Bill Moyers Journal tonight

[malaise]

DAVID SIROTA AND THOMAS FRANK
Political columnist and blogger David Sirota and WALL STREET JOURNAL columnist Thomas Frank talk with Bill Moyers about their hopes and expectations of this administration.

PATRICIA J. WILLIAMS AND MELISSA HARRIS-LACEWELL
Bill Moyers sits down with Columbia law professor and Nation columnist Patricia Williams and Princeton politics and African American studies professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell about the significance of this milestone and what it means for the future.

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Looks great. Nice to see Rachel's guest Melissa Harris-Lacewell on Bill's list.

[JuniperLea]

1. I love this show!

I try not to miss it... I even watch the reruns. Moyers fills an intellectual void in the media:)

[malaise]

5. Absolutely correct

:D

[malaise]

6. Kick n/t

Starting with the bailout

[Uncle Joe]

2. I believe Moyers is the best interviewer/journalist on television.

Thanks for the heads up, malaise.:thumbsup:

[BrklynLiberal]

3. You are right. There is no one better..

[malaise]

4. Bar none

and you're welcome. :hi:

[babylonsister]

7. What a great show! nt

[Blue_In_AK]

8. I never miss Bill Moyers.

:) This one sounds particularly good.

[Duppers]

9. The first part with David Sirota and Thomas Frank is a MUST see.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/01232009/profile.html


Also, please check out this post:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8132827

"I think our current economic situation is the most pressing time-sensitive exigency since the Cuban missile crisis. It's certainly a bigger crisis than 9/11.

But the response ranges from ignorant malice (Republicans) to listless cliche (Our side).

No courage, no imagination, no recognition of the sharp and emergent nature of the situation.

The responses all boil down to, "let's do a little more deficit spending than usual on the same sort of stuff we spend on every year and hope the other side gets the blame."

Cut some taxes, fund a few bridges, bail out some state governments (merely shifting deficits from one ledger to another)... it's a bunch of nothing.

And all based on an assumption that the problem can be ridden out; that there is some expected cyclical self-correction to be awaited. (Though nobody can specify where that assumed corrective impetus is expected to come from.)

There was, and is, an opportunity for someone to propose measures that might change the game. But instead we have this listless drift toward timidity, ass-covering and hoping for the best.

This is not an Obama problem. It's an EVERYBODY problem."


Thanks, Kurt and Hunter!

[DCKit]

10. Best Moyers episode I've ever seen.

Sure hope it was recorded for the President to watch - Moyers, Sirota and Frank blew the lid off what's really going on with Wall St. and the banks. We're going to HAVE to release all the non-violent drug offenders just to have room in the prisons if we begin prosecuting the criminals who trashed their corporations, fleeced their investors and are now taking TARP money.

[AtomicKitten]

11. I love political conversations where there's no screaming involved. n/t

[L0oniX]

12. Always a good show n/t

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. Thanks for the heads-up!

I will look for it...

K&R