February 05 2009 show notes
By Thom Hartmann A...
- How do we drive a stake through the heart of all the Piggies in their clean white shirts?
- Guest: Douglas Feith, author, "War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism". Director, Center for National Security Strategies and Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters.
- Guest: "Advertiser Success": Michael Siegel, Riviera Upholstery.
- Guest: Matt Miller, senior fellow at American Progress, author, "The Tyranny of Dead Ideas: Letting Go Of The Old Ways Of Thinking To Unleash A New Prosperity".
Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.
Thursday 05 February '09 show
- Thom heard Michael Savage calling Obama a socialist for signing SCHIP.
- How do we drive a stake through the heart of all the Piggies in their clean white shirts?
- Bumper Music: Piggies, George Harrison, Beatles (video).
"Have you seen the bigger piggies
In their starched white shirts
You will find the bigger piggies
You will find the bigger piggies
Stirring up the dirt
Always have clean shirts to play around in."
- Article: CALL THE SENATE RIGHT F*@KING NOW!!1!1!!.
"Word on the street is that phone calls to Congress are running 100 to 1, against President Obama's stimulus package."
- Chris Matthews said same as Thom about packaging the stimulus package. Thom got a memo from the right wing 2 days ago, passed it on to David Sirota. He got one about Card Check too. Nobody is sending memos to the left. The left don't march in lockstep. We are on the edge if not in the second Great Republican Depression.
- Clip:
"Roosevelt is dead, his policies may live on, but we're in the process of doing something about that as well." Rush Limbaugh.
- Bumper Music: You're the Voice, Heart (video).
- Tax cut rant.
- Bumper Music: The Grand illusion, Styx.
- Article: The snake that was so big it ate crocodiles.
- "Jaws" alert.
- Book: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot, Russell Kirk.
- Book: "Overdrive: A Personal Documentary", William F. Buckley.
- Olympia Snowe is supporting the stimulus package, though she wants it smaller.
- Get bumper stickers from your radio stations.
- Bumper Music: Gilligan's Island Theme, written by Sherwood Schwartz and George Wyle.
- Upcoming Event: February 26-27th
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