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among them, pitcher jamie moyer. pederson tells us, the veteran lefty is trying to make a comeback for the ages. >> reporter: spring training is all about hope, and at the colorado rockies camp, pitcher jamie moyer may have more hope than most players. at age 49, he is the oldest out there by far. anybody been teasing you, the old man of the team? >> i had a couple little grumblings first couple of days, but other than that-- i'm sure i'll get some more. >> reporter: he started at age 23 with the cubs and pitched for team after team. the texas rangers, st. louis cardinals, baltimore orioles. boston red sox. seattle mariners, philadelphia phillies. >> jamie moyer at the age of 47. has thrown a two-hit shut-out. >> reporter: how many times have you moved over this career? >> jamie's about to pack for the 81st time. >> reporter: in his latest home, he has a wall of memorabilia, including the best baseball has to offer, helping lead the phillies to the world series title. what's it like to stand on the mound of a world s

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a storm will be a snow maker for the sierra but will it produce moyer hur? -- moisture here? >>. >> tony bennett pledges his love for stit. the news continues in one minute. >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >> it's golden. everybody is paying tribute to the man who left his heart in san francisco. and every radio station in town was considered to play the song at noon what. a treat. the city decided to show tony bennett love today. and we are live from city hall with the city. carolyn? >> there was a lot of hoopla here today. city hall just packed with fans of tony bennett on this valentine's day. and this is a fitting tribute to the singer. and he is celebrating his 50th anniversary of the song, his signature song "i left my heart in san francisco". today the 85-year-old winner was serenaded with renditions of the song and there is a video tribute. mr. benett your royce is the advice of -- voice of san francisco this, is your day. >> i have the honor and privilege of meeting mr. benett. we drove down the high street hill. he sang a few lines. of "i

>> this week on "moyers & company" -- >> radical obama-care >> analysis with our master media decoder, kathleen hall jamieson. >> attack is healthy, it helps us see the weakness in these candidates. the problem occurs when only one side has the money to attack, but nonetheless it's not bad to have attack in politics. it's bad to have inaccurate attack. >> and rita dove, and the poems that tell the story of america. >> suddenly there were these voices that came out. ordinary, town folk voices. and what he says in this poem is that, where are these voices. do they disappear? do they disappear when we shut the book? >> welcome. if you like to watch tv but live in a state that has endured one of this year's primaries or caucuses, you have our sincere condolences. how you are coping with those endless hours of attack ads is beyond us. nasty accusations, distortions, outright lies. those ads will turn anyone's words against them -- even honest abe -- >>> has president lincoln, given up? at a speech in pennsylvania, he even refused to dedicate a battlefield, still fresh with the blood of ten

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>>> this week on "moyers & company" -- >> we're now, you know, in a campaign season where what we're really watching is not so much political debate, though it's called that, as we are watching a movie in which candidates are contending to be our protagonist-in-chief. >> and -- >> reading a poem can be an act of resistance, because it can be an act of individual consciousness in this onslaught of information that's coming at us. >> and rarely does a film issue such an inescapable invitation to think it could happen. that could be us. what would i do. >>> funding the provided by selling one year ooh ta lan throw pea and committed to doing good in the world, the kolberg foundation, independent production fund with support from the partridge foundation, a john and holly guss charitable fund. the clements foundation, clark foundation dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the herb al friend foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote passion and creativively in our society. the bernard and audrey rapaport foundation. committed to building a mor

. >> if i could ask mo'niqonique moyer, how are we able to get tenants back in? we asked about the space needs back there. so if you could elaborate. >> thank you. right now what is happening in the bay area is there is an increasingly narrowing supply with -- of warehouse space on the peninsula that affects subsidy burlingame. there is a large demand of unmet space. if you have been to pier 80, you have seen the improvements they have done at pier 80 and is our expectation with the improvements that will make to be in those piers we will release them quickly but at rates that are more market rate than what we are achieving today. we do think that will be some cache for having the america's cup events there. whether it or not that translates to real dollars, no one knows. the demand will be there for the space. supervisor avalos: -- supervisor campos:. to the extent that we're talking about recommendations that were made by the budget and legislative analyst, i am wondering whether or not mr. rose and his office are satisfied that the recommendations, whether it

bill moyer described judge johnson and said that he altered forever the face of the south. burke marshall, a lot of the professors served with distinction and the kennedy justice department said that these four judges, dr. specht mentioned them including judge johnson had made as much of an imprint on american society and american law as any four judges below the supreme court had ever done in history. so if you look at these kinds of

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as bill moyer says in our film, if you breathe clean air, if you drink clean water, if you vote when you couldn't vote before, you owe something to hubert humphrey. it's that legislation that really is his legacy. he also wanted to be president, and he was never shy about it. he just admitted he wanted to be president forr for all the righ reasons, i have to say. then what can be learned from that campaign maybe is that -- well, one thing is learned. this was the early days of money in campaigns. the kennedy campaign really started that whole process of money in campaigns, large money, and humphrey didn't have any. so he didn't -- he had none, and he basically borrowed money into october when he finally made a speech sort of against vietnam, the vietnam war, coming home from the vietnam war. he began to raise money then, but until that time he had no tv advertising. the lesson can be learned from that that you especially in day and age of ridiculous money in plans that you need to be prepared and have a plan and have money. part of why he didn't have any of this is because of the '68

the new book corporations are not people let's go back to a brilliant book with a forward by bill moyers i should add and a blurb on the back from tom hartman. if i find myself in good company who was lewis paul lewis powell was really the father of the new corporate rights movement he was a lawyer in richmond virginia in the one nine hundred sixty s. he joined the board of directors of the philip morris tobacco company the cigarette company he was on the board of about a dozen other big corporations corporate lawyer and in about nine hundred seventy after witnessing twenty million people twenty million americans come out into the streets to demand better controls on earth day april nine hundred seventy to demand better balance about air pollution rivers catching on fire toxic waste dump basically corporate corporations externalizing everything poisonous and toxic and keeping the profits american said enough and we got a wave of environmental reform the first e.p.a. clean water act clean air act endangered species act and so on the incredible wave of reform with richard nixon in the whit

bill moyers? spent those many years gathering big paychecks and prestige at public expense as a pbs celebrity, absolutely. he's been a left wing activist for years. you know, but at public expense which is the amazing part. >> but you look at -- so they wanted to -- initially, you know, david brock who spent some time in the quiet room, he would go to these donors and say, look, we're going to be a watchdog group and keep an eye on the fox newschannel and fox news as well. and so they said, ok, here's a great big check. you got to figure, he didn't say by the way, we've got this plan, there's this e-mail circulating. we're going to hire private investigators to follow people from fox news. we're going to do opposition research into not only people on the air but people behind the scenes and executives. we're going to destroy -- we're going to try to destroy a private corporation that is in the business of news! you think they knew that? >> of course they knew it. that was in their fundraising docu

the irish have a history moyer. >> jodi?ned the obamas are not doing a super bowl party this year, which i was fascinated by. as i was reporting my book, one of the things that i was the way even the super bowl and being a regular sports fan is affected by the presidency. it becomes more and more political. the obamas have started using it for an occasion for politicking. the president was forced to remain neutral last year, because the entire state of wisconsin got a little peeve that he wasn't going to root for the packers. so i'm really fascinated that even in the run-up to the 2012 election they're trying to kind of take the super bowl back into the private sphere and just watch it as regular people. >> private thing, watch the game. those are the sort of things where you have to carve out a little bit of space. baruntende, what do you know now? >> i know that newt gingrich has a larger ego than i thought. >> that isn't impossible. >> i thought it was impossible, but then he compared himself to the people who died in the

people were calling their moyers, taking pictures of it sending it to -- mothers, taking pictures of it sending it to their parents of. >> reporter: incredibly everyone made it out okay, but a security officer at the school was treated for smoke inhalation. >> it's terrible, but i'm just thankful that we were able to evacuate all of you, people, that everybody is safe. >> reporter: but this parent and former football coach says the students should have never been in the school that's under construction. in fact, he says there's already been two construction- related incidents at this school in the last two years. >> they use a saw with flammable materials up on the roof that got into the heat and duct system, so they had to evacuate the students then. they had to take them out. they had one instance where they busted a sewer pipe and the kids had to eat lunch outside. we're the only school under modernization that they never found swing space for because they said it was a money issue. if our children's safety is just about money, they need to move these kids from this building. >> r

. >>> coming up on moyers & company, the editor of "poetry" magazine, christian wiman. >> reading a poemcan be an act of resistance because it can be an act of individual consciousness in this onslaught of information that's coming at us. >> and go to our website, billmoyers.com where my conversation with kathleen hall jamieson continues. i have a video essay there with some thoughts on the difficult first amendment path between freedom of religion and freedom from religion. and there's more with rita dove. that's all at billmoyers.com. see you there. that's all at billmoyers.com. see you there. and see you here, next time. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com  narrator: it's the early days of world war ii. hitler's armies storm through europe, crushing everything in their path. western europe is on the brink of defeat. the allies turn to the iconic spitfire to help change the course of the war.