Kyria Abrahams shared with us a few things that were considered "evil" in her childhood: Smurfs, Halloween, and even yard sale furniture. Abrahams grew up a Jehovah's Witness and has written a memoir about her youth and her decision, as an adult, to leave the religion.

It's Laura vs. Lieberman on MSNBC's Ed Show. Along with Senator Jeff Merkley of the H.E.L.P. committee, Larry Elder, and A.B. Stoddard, Laura and Ed take on Senator Joe Lieberman's obstructionism on the public health care option.

Earlier this week, we spoke to Brad Jacobson, investigative journalist with The Raw Story, about his series on a Pentagon program that, under George W. Bush used retired military analysts to produce positive wartime news coverage.

Is the media complicit in the failings of health care reform? Alison Kilkenny of Citizen Radio, Adam Green of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Diane Archer of the Campaign for America's Future, and Bob Fertik, President of Democrats.com join us to discuss the coverage, good and bad, and what it means for the fate of the public option.

Alia Malek, author of the new book A Country Called Amreeka: Arab Roots, American Stories, notes, though, that there were multiple shifts in American perception of Arab-Americans. “We keep seeing Arabs as only foreign but I wanted to place in the consciousness the idea of the Arab American," Malek tells us.

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From Media Matters for America, we have this new video on the way the right-wing media remains able to shape policy even while the Republican party's support plummets and Democrats maintain control of Congress.

The Forest is the story of filmmaker Jacob Andrén's journey halfway across the world, to Costa Rica, to track down his patch of rainforest and to figure out, along the way, whether one person's small contribution can make a difference.

Just in time for Halloween, Kate Clinton has some thoughts about some scary issues facing America right now: the health care debate, and the New York mayoral election. She's also got some suggestions for the "Men Who Stare At Goats" who oppose health care--give us a real filibuster. Get up and read from the phone book for 72 hours and let the public see who's willing to really put themselves on the line to oppose popular reforms.

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