Bill Moyers Journal tonight: Analyzing Election Ads

[babylonsister]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022708U.shtml

Analyzing Election Ads
Bill Moyers Journal
t r u t h o u t | Programming Note

PBS Airtime: Friday, February 29, 2008, at 9 p.m. EST on PBS (check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html).

As Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama make their appeals to lower- income voters in Ohio and Texas, expert on media and politics Kathleen Hall Jamieson analyzes the messages on the campaign trail in the lead-up to Tuesday's potentially decisive primaries. Also on the program, historian Nell Irvin Painter examines what history reveals about the current state of inequality in America. Painter looks at today's economic disparity as a new "Gilded Age" that threatens democracy.

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[L. Coyote]

1. REC. What's on NOW?

[L. Coyote]

6. Rewriting Campaign Rules = w/ Former Edwards Advisor Joe Trippi

Rewriting Campaign Rules = http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/409/index.html

Former Edwards advisor Joe Trippi explains how the 2008 presidential race could permanently rewrite the rules of American electoral politics.

Days before the crucial Texas and Ohio primaries, a Democratic veteran insider takes us inside the last-minute strategies of the Clinton and Obama campaigns. NOW's David Brancaccio talks with Joe Trippi, the former senior advisor to John Edwards who also headed up Howard Dean's 2004 campaign, about the political road ahead. Is this the final act for Clinton and Obama, or will the increasingly contentious fight go on? And what's the story behind John McCain's public financing predicament?

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[L. Coyote]

7. plus McCain's Financial Dilemma

http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/409/mccain-funds.html

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Congress building with money behind it Is John McCain in danger of having to hold "press conferences from his front yard," as political strategist Joe Trippi suggested to NOW on PBS this week? The Republican frontrunner may have access to only limited funds this summer thanks to a government campaign finance program that prohibits a candidate from spending any privately raised funds.

[Eurobabe]

2. thank you, TiVO set. :)

:hi:

[truedelphi]

3. The "gilded Age" is nauseating

I moved away from an area of the Mega Rich.

It just got to be too much.

Part of moving away involved the unaffordabilty. I was paying $ 7.50 for a bologna sandwich with just the smallest whisp of bologna. I got tired of carrying a brown paper bag around, scared to stop into a place for coffee and a bagel (Often in the $ 6.50 price range)

But it was also the attitude. At the last San Anselmo Wine and Art Festival, I remember trailing behind a set of sixteen year olds - they were clumping along in their Jimmy Chu heels, discussing designer clothes. They had the burnt out auras of forty year old divorcees. No spark to them - their lives were already over.

You see middle aged well off women in the cafes - and their best friend is the Latina who is their maid. Neighbors no longer knew neighbors - when the winter floods of 2005 - 2006 occurred, one of the Board of Supervisors scolded the San Anselmo people for "getting out of their homes, without bothering to check on the neighbors down the street."

Where I live now is a community. It's not all love and dove and peace, but people look out for each other. Neighbors know each other's names.

[TahitiNut]

5. Living off the labors of others ... the nightmare some think is an American Dream.

Once upon a time, sane people all over the planet understood that true freedom and liberty was based on equitable compensation for one's labors ... the ability to enjoy the fruits of one's own labors, hopefully in cooperation with other free people.

Once upon a time, sane people all over the planet understood that the human 'family' cared for their elderly and nurtured their young. They understood that these were not objects for exploitation and discard.

Once upon a time, sane people all over the planet understood that true wealth was a commonwealth and "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch." Sane people understood that gamblers and snake oil merchants and thieves were all antitheitcal to a healthy community.

"Once upon a time" is how all myths begin. Some demean myths - at their peril. For wise people have always known that myth and fact are merely the compostion of the vessels ... and their cargo is truth.

[L0oniX]

4. Bill Moyers is one of the last great Americans. I luv him.

[L. Coyote]

8. reminder kick

[L. Coyote]

9. on the hour BUMP

[L. Coyote]

10. on the hour BUMP

[L. Coyote]

11. Pacific time zone bump

[Ichingcarpenter]

12. Not on DirecTV until late on the West Coast.

I have no Tivo.