It’s the final cue for David Brinkley, TV news legend/crank and longtime working partner of ex-Seattleite (and Frances Farmer ex-boyfriend) Chet Huntley.

MEANWHILE, one of Brinkley’s ex-colleagues Bill Moyers recently gave a speech in DC, in which he lambasted “the new corporate aristocracy, as privileged a class as we have seen since the plantation owners of antebellum America and the court of Louis IV,” and in which he also called upon all concerned citizens to fight back for the true American ideals:

“…that a Social Security card is not a private portfolio statement but a membership ticket in a society where we all contribute to a common treasury so that none need face the indignities of poverty in old age without that help. That tax evasion is not a form of conserving investment capital but a brazen abandonment of responsibility to the country. That income inequality is not a sign of freedom-of-opportunity at work, because if it persists and grows, then unless you believe that some people are naturally born to ride and some to wear saddles, it’s a sign that opportunity is less than equal. That self-interest is a great motivator for production and progress, but is amoral unless contained within the framework of community. That the rich have the right to buy more cars than anyone else, more homes, vacations, gadgets and gizmos, but they do not have the right to buy more democracy than anyone else. That public services, when privatized, serve only those who can afford them and weaken the sense that we all rise and fall together as “one nation, indivisible.” That concentration in the production of goods may sometimes be useful and efficient, but monopoly over the dissemination of ideas is evil. That prosperity requires good wages and benefits for workers. And that our nation can no more survive as half democracy and half oligarchy than it could survive “half slave and half free” – and that keeping it from becoming all oligarchy is steady work – our work.”