Regular reader Fred sent me this NRO piece on the political activities of J. Edgar Hoover and the LBJ administration.
I saw the report on Fox News the other night and laughed like hell:
Even Bill Moyers, a White House aide now best known as a liberal television commentator, is described in the records as seeking information on the sexual preferences of White House staff members. Moyers said by e-mail yesterday that his memory is unclear after so many years but that he may have been simply looking for details of allegations first brought to the president by Hoover.
As Mark Hemingway notes, “(t)here are few things more insufferable than Bill Moyers on PBS every week holding forth on how intolerant conservatives are.”
Meanwhile, the N&R’s Rosemary Roberts quotes a solution to the newspaper industry’s continuing troubles:
Stud Bykofsky, a columnist for The Philadelphia Daily News, echoes this view. He favors a small monthly fee, maybe $5, “for our content, which is copyrighted, then sue the pants off anyone stealing it. Should Google ‘pick up’ (steal) our stuff, if we successfully sued them for $1 billion, two good things happen: 1) our money problems are solved; and 2) everyone else will stop stealing our content.”
Sue the pants off someone to solve your money problems. Isn’t that the type of greed that newspapers generally rail against?
