Transcript: Thom Hartmann hears about The War Is Making You Poor Act from Congressman Alan Grayson, 25 May '10.
Thom Hartmann: You know, when Teddy Roosevelt took on the big corporations as the trust buster in 1907, broke Standard Oil into 28 or 29 little companies, they said ‘hey he’s grandstanding, he’s just doing that to get the attention.’ When Franklin Roosevelt, when Harry Truman was a United States senator and he stood up and he said 'you know, President, we’re in war and there are corporations that are making money off war', Franklin Roosevelt said, 'I don’t want to see a single war millionaire as a result of this war'.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann and Bob Amsterdam discuss Human Rights, 18 Jan '10.
Broadcasting live today from the Health Action 2010 conference put on by Families USA.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann and Paul Begala discuss State of the Union, Wall Street, post-partisanship, tariffs, NAFTA and more! 18 Jan '10.
Broadcasting live today from the Health Action 2010 conference put on by Families USA.
Thom Hartmann: I don’t disagree at all. Hey, Paul Begala just walked up. Paul you wanna hop on the radio here?
Paul Begala: Sure.
Thom Hartmann: OK. Let me open your mic and let’s see if we can get a camera shot of ya.
Paul Begala: Oh my goodness,
Transcript: Thom Hartmann discusses Maryland's health care with Vincent DeMarco 18 Jan '10.
Broadcasting live today from the Health Action 2010 conference put on by Families USA.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann discusses the State of the Union and the health care bill with Congresswoman Donna Edwards 18 Jan '10.
Thom Hartmann: And welcome back, Thom Hartmann here with you at the Health Action 2010 conference in Washington DC. And for those of you watching on Free Speech TV on Dish Network, and our webstream, the face you’re seeing right now is congresswoman Donna Edwards who is sitting here with me. She is the vice chair of the House progressive caucus and on the healthcare task force of the House progressive caucus. Congresswoman Edwards, welcome to the show.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann discusses the State of the Union and the health care bill with Kathleen Kennedy Townsend 18 Jan '10.
Broadcasting live today from the Health Action 2010 conference put on by Families USA.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann asks Stiv Wilson, will our oceans survive? 13 May '10.
Thom Hartmann: Will our oceans survive? Are we doomed? The oceans are the principle source of oxygen for this planet. Stiv Wilson is with us. He’s with the five, is it pronounced Gyres, Stiv?
Stiv Wilson: Depends on where you are.
Thom Hartmann: Or Gyres?
Stiv Wilson: Gyre or Gyre will work.
Thom Hartmann: Which is English and which is American English?
Stiv Wilson: American is Gyre for sure.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann asks Brian Sussman, how extensive is right wing and fossil fuel industry infiltration of the global warming debate? 13 May '10.
Thom Hartmann: And welcome back Thom Hartmann here with you. Brian Sussman is on the line with us. He’s the author of, he’s a veteran meteorologist, as in weather man, and the author of a new book, “Climategate.” The subtitle, “A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam.” DebateMeAlGore.com Brian’s website. Brian welcome to the show.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann asks Peter Pitts, where are all the dead Canadians and why does Big Pharma want more seniors to have to choose between dog food and pills? 13 May '10.
Thom Hartmann: Peter Pitts on the line with us, he is the former associate commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration in the Bush administration and currently a director with Porter Novelli, a PR firm and president and co-founder of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest , which had its origins as a project of the Pacific Research Institute, a San Francisco think tank with ties to Phillip Morris. Peter, welcome to the program.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann asks Matt Welch, why won't American companies lobby for better education for American workers instead of importing them? 13 May '10.
Thom Hartmann: Our quote for the day from Franklin D. Roosevelt: “The school is the last expenditure upon which Americans should be willing to economize.”
And apropos of that, Matt Welch is here with us. He’s the editor in chief of Reason Magazine, Reason.com the website. And Matt, first of all, welcome to the program.
Matt Welch: Thank you very much.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann asks Jeremy Scahill, Blackwater...murder for hire? 11 Jan '10.
Thom Hartmann: So what’s going on with Blackwater? We’re getting all these stories. When I, this isn’t, I mean this is a systemic problem. The corporate corruption of our political institutions, of our government, that went nuts during the Bush administration although it’s been an ongoing and increasing problem ever since the Reagan administration, arguably since long before that, but certainly since the Reagan administration.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann challenges Gregg Easterbrook about his book "Sonic Boom: Globalization at Mach Speed", 11 Jan '10.
Thom Hartmann: So what do we do about the economy here in the United States and around the world? How are things changing, what does it all mean, where is it all going? Gregg "Esterbrook", or is it Easterbrook. Gregg?
Gregg Easterbrook: Yes, I’m here.
Thom Hartmann: Hey. Is it "Esterbrook" or Easterbrook?
Gregg Easterbrook: It’s Easterbrook.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann asks Greg Palast, is the Immigration issue in Arizona a smoke screen for Republican suppression tactics? 26 Apr '10.
Thom Hartmann: I want to start out, though, with Greg Palast. Old friend of the show, GregPalast.com, one of America’s best investigative journalists, and actually one of Britain’s best investigative journalists as most of his work that makes its way to television is published by the BBC. He also writes for the Observer, the British newspaper. GregPalast.com his website. Greg welcome to the show.
Greg Palast: Hey glad to be with you, Thom.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann defends Obama Zombies against Jason Mattera, 29 Mar '10.
Thom Hartmann: Jason Mattera was seven minutes into his speech yesterday to the 2010 CPAC conference when he raised his rallying cry: "we must be that generation that stands athwart history" - as I recall he was paraphrasing William F. Buckley- 'yelling, “Hey jackass get your government off my freedom!' ” Right.
Jason Mattera, JasonMattera.com. Am I pronouncing that right, Jason?
Transcript: Thom Hartmann talks to Dr. James Hansen about his book "Storms of My Grandchildren", 05 Jan '10.
Thom Hartmann: So the state of the economy is perilous, the state of the environment is far more so. Dr. James Hansen is here with us, member of the National Academy of Sciences, adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and Columbia’s Earth Institute, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, he’s frequently called to testify before Congress on climate issues. His background in space and earth sciences is extraordinary.
