I am a great admirer of polite and urbane but devastating put-downs of bullies and blowhards. Bill Moyers delivered a beautiful one to Bill O’Reilly for something the latter said in his recent debate with Jon Stewart.
Well played, Bill Moyers.
Mano Singham
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This isn’t the first time that Moyers has pulled Fox News and Bill O’Reilly up short.
He’s excellent at it.
Bill Moyers is a real gem, a diamond while BillO is just coal hoping for better.
Pretty nice, but you are preaching to the choir.
The best polite (well, mostly) put down of Bill O’Reilly still belongs to none other than Bill O’Reilly when, called to task for saying on air that his atheist interlocutor couldn’t explain the regularity of the tides, he fell back to these rhetorical questions:
(emphasis added)
The perfect summary of Bill O’Reilly. He could live a hundred years and never live down the shame for such an astonishingly arrogant lack of research and reflection when confronted with evidence of his initial error.
Great response. Cheers.
“I’ll even introduce him to our fact checkers, some of the best in the world!
…We use them, too”
Oooooooh. Dry and delicious. 😀
Sadly, it takes too long to deliver an elegant put-down. In the same time, a dozen new smears have been launched.
With the nature of political discourse and the internet being what they are, I’d say that this is largely unavoidable.
Gotta love Mr. Moyers! His articulate discourse is a breath of fresh air in this presidential election year.
As a related aside, I was recently reading a book about the Vietnam conflict and Bill Moyers’ name popped up in a discussion of the Johnson administration. Apparently, Mr. Moyers worked in the White House under Kennedy and Johnson.
Didn’t know that.
Yes, he was Johnson’s press secretary, the low point of his career since he had to be the public face of Johnson’s war and lies in Vietnam. I think he has spent the rest of his life atoning.