{"id":5024,"date":"2010-11-04T14:20:03","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T19:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=5024"},"modified":"2010-11-06T10:14:49","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T15:14:49","slug":"bill-moyers-welcome-to-the-plutocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/11\/04\/bill-moyers-welcome-to-the-plutocracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Moyers: “Welcome to the Plutocracy!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I stumbled across “Bill Moyers speech at Boston University<\/strong><\/a> on October 29, 2010, as a part of the Howard Zinn Lecture Series.”<\/p>\n

Just to give you a flavor, here is one revelation he made:<\/p>\n

On another site \u2013\u201cthinkprogress.com<\/strong><\/a>\u201d [thinkprogress.org – ssg] \u2013 you can find out how the multibillionaire Koch brothers \u2013 also big oil polluters and Tea Party supporters \u2013 are recruiting \u201ccaptains of industry\u201d to fund the right-wing infrastructure of front groups, political campaigns, think tanks and media outlets. Now, hold on to your seats, because this can blow away the faint-hearted: Among the right-wing luminaries who showed up among Koch\u2019s \u2018secretive network of Republican donors\u2019 were two Supreme Court Justices: Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. That\u2019s right: 2 of the 5 votes to enable the final corporate takeover of government came from justices who were present as members of the plutocracy hatched their schemes for doing so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have seen a lot of the TV shows and writings of Bill Moyers over the years, but this may be the most hard hitting thing I have seen from him.<\/p>\n

If you suffer from high-blood pressure, don’t read the rest of his speech. I don’t want to be blamed for anyone’s stroke. Instead, you might want to view the shortened version from his last TV broadcast in the clip below.<\/p>\n

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I realize now that I did not make this post at all clear as to the extent of the ground that Bill Moyers covered in his speech. The part of about Scalia, Thomas, and the Koch brothers was but a teeny part of it.<\/p>\n

The essence of the speech was more about how the age of the Robber Barons is returning and how far this is from what the founders of this country had wanted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I stumbled across “Bill Moyers speech at Boston University on October 29, 2010, as a part of the Howard Zinn Lecture Series.” Just to give you a flavor, here is one revelation he made: On another site \u2013\u201cthinkprogress.com\u201d [thinkprogress.org – ssg] \u2013 you can find out how the multibillionaire Koch brothers \u2013 also big oil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5024"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5026,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5024\/revisions\/5026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}