Ex-Bill Moyers Staffer: We Used Technical Magic to Make Our Leftist “Intellectual” Guests Sound Smart

By Selwyn Duke

The standard liberal line, smacking of arrogance but also projection, is that conservatives are dark, dorky, and, most significantly, dumb. Yet one somewhat-disheartened liberal has learned through personal experience as a Bill Moyers staffer that the last notion may be dumb itself.

For our younger friends unacquainted with Moyers, know that he’s a now 88-year-old liberal journalist who for decades hosted a series of Public Television shows featuring, ostensibly, the crème de la crème of leftist intellectual elites. Yet writing at Substack under the pseudonym The Ivy Exile, the former Moyers staffer reveals that this was illusion: Their guests were strikingly unintellectual and incoherent, a defect overcome only through high-tech, cut-and-paste editing.

What’s more, as time progressed, the job became harder because finding truly intellectual left-wing guests was like seeking a unicorn.

Read the rest here.