{"id":14322,"date":"2020-01-23T21:50:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T02:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=14322"},"modified":"2020-01-23T21:51:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T02:51:20","slug":"pbs-newshour-host-jim-lehrer-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/23\/pbs-newshour-host-jim-lehrer-r-i-p\/","title":{"rendered":"PBS Newshour Host Jim Lehrer, R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14326\" style=\"width: 554px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Jim_Lehrer_in_2011-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14326\" class=\"wp-image-14326\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Jim_Lehrer_in_2011-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Jim_Lehrer_in_2011-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Jim_Lehrer_in_2011-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Jim_Lehrer_in_2011-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Jim_Lehrer_in_2011-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Jim_Lehrer_in_2011-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Jim_Lehrer_in_2011-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Lehrer in 2011. Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhy is Mr. Bovard considered so out of it in other words?\u201d PBS Newshour host <strong>Jim Lehrer<\/strong> asked the other panelists as a 1<a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/Bovard_1990_Agriculture_MacNeil_Lehrer_Transcript.htm\">990 brawl on farm subsidies<\/a> wrapped up.\u00a0 Shocked, shocked that PBS considered me a radical&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Lehrer passed away today.\u00a0 He was a legend of Washington broadcast journalism &#8211; a gracious host in a city that often applauds rudeness. I was on his program a few times and came across like the skeleton at the pro-government feast.\u00a0 What the heck &#8211; I enjoyed the chance to hammer Congressman Charlie Stenholm in 1990.\u00a0 I slammed the Agriculture Department for paying farmers not to farm: \u201cThese programs are supposed to be a safety net but are actually a ball and chain on American farmers. The U.S. farm policy is like trying to compete against Japanese high tech industry by paying IBM not to make computers.\u201d Stenholm, whose west Texan family had collected vast amounts of subsidy payments in the preceding years, whined, \u201cAs we say at home, that dog won&#8217;t hunt.\u201d After another clash, Stenholm bemoaned: \u201cMr. Bovard&#8217;s not living in the real world&#8230;.I can&#8217;t believe anybody pays his salary.\u201d Nobody was paying my salary.\u00a0 A couple weeks earlier, I had written in the <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/Bovard_New_York_Times_1990_Our_Disastrously_Archaic_Agricultural_Policy_Setasides.htm\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>:\u00a0 USDA \u201cwill reward farmers for keeping idle almost 60 million acres this year &#8211; equivalent to shutting down all the crop land in California, Colorado, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana and Wisconsin&#8230;. Every acre of Government set-aside land is an indictment of the failure of Federal planning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 1993, I brawled with U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor on the Clinton administration&#8217;s protectionist bullshit on the Lehrer Newshour.\u00a0 You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalcommonwealth.org\/search\/commonwealth-oai:4b29cj50p\">see that video here<\/a>.\u00a0 Since I have few photos of me wearing a coat and tie from those years, here are a few screenshots from that show.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jpb-1993-pbs-2cpb-aacip-507-6w9668986p.mp4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14327\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jpb-1993-pbs-2cpb-aacip-507-6w9668986p.mp4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jpb-1993-pbs-2cpb-aacip-507-6w9668986p.mp4.jpg 480w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jpb-1993-pbs-2cpb-aacip-507-6w9668986p.mp4-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jpb-1993-pbs-3cpb-aacip-507-6w9668986p.mp4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14328\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jpb-1993-pbs-3cpb-aacip-507-6w9668986p.mp4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jpb-1993-pbs-3cpb-aacip-507-6w9668986p.mp4.jpg 480w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jpb-1993-pbs-3cpb-aacip-507-6w9668986p.mp4-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jpb-1993-pbs-4-cpb-aacip-507-6w9668986p.mp4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14329\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jpb-1993-pbs-4-cpb-aacip-507-6w9668986p.mp4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jpb-1993-pbs-4-cpb-aacip-507-6w9668986p.mp4.jpg 480w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jpb-1993-pbs-4-cpb-aacip-507-6w9668986p.mp4-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jpb-1993-pbs-cpb-aacip-507-6w9668986p.mp4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14330\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jpb-1993-pbs-cpb-aacip-507-6w9668986p.mp4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jpb-1993-pbs-cpb-aacip-507-6w9668986p.mp4.jpg 480w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jpb-1993-pbs-cpb-aacip-507-6w9668986p.mp4-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jpb-pbs-1993-5-cpb-aacip-507-6w9668986p.mp4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14331\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jpb-pbs-1993-5-cpb-aacip-507-6w9668986p.mp4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jpb-pbs-1993-5-cpb-aacip-507-6w9668986p.mp4.jpg 480w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jpb-pbs-1993-5-cpb-aacip-507-6w9668986p.mp4-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jpb-pbs-1993-cpb-aacip-507-6w9668986p.mp4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14332\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jpb-pbs-1993-cpb-aacip-507-6w9668986p.mp4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jpb-pbs-1993-cpb-aacip-507-6w9668986p.mp4.jpg 480w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jpb-pbs-1993-cpb-aacip-507-6w9668986p.mp4-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhy is Mr. Bovard considered so out of it in other words?\u201d PBS Newshour host Jim Lehrer asked the other panelists as a 1990 brawl on farm subsidies wrapped up.\u00a0 Shocked, shocked that PBS considered me a radical&#8230;. Jim Lehrer passed away today.\u00a0 He was a legend of Washington broadcast journalism &#8211; a gracious host [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2230,329,1566,2187,2229,494],"class_list":["post-14322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-charlie-stenholm","tag-farm-subsidies","tag-jim-lehrer","tag-mickey-kantor","tag-pbs","tag-protectionism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PBS Newshour Host Jim Lehrer, R.I.P. - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"R.I.P. to PBS Newshour host Jim Lehrer. &quot;Why is Mr. Bovard considered so out of it in other words?&quot; he asked other guests when I was on his show in 1990\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/23\/pbs-newshour-host-jim-lehrer-r-i-p\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PBS Newshour Host Jim Lehrer, R.I.P. - 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