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Romney Writes Off His Own Electorate...
Sep. 19, 2012 8:44 amBy louisehartmannThe Mitt Romney campaign is still in crisis after a leaked video showed Romney deriding 47% of Americans who he claims are victims who don’t pay taxes, and who are dependent upon government for everything. Romney argued that he doesn’t need to worry about these people – and they represent the President’s base.
Daily Topics - Tuesday September 18th, 2012
Sep. 18, 2012 11:04 amBy shawnt56Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE 3-6pm Eastern!
Hour One: GOP...misery for all but the top 1% / Plus, "Taking Our Country Back"... Thom talks with congressional candidate Jim Graves (D-MN) challenging Michelle Bachman
Hour Two: Why trickle down economics only creates a nation of peons - Peter Ferrara, The Carleson Center for Public Policy
Occupy is back…
Sep. 18, 2012 7:51 amBy louisehartmannAnd so is police repression of the movement. Yesterday, Occupy celebrated its one-year anniversary with demonstrations in New York City and more than 30 other cities nationwide. But in New York, the police were in full force to crackdown on the movement. More than 180 people were arrested by the NYPD on Monday – including some journalists – mostly for disorderly conduct or behavior that used to be allowed under the 1st Amen
Daily Topics - Monday September 17th, 2012
Sep. 17, 2012 10:55 amBy shawnt56Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE 3-6pm Eastern!
Happy birthday to the Occupy Movement...
Hour One: How the rich screwed the middle class / Plus, WI judge rules FOR collective bargaining - John Nichols, The Nation / And, an update on the Chicago Teacher's Union strike
Hour Two: How NYC's soda ban could save lives - Carrie Lukas, Independent Womens Forum
Happy Birthday Occupy Wall Street
Sep. 17, 2012 8:36 amBy louisehartmannToday marks the one-year anniversary since Americans began highlighting Wall Street's crimes by occupying Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan and eventually hundreds of other cities across the nation. Events and rallies are underway in New York City and elsewhere around the nation to commemorate the occasion, and already there are several reports of more than 70 demonstrators arrested in lower Manhattan.
Anti-western blowback spreads across middle east
Sep. 14, 2012 7:55 amBy louisehartmannThe fallout from an anti-Islam film made here in the United States continues, as anti-western protests sweep across the Middle East, Asia, and North Africa – including Malaysia, Bangladesh, and Iraq. More than a dozen nations have now seen protests against Western diplomatic buildings – including British and German embassies. Reuters is reporting this morning that an angry mob has breached the walls and rushed the Amer
Daily Topics - Thursday September 13th, 2012
Sep. 13, 2012 11:10 amBy shawnt56Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE 3-6pm Eastern!
Hour One: Egypt...the revolution and the aftermath
Hour Two: Progressive transformation happens in inches
Hour Three: Media ignores Romney lies in favor of politicization - Tommy Christopher, Mediaite / Plus, democracy under fire in Michigan - Pastor D. Alexander Bullock, Rainbow Push-Detroit
This is what blowback looks like...
Sep. 13, 2012 9:12 amBy louisehartmannUnrest spread to Yemen today – as an angry mob stormed the U.S. embassy in Sanaa – tearing down the American flag, burning it, pelting the building with rocks, and smashing windows. So far reports indicate that no one inside the embassy was injured. Just like the attacks on the U.S. embassy in Egypt and U.S.
Daily Topics - Wednesday September 12th, 2012
Sep. 12, 2012 10:46 amBy shawnt56Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE 3-6pm Eastern!
Hour One: Egypt/Libya...at the end of the day, it's not about Islam
Hour Two: Egypt/Libya...how did we get here? Thom challenges conservative commentator, Rich Miniter, Author-Leading From Behind
Hour Three: The insanity of privatizing the commons...
The damage domestic Islamophobia has on U.S. troops & diplomats abroad
Sep. 12, 2012 9:01 amBy louisehartmannThe Arab Spring turned ugly in Libya and Egypt on Tuesday, as angry crowds stormed U.S. diplomatic buildings killing Christopher Stevens – the U.S. Ambassador to Libya – and three other American diplomats. The deadly attack occurred on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya as an angry mob firing machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades stormed the building and set it on fire. Stevens is the first U.S.