Bill O'Reilly has a nice summary of the hijinks of Bill Moyers:
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds PBS and NPR, has an annual budget of about $2.2 billion. More than $300 million of that comes from the American taxpayer, according to the CPB Web site (www.cpb.org).More details from several articles in the Weekly Standard:
Moyers' production company, Public Affairs Television, gets paid by PBS, but it is unclear how much since PBS will not say. In return for the compensation, he does a weekly commentary program and some documentaries.
But here's the rub, according to an article by Stephen Hayes in "The Weekly Standard," Moyers owns the documentaries, and after they are broadcast on PBS, he sells the videocassettes, keeping the proceeds. So, in effect, you and I are partially funding Bill's TV projects, which he is personally profiting from. Do you have a problem with that? I do.
And there's more. Mr. Moyers receives $200,000 a year as the president of the Florence and John Schumann Foundation, which has assets of close to $100 million! Moyers gives $2 million of that to his son John to run a left-wing Website called Tom Paine.com. OK, fine, he's a good dad.
But Moyers also gives grant money to PBS and National Public Radio. PBS in turn pays his production company. Uh-oh. Can you say conflict of interest? According to public records, the Florence and John Schumann foundation donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to PBS and NPR in the '90s.
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Maybe I am being a bit unfair to Bill Moyers, but I have tried to get his side of the story. However, he will never come to the phone when I call. I am beginning to take it personally, and perhaps I should. In a speech shortly after September 11, Moyers called me a warmonger, or some such, for advocating strong military action against Afghanistan. And I will cop to that. While Moyers might have given them grant money, I wanted to pound those that protected the Taliban into the pavement, that is if there is any pavement over there.
But my problem with Moyers is not ideological. I applaud him for speaking out on the issues of the day. I just don't want to subsidize him. Call me crazy, but I believe that Bill Moyers should not be profiting from taxpayer money.
PBS's Televangelist: Bill Moyers preaches on . . . and on.If you have a really strong stomach head on over to TomPaine.com and watch them bite heads off chickens. Don't tell 'em I sent you.
Bill Moyers Responds: With a rejoinder from Stephen F. Hayes.
Moyers Gets the Hook: It seems that Bill Moyers has even managed to spook some PBS executives with his radical show. (Oh, and he throws an elbow at The Factor, too.)
TAPs for a Magazine: In an effort to squeeze every last bit of fun out of liberalism, the Schumann Foundation starts to disassemble the American Prospect.Perhaps the Schumann Foundation wants to cut costs so that it can continue to shower largesse on TomPaine.com (Executive Director, John Moyers, Bill's son). The sole function of that collection of summer soldiers seems to be buying ads in the New York Times that read: "Uncle oSAMa Says: I Want YOU To Invade Iraq." These ads threaten Americans--in the name of al Qaeda--with dire consequences, should the United States invade.Preaching to the Choir: It wouldn't be a Republican victory without a dyspeptic attack from Bill Moyers. Paid for, in part, by you.
