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What’s The Point of Presidential Debates...
If one candidate can lie for a half-hour and then be declared the winner? That’s the question we should all ask ourselves one day after the first presidential debate in Denver, Colorado. The consensus among pundits is that Mitt Romney won the debate – and strictly in terms of style – he did win – taking the fight all night to a lethargic President Obama.
But as the Center for American Progress points out this morning – Romney told 27 lies or half-truths in a matter of just 38 minutes on stage last night. Romney lied about his own tax plan – saying that it’s not a $5 trillion tax cut, despite independent analysis of his plan saying it is. He lied about Obamacare – repeating the same debunked myth that the President cut over $700 billion from Medicare. He lied about the President’s Wall Street reform law – saying it designates five banks as too big to fail and deserving of blank check bailouts. There’s no such provision in the law. And he even flirted with the idea of death panels in Obamacare!
Rather than acting like sportscasters this morning and declaring Mitt Romney the winner – the media needs to be doing its job and fact-checking. But ultimately – President Obama did fail last night. He failed at calling out Mitt Romney as an agent of the oligarchs. The President didn’t mention the “47%” comments – he didn’t mention Romney’s ultra-low tax rate and offshore tax havens – he didn’t mention Romney’s career harvesting businesses at Bain.
If the President can’t make the argument that Romney is only looking out for the 1% - then he’s going to lose.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Big Picture "post debate" Panel (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Big Picture "post debate" Panel:- Brian Darling, Heritage Foundation / Daily Caller and Townhall.com  - Richard Fowler, Progressive Strategist / Host-The Richard Fowler Show on We Act Radio 1480AM - Andrew Langer, Institute for Liberty 
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Talk back to Thom - The Big Picture is now taking your calls at (202) 904-2134 every Thursday 7-8pm ET...check local listings
Geeky Science Rocks- What Earth Sounds Like (with audio and video from NASA explaining
Daily Take: Is Mitt Romney being set up as the next Ronald Reagan?
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Quote: "Information is the currency of democracy" -- Thomas Jefferson.
Hour One: What questions would you like to see asked/answered in tonight's debate?
The Big Picture- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator
Site: Virgil Goode, the Constitution Party presidential nominee. Site: Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential nominee.
Debate preview- Ben LaBolt, National Campaign Press Secretary-Barack Obama 2012
Hour Two: Has the GOP/right wing media jumped the shark with the Obama video?
Hour Three: How media coverage influences the presidential debate for viewers
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Anything Goes about last night's debate...
"Taking Our Country Back": Running against Republican incumbent Darrell Issa- Jerry Tetalman, Running against Republican incumbent Darrell Issa
Plus, Geeky Science Rocks - what does earth "sound" like to outer space?
Debate reactions- Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Chair-Democratic National Committee / U.S. Congresswoman (D-FL, 20th district)
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program...your media support group for "we the people"...
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Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: If it's Friday, it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will be here with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always he'll be spending the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too...
Plus, It's Anything Goes on Townhall Friday...what do you want to talk about?
And, we'll have the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Thom's Poll
Will Obama's weak debate cost him the election?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
What the media TELLS you about the debate WILL have a bigger impact then the debate
The Good, The Bad and the Very Very Rumgumptiously Ugly!
Koch front group seeks revenge against Florida Justices
If you make a living sitting on your butt, waiting for your dividend check - don't watch!
Big Picture Rumble - Presidential Debate Edition: What Questions should be asked - but won't?
Big Picture Rumble - Presidential Debate Edition: Obama Video Bombshell...Fizzes Out
Has the GOP/right wing media jumped the shark?
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 10/3/12: Debate Night!
Thom discusses Fox's "exclusive" Obama speech from 2007 with tonight's politics panel. The panel also previews tonight's presidential debate between Obama and Romney and asks the questions that should be asked, but won't be. Also discussed: Florida Governor Rick Scott's plan to fill his state's Supreme Court with Tea Party friendly Justices, why France has the right idea when it comes to taxing the rich and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom looks at how the media distorts people's views of a debate.
Thom Hartmann on the News - October 3, 2012
Callers share the questions they'd like asked at the presidential debate - part 1
Callers share the questions they'd like asked at the presidential debate - part 2
Callers share the questions they'd like asked at the presidential debate - part 3
Ben LaBolt - The Obama/Romney debate
Obama-Romney Debate Expectations
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