Daily Topics - Wednesday August 10th, 2011
By shawnt56
The Big Picture "On Air" Questions or Comments for Thom?
Hour One: Democracy Died First in Wisconsin – Long Live the Oligarchs / Plus, fighting corporate election influence - Ben Manski, Democracy Convention
Hour Two: Fighting back against Citizen's United - David Cobb, Move to Amend / Plus, war on democracy...WI recall results - John Nichols, The Nation Magazine
Hour Three: What is 'authentic conservatism' and why did the Republican Party abandon it? Tom Pauken
Comments
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It's funny Thom mentioned "a guy named Vito" visiting the renegade Republican state senator in Wisconsin. I've long wanted to see a movie about a mobster becoming President just for the pun--it would be titled "The Power of Vito". Now I'm thinking that movie could be an allegory of Republican rule.
Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Hello All
Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
Please follow us across to hartmannreport.com - this will be the only place going forward to read Thom's blog posts and articles.
Images of Thom
At Mondragon - both the mountain and the cooperative city - in Spain (written about in "Threshold" book)
From The Thom Hartmann Reader:
"In an age rife with media-inspired confusion and political cowardice, we yearn for a decent, caring, deeply human soul whose grasp of the problems confronting us provides a light by which we can make our way through the quagmire of lies, distortions, pandering, and hollow self-puffery that strips the American Dream of its promise. How lucky we are, then, to have access to the wit, wisdom, and willingness of Thom Hartmann, who shares with us here that very light, grown out of his own life experience."
From Screwed:
"Thom Hartmann’s book explains in simple language and with concrete research the details of the Neo-con’s war against the American middle class. It proves what many have intuited and serves to remind us that without a healthy, employed, and vital middle class, America is no more than the richest Third World country on the planet."
From Cracking the Code:
"Thom Hartmann ought to be bronzed. His new book sets off from the same high plane as the last and offers explicit tools and how-to advice that will allow you to see, hear, and feel propaganda when it's directed at you and use the same techniques to refute it. His book would make a deaf-mute a better communicator. I want him on my reading table every day, and if you try one of his books, so will you."
Something to keep us all wide-eyed awake at night with the lights on: http://www.alternet.org/story/151960/michele_bachmann_was_inspired_by_my_dad_and_his_christian_reconstructionist_friends_--_here%27s_why_that%27s_terrifying?akid=7385.230386.vgVy4t&rd=1&t=5