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Stephen Colbert highlights how Citizens United has made a mockery of our democracy
Comedian Stephen Colbert is taking the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision to its logical conclusion. As Colbert flirts with the idea of running for President in South Carolina – his SuperPAC just launched it’s first negative attack ad – going after front-runner Mitt Romney. Noting that Romney believes corporations are people and that Romney made a living slicing up and killing off corporations – Colbert’s SuperPAC called Romney a “serial killer.” Colbert is actually registering - albeit in the single-digits - in South Carolina Republican polls. Similar SuperPACs are outspending candidate campaign in South Carolina by a 2-to-1 margin. Citizens United has made a mockery out of our democracy – even before Stephen Colbert highlighted it – and the only way to prevent our democracy from being sold to the highest secret, billionaire or corporate bidder is to pass a constitutional amendment that says corporations are not people and money is not speech. Go to movetoamend.org.
-Thom
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Need to Know: The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Screwed: Why the "Employee Rights Act" is really wrong- Neal Asbury, The Legacy Companies
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Why is DHS secretly watching your tweets?- Ginger McCall, EPIC's Open Government Program
Is Mitt Romney a serial killer?- David Selig, Conservative Commentator.
Everything You Know is Wrong... "The Serial Killer Whisperer"- Pete Earley, Author-The Serial Killer Whisperer: How One Man's Tragedy Helped Unlock the Deadliest Secrets of the World's Most Terrifying Killers"
Daily Take: Time to bring the Robin Hood Tax to America...
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The Daily Stack
Quote: "Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way." -- Martin Luther King Jr..
Martin Luther King Day.
Hour One: Is Mitt Romney a serial killer?- Seton Motley, President-Less Government
Site: " Public Citizen".
Quote: "Alas for the poor old bank director with his poem! He had mistaken the throbbing of an abscess for the beating of the heart." Looking Backward" by Edward Bellamy, 1888.
Hour Two: Will Gingrich's 'Bain' attacks help Romney in the long run?- Peter Suderman, Reason Magazine and Reason.com
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Quote: "What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?" Cooper Union Address" by Abraham Lincoln, February 27, 1860.
Hour Three: Why are Republicans against Mitt Romney- Thom Pauken, Chair, Texas Workforce Commission, former head of the Republican Party of Texas
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Coming up Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program
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Thom's Poll
The New Colbert SuperPac AD says if Corporations are Persons - than Romney is a "Serial Killer" - do you agree?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Thom Hartmann on the News - January 16, 2012
Thom Hartmann vs. Seton Motley: Is Mitt Romney a "serial killer?"
Thom Hartmann Vs. Tom Pauken: Romney - Corporate raider?
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