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Bill Moyers examines global warming’s effects with documentarian
Though a majority of Americans believe in global warming, Bill Moyers said — 74% percent, according to a new study by Yale University and George Mason University — the topic has been curiously absent from the U.S. presidential elections. But on this week’s Moyers & Company, he discussed some of…
Bill Moyers and Univision anchors slam presidential debate organizers
Bill Moyers and Univision news anchors Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas criticized the group behind this year’s presidential and vice-presidential debates Friday for failing to recognize the growing Latino electorate. “The Commission on Presidential Debates, they’re stuck in the 1950s,” Ramos said on Moyers & Company. “They still think…
Bill Moyers: ALEC ‘is still everywhere’
The influence of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has not diminished despite recent corporate defections, Bill Moyers said Friday, or attempts to curb it with legislation like the ALEC Accountability Act. The bill, Moyers said in a report on Moyers and Company, “has gone nowhere. ALEC, on the other…
Former FEC chair tells Moyers superPACs are ‘shadow party committees’
The man who told Stephen Colbert how to set up his own super PAC told Bill Moyers this week that regardless of judicial intent, fundraising groups of that type are not independent of their candidates of choice. “When the courts midwifed these things, they said, ‘They can’t corrupt because they’re…
Bill Moyers: Rove is ‘the undisputed maestro of the politics of plutocracy’
On his Friday show, Bill Moyers examined the resurgence of Karl Rove, who went from being damaged goods during George W. Bush’s presidency to an unparalleled bagman for the Republican party. “Bush’s Brain has become Boss Rove, virtuoso of what BusinessWeek calls ‘partisan money management,’” Moyers said, before calling him…
Actual socialist Bernie Sanders: No, Obama is not a socialist
Speaking to talk show host Bill Moyers this week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who self-identifies as a Democratic socialist, explained that no matter how many times Republicans say it, President Barack Obama is not a socialist as well. Democratic socialism (PDF), he explained, “means that health care should be a…
Moyers: Obama ‘should know better’ than to ignore poverty
Journalist Bill Moyers expressed concern in a video essay published Friday over President Barack Obama, a former community organizer, and his lack of devotion to poverty since he’s entered the Oval Office. “It’s just astonishing to us how long this campaign has gone on with no discussion of what’s happening…
Voter ID critics: Politicians are manipulating the system for their own benefit
It is becoming clear that the wave of new voter ID laws set to take effect in this year’s elections will disproportionately disenfranchise the old and the young, the poor and minorities. It has also been widely alleged that these laws are intended to do precisely that in order to…
O’Reilly defends NRA: Bill Moyers is ‘so dumb it hurts’
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on Monday blasted PBS host Bill Moyers who after a deadly shooting that left at least 12 dead in Colorado, accused the National Rifle Association (NRA) of turning the Second Amendment into a “cruel and deadly hoax.” “The killer in Colorado waited only for an…
Bill Moyers: NRA has turned the 2nd Amendment ‘into a cruel and deadly hoax’
In this web-exclusive video essay, Bill Moyers examines the cost of the American obsession with guns: Every year there are 30,000 gun deaths and 300,000 gun-related assaults in the U.S. Firearm violence may cost our country as much as $100 billion a year. Toys are regulated with greater care and…
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