Looking for A Leader Who Deserves America's Trust
Jim Klobuchar
December 6, 2007
Bill Moyers speaks with the kind of hard-to-derail commitment to the core truth that America has not heard since Edward R. Murrow.
Moyers’ audiences were squeezed some time ago by the ringleaders of today’s broadcasting circus, the ones in government and those in the aeries of corporate power that manage government in America today. But he is still at large, still making sense and reminding us where he can, more often in the country’s assembly halls, that the clock is running on the mossy old notion that government was intended to protect its people from the abuses of power.
The country, in fact, may be one election away from going into the tank as a workable democracy whose moral beacon once was to give all of its citizens a chance to share in its prosperity.
They gave Moyers an award not long ago at the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute’s Four Freedoms ceremony. In his remarks he remembered his father, a small farmer who was flattened by the Great Depression. But he saved his family by working for two dollars a day on the highway in Oklahoma and didn’t make $100 a week until he joined the union on his last job.
(The rest is here.)
December 6, 2007
Bill Moyers speaks with the kind of hard-to-derail commitment to the core truth that America has not heard since Edward R. Murrow.
Moyers’ audiences were squeezed some time ago by the ringleaders of today’s broadcasting circus, the ones in government and those in the aeries of corporate power that manage government in America today. But he is still at large, still making sense and reminding us where he can, more often in the country’s assembly halls, that the clock is running on the mossy old notion that government was intended to protect its people from the abuses of power.
The country, in fact, may be one election away from going into the tank as a workable democracy whose moral beacon once was to give all of its citizens a chance to share in its prosperity.
They gave Moyers an award not long ago at the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute’s Four Freedoms ceremony. In his remarks he remembered his father, a small farmer who was flattened by the Great Depression. But he saved his family by working for two dollars a day on the highway in Oklahoma and didn’t make $100 a week until he joined the union on his last job.
(The rest is here.)
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