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Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band of predators ever did more to demean and despoil the democracy on whose carcass they feed.

Bill Moyers

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Bill Moyers
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: June 5
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