A few months ago, soon after [Bill] Moyers returned as a regular to PBS, I said, half-jokingly, that there may need to be an ombudsman just for Moyers.
Most recently, for Mr. Moyers's closing comments on his August 17, 2007 show.
At his press conference this week he [Karl Rove] asked God to bless the president and the country, even as reports were circulating that he himself had confessed to friends his own agnosticism; he wished he could believe, but he cannot. That kind of intellectual honesty is to be admired, but you have to wonder how all those folks on the Christian right must feel discovering they were used for partisan reasons by a skeptic, a secular manipulator.
This is the first I've heard lacking but desiring faith called agnosticism. Moyers leaps from Mr. Rove's supposed desire for but lack of faith into his being not just a "skeptic" but a "secular manipulator". As Mr. Getler points out, if asked Rove says he is a practicing Episcopalian.
Reminds me of back when Bill Moyers Apologizes to James Watt for Apocryphal Quote.
"I said I had made a mistake in quoting him without checking with him," Moyers told E&P [Editor and Publisher] today. "I should have done my homework."
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