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The Useful Idiots of the Corporate Elite
There are a whole lot of useful idiots in America. Yesterday, a caller called into my radio show, and echoed Congressman Paul Ryan’s recent comments, blaming the black community for poverty in America. He threw out a Fox So-Called News phony statistic, arguing that “73 percent of African-American women in this country ages 17-35 have children without a man in the house, and the majority of this group of people live in the cities.”
First of all, that is completely false. According to the most recent government statistics, 72 percent of black babies are born to unmarried mothers today. But that is completely different from saying that “73 percent of African-American women in this country have children without a man in the house.” It's a perfect demonstration of the old saying, often attributed to Mark Twain, that, "Figures don't lie, but liars can figure."
In fact, the birth rate for unmarried black women in America has been falling for almost 40 years. And most of the evidence points to changes in unmarried birth rates among both black and white women in America that started in the 1970s, coinciding with the legalization of abortion and the beginning of widespread use of oral contraceptives, and largely unaffected over the years by changes in welfare programs.
So, why is it that Conservatives like yesterday’s caller, Fox So-Called News' useful idiots, and Congressman Paul Ryan are obsessed with the notion that blacks and the black community are responsible for poverty in America? Like so much that's wrong with America today, it all started with Reagan.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... What happens corporations capture an industry... (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Watch the video 'Last Hours' narrated by Thom Hartmann about the "time bomb" that is ticking underground, underwater and under ice… frozen methane that is now escaping and could trigger runaway climate change. www.lasthours.org
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Need to Know: What happens corporations capture an industry...- Frank Holleman, Southern Environmental Law Center.
The Best of the Rest...
Can the Sargasso Sea be saved?- Dr. David Freestone, Sargasso Sea Alliance./DIV>
Daily Take: The Useful Idiots of the Corporate Elite
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Monday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Billionaires - first they came for the economy...
Happy Saint Patrick's Day
Hour Two: Lack of sex ed in school...child abuse?- Bruno Behrend, Heartland Institute 
Hour Three: Time to end tipping?- Bryce Covert, Think Progress
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Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Is earth on the edge of runaway warming?- Professor Guy McPherson
If the world was ending, what would you do?
Plus, Waking Up the American Dream- Patrick Lovell, filmmaker/writer/producer/protagonist - Forward 13: Waking Up the American Dream.
Hour Two: Corporations are sneaking into our food policy...- Julie Gunlock, Independent Womens Forum
Hour Three: The useful idiots of the corporate elite
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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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
We'll have all the latest news and information you won't hear from the corporate owned news media...
Plus, has the left declared war on humans? I'll confront Discovery Institute's Wesley Smith, author of the new book "The War on Humans"...
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Thom's Poll
Will other states join New Jersey & ban Tesla from selling cars?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Billionaires...First They Came for the Economy
Crazy Alert! Thom Demonstrates 5 Second Rule
Marianne Williamson on Running for Congress
Mortgage Crisis Gets Personal
Leave Fossil Fuels in the Ground
Social Security - The Battle is Far From Over
Conversation with Great Minds - Joseph Cirincione - Nuclear Nightmares P1
Conversation with Great Minds - Joseph Cirincione - Nuclear Nightmares P2
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 3/17/14: How to Strengthen (Not Cut) Social Security
Thom discusses what Democrats can do to strengthen social security with Campaign For America's Future Richard Eskow, the continued effects of the housing crisis with Filmmaker Patrick Lovell and California's 33rd Congressional district with candidate Marianne Williamson. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom details how the oligarchs are taking over our government.
Progressive Radio is Back in Portland!
Tipping vs. Living wage
Sex Ed: A Form of Child Abuse?
Caller: Welfare is to Blame for Unwed Mothers
The Thom Hartmann Program - March 17, 2014
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