Professor Jeff Cohen, Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, joins Thom Hartmann. Over the weekend - a NATO airstrike in Afghanistan killed 8 innocent Afghani women - but guess what - the mainstream media was mum on it. While they attack the whole of the Muslim world over Middle East violence - why are pundits in the mainstream media ignoring the real causes of all the violence?

The Good! *Medical Marijuana* Californian Jason David had tried everything to help his son Jayden - who suffered from a severe - debilitating and even fatal form of epilepsy. Jayden was unresponsive to numerous prescription medications. Then his dad heard about medical marijuana - and it's ability to control seizures and other neurological medical conditions. After using CBD - a chemical extract from marijuana - Jayden went seizure free for the first time in his life - and continues to be improving. However - the medical marijuana dispensary where he gets his marijuana is now the target of a DOJ investigation - and could be shut down. Jayden is proof that medical marijuana is beneficial in treating health conditions. Rather then condemning it - we should be the creating sensible drug policies that America desperately needs ---------------- The Bad! *Eric Bolling* On yesterday's episode of Fox So-Called News' The Five - talking head Eric Bolling said that President Obama and his administration answer to the Quran first and the Constitution second. Not surprisingly - that gem of a statement came after Bolling continued to push the newest lie from the right - arguing that the Obama Administration has repeatedly apologized to the Muslim world. After Bolling's outrageous remarks - Fox token liberal Bob Beckel slammed his fist in anger - saying that Bolling's remarks were "the most outrageouse statement" he had ever heard. Couldn't agree with you more Bob ...

Vince Coglianese, Daily Caller, joins Thom Hartmann. That half of the nation is referred to by Mitt Romney as victims...and, in a way, he's right. They are victims. They're victims of a thiry-two-year war waged against working people by the corporate elite. They're victims of a financial catastrophe in 2007 brought on by that very same corporate elite - brought on by the 1%. That financial crash sucked $7 trillion of wealth out of the hands of working people - victimizing them. In 2009 - working Americans lost 25% of the value of their 401k's. But the working people didn't get any help. Instead the banksters and the top 1% - those very same people in the room with Mitt Romney - got help. The 1% and the banksters got a $14 trillion bailout - and today they're doing just fine. And lucky for them they don't have rely on food stamps to put dinner on the table for their family. They don't have to rely on unemployment insurance because their jobs were shipped overseas. They don't have to use Medicaid so that their sick kid can see a doctor. But those 47% of Americans who Mitt Romney says he doesn't have to worry about - those who got sold out while corporate America got bailed out - they DO still need help. And for a man running for President of all of the United States of America - to demean those Americans - to say they can't take responsibility for themselves - is outrageous.

To understand the plight of the American middle class today - you have to understand that a crime has taken place. The Middle Class isn't dying today because of a random financial crisis in 2007 triggering a deep, and long-lasting recession. The Middle Class is dying today because of a decades-long - arguably criminal - effort to rig the American economy in favor of the corporate elite - and transfer massive amounts of wealth from the vast majority of Americans up to the top 1%. We're now in the final stages of this effort - and more and more Americans are waking up to what's really happening. In a recent article published for AlterNet - David Degraw - highlights each incident of theft against the middle class by the corporate elite. There're the Reagan tax cuts and destruction of labor unions beginning in the 1980's that fueled an enormous pay gap between CEOs and workers - so that 30 years ago, CEOs made 25 times more than their average worker - and yet today make as much as 500 times more than their average worker. Those same policies have resulted in the top 1% seeing their share of national income triple over the last three decades, while the bottom 90% have seen their share drop by 20%. Years of lobbying and outright bribery have rigged the tax code against working Americans - forcing them to pay a higher tax rate than members of the corporate elite like Mitt Romney and Warren Buffett.