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NOW with Bill Moyers tomorrow night (Friday, PBS 9pm ET):
Will culture wars determine the outcome of the Presidential election?
Author Thomas Frank on why when America's working poor vote, moral
conservatism trumps pocketbook issues. A Bill Moyers interview.
* The battle of images. Bill Moyers sits down with Kathleen Hall
Jamieson to look at the sound bites and images as the horserace kicks
off.
* Forensic sleuth Clea Koff searches for truth in mass graves in the
aftermath of war. A David Brancaccio interview.
* A Bill Moyers essay on Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards.
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THOMAS FRANK
As Democrats and Republicans battle for the hearts and minds of voters
in key swing states, author Thomas Frank turns his attention to the
traditionally red-voting state of Kansas which, he says, is a microcosm
of a sea change in the voting patterns of working class Americas. Blue
collar workers, says Frank, are embracing a conservative moral agenda
centering on opposition to abortion and gay marriage and support for
school prayer. The American working class, he argues, is voting against
its own economic interests. What can the Sunflower state tell us about
why Americans struggling to provide for their families would vote
conservative and against their own economic futures? Bill Moyers
interviews Frank, who argues that a culture war has led to a political
deck stacked against America's working poor, the topic of his new book
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS?: HOW CONSERVATIVES WON THE HEART OF
AMERICA. "We're fighting over shadow issues, and ignoring the bread and
butter things, the things that determine the way that we lead our lives,
that determine the quality of life at the most basic, fundamental level"
Frank tells Moyers, "Instead we're fighting over, you know, are there
liberals in the Yale English Department?"
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KATHLEEN HALL JAMIESON
With the Kerry-Edwards ticket confirmed, the airwaves are abuzz with a
fresh crop of political ads highlighting the Democratic vision of
America. And this week the news is all about politics. But what's
behind the sound bites and images that we see on television? One of the
country's most respected political analysts, Kathleen Hall Jamieson is
Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and author of EVERYTHING
YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT POLITICS... AND WHY YOU'RE WRONG. Bill Moyers
talks Jamieson to analyze the campaign ads, and rhetoric that is
defining the agenda of both tickets.
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CLEA KOFF
To date, as many as 30,000 people have already been killed in what many
have called ethnic cleansing in Sudan, with experts estimating hundreds
of thousands more if aid doesn't arrive soon. Forensic anthropologist
Clea Koff is someone who knows what these crimes look like up close.
Her job is to piece together clues about the dead, extracted from their
bones and other remains, the topic of her new book THE BONE WOMAN. Koff
has provided critical evidence for international trials prosecuting
crimes against humanity and genocide in Rwanda and the former
Yugoslavia. David Brancaccio talks to forensic sleuth Clea Koff about
finding truth in mass graves in the aftermath of war. "The bones have
gone beyond their politics, their opinions. They simply tell you who
they are and what happened to them."
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NOW WITH BILL MOYERS continues online at PBS.org (www.pbs.org/now). Log
on to the site for a look at the issues in the culture wars that may
determine the 2004 election - tell us which matter to you; for a how-to
fact check campaign ads online; for a history of campaign ads from
sloganeering to mudslinging; for a history of world courts and
international justice administration; and more.
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