Fisking Bill Moyers

Enjoy this vicious fisking of Bill Moyers by the brilliant James Lileks in the bleat. Based upon his most recent column, I fear Moyers will soon strip naked, run to the zoo, and join a family of sea otters to become "one" with the environment. If you happen to visit, please don't feed the Moyers.

“For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power. What that means for the environment is frightening.” Well, it depends on your perspective. We all remember how 270,000 people were killed in a day when the environment demonstrated that it had a monopoly of power over plate tectonics. Below the words, a picture of cracked parched earth, which had once no doubt been green & verdant farmland before the Right Rev. Bush got out his joystick and sent his 900 foot tall Jesus robot to blast the crops with his death-beam laser eyes. Did I mention that the shadow of a cross falls across the parched land? ...It contains the usual terrors to come, and provides copious succor for those who believe the earth is doomed. (Sometimes I think these people would be annoyed if Jesus did return, because it would play hell with their fundraising. Jesus would have to hold a press conference: yes, the whales are coming to heaven. Most of the primates, too. All dogs. Mice? No. Look, I’m sorry, but no.) On one hand, it’s annoying, because articles like this make id difficult sometimes to have reasonable conversations about the necessary issues of environmental protection, because you don’t know if you’re dealing with someone who secretly thinks everyone who bought a “Left Behind” novel goes to bed chortling over the thought of a turtle strangled by a six-pack ring...

Lileks: Fisking Bill Moyers