Bill Moyers arrested for DUI

PBS Journalist Moyers Charged with DUI Fri, Aug 2, 2002 04:22 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Respected journalist Bill Moyers faces a DUI charge after being arrested last weekend in Vermont.

Moyers, who hosts the PBS news series 'Now with Bill Moyers' and has produced numerous other news shows and documentaries for the public broadcaster, says he will fight the charge.

'Not only was I observing the speed limit,' Moyers tells the Bennington (Vt.) Banner, 'but my companions

Wasn't he arrested once before for DUI, in the 1980's?

I'm sorry but he just doesn't get it. You are breaking the law when you *get in the car and drive!* when you have been drinking. It's not OK if you drink and drive as long as you don't kill anyone. The law is about drinking not your driving skills while under the influence.

Thank you. This is one of my biggest pet peeves. Clueless asshole. He'll probably get off.

Sherry...

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No, the law is about driving with a certain level of blood alcohol in your system. You can indeed drink and drive if your blood alcohol is not above a certain level. In most states, that is 0.10 percent; in Vermont and a number of other states, it's 0.08 percent.
http://www.insure.com/auto/baccalc.html has a calculator that will tell you how many drinks you can consume within a particular time frame and what your blood alcohol level will generally be. Heavier people can drink more without their blood alcohol levels rising as quickly. For example, I could have five glasses of wine during a two-hour dinner, and my blood alcohol level would still be half the legal limit in Vermont and elsewhere. But I also know that five glasses of wine, while it wouldn't impair me, it would make me less sharp and responsive, so clearly at the legal limit, I would be quite drunk indeed....

.:. Craig