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radical thinking, but he’s read Lakoff’s book and will not show up. He told a Utah newspaper on January 15, 2003: “[O’Reilly] asked me on his show and I declined for the simple reason that I do not believe journalism is about journalists attacking each other.”
    Well, that’s nice. Bill wants to give peace a chance. Swell. Then Moyers does an interview with Charlie Rose on November 2, 2004, and says this about Sean Hannity: “I’ve never heard such vile bigotry and belligerence as I heard [on Sean’s radio program].”
    Call me crazy, but I believe that might qualify as an attack. No?
    End zone on Moyers: He’s a man who firmly believes in the S-P cause and has dedicated himself to advancing it. I just hope Elmo wasn’t influenced by him when Moyers was patrolling the halls of PBS. If Elmo and his crew go S-P, I’m beyond depressed.
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    The Morning Anchors:
The network morning programs have more influence than you might think, especially among American women. Having appeared on all three broadcasts, I’d say Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer are the most liberal of the bunch, but truthfully, their primary goal is to entertain and they certainly don’t want to tee people off with controversial comments. For that reason the culture war is largely absent from the morning chatfests, although liberal book authors are generally given an easier ride than conservatives. But traditional America is a key audience in the morning and any outright alienation of that audience would be ratings suicide. The true culture warriors tend to be creatures of the night, making full use of darkness to wage their stealth campaigns.
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    The Late-Night Guys:
All the comedians holding court post–11 P.M . are liberal guys. Jon Stewart heads up the ideological parade, followed by David Letterman and Jay Leno. Stewart, whom I like, has taken
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sharply left and gives progressive guests a nice opportunity to present themselves as reasonable and looking out for the folks. But Stewart usually greets conservative and traditional guests with skepticism. On my last appearance with him, he was annoyed with my boycott of France. I appealed for Americans not to buy French goods because Jacques Chirac and his pals do not provide much help in the war on terror. Stewart thought my boycott call was misguided.

    The Late-Night Guys—Leno, Letterman, and Stewart.
    My reply to him: “Did you miss 9/11?”
    Because the entertainment industry is solidly S-P, far more progressives get booked on all entertainment programs than do traditional people. Nothing particularly wrong with that, as Robin Williams is far funnier than Jerry Falwell…but, again, it’s “advantage” to the secular-progressives at the net.
    David Letterman’s sensibilities definitely lie on the left, but he’ll skewer anyone. However, he does on occasion promote dishonest radicals like Al Franken and relishes denigrating traditionalists. I enjoy jousting with Dave, and in what is now a broadcast legend, I appeared with Letterman on January 3, 2006. As soon as he introduced me, we began sparring. First, it was over the Christmas controversy (more on that later). Dave said I made the entire thing up. I told him he was misguided and provided three quick examples of Christmas under siege. But when radical antiwar protester Cindy Sheehan’s name came up, things really got heated:
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    O’Reilly: “The soldiers and Marines are noble. They’re not terrorists, and when people call them that, like Cindy Sheehan called the insurgents freedom fighters, we don’t like that. It is a vitally important time in American history, and we should all take it very seriously and be careful with what we say.”
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    Letterman: “Well, and you should be