Daily Topics - Friday March 14th, 2014
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Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE 3-6pm ET M-F!!
Join Thom in our chatroom during the program today!
Anything Goes Friday
Hour One: Brunch With Bernie - Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) takes your calls
Hour Two: What is the White Man March all about? Kyle Hunt, White Man March
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
Mueller's favorite place to pray (written about in "Prophet's Way"), and the roof of the room where the Last Supper is reputed to have happened.
From Screwed:
"Hartmann speaks with the straight talking clarity and brilliance of a modern day Tom Paine as he exposes the intentional and systematic destruction of America’s middle class by an alliance of political con artists and outlines a program to restore it. This is Hartmann at his best. Essential reading for those interested in restoring the institution that made America the envy of the world."
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."
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."
Bravo for the comment on "I know someone who...", Thom. I don't mean to imply anything about the caller, but I've recently come to realize how much the right-wing lie machine resembles the rumor mill of high school, something that was damaging to me personally. Rumors are a softer form of bullying, but have just as much long-term consequence on their victims.
I think there's actually a bullying instinct, one that should be suppressed in modern society. This instinct, acted out in childhood, causes individuals to place themselves automatically at either the top or bottom of the pecking order in adulthood, depending on whether they are the perpetrators or victims, respectively. From the bullies' point of view, bullying is an investment, not that it's a conscious calculation.