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Al Gore called for Single Payer - Where was the Media?
Al Gore - a former Senator, Vice President, and popular vote winner of the 2000 presidential election - said last week that it's time for single-payer healthcare. So why did the media ignore him?
Now that Americans have seen what the alternatives are, single-payer healthcare is more popular than ever - and it just won its biggest endorsement yet in former Vice President Al Gore.
During an appearance in New York City this week to promote his new climate change documentary, former president Al Gore said he supports single payer healthcare:
"The private sector has not shown any ability to provide a good, accessible, affordable healthcare for all. I believe, for example, we ought to have a single-payer healthcare."
So, where was the media coverage of this?
If some former Republican vice president or president had come out in favor of Trumpcare, there would have been wall-to-wall coverage.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10:30pm...
The Right Wing Plot to Repeal the 20th Century…
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The Big Picture: The Right Wing Plot to Repeal the 20th Century…
Big Picture Interview: Medicare For All Is Coming...
- Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future/The Zero Hour
Big Picture Panel: Alec's Scary Plan for Elections
- Horace Cooper, National Center for Public Policy Research
- Kymone Freeman, We Act Radio/Black Lives Matter DC
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Monday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
- Joshua Green, Devil’s Bargain
Book: Trilby by George Du Maurier.
Hour Two: A Better Deal is a good start - but what about a litmus test for Democrats?
Article: " 17th Amendment. " The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof..."
Hour Three: How hoarding is destroying our country....
3 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Humans' Ancient Relationship with Dogs...
Article: " Ann Dunham" (Mother of Barack Obama) by Wikipedia.
Speech: " Social and Industrial Justice" by Theodore Roosevelt, Before the Convention of the National Progressive Party in Chicago, August, 1912. " We stand for a living wage"
Quote: " There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning." - Warren Buffett.
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Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
I'll be talking with Jesse Eisinger, author of The Chickenshit Club, about why the Justice Department fails to prosecute executives.
And, 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"
And don't forget...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Thom's Poll
Will The GOP Actually Let ObamaCare Fail?
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CEO Pay Is A Direct Threat To Our Democracy
Are Blue Dogs the Key To Winning the House?
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
New DNC Slogan “Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Wages”…Really?!
Big Picture Panel: Mark Anthony, Movement for Black Lives & Scott Greer. The past few decades have not been great for working Americans. Since 1978 - they've seen their wages grow just 11.2 percent. Meanwhile CEOs - have - according to the Economic Policy Institute's latest analysis - seen their pay jump a whopping 937 percent over that same period. There is now a CEO to worker pay ratio of 271 to 1. This is not an accident --- this is the direct result of Republicans changing the compensation and tax rules in such a way that they benefit the kings of capitalism -- CEOs. And it's wiped out the middle class, something we had to choose to create that's also the essential building block of democracy. So isn't time we called CEO pay what it is - a threat to our democracy?
Dems are Fulfilling Their Oath of Office Pushing Healthcare for All (w/Congressman Keith Ellison)
The Best Message is Only as Good as How Many Ears You Get it to (w/Congressman Keith Ellison)
Instead of Illegal Immigrants, We Need to Target Illegal Employers (w/Congressman Mark Pocan)
Who is Actually in Control of Our Middle East Policy? (w/Congressman Mark Pocan)
We Need to Scale Back DOD Budget and Invest in What We're Defending (w/Congressman Mark Pocan)
Paul Ryan is Drinking $350 Bottles of Wine, Not in Touch with Real Life (w/ Mark Pocan)
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