NewsReal Sunday: The Six Moral Arguments Against Socialized Medicine « NewsReal Blog: "For Friday’s episode of “Real Time,” host Bill Maher eschewed his usual format of opening monologue, short interview, and panel discussion in exchange for the “special episode” style of long interviews with figures he admires. I’ll save my commentary on the first half hour’s interview with rap superstar Jay-Z for tomorrow. Today it’s NewsReal Sunday and some of the comments from Maher’s second guest, Baptist minister, Great Society architect, and “progressive” PBS journalist Bill Moyers need to be answered.
Moyers chose to phrase the health care issue in “moral” terms. Not quite the explicitly religious argument (refuted by NewsReal here, here, here and here) but still similar:
Maher: And he never really effectively has yet anyway, made it a moral issue.
Moyers: He started just recently, a few days ago. He talked about health care as a moral issue. But it is a moral issue! It’s not an economic issue.
Maher then brought up Civil Rights in the ’60s as a moral issue before he invoked the late, great mythology scholar Joseph Campbell (whom Moyers helped publicize to millions) and shifted the discussion to talk of metaphors capable of changing"
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