Daily Topics - Monday June 23rd, 2014
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Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE noon-3pm ET!! Remember to join Thom in our chatroom during the program today!
Hour One: How Reagan and Clinton killed real news...
Hour Two: Detroit...welcome to 3rd world America - C. Edmund Wright, WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost…Again / PLUS, Apartheid in Detroit? Pastor D. Alexander Bullock, Change Agent Consortium
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
With His Holiness The Dalai Lama, at His home in Dharamsala, India (Synthesis Dialogues - made into a movie narrated by Harrison Ford)
From Cracking the Code:
"No one communicates more thoughtfully or effectively on the radio airwaves than Thom Hartmann. He gets inside the arguments and helps people to think them through—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."
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."
Freedom of speech should be recognized as an individual right. (Like totin' a gun?) Everyone has one mouth and the quality of the ideas they express can be judged within a democratic debate. If money is considered speech, he who has the most money has the most speech. There is no longer a level playing field in which a democracy can function because some ideas can win, not on their merits but due simply to their volume. (Will the person who thinks political ads inform you, please raise your hand?)