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Bill Moyers has been peddling his own nicely minced “objectivity” for 30 years. But behind his pseudo-professorialism is a committed Leftist, PBS’s resident, rather watered-down version of Noam Chomsky. Like Chomsky, he issues uncontested nonsense from a protected perch, in his case the PBS “documentary.” Like Chomsky, he asserts the media is actually conservative. And like Chomsky, he glibly strings together self-serving and supposedly “well-known” assumptions into an “argument” of convenience which he never permits to be deconstructed in the give and take of inconvenient debate. Chomsky has used the same technique for 40 years; he can’t utter a paragraph free of phrases such as “of course, that’s common knowledge,” and “as we all know,” as he quickly moves to his ideological “logical” conclusion.

Moyers is also a liar. In a recent Rolling Stone interview he made a series of personal attacks – on record -- which in a subsequent interview with Jesse Walter of Fox News he denied making. He was given ample chance to recant his lies, but would not. What’s interesting when watching the interview is to see how stunned Moyers is that he’s actually being challenged.

Also, this PBS series is embroiled in scandal. Martyn Burke, one of the filmmakers hired by PBS to produce a documentary on Islamic culture, is accusing them of not only attempting to influence the political content of his work during production, but of censoring it. Indeed, Burke's film, “Islam vs. Islamist,” which documents the effort by radical Islamicists to intimidate moderate Muslims, has been removed from the PBS program.

This is Burke in a recent interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

“One of the absolutely growing elements of hysteria from WETA within PBS was that we have a point of view. We said, “Of course we have a point of view.” Our point of view -- based on the research, based on the reporting and the discussions with all these world-class reporters that we had engaged on this topic -- was that there is a large community of moderates within the Muslim world who are afraid to speak up and we’re showing why. It’s because of the attacks of the Islamists. What PBS/WETA attacked us on was they wanted us, in our opinion, to become virtually apologists for the Islamists, those who are the fundamentalists in this world.”

Burke is an author and Hollywood filmmaker with no record of political affiliation with either liberals or conservatives.