The American Spectator

p> If Geo. Neumayr thinks PBS is liberal biased I would have to include him with the deluded zealots that have taken over our media with propaganda. You may think Bush is popular but that is propaganda also. PBS is the only place we can get news that isn’t zealot biased. I resent being labeled as liberal because I don’t agree with the far right. It’s obvious Geo. Neumayr has jumped on the “not too intelligent bandwagon” of calling everyone that doesn’t have his view as being liberal. Calling Bill Moyers liberal is totally asinine. He gave us the rest of the story, unbiased, intelligent and totally American. We need more like him. br> — Joy Diamond /p>

We watch PBS. We appreciate the fine arts: ballet, opera, symphony, classical and American theatre as well as documentaries on historic subjects and current events.

Your publication, funded by Richard Mellon Scaife, is pure propaganda for the Right. You have your followers and you are entitled to them.

PBS has its viewers and they are entitled to them. We dislike your self-serving motives in suggesting that our tax money ought not be allocated to PBS, you do not speak for the American people anymore than the ultra conservatives do.

If the conservative radio and TV programs were not filled with name-calling and negative rhetoric, we might be inclined to tune in and listen. You might believe you are gaining listeners. It might be a short-term-gain. But, what are you creating? What kind of a society are you fostering? It is certainly not the America most of us wish to live in.

We want PBS fully funded with our tax money. We do not need a Richard Mellon Scaife-funded-publication and its editor-in-chief determining what should be produced and what we ought to view.

If there were more Bill Moyers in the world, we would not be in the mess we find ourselves in — in Iraq. We support to the hilt our U.S. Troops. We do not support the goals and strategies of this administration. Nor do we support its contrived reasons for invading Iraq.

We now learn all we needed to get Saddam Hussein was a bag of Doritos. Imagine that, one of the most “dangerous tyrants” in the world being monitored by two young National Guard men (boys) who were never outside of their home state of Pennsylvania. All we needed was a bag of Doritos to get Saddam out of his spider hole. No, we had to lose 1,717 U.S. Soldiers, 35,060 U.S. wounded soldiers and 112,000 killed Iraqi people. What a shame. What a tragedy.

We are more than tired of the hate-filled Conservative/Republican talking points used over and over by talking heads and hosts on Murdoch-owned-stations and by Roger Ailes’ puppets.

You have overstepped the bounds of free speech this time. If you do not agree with a topic, you want to kill the messenger as the Greeks did centuries ago.

I am amazed to learn that you were a philosophy major. What has happened to your keen mind? How could you permit it to be poisoned by extreme points of view with a goal of silencing differing opinions based on fact — not contrived data as yours is. Remember, this is America not Iraq or Saudi Arabia!

You have some gall in attempting to censor the public airwaves at a time when this administration is attempting to foster democracy around the world. What a sad, sad commentary on the true motives of this administration and its flacks.