[Peace-discuss] America as "Horror Show" David Simon on Moyers last night

[Carl G. Estabrook]

I didn't see it & was reporting another's account. Your critique sounds right. --CGE

On Feb 2, 2014, at 10:36 PM, Brussel, Morton K <brussel at illinois.edu> wrote:

> I guess I won't disagree with what you, Carl, write with regard to the Simons presentations, but I was amazed when he talked about the waste of our expenditures—that could be put to better use— that he never brought up "our" military imperial actions and the complex that feeds from it. Nothing about foreign policy. I was also disappointed that Simon seemed to apologize for Obama, putting all the blame of our present condition on Congress, not mentioning whom he has appointed to govern the federal economics. Something badly amiss in his otherwise useful remarks. 
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> The Moyers interview was for me flaccid.
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> --mkb
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> On Feb 2, 2014, at 1:52 PM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:
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>> From <mckenna193 at aol.com>:
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>> Simon, a former Police beat journalist in Baltimore, and producer of "The Wire", Obama's favorite show, was on Moyers last night.  Bill provided a link to a speech Simon made in Australia in which he talked about the importance of Karl Marx in analyzing America's decline into a form of totalitarianism.  Simon (also co-creator of "Treme") called the U.S. a "horror show."
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>> Australian Speech (1:19:38):
>> http://billmoyers.com/2014/01/30/david-simon-at-the-festival-of-dangerous-ideas/
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>> Interview with Moyers (26:46):
>> http://billmoyers.com/2014/01/30/david-simon-at-the-festival-of-dangerous-ideas/
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>> It's a Keynesian analysis, not a Marxist one. . .but it's something rarely seen on TV.
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