7 Days: Moyers and Democracy: He'd Rather Write Than Be President, w/ Huffington, vanden Heuvel...

[babylonsister]

7 Days: Moyers and Democracy: He'd Rather Write Than Be President, w/ Huffington, vanden Heuvel, Green


Posted May 18, 2008 | 03:20 PM (EST)


There was lots of hard news this week -- West Virginia, John Edwards, appeasement, McCain's 2013 Space Odyssey -- but it was Bill Moyers who uttered some hard truths on 7 Days in America on Air America. (Listen to the show here:
http://airamerica.com/content/7-days-america-51706-moyers-huffington-green-vanden-heuvel

Moyers is, simply, a national treasure, a reminder that we redeem the promise of America more through the morality, humanity and insights of unelected visionaries than insider politicians. By his books, TV programs and essays -- this month stitched together into a new volume, Moyers on Democracy (Doubleday) -- he's a Sisyphus pushing his beloved country to higher ground.

In our interview, Moyers explains how he never was distracted by entreaties to run for president or any other office. No, his dream and achievement was to be a political journalist in general and a drum major for democracy in particular.

His book therefore explains how America needs less a laundry list of reforms after the Bush-Cheney junta leaves town but rather a new story to rebut Reagan's version about "the freedom of the rich to get richer." And the new story is -- Democracy.

more...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-green/i7-daysi-moyers-and-democ_b_102321.html

[grasswire]

1. I have a copy of 1965 Harpers in which is a profile of Moyers

....when he was in the WH with LBJ. It is just fascinating to read about him then. I can't think of a person I admire more.

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended, I'm looking forward to reading his book.

Thanks for the thread, babylonsister.