I’m very pleased to see Charles Krauthammer circulate the concept of “Bush haters” in Time magazine, which regularly tossed the term “Clinton haters” around in the last decade. His overall analysis of the roiling, boiling Democrats is apt, but his first sentence does not match reality.
“Bill Moyers may have his politics, but his deferential demeanor and almost avuncular television style made him the Mr. Rogers of American politics.”
This is not at all true. Mister Rogers wouldn’t denounce the “terrorist war” waged by the Contras against the Sandinistas. Mister Rogers didn’t host a “Frontline” documentary titled “High Crimes and Misdemeanors” heavily suggesting President Reagan should be impeached for Iran-Contra. At NBC in the mid-90s, he called Newt Gingrich “Joe McCarthy with a Southern accent.” The examples go on and on…