Daily Topics - Thursday September 13th, 2012

Sep. 13, 2012 12:10 pm

By shawnt56

Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE 3-6pm Eastern!

Hour One: Egypt...the revolution and the aftermath

Hour Two: Progressive transformation happens in inches

Hour Three: Media ignores Romney lies in favor of politicization - Tommy Christopher, Mediaite / Plus, democracy under fire in Michigan - Pastor D. Alexander Bullock, Rainbow Push-Detroit

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Comments

mathboy 14 years 21 hours ago

Since they're disenfranchising people in Philadelphia, why don't Republicans just go melt down the Liberty Bell already?

mathboy 14 years 21 hours ago

Having now seen footage of Mitt Romney's convention speech, I noticed that every time he finished a sentence, he had a condescending look on his face like he was about to say, "I mean, come on." Despite how uninspirational that is, he's using it in his TV ads.

mathboy 14 years 19 hours ago

I wonder if the gut flora thing could be used to help with hypo- and hyperthyroidism. I've known so many women with hypothyroidism that it seems like an epidemic.

pattyk 14 years 16 hours ago

I caught your take on voting for the lesser of 2 evils and no matter what you believe, I could never vote for someone who approves a hit list every Tuesday.

soulinwonder 13 years 52 weeks ago

I was watching Thom the other night in a Lone Liberal Rumble and I realized that there's an argument to be used to counter (that Thom hasn't) the free-marketeers he's always running up against. Dean Baker- as well as scores of other economists, Left and Right, makes the argument that in a true free market, corporations do not exist. From a free marketeer's standpoint, a corporation is an "unnatural" creation of the government. While honest brokers are allowed to form any sort of partnership, this unnatural entity- with all of its extra rights and the ability to hide liability- is not allowed .

Given this, the next time a conservative talks about "freeing the market", Thom should come back with "Well to do that-- we should start with the destruction of the unnatural corporations that are clogging up the market..."

Thom's Blog Is On the Move

Mar. 13, 2021 11:25 am

By webmaster

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.

The morning of the Obama inauguration, 2009

With a freed slave in South Sudan

Mom as a teenager

The tipi

Thom lived in in Michigan's UP (written about in "The Prophet's Way")

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—to understand how to respond when they’re talking about public issues with coworkers, neighbors, and friends. This book explores some of the key perspectives behind his approach, teaching us not just how to find the facts, but to talk about what they mean in a way that people will hear."