Enhancement Act now pending in Congress...
...On Oct...
...12 by nine members of China's kangaroo National People's Congress, who were in Washington last week—the first such delegation of Chinese "legislators" since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre—at the invitation of the House leadership...
...Maybe Moyers is right...
...All three, it turns out, represent organizations that have received a total of $2.6 million from the Florence & John Schumann Foundation...
...7. ? Beijing's Best Friends on the Hill_ Talk about government sponsorship of offensive art...
...Dole making one last push for the next few weeks, then pulling out before the formal announcement of her candidacy, scheduled for Nov...
...understandably wanted zero media coverage of their involvement with such unsavory characters, and made that desire known to the Chinese embassy in Washington...
...Greve discovered that when it comes to campaign finance reform, Moyers has a "triple role": journalist, advocate, and financier...
...You've got to believe in this great country," the president urged his audience...
...It also turns out that the ceremonial unveiling of these Deng-spattered pictures was presided over on Oct...
...But a spokesman at that embassy, perhaps well practiced at shipping American secrets overseas, promptly leaked word of the whole affair— including the press-embargo request —to the Hong Kong Standard, which in its Oct...
...Bill has worked for himself on the government's television network: Pay people to be advocates for your point of view, then give them airtime in your job as a "journalist...
...Of course, Clinton immediately then acknowledged, "we've done a lot of things that were pretty lousy, starting with slavery, as Thomas Jefferson said...
...On the Dole_ The Scrapbook hears that alarm bells were ringing in Austin two weeks ago when the Associated Press reported "close associates" of Elizabeth Dole were urging her to leave the race for the Republican presidential nomination...
...It turns out that a special photo exhibit honoring the fiftieth anniversary of Communist dictatorship in China (death toll, conservatively estimated: tens of millions) went up last week in the U.S...
...You guessed it, Scrapbook fans: The president's "pretty lousy" Jefferson quote is no more authentic than his now compulsive Tocqueville reference...
...14 edition published an account of the National People's Congress members' ongoing meetings with their American opposite numbers...
...7 ("You made me a better president...
...Tung no doubt prefers the behavior of the U.S...
...Advisers to George W. Bush apparently worry that a Dole exit would leave the Texas governor in a one-on-one matchup with John Mccain, analogous to Al Gore's struggle with Bill Bradley...
...Moyers, in addition to his many other priestly duties, is one of the nation's foremost documentarians on the issue of campaign finance reform, having climbed his pulpit at PBS more than once to "expose" the corrupting influence of filthy lucre in the nation's politics...
...Other sources have Mrs...
...He did it again...
...So with a wink and a nod, Dole has reportedly received assurances from Austin that she will enjoy a very soft landing—i.e., help retiring her campaign debt—if she wants to stay in the race until after the New Hampshire primary...
...Manzullo and Co...
...Not from any formal announcement by the House, which at least had the residual good sense to be squeamish about glad-handing such a group...
...And the president of the Schumann foundation is, but of course, Bill Moyers (at a salary of $200,000, by the way...
...In the course of a typically nauseating speech to gay rights activists in Manhattan on Oct...
...That this is fundamentally a good country, that Alexis de Tocqueville was right when he said America is great because America is good...
...Maybe money really is corrupting...
...In fact, he did it again even before last week's Scrap-book—which recorded what was then the latest example—had hit the newsstands...
...The show closed by referring viewers to the Web sites of the "best" reform groups—most of them bankrolled by Moyers...
...you made me a better person"), Bill Clinton once more made use of "fake Tocqueville," the misattributed quotation this page has been unsuccessfully attempting to expose and kill for nearly four years...
...Interestingly, Dole operatives have also recently stepped up criticism of McCain...
...For example, Moyers's last show on the subject, "Free Speech for Sale," which aired on PBS in June, opened with Moyers interviewing three campaign finance "experts...
...A week before all this happened, Hong Kong's Beijing-installed puppet leader Tung Chee-hwa had endorsed the travel ban China imposes on that territory's pro-democracy legislators—on grounds that they do not "perform well in various aspects" and are consequently "not well accepted by the mainland...
...Austin's calculation: Better for the front-runner to have a commanding lead over a passel of minor candidates than see the primary field winnowed down to only one credible challenger...
...This arrangement bemused Frank Greve, a reporter for Knight Ridder newspapers, and last week he did a little exposing of his own...
...But it's a nice scam St...
...Bill Moyers's Filthy Lucre "Journalism ethics" is to many I people a mysterious intellectual „J discipline, riddled with spe-ciousness and ad hoc-ery, but every once in a while a transgression comes along that is so breathtaking in its obviousness that even journalists themselves can understand it...
Vol. 5 • October 1999 • No. 6
