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On the Program - Feb 2 2009


Quote: "I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man." -- George Washington

Hour 1 - Citigroup's Football Madness

Hour 2 - Topic: What's wrong with the stimulus or in Carrie's case, what's right?! Thom debates Carrie Lukas of the Independent Womens Forum www.iwf.org

Hour 3 - Topic: "The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be" Thom talks with author/strategist Mike Lux about his new book www.progressivestrategies.net

Topic - "Labor Segment" Doug Cunningham www.laborradio.org

Topic - Update on Sudan with humanitarian relief worker Nancy Williams www.sudansunrise.org

The Thom Hartmann Program - Weekly Feb 2-6 2009

Monday
Topic: What's wrong with the stimulus or in Carrie's case, what's right?! Thom debates Carrie Lukas of the Independent Womens Forum
www.iwf.org
Topic: "The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be" Thom talks with author/strategist Mike Lux about his new book
www.progressivestrategies.net

Tuesday
Topic: Government accountability and the media...Thom debates Dan Gainor of the Business and Media Institute
www.businessandmedia.org
Topic: Going green, getting out of debt...how many resolutions have you kept? Author Jack Canfield talks to Thom about his new book "Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Resolution"
www.chickensoup.com

Wednesday
Topic: Did the media have "A Slobbering Love Affair" with President Obama? Thom challenges Bernard Goldberg about his new book www.bernardgoldberg.com

Thursday
Topic: What was it like being "Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism?" Thom confronts conservative Douglas Feith
www.dougfeith.com

Topic: "Letting go of the old ways of thinking to unleash a new prosperity" Thom talks with Matt Miller from the Center for American Progress www.americanprogress.org

Friday
"Brunch With Bernie"
Bernie Sanders U.S. Senator (I-VT) www.sanders.senate.gov

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Citigroup's Football Madness
Citicorp executives are using $45 million corporate jets for luxury family vacations in Baja at $12,000-a-night hotel rooms, all courtesy of bailout money from you and me.

Banks across America are laying off Americans by the tens of thousands and replacing them with workers in India, The Philippines, and imported foreign highly-trained white collar workers who'll do work for less than half the prevailing wage for Americans.
Meanwhile, most of the banks getting our bailouts have overseas tax shelters to hide their profits; the practice is so pervasive that worldwide corporate tax rates have dropped from 38 percent in 1993 to 26 percent last year, and a significant number of Fortune 500 companies in America pay no corporate income taxes whatsoever. (While we have the second highest corporate income tax rate in the industrialized world at 35 percent, we also have the second lowest percentage of taxes actually paid because of tens of thousands of loopholes drilled into federal tax laws by lobbyists, and these offshore tax havens.)
But our problem isn't "greedy" bankers and corporate executives. The problem we have is structural.

January 28 2009 show notes


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On the Program - Jan 30th 2009


Anything Goes! Friday
"Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders www.sanders.senate.gov

Show Your Support for Single-Payer Healthcare--HR 676 Today!
On Sunday, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said on C-SPAN that he would oppose any comprehensive health care reform in 2009. And the next day, Judiciary Chairman John Conyers reintroduced HR 676, the single-payer health bill that was co-sponsored by 93 members of Congress last year, including James Clyburn.
Congressman Clyburn needs to know that he cannot take single-payer health care off the table. So on Friday, Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) together with its allies in the progressive community have organized the Single-Payer Moment. We need to flood Congressman Clyburn's DC office with your phone calls asking him to keep single-payer on the table and to co-sponsor HR 676.
Air America and progressive radio talk show host Thom Hartmann will be helping us get the word out. He's heard live and he will be taking calls (866-303-2270) about single-payer healthcare in the last 2 hours and urging folks to do 2 things:
Call Congressman Clyburn and ask him to whip up support for HR 676: 202-225-3315
Call your member of Congress and ask that they support and co-sponsor HR 676: 202-224-3121
For more information about HR 676 and TODAY"S Single-Payer Moment go to www.pdamerica.organd www.afterdowningstreet.org

Joe The Plumber Confesses to Horny Housewife Problem

Thom talks with Joe The Plumber on the areas of his expertise, including hunky and hot plumbers and their problems with horny housewives.

www.huffingtonpost.com/thom-hartmann/thom-hartmann-talks-with_b_162278.html

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Should Gitmo be Used for Those Who Raped and Pillaged our Economy?

Years ago, reporters for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer are reporting this week, the FBI knew that home mortgage scams were being perpetrated by banks all across the country. They told the Bush Administration, and were denied agents or resources to pursue their cases.

Two years ago then-New York Governor Elliot Spitzer tried to prosecute banks – along with governors or attorneys general of all 50 states – for just these types of crimes and the Bush administration used an obscure Civil War era law to stop him.

Today we learn that the very hustlers who helped destroy our economy, the so-called “investment bankers” at Morgan Stanley and AIG (who have gotten billions of our taxpayer dollars in the recent bailouts) will be getting their bonuses this year, to the tune of $1.13 million in cash for the 400 brokers at AIG.

But while they should be denied their bonuses, the criminals for whom we should re-open Gitmo are Phil Gramm, John Boner, and the other Republicans who changed laws reaching back to the Republican Great Depression of the 1930s to prevent exactly these types of scams.

Reopen Gitmo! Get it ready for the Republicans!

On the Program - Jan 29th 2009


Quote: "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." -- Thomas Pain. The American Crisis, No. 1, December 19, 1776

Hour One - Should Gitmo be used for those who raped and pillaged our economy?

Guest: Professor Harvey Kaye www.uwgb.edu/SCD/KAYE.HTM Topic: Thomas Paine's birthday (plus Obama quoted Paine in his Inaugural speech)

Guest: Joe "the plumber" Wurzelbacher www.pjtv.com

Hour Two - Tony Blankley www.americangritbook.com www.edelman.com for the PR Firm) Topic: His new book "American Grit: What It Will Take to Survive and Win in the 21st Century"

"Advertiser Success" AM 1090 Progressive Talk (KPTK) Mike Radice www.greenwoodhardware.com

Hour Three – Former President Jimmy Carter www.cartercenter.org Topic: His new book "We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work"

Guest: Christy Harvey www.americanprogress.org Topic: News Under the Radar

January 27 2009 show notes


  • Guest: Dan Gainor, the T. Boone Pickens Fellow and the Vice President of the Business & Media Institute. Why are conservatives freaked out by local governments addressing climate change?

  • Guest: Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. John Conyers has subpoenaed Karl Rove to appear February 2nd.

  • Guest: Tax attorney Roni Deutch. Tax Tips for tax time.

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On the Program - Jan 28th 2009


Quote: "There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is no greater disaster than greed." -- Lao Tzu
Hour One - Dean Baker www.cepr.net Topic: "Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy"
Hour Two - Wendy Gelberg www.gentlejobsearch.com Topic: Get a job!...w/callers
Hour Three - Tom Philbin www.sourcebooks.com Topic: The Killer Book of Serial Killers: Incredible Stories, Facts and Trivia From The World Of Serial Killers

January 26 2009 show notes


  • Today is Chinese New Year... welcome to the the Year of the Ox (President Obama born during the year of the Ox).

  • Guest: Carrie Lukas, Vice President for Policy and Economics, Independent Women's Forum. The Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA).

  • Guest: Philip K. Howard, author, "Life without Lawyers".

  • Guest: "Labor Segment": Bob Baugh, Exec. Director of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council.

Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.


Thom on Countdown with Keith Olbermann 27 Jan 2009

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On the Program - Jan 27th 2009

Quote: "The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon…has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right." -- James Madison, Virginia Resolutions, 1798

Hour One - The Best of the Rest of the News - Thom's Take

Hour Two - Dan Gainor www.businessandmedia.org Topic: Why are conservatives freaked out by local governments addressing climate change?

Hour Three - Roni Deutch www.ronideutch.com Topic: Tax Tips for tax time

On the Program - Jan 26th 2009



Today is Chinese New Year...welcome to the the Year of the Ox (President Obama born during the year of the Ox)



Quote: "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." -- Thomas Jefferson


Hour One - The best of the rest of the news - Thom's take


Hour Two - Carrie Lukas www.iwf.org Topic: Should Congress expand the FMLA and other govt mandated leave acts?


Hour Three - Philip K. Howard www.philipkhoward.com Topic: his new book "Life Without Lawyers"


Guest "Labor Segment" Director of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council Bob Baugh www.aflcio.org Topic: Should we "Buy American" and help keep jobs at home?


Telephone number for today only: 866 452 0620

The Thom Hartmann Program - This week - Jimmy Carter, Tony Blankley and Dean Baker and more...

Highlights on the Show...Jan 26-30th 2009

Monday
Topic:
The Bush administration weaken protections for workers including access to family and medical leave in the midnight hours. Thom debates Carrie Lukas of the Independent Womens Forum
www.iwf.org on how to bring them back.
Topic: What would life be like without lawyers? Thom talks with attorney/author Philip K. Howard about his new book
www.philipkhoward.com

Tuesday
Topic: Why are conservatives freaked out by local governments adressing climate change? Thom confronts Dan Gainor of the Business and Meida Institute
www.businessandmedia.org
Topic: Helping you with this year's taxes and prepping for next year. Thom talks with attorney/tax expert Roni Deutch
www.ronideutch.com

Wednesday
Topic: "Plunder and Bubble: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy." Economist Dean Baker talks to Thom about his new book www.cepr.net Topic: Do you need help keeping or finding a job? Career coach Wendy Gelberg joins Thom to answer listener questions www.gentlejobsearch.com
Topic: "Everything You Know is Wrong" Ever wonder what makes someone a serial killer? Thom talks with Tom Philbin author of "The Killer Book of Serial Killers" www.sourcebooks.com

Thursday
Topic: President Jimmy Carter joins Thom to talk about his new book "We Can Have Peace in the Middle East: A Plan That Will Work"
www.cartercenter.org
Topic: "What will it take to survive and prosper in the 21st century?" Thom talks to conservative pundit/author Tony Blankley about his new book "American Grit"
www.americangritbook.com
Topic: What do President Obama and Thomas Paine have in common? Professor Harvey Kaye joins Thom to celebrate Paine's birthday www.amazon.com (for his book "Thomas Paine and the Promise of America")

Friday
"Brunch With Bernie"
Bernie Sanders U.S. Senator (I-VT) www.sanders.senate.gov

Events with Thom Hartmann Coming Up….

Feb. 26th and 27th - Radio Row at CPAC 2009 (Conservative Political Action Conference) Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC www.cpac.org for tickets and information

March 7th Saturday – Seattle, WA "One Day Cruise with Thom & KPTK am1090" from Noon-3pm aboard the Royal Argosy -Tickets will be $49pp includes 3hour cruise of Elliot Bay and the Puget Sound, brunch and nonalcoholic beverages - prize giveaways onboard www.am1090seattle.com

March 19th – Chicago, IL "Thom Hartmann vs Michael Medved" Sponsored by WCPT

May 1 & 2 – Denver, CO – Green Festival – Thom is keynoting

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