Courage of our Convictions: A Special Featuring Amy Goodman and Robert Scheer (original) (raw)

Oct. 25 — Link TV will broadcast a four-hour special, Courage of Our Convictions, tonight and Saturday, Oct. 28 beginning at 5p.m. PST and 8 p.m. EST.

Part of a gripping collection of programs you must see before you vote in November, the special highlights a politician who had the courage to run on the power of belief and features a sit down with Democracy Now! host and journalist Amy Goodman and journalist and author Robert Scheer.

George McGovern had a true moral vision at home and abroad. At a time when we were embroiled in an increasingly futile war, McGovern tried to lead this country in a different direction. Thirty years later, his beliefs and values take on a heightened significance.

Link TV’s special features a broadcast of One Bright Shining Moment, a film that retraces George McGovern’s bold grassroots presidential campaign of 1972 — a campaign that fought to the bitter end for peace and justice, a campaign that positioned ideas and people first, and, a campaign crushed in workmanlike fashion by the Butcher from Whittier, Richard Nixon. The tragedy of the ‘72 campaign is this: George McGovern might have been the only candidate.
The film features interviews with a patchwork of historians, activists, the candidate himself, foot soldiers from his campaign, and others, including Gore Vidal, Gloria Steinem, Warren Beatty, Dick Gregory, Gary Hart, Frank Mankiewicz, Howard Zinn, Jim Bouton, Sen. Jim Abourezk, Rev. Malcolm Boyd, and Ron Kovic.

Peter Coyote sits down with Amy Goodman in our studio to discuss politics and politicians; finding similarities between the early 1970’s Vietnam era and our current situation in Iraq. Coyote and Robert Scheer, who is an author and former LA Times columnist that was fired for his liberal-leaning perspective, also join to discuss McGovern’s film. The author of “Playing President: My Relationships with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton-and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush,” Scheer is now the editor-in-chief of truthdig.com, a website that drills beneath the headlines.