Radio show transcripts
Transcript: Thom Hartmann asks Reese Erlich if Ronald Reagan cut an Iran hostage deal and steal the election from Jimmy Carter? 20 Jan '11
Mar. 10, 2011 8:20 am
By SueNThom Hartmann: This is the 50th anniversary of a whole bunch of things from the inauguration of John Kennedy, I mean it just kind of happens around this time of year. From the inauguration or John Kennedy to the inauguration to Ronald Reagan, which coincided with the so-called students in Iran releasing the hostages in Iran. So let’s take a, let’s step into the way-back machine for a minute and figure out what happened and what the consequences are for us, 30 years on. Reese Erlich is with us.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann asks, On the 50th anniversary of JFK's inaugural speech, how are we doing as a nation? 20 Jan '11
Mar. 10, 2011 7:09 amBy SueNThom Hartmann: Greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in peace, freedom and the American way. Thom Hartmann here with you. Our telephone number 866-987-THOM, our website ThomHartmann.com. Everything there from podcasts to the free chat room, free live chat room and message boards, you can create your own blogs, all kinds of cool stuff.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann talks with Naomi Wolf. Julian Assange Captured by World's Dating Police?! 9 Dec '10
Jan. 12, 2011 11:43 pmBy SueNThom Hartmann: Okay, Julian Assange is sitting in a 19th century prison with 1600 other prisoners, apparently because he committed a crime, actually because he’s wanted for questioning in regard to a crime in Sweden that isn’t a crime anywhere else in the world as far as I can tell. Naomi Wolf on the line with us.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann asks former U.S. Congressman Rick Nolan, will Obama's tax deal make him a one term President? 9 Dec '10
Jan. 12, 2011 11:22 pmBy SueNThom Hartmann: Well it may or may not be big news. The headline is that “House Democrats Reject Tax Deal!” Well, yes and no. The house democrats have not voted on the floor of the House of Representatives on the tax deal. They had a caucus meeting this morning and they took a vote, a straw vote, and basically said no to the president. But it’s a non-binding vote. So my, you know, I don’t know what conventional wisdom is.
What’s the GOP’s plan to fix health insurance in this country?
Jan. 6, 2011 9:13 am
By louisehartmann
A new government report released yesterday shows health care spending in 2009 increased at its lowest rate in 50 years – only 4%. While a slow increase seems like a good thing – the truth behind the numbers is troubling. Health care spending is down because people who’ve lost their jobs can’t afford to see doctors anymore. 6.3 million people lost their employee-sponsored health insurance in 2009 – causing 59% of patients iTranscript: Thom Hartmann riffs about TSA gropes and security theater, 18 Nov '10
Jan. 6, 2011 7:55 amBy SueNThom Hartmann: Okay, there’s some history here, you know. When it comes to like smuggling stuff which is really at the bottom line, when you get right down to the whole thing. What this whole TSA 'may I grope your genitals, please' stuff is about is trying to stop people from smuggling explosives onto airplanes. Or weapons. And that seems like a perfectly reasonable thing. So have we been successful at stopping people from smuggling things on airplanes in the past? You know, white powder things. Or pasty things. Or even relatively solid things.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann talks to Erin Chase about her TSA patdown, more like a sexual assault, 18 Nov '10
Jan. 6, 2011 5:32 amBy SueNThom Hartmann: Last night we were talking on our TV show with, excuse me with Jane Hamsher about this. It’s, well, we’ve been talking about it every day for the last couple of days I guess. This is in the news, I experienced this myself going through the Chicago airport just a few weeks ago. I opted to get groped but the line, there was this long line to wait to get groped so they said you know you’ve got to wait 15 minutes because we’ve only got a certain number of gropers and so I went through the x-ray machine.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann riffs on the US debt problem, 10 Nov '10
Jan. 6, 2011 3:43 amBy SueNThom Hartmann: 20 minutes past the hour. Okay, as I said, we’ve got two choices. Now maybe there’s others that I’m missing. But I think that at the most, at the biggest most macro level, in order to pay off our debt, or in order to reduce our debt, which is brought to us courtesy of three republican presidents over nine trillion dollars of the US federal debt. Over nine trillion dollars of that debt was incurred during the Reagan, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. administrations.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann discusses "Inflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream" with Christopher Whalen, 10 Nov '10
Jan. 6, 2011 3:17 amBy SueNThom Hartmann: So what’s going on here. We’ve got this mess with the banks, this meltdown, the overall disaster that’s going on. The report that came out yesterday, yesterday afternoon. For every one job out there, and there are a couple, there’s a couple million jobs, there’s a couple, you know, if you look at the listings, there are people looking for work. For every job out there there’s five people looking for a job.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann riffs on the banksters, 10 Nov '10
Jan. 6, 2011 2:44 amBy SueNThom Hartmann: Yeah the banksters, “Oh, it’s just an act of God. It’s the way things work!” No, it’s a scam. 1999, Phil Gramm, Gramm-Leach-Bliley. Deregulate the banks. In the UK, Maggie Thatcher, Tony Blair, ‘Oh yeah let’s deregulate the, let’s become the world, the capital, the money center of the world.’ And what are we seeing now? Banksters based in the UK and the US, based in New York and London, rolling all over the world, wiping out governments. Banksters. And making billions.
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