Bill Moyers is one of the more intelligent and knowledgeable people around these days. He has an excellent grasp of the state of the country and the world, and he has the eloquence to delineate it clearly and accurately for those who find the whole thing too messy to comprehend.

If one watched any parts, or all, of Bill Moyers' two PBS series, one on poetry and the other on "The Power of Myth" with Joseph Campbell, or watched any episodes of "NOW with Bill Moyers" before he retired, one realizes that to characterize Bill Moyers as ". . . an old, frustrated man and can't decide what he believes" is not only ridiculous, it's just plain silly.

I can see why there are those who would like to cut him down. He has "a dangerous gift of eloquence."

Don Firth