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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Friday, May 09, 2008

The Wright Questions?

(Fox News) - In a radio interview Wednesday, PBS anchor Bill Moyers defended his interview with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Moyers brushed off suggestions that he was soft on Barack Obama's former pastor saying, "I'm not a very adversarial fellow. I'm not a gotcha kind of journalist. I leave that to those people whose job it is for the commercial media."

Moyers interviewed Rev. Wright after a number of his controversial sermons were gathering worldwide attention. Moyers was pressed about why he failed to ask Rev. Wright about his statement that the federal government created AIDS to eliminate minorities. Moyers said, "I didn't get to ask him that on the show, we ran out of time."

Moyers' interview with Rev. Wright was an hour long.

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