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Bush's Last Day
01/20/2009 |
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Wed Aug 24, 2011 at 11:44:23 AM EDT
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| Once when I was working at Walden Books in Hanover, we were playing a game about which two people we would want with us on a deserted island. I said Harrison Ford (this was a while ago - he's too old for me now ;>) . . . and Bill Moyers. Everyone at work looked at me askance when I said Moyers. Most had never heard of him except in the context of Joseph Campbell and this was years before he began Bill Moyers' Journal. Today I would change my first pick to Viggo Mortensen (well, he's very intelligent, too :>), but Moyers is still my choice. I wish there were a thousand journalists like him.
Here's a recent interview with him. At 77, Moyers is as clear-sighted and articulate as ever.
On Obama:
Obama's impotence is scary. In a stormy sea you want a sure hand on the helm. We don't have one and we're entering the roughest waters in decades. You don't need me to tell you how prospects for working people and the middle class have darkened. There's no one up there fighting for Americans whose wages are stagnating if they are even lucky enough to have a job, or for the middle class that's being squeezed from all sides. The writer William Broyles [former editor of Newsweek] recently wrote that "A despair grips America, a cold fear that our best days are behind us, that we are adrift and powerless. Yes, the Republicans are to blame. But so is a president who treats core American values as bargaining chips, who won't fight for anything, who refuses to lead."
More on flip. |
| Jan A :: Bill Moyers is God!! (Disclaimer: Well, if there is a God, I hope he's a lot like Bill) |
On the upperclass takeover:
We've already seen the political power exerted by a handful of financial predators who managed both to avoid the penalties that the so-called "free market" would have exacted on them for their role in helping to wreck the economy, and then to emerge, with taxpayer bailouts, to reap huge profits while 25 million or more people struggle to find decent work. One of the grand thefts of all time. Morally wrong and socially destructive. They bought our political system right out from under us. And the economy they created no longer serves ordinary men and women and their families. We've reached the point where the great American experiment in creating a shared future together has come down to the worship of individual cunning in the pursuit of wealth and power, with both major parties cravenly subservient to Big Money. Surely this accounts for the profound sense of betrayal in the country. And for the pessimism about the future. The predator class has thrust the dagger of money right into the heart of democracy.
Excellent news:
[B]y the time you publish this interview, I will have informed public television stations across the country that I am returning in January with another weekly series. The arm's not quite what it used to be, but I surely have one more season in me. As the man says, let the conversation continue. |
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