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This week on NOW:
Did the administration mislead the American people about its reasons for
going to war in Iraq? For many voters, this remains the key question
as they consider the candidates. NOW deconstructs the road to war in
Iraq through the eyes of a critical intelligence insider, Greg
Thielmann, who headed a group of State Department analysts examining the
secret intelligence on Iraq during the lead-up to the war. On the
Friday before America votes, Thielmann measures the hard evidence about
what the President called the "threat gathering against us."
Since the election of Ronald Reagan, the conservative movement in
America has been a political, social and cultural juggernaut. How have
conservatives amassed the power they enjoy today, and are there
rumblings in their ranks that will force soul searching after the
election? Bill Moyers asks Richard Viguerie, one of the modern
Conservative movement's founding fathers. Viguerie is credited with
pioneering the political direct mail of the 1960s and 1970s that many
say was the catalyst to the conservative groundswell that has swept
America. Viguerie's new book is AMERICA'S RIGHT TURN: HOW CONSERVATIVES
USED NEW AND ALTERNATIVE MEDIA TO TAKE OVER AMERICA.
Where have all the progressives gone? David Brancaccio asks Joe Trippi,
former manager for Howard Dean's Presidential campaign, about the state
of the Democratic Party today, what it means to be a Democrat, and about
the role of progressives in the party that nominated John Kerry. Trippi
has worked on the Presidential campaigns of Edward M. Kennedy, Walter
Mondale, Gary Hart, and Richard Gephardt. For Dean, Trippi used the
Internet to tap into a grassroots movement that changed the face of
modern campaigning. Trippi's latest book is THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE
TELEVISED: DEMOCRACY, THE INTERNET AND THE OVERTHROW OF EVERYTHING.
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