Online link to the entire Reverend Wright interview with Bill Moyers

[Matariki]

That was excellent. I'd only seen the sound bites of the man. The US media really sucks - but not Bill Moyers.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04252008/watch.html

[Horse with no Name]

1. How many times does this need to be posted?

:eyes:

[scarletwoman]

2. I don't understand. It's a superb interview.

It seems to me that it's a very good thing to spread word of a particulary quality program. Why the eyeroll?

[Horse with no Name]

5. How many times does it need to be posted?

Quality is in the eyes of the beholder.

[Forkboy]

3. As many times as it takes until his moronic detractors either get it or clam up.

[Horse with no Name]

7. Or as many times as it takes for their moronic followers to be mesmerized

into submission?
Give it a rest.

[Forkboy]

15. You sound like Fox News.

I hope offline your thinking skills are better than theirs, but I have to say I'm doubting it.

[Horse with no Name]

20. Well considering I have never watched Fox...

and you know what they sound like...

[Forkboy]

37. Yet you buy their spin readily enough.

[Matariki]

4. Sorry. I searched and didn't see a link to the online video.

I thought a post with the link in an OP would be easiest to find. I could take it down if there's already an OP linking to the PBS video?

[scarletwoman]

6. Don't worry about it.

I think someone's just grumpy.

[Horse with no Name]

8. Nah

Just hate the way you guys infiltrate every forum in this fucking place with obama.

[scarletwoman]

9. You're the only one in this thread who has brought up Obama.

The rest of us are commenting on Reverend Wright and Bill Moyers.

Not EVERYTHING is about electoral politics.

[Horse with no Name]

11. Yeah okay sure.

:rofl:

[Matariki]

10. That interview was NOT about Obama

That interview was thoughtful on so many levels - a look at the state of the media, theology, racial issues.

Talk about missing the point. Did you happen to watch the thing - or are you just having a knee jerk reaction?

[Horse with no Name]

12. It isn't of interest to me.

Why would I watch?

[Matariki]

14. So as not to be ignorant

Bill Moyers is a smart interviewer - it's worth your time.

[Horse with no Name]

17. Bill Moyers is fine

I just have no interest in any more spin or damage control designed to benefit ANY candidate.
My television is off to any politics.
When they happen to cross the tube...the remote is engaged.

[Matariki]

28. But see - you don't know what you're talking about because you won't watch it

The interview is good because it addresses some very interesting points relevant to our culture. Points about community, history, theology and race.

Bill Moyers' has some commonality with Reverend Wright and his genuine interest comes across. The purpose clearly isn't 'damage control'. Although I hope it *will* serve that purpose for Reverend Wright - after watching the interview it's clear he doesn't deserve the treatment he's getting from the media. In fact, the interview serves as a sort of mirror to what is wrong with the media and Moyers shows how good it *could* be. It has NOTHING to do with benefiting Obama. If you watch it you'd understand that.

[Forkboy]

16. So you have a clue when you talk about it maybe?

Wallowing in ignorance isn't a good thing. You should try not doing it. Even if your opinion of him doesn't change at least it would be based on knowledge instead of stunning ignorance.

Just a thought.

[Horse with no Name]

22. I have no interest in spin or damage control. n/t

[Hissyspit]

30. It wasn't about spin or damage control. It was about the truth. It was an amazing interview.

You are embarassing yourself by talking about what you don't know. And I had not seen a link, by the way. Things get duped.

The interview was about the truth of what Wright has said and how it has been completely distorted by our media and bone-headed national discourse. Obama didn't come up almost at all, if at all (I missed the very, very beginning).

[Forkboy]

33. Or facts, apparently. Ignorance is bliss.

You must be extremely happy.

Sad, the Democrats used to be for actual thinking....

[AlCzervik]

19. you don't have to watch, you could just ignore the thread, i do that all the time here

on threads i have no interest in, i don't make it a point to drop by and tell the op "Hey i have no interst in your op, just thought you should know". No one is making you watch it or read the threads.

[Horse with no Name]

23. Well when they keep floating to the surface

I have to wonder why we need more than one.
And yes, I did alert on it but the mods rarely pull the obama-related threads out of here.

[AlCzervik]

24. this Wright thing has kind of gone beyond the election, he has become an issue

for the rw, he's also getting death threats so i can see why the mods would leave it here and really the interview had very little to do with Obama. We have so many dupe threads in GD all the time so i guess i'm just used to it and i just either ignore or use hide thread when i get tired of seeing them.

[earth mom]

36. I'm with you on this. Give it a rest people. nt

[timtom]

40. No. You done good.

I think SOMEONE would rather I didn't see the video. I went to bed last night and didn't see it, though I wanted to.

Thanks again for posting this.

And, if something like this was posted elsewhere, then, in all likelihood, someone like me got to see it, too.

[timtom]

39. I apologize.

I think it was done for my sake. You see, I haven't seen it yet.

Thanks for the solicitude.

[AlCzervik]

13. just got done watching it, i thought it was really interesting and covered a lot

and it was fair and at least he had an actual opportunity to discuss his life and comments in a sane non shouting format.

[Forkboy]

18. Moyers is the best on tv.

He's a constant reminder of what we're missing from the MSM.

[AlCzervik]

21. i was really sad when he left NOW and while NOW is still a good show it's not the same

without him so i was super happy when i found out he was coming back to pbs.

[Forkboy]

34. I think we ended up with two great shows though.

Now was better with him, but they still cover a ton a crucial stories that no one else touches. Plus, we have Moyer's own show. It's a two-fer.

I feel the same way when a band I love breaks up and it's members go on and do different projects. I go from having one cool band to potentially a handful of cool bands, all spawned from a supposed negative. :)

[MadBadger]

25. After watching this, I find myself landing more on Wright's side than Obama's actually

I dont see the problem with the sermon's Wright said. I see no problem at all after seeing them in the ENTIRE Context. And it is a shame that the media cut out almost 55 minutes of the interview and only bothered to show the last five minutes.

[AlCzervik]

26. context is everything and of course the media only shows what will gin up ratings.

it;s really disheartening when you stop and think about how fucked over we really are, controlled information so the networks can sell more Tide or ppaper towels. The biggest bias in the media imo is The Corporate bias.

[earth mom]

38. I haven't watched Wright on t.v.-only on YouTube. I refuse to watch the corporate media.

So you can't say that "everyone" is swayed by the corporate bastards on cnn or msnbc.

Tonight, I saw a few minutes of the Moyers Wright interview, and will probably go over to YouTube and watch the entire thing later.

In the few minutes I saw, I did note that Wright was calm and yes, well spoken.

But that doesn't excuse his rabid screeching attacks in the past.

I'm agnostic and the last thing I want to do is listen to another preacher dude mix politics and religion.

But I will go and watch the video on YouTube, so I can be better informed.

But it probably won't change my mind about Wright.

[Matariki]

42. Is PBS the 'corporate media'?

at least there are no commercials.

[earth mom]

45. The person I was replying to spoke of "the networks" aka corporate media. nt

[scarletwoman]

27. I was very disappointed with how quickly Obama capitulated.

He should have stood up for Wright and said "fuck you" to the hyenas who wanted to make an issue out of someone speaking truthfully and from the heart.

[MadBadger]

29. If Obama did that, he would be done.

I think he did the best he could in an impossible situation

[MidwestTransplant]

31. Exactly. They set a trap for him. There was no way he could rehabilitate Wright in the public's eye

after the echo chamber was done with him.

[LuckyLib]

44. And Wright gets that . . . he gets the corner Obama is put into by MSM media.

[scarletwoman]

32. But how can it be better for us to have the truth constantly denied?

I remember when Paul Wellstone, my senator, stood up and voted against the IRW, even though he knew it could cost him his re-election. He did it anyway, because he was more interested in truth than his political career.

Obama should have honored Rev. Wright and stood up for the truth that Wright was expressing, unconditionally.

[L. Coyote]

35. On DU too, three parts.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x124168

[Matariki]

41. kicked for the morning crowd. This is worth watching

Bill Moyers does a great interview - unlike most journalists, he lets his interviewee talk.

[scarletwoman]

43. Kick for the early afternoon crowd.

:D