Bill Moyers says Donald Trump isn't fit to be the carbuncle on Lewis' posterior.

[CousinIT]

John Lewis Is a True American Profile in Courage
by Bill Moyers

High from his gilded throne room in midtown Manhattan — like Zeus from Mt. Olympus — Donald Trump has been hurling tweeted spitballs at Rep. John Lewis of Georgia. He’s a man of “no action,” typed Trump with his tiny (manicured) fingers, of one of America’s true heroes of the modern age — a man so brutally assaulted by state troopers during the l965 march from Selma to Montgomery that he nearly died from a fractured skull.

Time and again Lewis was on the front line of the fight for civil rights, spat upon, insulted and vilified, while far to the north, Donald Trump was using the fortune handed him by his father to launch a real estate empire without ever getting his fingernails dirty.

Now, for daring to say that Trump cannot be “a legitimate president” because of Russia’s help in electing him, John Lewis is #1 on Trump’s hit list. Yes, Donald Trump — whose political career took off with a campaign of lies about Barack Obama’s birthplace with the intent of denying the president his legitimacy.

John Lewis needn’t be worried about what Donald Trump thinks of him; he’s faced down bullies and bigots before, tough guys with billy clubs and water hoses in the streets instead of a wannabe tinpot of no class glowering from his penthouse lair and showering loutish insults at his betters below; Trump isn’t fit to be a carbuncle on John Lewis’s posterior. Take a look at a real hero in this profile we produced of Lewis on the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. Arm-in-arm with Martin Luther King and other giants of the time, John Lewis walked right into the history books.

https://vimeo.com/71087786

[angrychair]

1. Who cares

The news media spent 9+ months kissing his ass and now they care? If someone decides that kissing Russia's ass would get them better ratings than Trump becomes a hero again, they would start speaking Russian and doing commercials for vodka.

Sorry not buying their sudden faux outrage. Why? Because a lot of this and worse has been out there for years and no one cared during the primary or the General.

[BadgerMom]

2. Bill Moyers

Moyers is a good guy. He never pushed Trump. He's into ethics, not ratings or sales. Let's not turn on the good guys. We need each other in the resistance.

[CousinIT]

3. +1. I agree. Thanks. n/t

[angrychair]

9. Not that I don't see your point

But the reality is while Trump is Russian puppet, the real enemy is the news media. The news media has abandoned all journalistic standards and has shown a complete abdication of journalistic integrity.

You can put some blame on the collapse of the news media from dozens and dozens of independent outlets to a few corporations and then massive cost cutting measures but it's more than that.

News media cares a lot more about ratings than it does about news. Generating controversy on half-baked or fake news stories and ensuring a "horse race" when the other has no business being on the same stage is how you ensure there is a "reality tv" feel to your news and people watch.

That is the only way someone like trump becomes president.

[malchickiwick]

5. You obviously have no idea who Bill Moyers is.

Try Google

[angrychair]

12. I know who Moyers is

Doesn't change my opinion of news media or that it's nothing much more than hyperbolic reality TV.

[malchickiwick]

13. No, actually, I don't think you do...

Because if you did you'd know better than to lump him in with the "news media" or "hyperbolic reality TV."

[Tanuki]

10. Before you try to trash Bill Moyers for "sudden faux outrage"

it might be a good idea to read what he was saying about Trump months before the election.
http://billmoyers.com/story/trump-virus-dark-age-unreason/

[angrychair]

14. I know who he is

Doesn't change my opinion of the news media. I intend to use every opportunity to point out that we are where we are because of them.

It's the news media that continues to play this out like one of trump's "reality" TV shows.

It was the news media that give trump a billion dollars worth of advertising,

It was the news media that held a camera, in full screen, on a empty podium that trump was to walk to eventually, for almost 30 minutes, while a live Sanders event with almost 20,000 in attendance played out on a inset screen with no audio.

It was the news media that did almost nothing to uncover trump being a sexual predator for decades but spent hundreds of hours on opposition research against John Kerry's Vietnam service when he was being "swift boated" by right wing nut jobs.

Those are just a few examples. The current coverage is smoke and mirrors because there is better ratings in flipping against trump in lead up to the inauguration because of controversy.

They will get everyone worked up into a lather about trump and Russia and then tone it down and then, slowly, it will fade away. In a month we will all be talking about climate change or something going on in the Middle East, these have been good transition topics in the past.

[lostnfound]

16. Broad brush and group labeling, huh? Not very effective.

Movers is consistently human and consistently ethical. This is a pitiful attack on a good man, and basically a smear of a good Democrat.

[mobeau69]

17. angyrchair

Don't get mad but give it up. You fucked up, no big deal. donald dick arnold can never admit that he's ever fucked up! I'm betting you're better than that asshole.

[smirkymonkey]

4. K&R

[milestogo]

6. I disagree.

That's exactly what the asswipe is fit for.

[2naSalit]

8. And that would be the high point of his qualifications.

[2naSalit]

7. +1

[lillypaddle]

11. K&R nt

[AgadorSparticus]

15. Bill Moyers would be absolutely CORRECT in his assessment!!!

...as always. I love Bill Moyers!

[dalton99a]

18. No truer words

[stage left]

19. Agreed.

And not fit for Lewis to wipe his butt with.