The Good! *Tom Ricks* How dare someone on Fox News and bash the network. At least that's what network execs and production staff were saying yesterday after Ricks - a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist - blasted the network's coverage of the Benghazi consulate attacks. Ricks' interview was supposed to be 4 minutes long - but he was cut off after speaking what can only be described as the truth. Kudos to you Tom for calling out Fox So-Called News and their flow of unfair and unbalanced misinformation

Austin Petersen, Freedomworks, joins Thom Hartmann. America is literally falling apart - as our infrastructure continues to decay after years of neglect. When will Congress wake up and provide the infrastructure funding that is sorely needed for the well being of not only the nation - but of the American economy as well?

Scott Nova, Workers Rights Consortium, joins Thom Hartmann. Last week - factory fires claimed the lives of 112 Bengladeshi workers - who were making clothing for WalMart and other American retail stores. And - while these fires were tragedies - the mainstream media has barely said a peep about them. Isn't it time America owned up to it's support of slave labor practices?

Every year after Thanksgiving, the nation's wealthy elite, still fat-bellied from turkey and cornbread stuffing, tune in to their local news outlets and observe what has become an annual tradition of bloodletting and frenzied consumerism. We call it "Black Friday." But to those like the Walmart heirs who together own more wealth than the bottom 40% of the nation combined, it might as well be called their very own "Hunger Games." It's their stores, after all, that play host to this one-day battle - waged by poor and working class people - to get discounted appliances, clothes, and toys for their kids. Like Suzanne Collins' dystopic future portrayed in The Hunger Games, in which impoverished teenagers battle each other to the death once a year for the amusement of Panem's wealth elite, Black Friday "Battle Royales" often end in death as well. In just the last few years, we've seen shoppers and retail workers shot to death, trampled to death, pepper-sprayed, bitten, punched, and kicked, all in their pursuit for Black Friday shopping deals.