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This show doesn't favor one more than the other. They have had people representing All the candidates, AND it's only January. I'm for Edwards, and not becuase he's a white man, I think if He was a Black woman who had the same views, experience, and decency, I'd vote for her.

Oprah '12

As one who lived thru the turbulence of the sixties, I'm finding the spat between the Obama & Clinton partisans (even if not the candidates themselves) over the relative legacies of MLK & LBJ in the civil rights struggles of that time EXTEMELY dispiriting. It is almost as if the left is nostalgic for the internal divisions of the sixties amongst progressives. When the Obama partisans said they did not want to fall back into the divisions of the the Clinton 90s, I had no idea thst they meant that they preferred going back to the internal cannibalism amongst progressives of the sixties which made the Nixon-Reagan-Bush era inevitable.

Has anyone really listened to Kucinich? I think more people should in whatever way you can because you don't hear him anywhere in the news or media. All these guys/gals have already decided FOR YOU who will be the candidates to run in November. Very sad comment on lazy Americans and how they (we?) can be lead to think in a way and without putting up a fight because that is too hard, too much work.

(whoops -- the review that starts with the clip we just heard came out February 06).

Oh, I see, this is all buzz for a book:

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/01/23/060123crbo_books

Welcome to, er, February.

It really surprises me to hear Brian ask whether MLK would have supported Hillary over Obama.

Ummmm, what about some of the other candidates? Does Edwards not exist? Kucinich? Maybe if MLK was alive, we'd have a better choice??

Actually,

Its only when the GOP embraced the rhetoric of George Wallace (who took a good chunk of southern states in 1968) in the very friendly package of Ronald Reagan did the South start paying off dividends. Nixon did win in a landslide in 1972, but Carter took the south in 1976.

Yes, Hillary is king on this show. No doubt about it.

Beware the False Dichotomy!!!!

Please--Mr. Lehrer--do not fall into the trap of the false dichotomy. You did it in talking about Hillary Clinton's comments about MLK and LBJ.

You said something (and I was emptying the dryier at the time and couldn't run to the computer immediately) about her saying it was LBJ more important than MLK for getting the 1965 Civil Rights Act passed.

What I heard her say, and I am an Edwards supporter btw, is that it took many people to achieve the civil rights legislation and that without all of them, but especially without MLK's courage of leadership and eloquence of persuasion AND without LBJ's political wiliness and courage to risk his party's control of the South we would not have had that legislation that early.

C'mon--it's not EITHER/OR, which is favorite trick of many MCMers* and especially of some politicians (It's either invade Iraq or have mushroom cloud over a US city!)-- it's possible to have AND in there, and lots of AND's.

I can't believe Brian asked if that tape vindicated the statements made by Hillary Clinton.
Has anyone else picked up on a bias for Hillary on this show in the past few weeks?

This is a question: I went to the CUNY website and could not figure out how to locate the Johnson/King clip. Any chance you could put the link on your website? Thanks.

But sadly King was totally wrong in predicting the future of the south's voting. LBJ called it correctly when he said "The Democrats have lost the South for the next generation" after he signed the voting rights act.

and the democrats lost the south...

but totally worth it

huh--so lbj suggested lying? (that hitler remark)

MLK chose cities in which to lead Peace Marches according to which were known to be most racist and dangerous. He chose the worst -- solely in order to get the press' and world's attention. An unforgettable distinction from any leader.