Bill Moyers' Delusion Is No Longer Marginal

If you swallow a cockroach as soon as you wake-up in the morning then nothing more distastful can happen to you all day. Unless you read one of Bill Moyers' posts, that is.

Bill Moyers just did a post that, even considering the source, shocks me with its crudeness. The premise of his post, The Delusional Is No Longer Marginal, is that America is run by religious fundmentalists who don't care about global warming, world peace, the Middle East and so on because we're on the verge of the rapture and because the Bible prophecies predicted this was going to happen it's all God's will anyway and the long term doesn't matter because Jesus is comming soon anyway. Here's a taste of the hair-ball Moyers coughed up:

And why not? There's a constituency for it. A 2002 Time-CNN poll found that 59 percent of Americans believe that the prophecies found in the book of Revelations are going to come true. Nearly one-quarter think the Bible predicted the 9/11 attacks. Drive across the country with your radio tuned to the more than 1,600 Christian radio stations, or in the motel turn on some of the 250 Christian TV stations, and you can hear some of this end-time gospel. And you will come to understand why people under the spell of such potent prophecies cannot be expected, as Grist puts it, 'to worry about the environment. Why care about the earth, when the droughts, floods, famine and pestilence brought by ecological collapse are signs of the apocalypse foretold in the Bible? Why care about global climate change when you and yours will be rescued in the rapture? And why care about converting from oil to solar when the same God who performed the miracle of the loaves and fishes can whip up a few billion barrels of light crude with a word?'

OK, Bill, let's work with your premise that George W Bush is a religious fundamentalist who doesn't give a damn about global warming because the apocalypse is upon us. In that case, why would Bush waste his time reforming Social Security since, according to the faith that you claim makes every decision for him, SS won't go broke soon enough to matter?

Or perhaps your premise is false because this article’s sole intention was just to assassinate George W Bush's character?


Update:

I just recalled that Charles Krauthammer has already commented on Moyers' wackiness back in December of 2003 in his article Bush Derangement Syndrome:

It has been 25 years since I discovered a psychiatric syndrome (for the record: ``Secondary Mania,'' Archives of General Psychiatry, November 1978), and in the interim I haven't been looking for new ones. But it's time to don the white coat again. A plague is abroad in the land.

Bush Derangement Syndrome: the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency -- nay -- the very existence of George W. Bush.

Now what prompted Krauthammer's article was some total unhinged things said by Howard Dean. (I had a different diagnosis: I figured Dean mouth was just being controlled through a microchip the DU implanted in his brain.)

Anyway, Krauthammer went on to say this about Bill Moyers:

It is true that BDS has struck some pretty smart guys -- Bill Moyers ranting about a ``right-wing wrecking crew'' engaged in ``a deliberate, intentional destruction of the United States way of governing'' and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, whose recent book attacks the president so virulently that Krugman's British publisher saw fit to adorn the cover with images of Dick Cheney in a Hitler-like mustache and Bush stitched-up like Frankenstein. Nonetheless, some observers took that to be satire; others wrote off Moyers and Krugman as simple aberrations, the victims of too many years of neurologically hazardous punditry.